Episode 51!  Facebook’s new places feature has been alive for a week and there’s already a follow-up.  Google and Yahoo announce new moves in the Realtime Search market and Digg debuts it’s new version 4.x interface— Chris, Dwayne and Devindra break down what the big deal is. They also go into the headlines spawned by [...]

We mentioned the Samsung Galaxy S some weeks ago back in Episode 49. It looks like Samsung’s strategy of making what’s basically the same device available on all carriers is working for them. They’re not selling in iPad numbers (1 million the first month of availability) but at 1 million units in just over ~six [...]

The big Five-Oh! Devindra, Dwayne, and Chris go on about Facebook’s newly launched Places feature and whether it’s worth abandoning traditional geo-location social networks. They also head into the Intel purchase of McAffee, using the available data to look at where Intel’s heading a decade into the Third Millenuim. And then, of course, there’s the [...]

In this episode, Devindra, Dwayne, and Chris chat about Google and Verizon’s plan for an “open internet”, foreign countries threatening to ban BlackBerries for security reasons, and the death of the Plastic Logic Que ereader. Subscribe via iTunes or via RSS (for other media players), stream it with the player below, or   download the episode. As always, you can [...]

In this Episode, Dwayne and Chris are joined by Patrick Roanhouse of the Plan8 Podcasst. It’s all about Tech and Society– Literally. While law enforcement’s been using video as evidence in crimes for years, how does the flipside work in an age where every cell phone is a video camera, especially when social media allows [...]

The oil spewed from a mile beneath the gulf for around eighty days before being cappedn ad hopefully, eventually plugged. In the meantime, government scientists who studied the phenomenon via the underwater video cameras estimate as many as 50,000 barrels of oil spewed from the broken well every day– that’s four million barrels of crude [...]

They said the Kindle was dead. They said it could never compete with Apple’s iPad, and the waves of Windows and Android-based tablets to come. They yelled that it wasn’t versatile enough, they derided it for it’s singular drive. They should all stop talking, because they’re all dead wrong. The first clue was that earlier [...]

Lagoa Multiphysics 1.0 – Teaser from Thiago Costa on Vimeo. Computers and physics go together like Jimi Hendrix and a guitar. One was practically made for the other.  Computational physics was one of the very first applications of computers and, indeed, along with decrypting military codes, virtual physics was one of the very uses that lead [...]

In this episode, Dwayne and Chris mourn Devindra’s absence as they discuss Apple’s huge Anti-Recall, the fate of the Verizon’s Droid Marketing platform, and where Android 2.2 is going. NOTE: This is Dwayne’s first time editing, so you might have to just drop the volume a bit. He’ll do better next time. Subscribe via iTunes or via [...]

In this episode, Devindra, Dwayne, and Chris chat about the unsurprising demise of Microsoft’s Kin phones and the many internal details that have leaked out about it, as well as the iPhone 4 antenna issue. Subscribe via iTunes or via RSS (for other media players), stream it with the player below, or   download the episode. As always, you can [...]