A quick search for companies like Virgin Airlines and a bit of glare lead us to click on one of the two ads at the top of the page rather than an organic search result. What happened? Google’s famous ‘not-quite-a-404-error-but-your-page-is-not-there’ screen. A few more quick searches, looking up DirectBuy, Hotwire, and a couple other [...]

In this episode, Devindra, Dwayne and Chris chat about the imminent sale of T-Mobile to AT&T, Amazon having won the race to Cloud-Based entertainment content and Google’s move to NFC from QR Codes. Subscribe via iTunes or via RSS (for other media players), stream it with the player below, or download the episode. As always, you can email us [...]

Symbiotek Episode 57 is pretty much all about Mobile, with a little dash of Kinect. Devindra, Chris and Dwayne go into T-Mobile’s 4G network and Android handset offerings, which leads to a general discussion about the platform and where it’s going. The Apple competition still has some compelling properties which haven’t been outclassed yet, but [...]

There’s been a lot of talk about OpebTable, the wildly popular online reservation service which helps optimize table traffic and server productivity.  It all started with a blog post by Mark Pastore, a restaurant owner in San Francisco, who claimed that the costs for the reservation service, which focuses on using consumer-friendly ways to fill [...]

Symbiotek Episode 56! A foursome. Patrick Roanhouse guest hosts. We get into the Apple’s Back to the Mac event, go deep into Google TV, and talk about some other stories that border on the Rundown. This episode features one of our favorite people, Patrick Roanhouse from the Plan8 podcast. Subscribe via iTunes or via RSS (for other [...]

Welcome to Symbiotek Episode 55, where it’s all about Mobile. This week, Chris, & Dwayne delve into the recent Apple/Verizon iPad deal – Verizon stores are more than a new place to buy an iPad, they’re the beginning of a new strategy for Apple. They get into Windows Phone 7, why it’s one to watch, [...]

The Europeans have done it again – the Finnish Raceabout car seems to push hard at our American electric car efforts on a few key levels. It is: Just as beautiful as a Tesla and seems as fast (super light because no mechanical transmission is needed) but it’s got all wheel drive (four motors for [...]

Today, Microsoft announced App Hub, a subset of the Microsoft Developers Network that focuses on submitting apps & games for the newly announced Windows Phone 7 & the Xbox360. We all know how important it is for any smart phone platform to have access to third-party applications. If late-to-the-game MS wants to push this Windows [...]

Welcome to Symbiotek Episode 54, an episode all about possibilities. This week, Chris, Devindra & Dwayne delve into the recent talks between Microsoft and Adobe – are they plotting against a mutual enemy? Or are they in talks to merge? There’s also a lot of new talk behind a possible Verizon iPhone, and some analysis [...]

Ever since the iPad launched, we’ve seen a slew of Android based tablets and other devices hit the market and a bunch more in the press as pipeline pieces for some of the top brass tech companies. The problem is that many of these offerings or intended offerings fall flat – either because either they [...]