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Happy National Pi Day – The celebration of 3.14

1988 – It’s the song that found it’s rebirth and the term “Rick Rolled” became a urban saying. Of course, we are talking about Rick Astley and the song: Never Gonna Give You Up. It hit #1 on the charts. Of course, it’s internet fame has turned this into a whole new beast.

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Other Historical Events in Technology

• Microsoft releases XBox in Europe
• NEC announces they will be getting into the computer market
• Apple releases the Power Macintosh computer

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1933 – Charles Darrow creates the game Monopoly. There were a few other board games before Monopoly, like “The Landlord game”, which Monopoly was loosely derived from. The board is based on Atlantic City and the playing pieces were models from items around Charles Darrow’s’ house. Parker Brothers would pick the game up in 1935 and turn it into a household name.

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Other Historical Events in Technology

• Richard Wittman Jr. admits breaking into NASA
• Sony announces release of Linux development kit for Playstation 2
• Intel gives computers, internet to employees for free.

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Since we are not in a leap year, the Day in Tech History does double duty – giving you History of the 28th and 29th.

1966 (Feb 28) – With all these ways to listen in on a conversation, the FCC has to make a ruling to protect the rights of US citizens. They create the Right to Privacy act which bands evesdropping or direct and indirect use of radio – controlled devices.

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Other Historical Events in Technology

• M*A*S*H*  broadcasts the final episode (Feb 28)
• PeopleSoft reorganizes (Feb 28)
• Atari Moves (Feb 29)
• DIVX closes the video site Stage 6 (Feb 29)

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That’s right. This week, Jeffrey Powers puts on his Bard hat and sings the 5 Tech Things you should know for February Album Writing Month (FAWM). It’s a challenge to write 14 songs in 28 days and Jeffrey is right now on 11… er… 12 after this one.

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Because this is a writen song, we have Lyrics! So sing along with Jeff!

Apple loves the iPhone, this we know is true
They want to give that OS in many ways to you.
They posted on their website a job for us to find
an engineer that will take the iPhone to another device

Just like the Android, they see that there is hope
to move beyond the smartphone, to widen the scope
But do we want to see our fridgidare get a upgrade
The App store update to tell us the milk is not grade A

These are the 5 tech things
You should know is what we sing
We have 4 more to go, and that is what we know
To these, the 5 tech things

Nine years of research, the Bloom Box has emerged
A solid oxide fuel cell the energy of the future
Taking fossil fuel and turning electro
with 100 Kilowatts of energy, they could power 100 homes

Unlike solar energy, the technology could run all day
saving customers thousand through their bill of energy
It would make for greener server rooms and still keep them up
A savior in the power market that could fill the cup

Congrats to the iTunes user, who scored 10 thousand bucks
They downloaded the ten billionth song which strengthened their luck
As Steve Jobs turns 55, his guru skills you see
And Apple rakes the money for his prosparity

The e book reader game, is heating up you see
As Nintendo throws their big old hat into that game
The DS system will release 100 classics for their Dsi
June 14th for $20, is the price you should eye

Twitter takes a staggering 50 million tweets a day
That’s 600 tweets per second of people voices to say
A year ago the number was only at 2.
That’s a 1,400 percent increase, now we’ll see businesses vie

For that means Twitters’ business model, is about to change
and that tweet that I just sent wont really mean a thing
for it’s in a sea of Twitters that try to be heard
And I only read within a day about 250 twitters

And that is the show, I hope you had a good time
You should check out fawm dot org for more rhymes
My name is Jeffrey Powers, I thank you for coming
to check out this song, and the 5 tech things

Til next time – take care.

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CES videos are up and now it’s time to focus on other things. Got the 6th song done for FAWM, putting together a new client website and working with another on updates. Sportazine is now in production.

We are giving away another copy of Diskeeper 2010.

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I – S.U.N. (Straight Up News)
App Store Alliance: AT&T Shooting itself in the Foot?
Apple Bans iPhone Hackers
Google Nabs Aardvark
Sling Player Mobile Can Use 3G
Adobe AIR Mobile Coming
Facebook Drives More Traffic than Google!
Drink More Beer, Build More Roads
Postage Size SSD at 1TB in 2 Years
Red Dressed Olympians Might Have the Advantage
Augmented Reality Tattoos?

QOTW – With Windows Mobile 7 including Zune, will you switch to WinMo?
Video – Lego CubeStormer Solves Rubik Cube in Seconds

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Microsoft Windows Mobile 7 – The iPhone Killa?
-Zune on Xbox, Mobile 7
Skype Available on Verizon, Android
Street Fighter IV on iPhone
PreSchool iPad: The iXL
Crackdown on Unofficial Exhibitors
Hovercraft Millenium Falcon

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With new texting laws coming into play, you have to find other ways to get texts and emails. That is where Drivesafe.ly comes in.  You will be able to listen to text messages – up to 25 characters. Without having to push a button – It will know when you get in the car.

Todd Cochrane talks with Heath on this great concept. It’s a background app for Blackberry and Android phones and soon for iPhone and Palm.  It does have an out of office type reply to let people know you are driving. 1.8 Million followers are already using it.

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Imagine the Smart Kitchen. A kitchen that can recognize you and know it’s morning so it can display traffic or weather. The spouse would walk in and get another traffic update simply because they take a different route than you. One that would then give you content that you need.

That is where the Continental Automated Buildings Association (CABA) comes in. It’s is an industry consortium of manufacturers – Tyco, Whirlpool, Texas Instruments – envisioning the “Magic Kitchen”; where the kitchen might be ten to twelve years from now.

Andy McCaskey talks with CABA about the Magic Kitchen. The idea is simple: No mouse or keyboard. No iPhone or Android on the counter where food could get spilled on it. Webcams to recognize who you are and projection keyboards to work like a touch screen.

Everyone uses the kitchen and everyone uses the kitchen differently. IP based thin client system using gesture to interact. Webpage system that will give you multitudes of information. Need a new recipe? Search the web for great ideas, video on how to make it and ingredient lists.

Truely a Magic Kitchen.

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Jeffrey was wondering about the battery life of Android and Nexus phones as compared to iPhones.

I can’t compare anything to an iPhone, but I can report on my Android after about six weeks of use.

The battery life specs, according to the User Manual (PDF here), are

Rechargeable Lithium-ion battery: Capacity: 1150 mAh

Talk time:Up to 350 minutes for WCDMA
Up to 406 minutes for GSM

Standby time:Up to 402 hours for WCDMA
Up to 319 hours for GSM

(Approximations based on the phone manufacturer’s lab tests.)

I have found the “talk time” spec to be reasonably accurate.

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What are DECT phones? In a nutshell, it’s a  cordless phone. DECT phones are perfect for a wide wireless range around the home - The range of the handset will depend on the phone itself, but we are talking 400 ft at least. You can also use DECT phones like walkie-talkies.

The folks at Motorola show us the HS1001 – a cordless that is also a web browser. That way you don’t have to pull out your laptop and find out who is starring in your new favorite movie.  Andy McCaskey talks with Motorola to find out more about DECT and the HS1001.

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1996 – Corel not only gets WordPerfect form Novell, but also Quattro Pro for $180 million in stock and cash. Michael Cowpland (Founder of Corel) called WordPerfect the “Pepsi to Microsoft’s Coke”. I guess that was not the case as OpenOffice (RC maybe?) surpassed WordPerfect users.

WordPerfect and Corel have been in flux since 2006, when Vector Capital purchased 72% of the company. Just this last year, they bought up the remaining stock and became privately held once again.

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Events in Technology

• IBM Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator (SSEC) a.k.a “the Poppa” is dedicated
• Microwave Oven is patented
• Gary McKinnon won right to judicial review

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