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5 Tech Things You Should Know

It’s a special episode of of the 5 Tech Things You should know. This week we look at 5 Tech items you should get or buy your children to help with their studies. This list will not contain tablets, mobile devices or MP3 players, simply because those lists have been done.

We also do 5 Things I’ve Learned by Watching Movies about College. Can you guess who said what in these 5 movie quotes?

• TDK Sound Cube – a small but powerful sound system
• LightScribe Pen – Pen digitizes your writings
• MetaWatch - Check email, calendar events from your watch
• Voltic Converter Solar powered backpack – Charging your mobile devices
• iRobot scooba – Clean your room in minutes.

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5 Tech Things You Should Know

I decided to ditch the tech news this week and talk about the big news in the last 24 hours. Steve Jobs was a person that influenced me. If it wasn’t for Jobs and Bill Gates, I wouldn’t be an IT professional. I wanted to put out this video not as a eulogy, but more of a remembrance.

• The First Apple computer was turned down by HP
• The 1984 Superbowl Ad – Steve Jobs was responsible for Superbowl commercials, too?
• NeXT becomes OS X – Jobs almost walked away from it all
• The iPhone is introduced in January, 2007.
• The iPad - Making Steve Jobs the Pioneer of the Tablet computer.

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We got a new batch of tech things for ya this week:

• Google - Motorola purchase
• Amazon tries the Government Cloud
• Yahoo gets an Android Phone – Wait, what?

• 5 Things That I Learned: How many celebrities I met in my life…

• Lenovo is doing better in the US, but Apple takes over China
• BART closed communications because of an upcoming protest. Who has the right to do that?

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We got a new batch of tech things for ya this week:

• HTC buys 51% of beats. Could they be stepping up the mobile markets?
• Apple surpassed Exxon to be the most valuable company in the US. Will they be able to keep it?
• Walmart closing MP3 store. Why not merge into the Video streaming business?

• 5 Things That I Learned: Bruce Willis is GI Joe…

• Happy 30th anniversary IBM PC. Long live the PC. But the PC is dead…
• Anonymous denies the November 5th Facebook takedown is theirs. But someone did post the video and people can lose if that happens. Should those people be treated like Terrorists?

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We got a new batch of tech things for ya this week:

• Everybody got fooled about some study that said people who use Opera Browser are smarter, IE dumber.
• RIM launches the new Blackberry 9900 and 9860
• Scientist suggest we may have had a 2nd moon. What happened to it?

• 5 Things That I Learned: The Shawshank tree is in trouble…

• Skype is planning to use the WP8 WebM codec for H.264 content
• McAfee finds out a group has been hacking government agencies for the last 5 years.

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