Posts Tagged ‘iPhone’

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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Heading to California to cover an event – Videos will be made. SXSW might be out of the question, unless I get a Sugar Mama. I also had a small run-in with a person at a Bar who didn’t think too much of my profession.

Winner of this weeks’ Diskeeper 2010: cgcreality

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I – S.U.N. (Straight Up News)
Betty White to Host SNL
Toyota Recall to Prius
EFF on iPhone Developers Agreement
Cisco Drop IPEX Over Counterfeit Processors
Windows 7 Good to go for IT
Mashable Google Wave Challenge
The New Hard Drive Revolution

QOTW – What is your take on the Cisco Router?
Video – The New Dork Video

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Battery Trojan in the DUO
Cisco 322 Terrabyte Router
Facebook Foursquare Killer App
Leo Makes Lisa Tickled Pink: Social Experiment
iPad Commercial
Web Access a Fundamental Right

CES 2010 Video Feed – Geekazine
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Ultimately, wires will be involved with your wireless devices. Bloomberg reports Time-Warner wants to provide some of them:

Time Warner Cable Inc., the biggest pay-television provider in New York City, is pitching phone companies including AT&T and Verizon Wireless on a service that uses its underground cables to carry mobile calls and Web downloads — easing the congestion spurred by data-hungry users of smartphones like the iPhone.

The service, known in the industry as wireless backhaul, has become Time Warner Cable’s fastest-growing business after revenue tripled last year, said Craig Collins, senior vice president of business services. Across the cable industry, sales from wireless carriers may reach about $3.6 billion in 2012, according to researcher GeoResults Inc.

The story goes on to say, without quoting any statistics, that iPhones use twice the capacity of other smartphone (I wonder how an iPhone compares to my Android) and that backhaul may ease congestion from one cell tower to another, but won’t help between a tower and the phones in our pockets.

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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Plans for SXSW fell through, but may find another way to get there. Madison Social Media Club was a great success – Congrats to the group for putting on a great show. Prepping new shows – Thanks to all who have been watching the 5 Tech Things You Should know.

Winner of this weeks’ Diskeeper 2010: Heleintes

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PS3 Problem – Solution Forthcoming
Roger Ebert Voices Up on Oprah
Intel Exec Suffers Stroke
Google’s Picnik
Rupert Murdoch to Sue Google
Americans Love Online News to TV
Myspace VP Faith Gone
Online Ticket Scam
HDMI Mac Mini?
Buy Law Degree on Craigslist
Apple Sues HTC Over 20 Patents
Touch Typing on your Skin

QOTW – What is your take on the Apple HTC Lawsuit?
Video – Eric Schmidt at Barcelona

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Steady Decline of Yahoo
- Yahoo Wins Walmart
- Twitter To Yahoo
Your iPhone Was Built By Children
iPhone IR Remote
CES 2010 Video Feed – Geekazine
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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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During the party – I got to talking to part of the board of directors at the Social Media Club – Madison, WI. chapter. Jessica Binder is the party planner, which we started talking about events. I (in my infinite wisdom) didn’t have a business card to give her. I noticed she had an iPhone, so I suggested we “bump”. She did not know what that was, so we setup and configured the application.

During that time, the chair of MadisonSMC – Marlena Deutsch stopped by to find out what was going on. She, too did not know about this iPhone application. Therefore, we installed and setup her device with the software and collected contact information.

Marlena did ask a great question – is there a field to put in Twitter info. I did a quick scan, but could not find any other place than the nickname.

In this backchannel video, we go through the bump application and learn how to swap contact info with just the tap of a phone.

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On Wednesday, the Social Media Club Madison chapter held their first kickoff meet at the Brocach by the Capitol. About 125 were in attendance as the board of directors was introduced. We met one another and learned a lot about how everyone can work together.

The sponsors of the event created gift bags for the registered guests. Each table had products and a sign that said either Facebook, Flickr, Twitter or YouTube. You had to sit at each station and write out how you would promote the products on your given Social Network site. However, with the larger turnout, it was more difficult to move around, therefore I am not sure if they got the response they expected for that social game.

I went through the crowd and talked to a lot of Social Media and PR people. I ran into a few of the Web608 group who were also mingling. An interesting conversation about Twitter and their business model between myself, Nick and Brandyn. I also showed part of the board the iPhone application “bump” – to share contact information. The video will be forthcoming.

The Social Media Club started by Chris Heuer and Kristie Wells. The first chapter was launched on August 16, 2006 to bring all artists, creators, journalists, students, public relations and more together. The initial membership is free – with business and group memberships available.

In this video, we meet the Board of Directors for the Madison WI chapter of the Social Media Club. I took some backchannel on the event.

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When we saw what Ford was doing at CES 2010 with the SYNC system, we were impressed. Well, it goes without saying that not only were we impressed, but the Fast Company was, too. They put Ford on the Top Ten “Most Innovative Companies” in mobile technology. Actually, it’s #5 on the list:

1. Google
2. Apple
3. Amazon
4. HTC
5. Ford
6. Evernote
7. Qualcom
8. Clearwire
9. Foursquare
10. Intermap

This is the first time an automaker has been featured on the Top 10 Mobile list. The honor goes to Ford from their work of with SYNC and the MyFord Touch driver interface. Collaborating with many different mobile device manufacturers, as well as software app developers and network providers.

One of those providers is Stitcher – a content provider of Podcasts and Internet radio over the iPhone, Android, Palm and Blackberry. All of Geekazine’s Podcasts are available on Stitcher. Other programs are Pandora, OpenBeak, Inrix, Microsoft and TeleNav, amongst other programs.

Mark Fields, Ford President for the Americas States:

This honor represents Ford’s commitment to innovation and development of technology that enhances the driving experience and adds real value to the consumer. We’re very proud of this recognition from Fast Company, and it is truly an accomplishment to be named amongst some of the leading technology innovators and mobile application developers.”

Ford has also become the first automaker that announced hands-free command and control of smart phone applications. Ford SYNC is available in all cars created today. Ford, Lincoln, Mercury and Volvo are their other brands.

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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