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This week’s 5 Tech Things you should know.
- 10 Billion Twitters coming up
- Apple vs. HTC – 20 patents violated
- Hulu looses Stewart and Colbert
- Blockbuster is Still Around? Streaming from TiVo
- RealDVD gives up. Pays 4.5 million
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No Comments »You might be a Transumer. You might have Netflix or Blockbuster for your online movie rental. You might even have Gamefly for your Game rental. But how about your online Book rental? Well that is the business model of BookSwim – an online Book rental system.
Simply choose your plan, choose from the large library they have and get the books in the mail. No late fees – return at any time through the pre-pay envelopes. The next book will arrive shortly.
Eric Ginsberg - Bookswim.com
In this Quickcast interview, we talk with Eric Ginsberg – a teacher, musician and librarian that brought over some great ideas of online book rental to life months after BookSwim was created by George Burke and Shamoon Siddiqui. We talk with Eric and discuss the reasons why someone would use BookSwim as opposed to an e-reader, buying or just going to the Library to get books for Transummers.
Plans start at $3.95. Gift cards are available for those you love, too. If you are a Transumer – person who rents, consumes, then gives back – Bookswim will definitely fulfill the transummation of books.
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1 Comment »This week on the 5 Tech Things:
- We talk extensively about the iPad. Not as much the features, but more about the downfalls of this device.
- AT&T gives us money back. Even if you left back in 1998
- FourSquare takes the newspaper market and turns it upside – down
- USA Today shows us which states you can legally text while driving
- Netflix Q4 is growing. Where did Blockbuster go?
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No Comments »2009 – You can be #2, but not be doing all that great. This was the case for Circuit City. A failed buyout opportunity from Blockbuster and they were at the same point as CompUSA a couple years prior. Therefore, officials announced they will be closing the remaining stores and selling all assets.
Ironically enough, Circuit City’s website assets were acquired by SystemMax – the same company that holds Comp USA’s web assets.
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Other Historical Events in Technology
- Burger King De-Friend promotion on Facebook
- Patrick Spence hands the Renegade BBS to Jeff Herrings
- Lotus v. Borland
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This week we talk about Blogworld and the switch of networks.
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No Comments »1985 – The first Blockbuster opens it’s doors in Dallas, TX by David Cook. The 29 year old store owner eventually sold it to Scott Beck, John Melk and Wayne Huizenga. Eventually it becomes a nation-wide franchise and online movie and game rental store.
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Other Historical events of the Day.
- Netscape 4.5 is released
- Flickr adds Geotagging
- Korean war stops all color TV broadcasts
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This weeks episode:
- No to iTunes for Palm Pre Users.
- Apple Blocks Palm Users – Why?
- If you want to use, don’t Update
- Twitter Hacked
- Employees account contained the ability to access
- Sophos, a security firm, 40% Internet users use the same password for every Web site they access.
- Google Voice
- Android, Blackberry – no iPhone
- Transcription feature – Watch your SMS
- Listen in feature.
- Microsoft Azure
- IaaS – Infrastructure as a Service – PaaS (Platform) – PITA
- $0.15/100K message operations – Bandwidth = $0.10 in / $0.15 out / GB
- Office2010
- Amazon – Netflix and Blockbuster Samsung
- Netflix Streams older, Amazon Pushes newer. Is a merger a Good Idea?
- Discs going bye bye?
- Blockbuster on Samsung
- HDTVs, Blu-ray players and home-theater systems
No Comments »You might remember the products. You might remember the hype. Then, you are tooling down highway 41 years later and all of a sudden you think to yourself – “Hey, whatever happened to…”
Failed ideas. Maybe it was a great idea, but wasn’t made right, or design errors brought it down. Maybe it was just a bad product. Well, let’s take a stroll down memory lane and see if we cannot repeat these errors again.
Oh yeah, why 16? Well because we could.
The Computer Watch: Whether it was the Ruputer, the MSN Direct ‘Smart’ Watches, the Timex Data Link Watch or another gadget watch – BTW – I remember having a “Transformers watch”. It was awesome!
Still, the Dick Tracey style communication watches, the “Computer on a wrist”, never really hit it off. I even remember a watch that gave you directions. You would put in the paper tape and turn a little dial to indicate where you are and where you are going.
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Psystar came on the scene with a very interesting proposition: Get a PC with Mac OS X. Can it be done?
Ever since the switch from PowerPC to Intel, Mac software has been attempted and successfully installed on PC’s with Intel and AMD processors. So the next step would be to have someone package it up, right?
Well, no. Apples’ End User License Agreement states that the OSX software can only be run on Mac approved hardware. Therefore, Psystar breeches the agreement.
Psystar still continued on. Only hours after the websites caught on about this company, the website went down. People started speculating more about this “Publicity stunt”. The company “PowerPay” ended their contract with Psystar because they were not honoring the Service Agreement.
Psystar said “That’s OK. We’ll use Paypal”.
A year later, they’re still around fighting the good fight. Or is it a good fight? Maybe Psystar is the true “PC Hunter”. After all, they show you that you can have your cake and eat it, too.
Mmmm. Cake.
In the podcast we also talk about the Blockbuster – Circuit City bid, the debut of the Apple II, a $14,000 Apple I and The Osbourne and Osbourne II.
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No Comments »A little later than usual, but we got your week in tech history right here. It includes:
Active Inc LCD Display
iPhone 1.0 released
IEEE Standard
Windows 98 released
AOL buys Mapquest
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