Hello all and welcome to another edition of Tuesday Tech Talk. Can’t believe this is #80, only 20 more to go to numero 100! Let’s see what is going on this week!
Microsoft paying Nokia Billions to adopt OS
Wow, Microsoft, it has come to this, you have to pay people to be your friends? Generally speaking when you license out your OS to a hardware maker then you are the one getting paid...not the other way around. Oh Microsoft, just call it a day and just make X-Boxes, that is one thing you have excelled at.
Pandora going Public
Pandora announced on Friday it will be going public but did not specify as to when. They hope to raise $100 million in an IPO. This may be a great buy actually and I may add it to my portfolio, will probably fare better than my SiriusXM stock.
AT&T Rolls out Unlimited Calling to Any Mobile Carrier
Last week AT&T announced it will now offer its cell customers the ability to call any mobile phone no matter the carrier, for free, but there is one catch, you have to change your texting plan to an unlimited one. Haven’t decided if I will do it or not as most of my cell contacts are already AT&T users. Also if you send them a text message they will apply 1000 minutes to your plan if you happen to be an iPhone owner.
Kindle Getting Real Page Numbers
Kindle will be rolling out a software update to its devices as well as third party apps over the next few months that will add the actual page # on the page you are reading. Currently it just shows you the percentage of book you have read.
HP bringing WebOS to its PC’s
Wow, another hit to Microsoft possibly as HP is looking to deploy its in-house OS when it purchased Palm, into its PC’s. Join the club HP, it has worked for Apple for years!
Verizon Shows Off Voice-Over-LTE
Verizon this week is showing off the ability it will have to use voice and data at the same time when it makes the jump to LTE from CDMA, currently on the CDMA network you cannot do both, something AT&T has used against them in marketing. Can we say LTE iPhone 5?
Well, that is going to do it for this edition of Tuesday Tech Talk. See you all next week for more talk about things in the tech world!
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Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
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!
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!
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Tupelo Tech Talk #40
Hello all and welcome to another edition of Triple T. If you are wondering about a review on the iPad you can find that here. Here is what’s happening this week.
iPhone OS 4.0
Apple will be holding an event on Thursday to announce the release of iPhone OS 4.0. Among the rumored features is the ability for third party app multitasking. Cool, maybe this will mean I can run Pandora or Sirius/XM in the background like I can iTunes. As a reminder, the iPad runs the same OS.
iPad Initial Sales
Apple announced it sold 300,000 iPad units on Saturday. Given the base model goes for $499 that means Apple did $150 Million in sales on Saturday not including accessories for the iPad. That is one heck of a day! What recession? On top of that, users also downloaded 250,000 e-books. I think John C. Dvorak is going to owe Leo Laporte a nice bottle of wine soon.
Netflix for iPad
Also in iPad news, Netflix came out with an app to use on the iPad as well. You can browse the Netflix site and watch streaming content as well.
HP and Dell reduce investment in 10” netbooks
No doubt a response to slow growth and the introduction of the iPad. I recently checked out some netbooks just out of curiosity and to be honest I was not impressed with them. The screen seem so small that you could only run one thing at a time, might as well get an iPad if that is the case and I think a lot of other people thought the same.
MacBook series updates?
Apple Daily, a Taiwanese newspaper is speculating that Apple will release new updates to the MacBook, MacBook Pro, and MacBook Air product line this month. This makes a lot of sense as Apple is due for a refresh on the laptop line and it is now between the iPad release and the no doubt new iPhone release in June or July.
Well that is going to do it for this weeks Triple T., apologies for the heavy iPad news but next week should bring more of a regular format of tech news. See you next week!
iPhone OS 4.0
Apple will be holding an event on Thursday to announce the release of iPhone OS 4.0. Among the rumored features is the ability for third party app multitasking. Cool, maybe this will mean I can run Pandora or Sirius/XM in the background like I can iTunes. As a reminder, the iPad runs the same OS.
iPad Initial Sales
Apple announced it sold 300,000 iPad units on Saturday. Given the base model goes for $499 that means Apple did $150 Million in sales on Saturday not including accessories for the iPad. That is one heck of a day! What recession? On top of that, users also downloaded 250,000 e-books. I think John C. Dvorak is going to owe Leo Laporte a nice bottle of wine soon.
Netflix for iPad
Also in iPad news, Netflix came out with an app to use on the iPad as well. You can browse the Netflix site and watch streaming content as well.
HP and Dell reduce investment in 10” netbooks
No doubt a response to slow growth and the introduction of the iPad. I recently checked out some netbooks just out of curiosity and to be honest I was not impressed with them. The screen seem so small that you could only run one thing at a time, might as well get an iPad if that is the case and I think a lot of other people thought the same.
MacBook series updates?
Apple Daily, a Taiwanese newspaper is speculating that Apple will release new updates to the MacBook, MacBook Pro, and MacBook Air product line this month. This makes a lot of sense as Apple is due for a refresh on the laptop line and it is now between the iPad release and the no doubt new iPhone release in June or July.
Well that is going to do it for this weeks Triple T., apologies for the heavy iPad news but next week should bring more of a regular format of tech news. See you next week!
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