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That’s great, it started with video tapes, movies in the home at 8, Lenny Bruce is still not afraid. I remember when we got our first VCR. It was a Betamax and we had some of the coolest movies. Of course, the Beta went the way of the do do bird. Then it was VHS. Come and almost gone.
Now it’s the DVDs turn. Earlier in the year the big question was “Who was going to replace DVD’s: HD DVD or Blu-Ray?” Now we know that answer – but does it matter? Blu-Ray players really haven’t been selling like hotcakes and if you have one, you know that it’s not the fastest thing on the planet. The ultimate irony is that Sony owned Beta and lost to VHS. Now Sony won with Blu-Ray, but will that only be a small win as alternate formats are entering into the market?
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HD-DVD Throws in the Towel
Goldfish are Smartfish?
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Downloaders Can Stay Private – ABCNews
Firefox up 20% – Ars Technica
Macbook Air Shipping Feb 1 – AppleInsider
Asterisk Open-Source PBX – Computerworld
Ciscos 15 TB – Forbes
Ebay Lowers Fees, Tightens Belt – InfoWorld
Lego is 50 – Boing Boing
PC Games Dying? – ExtremeTech
PS3 replacing 80GB model? – Geek
U2 Wants to end Piracy – BBC
30 Second Promo – Caffination Podcast
YouTube = Traffic Ticket – PCWorld
Man Arrested in eBay Sale – Reuters
Digg Triples Registered Users in a Year – TechCrunch
Highlight Dumb Criminals – TechDirt
A Law Enforcement Trojan? – Register
Movie Downloads in Denver Airport – WNN
Are You a Victim of Another Website? – WXPNews
HD-DVD Superbowl Ad – Wired
Microsoft wants you to test Media Center – ZDNet
Of Note:
Who’s Out there with PBX?
Find Secret Gadgets Through FCC
Diamond and Gold PC’s
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Gizmodo Should be Banned – Geek News Central
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Nashville Laptop Costs 1 Million – InfoWorld
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Tomb Raider in Trouble
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Is Bill Gates Really Done with MS?
20 Petabytes per Day for Google – Niallkennedy
Google Maps with Weather – PCWorld
Geeks Prefer Apple? – LinuxInsider
HD-DVD Slashes Prices – Reuters
Warranties – TidBITS
EeePC Breaks Rules – LinuxInsider
Google Can Bid on 700MHz – CNet
JiWire Hotspot Access for iPhone – WNN
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ExoSkeleton
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Quantum Computers? – National Post
OLPC and Intel Part – NewYorkTimes
RealPlayer Security Flaw – PCWorld
Microsoft fixes Critical flaw – Cnet
Apple Bullying Microsoft? – CNNMoney
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Comcast Open-cable Platform – Cnet
Network Solutions Hoarding – DomainNameNews
CompUSA Sold – PCWorld
Hollywood goes BluRay – Wired
Microsoft Stands Behind HDDVD – BetaNews
Yahoo on Mobile SDK – Ars Technica
Yahoo Rebuilding – eWeek
Copying CD’s made legal? – BBC
Mozilla’s new CEO – InfoWorld
The Queen Wii – people.co.uk
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Laser TV
1 inch thin Plasma
Hack your XBox Fan
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No Comments »“Don’t Tase me, Bro.” is being heralded as the top quote of 2007. Who would have guessed that? Well, some tried to in early 2007. Predicting the future is not just a psychics’ job. Then again, we are not predicting – we are analyzing – Seeing trends in the last year to determine what is coming out next year.
I went through some of the predictions of 2007. Some were dead on. Social Networking and Apple devices seemed to top the list in this subject. Other predictions – well, not so much.
Now we are fast approaching 2008. There is a lot of technology that was debuted in 2007 and since they are still in their infant stages, we will see them ramp into tools that change the way we compute. 2007 was also a year of rethinking. Going Green is one of the ways we rethought things. We definitely had some good progress and will continue the trend.
So what is in store for 2008? I paneled my fellow techies at http://www.techpodcasts.com/ and we came up with some items to think about for this New Year. So let’s go through the list.
3 Comments »Everyone puts them out; the best – and worst – of 2007, all in one article. And Geekazine is no different. However, we’re taking a slightly different approach. It’s more of a look back to see what has happened in the last year and maybe some hints for what should be done in 2008. Gets you wondering what items you lived without a year ago and what you can’t live without today. So without further ado….
Let’s start with the beginning of the year. It was good. PS3 came out in the console wars, and it was predicted that it will win out of the 3 game systems. That still has to happen. SSD was introduced at CES, and it was tech that is long overdue. The static drives can reduce heat, battery consumption and wait times loading the machine. The technology is slowly coming down to earth prices, and when it does, watch out America.
T-Mobile has turned the tables in Germany by unlocking iPhones so the users can choose which service to use. This was to counter a restraining order by rival Vodaphone. But was that the best idea and more importantly, will that happen anywhere else?
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$10 Million Dollar Challenge from Google – MSNBC
2500 Marvel Comics Go Online – Mashable
OSX 10.5.1 in testing – Apple Insider
64GB Solid State Drive – Engadget
- 64GB SSD Bootup Time In a MacBook Pro – RyanBlock.com
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Blu-ray Dominates HD DVD with 71% Disc Sales
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Eye-Fi – Wired
The Mac Has Won? – Machinist
100 fastest Growing Companies – CNNMoney
Big Brother Watching – Venture Itch
Digg.com for Sale? – Valleywag
The MySpace Phishing Scam – WCBSTV
Macy’s is NOT giving away a $500 shopping card
Trend Micro offers Security Service for PS3 – Yahoo
Nissan’s Color Changing Paint – DailyTech
Wal-Mart $200 PC Sells out – Slashdot
First Hybrid Car was 1901 Porsche – ecoGeek
Crestock Photoshop Contest – Crestock.com
Upgrades:
Share This Upgrade – Blognation USA
10 Year Watch
30 Year Watch
The Wireless Internet Van – CNet
Of Note:
Did you know about GOOG-411? – Google
HDTV Camera Captures the Moon – Jaxa.jp
Dude? Wheres’ the Dell Dude? – NYmag
If 24 was in 1994…. – CollegeHumor
Wi-Fi Detector T-Shirt – ThinkGeek
World’s Fastest Elevator – TechEBlog
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