Ars Technica has an under-reported story about how online piracy isn’t quite as bad for hte economy as the RIAA and MPAA, the major players in the music and movie industry (respectively) would have you believe it is. It seems that for decades, the media organizations have been using some of the same numbers to [...]

In the same week we see Google report crazy high earnings (they now have $26 Billion in cash), we’re reminded exactly WHY the company continues to impress. I follow the Gmail blog daily and yesterday they released support for dragging and dropping files from the file system, AKA Windows Explorer, directly into Gmail messages. The [...]

Not sure why I’m posting this but it’s SOOOO bizarre I had to share it. According to the British Tabloid, the Daily Star, a 24 year old woman was playing on her Wii Fit platform when she fell off and injured herself…if you call persistent sexual arousal an injury… The Star claims that the afflicted [...]

In this episode, Devindra, Dwayne, and Chris chat about their first impressions with the iPad (hands on) , their excitement and dismay at the April 8th iPhone OS 4.0 announcement, and, on a more social note– what they get out of meet-ups, tech or otherwise. This episode was recorded on April 09, about 5 days [...]

Looks like MS is giving up on the raw, un-upgraded, non-SP (service pack) version of Windows Vista, the Windows operating system that was launched in 2007 to replace the now venerable Windows XP, which has been dominating the desktop computing market since its launch in 2003. The Register reports that the newly unsupported operating system [...]

Convergence is a big deal when you’re talking about the Symbiotek– it’s the heart of the gadget side of what we do here. And while Apple’s Airport Extreme is a wonderful way to play computer-based music around the house, the Logitech Squeezebox has caught our eye in a major way. Turning your digital music collection [...]

As Tablet fever continues to consume the technosphere, both the Register and Engadgegt have reported on a possible Chrome OS-based tablet PC. Like the JooJoo, this device would have an operating system based heavily (if not exclusively) on a browser-based user interface. We talked about it at length during Episode 28, so hop over to [...]

Long has the tech echo-chamber spoken about how many years it’s taken for the smartphone competition to even begin to stand up to the iPhone– and for good reason– the iPhone revolutionized mobile computing. I’ll better that by saying that the iPhone completely turned mobile computing on its proverbial head. The iPhone interface was intuitive [...]

Whether you stream Netflix to your laptop or are the type to spend hours watching YouTube and other time-shifted videos, it’s always been a bit of a hassle to get these devices to output great video and sound easily to something more comfortable to watch, like a TV. Nowadays, most flat panel machines have VGA [...]

Yesterday, the Google blog reported some very disturbing news. After the gmail accounts of Human Rights activists were subject to a series of cyber attacks originating from the Chinese mainland, Google.com who’s tenure in China has spawned controversy Stateside, stated that they may be willing to cease operations in the Middle Kingdom where it’s website, Google.cn [...]