If you haven’t been living under a rock and have read any tech news on the Internet in the past week or so, then you’ve probably heard about the fiasco that is Carrier IQ. Carrier IQ produces software that is running on millions of cell phone devices from various carriers. Trevor Eckhart, a security...
Google Music is no longer in beta and is currently free to store up to 20,000 songs for you. Just go to http://music.google.com, sign up using a Google account and away you go. You can download their music manager software which will scan your iTunes library (or other folders, etc.) providing you with a...
In this episode, the pundits discuss Facebook being sued for wiretapping, Verizon Wireless changes its privacy policy – you have to opt out, companies are starting to hire for internal IT position instead of outsourcing, floods in Thailand may cause hard drive prices to go up, Dell and EMC part ways, RIM offers an...
In this episode, the pundits discuss the the possible Apple event on October 4th – will the new iPhone 5 be revealed? Netflix CEO apologizes and then screws up again. Microsoft tries to stop the billion dollar bleed of bing and Windows 8 Metro IE10 won’t support plug-ins. All that and more.
Article first published as The Haves and the Have Nots on Technorati. I was watching television last night, rather sleepily, but watching nonetheless. It was the summer finale of one my wife’s favorite shows – Rizzoli and Isles. Several times during the commercial breaks, TNT was touting its online video streaming service where you...
In this special episode of the SouthGeek Ramble and Review, I talk about Steve Jobs, the man behind Apple and a wide variety of products that many of us use and enjoy today. I give a little history of when I was first exposed to Apple’s products and how I use and love them...
What a shock. We all wondered when this day would come. For me, I didn’t think it would be today. Below is his resignation letter: To the Apple Board of Directors and the Apple Community: I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and...
Research in Motion, apparently trying to keep their numbers up with their Blackberry phones, is rolling out a music service for $5 per month for 50 songs, possibly as early as September. The burning question, of course, is why anyone would pay $5 per month for a limited amount of songs when there are...
August 18, 2011. In this episode, Bing offers better search results than Google, surprise – Google buys Motorola, study shows that 9 out of 13 ISPs can’t provide their advertised speeds, Facebook does a reversal on drug companies, IE is the better browser to block suspicious sites and World of Warcraft is losing subscribers,...
As reported by BGR, Google has announced it will buy Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion. This could definitely put them in a better position to compete with Apple. And it could explain why Google didn’t really mind losing out on the Nortel patent bid (even if they said they were disappointed by the outcome). The transaction has...
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