Tuesday Tech Talk #44

Hello folks and welcome to another edition of Tuesday Tech Talk. Quite a few diverse topics this week so lets see what is happening.

HP buys Palm, kills the Slate?

This is interesting, on the same week that HP bought Palm they are apparently deserting plans for the Windows 7-based HP Slate. My theory, why would HP need Windows 7 on a tablet device when they now own a mobile OS company? This reminds me when Apple bought Steve Jobs’ NeXT company which we all know became OS X on the Mac. I don’t think the HP Slate is dead, I just think the Windows part of the Slate is dead. Kudos to HP for picking up Palm, could be a wise move on their part here.

Kraft Foods BYOC policy

Kraft Foods is apparently putting in a new policy allowing its employees to buy whatever computer they desire to use at work and will help out with the purchase providing the employees do their own tech support. Basically if your a Kraft employee but are a Mac or Linux person, then you are in luck! Now if only my employer had a similar policy.

The Apple vs. Adobe War Intensifies

It’s becoming a real billionaire he said/he said thing here. I see some truth on both sides here. Weighing on the matter is Microsoft’s Dean Hachamovitch, General Manager of Internet Explorer and his blog post on Microsoft siding with Apple on HTML5 based video content.

Nokia N8 HD Video Sample

Truly amazing video here for a mobile device. Worth checking out!

Fourth Generation iPhone released for Sale during WWDC?

Interesting article here from Mashable speculating that the new iPhone may go on sale during the WWDC. Pure speculation at this point and I still think a late June release is still more likely.

World’s Largest Curved Plasma Display in Japan

I would love to see some sports on this screen!



This Week’s iPhone/iPod touch/iPad apps

AccuWeather (Free) - This is a very cool app. I just downloaded it and will do a side by side comparison to the Weather Channel app. Sadly AccuWeather has not produced an iPad app yet while the Weather Channel has.

uStream Live Broadcaster (Free) - This can be a cool app, but it has one key flaw. Whenever you are broadcasting, if you get a SMS text or an alert from another app, it ceases to broadcast. Otherwise it is very nice to use, you can even setup an instant poll.

Well that is going to do it for this week’s edition of Triple T. See you all next week!