Black Friday a winner. One big winner is Nintendo. Motorola to dump a fortune into Droid marketing. Nook is delayed until Dec. 7. The Crunchpad is no more. Black screen of death caused by patch. New MSFT store in Scottsdale, AZ.
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Magazine publishers want an app store! Black Friday talk getting old. Google and Tivo going to dog viewers liker nothing before. Japanese man marries video game character. Xbox360 outselling PS3 by 3X. Great security predictions for 2010.
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The Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles has announced that Virginia dealers now have the ability to print temporary tags at their fingertips. DMV has partnered with Computerized Vehicle Registration (CVR) and triVIN to offer software that allows dealers to electronically produce and print temporary tags for [...]
Kindle does on-the-fly upgrade. Climate science data still in the news. Nobody knows what to do. Moto is loved by the men according to a study. I’m dubious. Old G-Phone users can use Google Map navigation software. Joost is done. Chrome OS stories abound. HTC [...]
The Hadron collider works. We’re all still here! Bigger test coming. AOL changes name and logo. Cripes. ATT&T does prepaid broadband. Apple chewing up all the mobile broadband traffic. Apple voids warranty on smokers who smoke around the computer. It’s supposedly a hazard to workers. [...]
Google Chrome OS made official. Some details follow. Win 7 sales booming. Sony to use Firefox on PS3. Palm phones go on sale. NSA backdoor? They say no. Al Gore in the news. This is a beaut. Best Buy starts Black Friday already. Dell Profits [...]
Microsoft giving away beta copies of Office 2010. Worth a look. Also IE 9 floating around. Judge says Verizon ads OK. IBM makes a computer that simulates a cat’s brain! Meow. Google Chrome coming out and to be announced tomorrow. EU Ombudsman backing Intel. Call [...]
New idea: YouTube direct opens. You’ll love this story. US and China to do a space joint venture. Dell goes green with bamboo. Where does this bamboo come from? We are entering the age of cyberwar? Oh no! China scams Microsoft over intellectual property. Huh? [...]
Android all over the news with contradictory stories. MSFT at risk. Nokia and Palm deal creating a stir even though there is no deal yet. Eqypt first country to go Arabic with web domains. 1/2 of Teens talk on phone while driving. 1/2 of teens [...]
The skies have finally cleared in Virginia, I unloaded the animals and torn apart the Ark. What a fun week of virtually non-stop rain. However, the sun always shines on the digital command center and CopCAST is always bright and cheery.
Again this week, I was able [...]
NASA sees significant quantities of water on the moon. Let’s go swimming! Dell’s smart phone in the news. Google to release Chrome OS soon. Final Fantasy not final. Brazil to get rich doing nothing. Google cranks up Gizmo5. YouTube goes 1080p HD? Why? Palm to [...]
Intel and AMD become friends. Huh? Why? Mars Rover stuck in the sand. Call of Duty sells $310M in 24hours. Apple to open 40-50 new stores. Bugatti in the lake! Lenovo and ATT&T partner up for Netbooks. XP beats Win7 for battery life. MSFT executive [...]
HP Buys 3Com! Bing seen as challenger. Why? I’ll tell you why. Why does PCWorld slam Google? Microsoft catches and band Xbox live cheaters. Videophone about to actually catch on? I doubt it. Google latitude is creepy. We talk about the Motorola Droid on Cranky [...]
Yahoo, Microsoft and Google going to put out free Wi-Fi hotspots for Christmas. Google’s doing it right. New Snow Leopard screws over some users. Kindle for the PC released by Amazon. LinkedIn to Tweet. Facebook groups hijacked. New OS from Samsung called Bada. Yahoo banned. [...]
Google acquires Admob and Gizmo5. Nokia charger dangerous and being recalled. Firefox is five. I think it is bogus. Nook is in heavy demand. Droid phone having crappy battery life. iPhone worm floating around. Chipmakers doing well as predicted. Radio Shack to sell the iPhone. [...]
In this case, the Virginia Supreme Court ruled that a positive alert on a vehicle by a trained narcotics detection dog, combined with the subsequent fruitless searches of the vehicle, the driver, and two other passengers, does not provide sufficient particularized probable cause to allow [...]
This has been another busy week with some things falling apart and some things coming together. One of the things that fell apart was Michael’s AOL Instant Messenger program but we were able to salvage the show using Skype.
The Golden Corral’s 9th annual Military Appreciation Monday [...]
Golden Corral’s 9th annual Military Appreciation Monday dinner will be held on Monday, November 16, 2009, from 5 to 9 pm in all Golden Corral restaurants nationwide.
The free dinner meal is a special “thank you tribute” to any person who has ever served in the United [...]
Verizon iPhone release coming in 2010. Fortune mag has a bunch of odd articles about Microsoft. I comment on them. Mein Kampf approved by App store. SSD’s now bricking up. Blamed on firmware. The Sun is in trouble with the EU now. Intuit-online killed. Flash [...]
A new Verizon HTC Google phone just out. Space elevator still in the news? Why? Steve Jobs CEO of the decade! Sez who? Microsoft cuts more jobs. Pew Research reports online use does not cause social isolation. Mickey Mouse to become a rat. Microsoft tablet to [...]
I don’t usually just re-post items from other blogs but this was an issue I had never heard of before so I thought it was worth posting. Dr. Jennifer Ashton talks with CBSNews.com’s Cali Carlin about exercise bulimia, an eating disorder where going to the gym can turn deadly.
[...]Another MSN redesign comes along. It never ends. Verizon sued over “there’s a Map for that” ad. A Twitter-only phone. iPhone FAIL in China. Best Buy video downloads means the death of DVD, or not? Cable modem hacker indicted. nVidia doing a cpu? Sony-Ericsson doing [...]
iPhone gets tepid reception in China. Look for cheap clone. Spammer sued for a ton more money that he does not have. Ares rocket chute fails. Twitter gives LIST to everyone. Google complaining about phone bill. I explain. Street view to be improved. Why? Girl [...]
Again, I am running a little late but this should be the last time that it happens. A little schedule change should take care of this weekend interference. Regardless, when you see what we packed into this week’s show, you will know it was worth the [...]
