June 2011 Blog Posts (13)

Greetings everybody and welcome to another edition of Googling Friday. Not  a lot of Google stuff but a few Android stories this week so let's see what is going on.

Google Retiring Google Health and PowerMeter

Google will be retiring 2 of its services, Google Health…

Howdy folks and welcome to a one day delayed AppleTalk Thursday. Had a lot going on this week plus Comcast going down twice at home didn't help either. So let's see what is happening in the world of Apple this week.

iPhone Roundup

With so much iPhone news and rumors, I thought we would get that out of the way first. this week there were 2 reports saying an iPhone 5 is indeed on the way this year in late summer.…

Hello everybody and welcome to another edition of Tuesday Tech Talk. Let's see what is happening this week.

BlackBerry's Bad Week

Last week was not a good week for BlackBerry maker Research in Motion, disappointing sales and lowering its outlook for the year, the company will also layoff an unannounced number of employees as well, fierce competition from the iOS…

Hello all and welcome to another edition of Googling Friday. As you can tell I decided not to take a vacation as I hinted last week that I might. Let's take a look at all the Google news this week.

Google Brings Search by Audio or Photo to Desktop

Google is bringing searching by audio or photo to the desktop. The services are already supported on iOS and Android mobile sets and now if you have the latest version of Google Chrome browser, you can take advantage…

Hello everyone and welcome to another installment of AppleTalk Thursday. Course last week we had a ton of WWDC news, let's see what the week after brings us in Apple news.

iOS 5 News and Bits

Of course one of the biggest things to come out of WWDC is the upcoming iOS 5 coming out this Fall. Apple has really gone out of its way to bring the iOS up to modern standards of a mobile OS and…

Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Tuesday Tech Talk. We had a ton of news from Apple last week which I covered in AppleTalk Thursday so check that out if you are looking for info about that. But let's see what is going on in tech news this week.

RunKeeper Social Network for Fitness

Wired has an interesting story on RunKeeper, for those that don't know, RunKeeper is a website where you can share with other members that are part of your "Street…

3...2...1... Podcast! (PAM 214)



What is it about podcasting that has caused me to personally fall in love with it? Is it the rush of adrenaline when I fire up my equipment? Is it the overcoming of all the voices in my head telling me that I'm not quite ready and should wait a little longer to gather my thoughts before recording? Is it that I anticipate failure when expecting perfection? Can it be that I am just making all of this up? Am I mad!?!?



Yes! You hit it on the…

Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Googling Friday. We have a bit of news from Google so let's see what's happening.

Gmail Hack Caused by Flash

We discussed last week that certain Gmail accounts were hacked from a Chinese source, it now appears that Adobe Flash is to blame for the vulnerability and Adobe has admitted to and patched the bug. Have I mentioned lately…

Hello gang and welcome to another edition of AppleTalk Thursday. We got a ton of news from the World Wide Developers Conference in San Francisco this week so let's get right into things.

Mac OS X Lion

Things started out with Phil Schiller giving us the scoop on what to expect in the next OS X update. There are some cool things coming in this OS and he highlighted 10 things in particular. The biggest thing I am looking…

Hello folks and welcome to another edition of Googling Friday. We got about 2 weeks of Google stuff to cover here so let's see what is going on.

Google Wallet

Course the biggest news is that Google has announced a pay via mobile device system known as Google Wallet. The idea is that with your NFC-capable mobile device, you would simply wave it in front…

Hello everyone and welcome to another week of all things Apple. We got a lot of Apple news as Monday is WWDC (World Wide Developers Conference) in San Francisco. So this week will be a lot of news and speculation, next week we will have all the facts that came out of WWDC. One thing that is confirmed is that Steve Jobs will be delivering the keynote…

Hello everyone and welcome to the late edition of Tuesday Tech Talk. I have been sidelined with the flu but started feeling better this evening. Let''s see what is going on this week in tech.

Kindle Rolls out Special Offers Edition of 3G Kindle

Like its WiFi only counterpart, the 3G+WiFi now has a discounted model featuring an ad banner on the…