→ August 16, 2010
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 [...]
→ July 31, 2010
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 [...]
→ July 29, 2010
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 [...]
→ July 23, 2010
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 [...]
→ July 22, 2010
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 [...]
→ July 13, 2010
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 [...]
→ July 6, 2010
In the first episode of Symbiotek’s second season, Devindra, Dwayne, and Chris discuss their impressions of the iPhone 4, Amazon’s state of affairs inspired by its Woot purchase, and how technology may be used in future World Cups. Subscribe via iTunes or via RSS (for other media players), stream it with the player below, or download the episode. As [...]
→ June 15, 2010
In this episode, Devindra, Dwayne, and Chris go in depth about Apple’s WWDC, and spend some time focusing on the iPhone 4. The three get into it about iAd and whether or not Apple’s intentions here are competitive or not– especially with the new Reader feature on Safari 5. The rundown features the iPad security [...]
→ June 10, 2010
About a week ago, AT&T unveiled some new data plans in advance of the WWDC iPhone 4 announcement. Rather than paying $30 for unlimited data, users would now have something of a choice: $15 for 200mb of data over 3G (dubbed DataPlus) OR $25 for 10x that much, or 2gb of data over 3G (dubbed [...]
→ June 9, 2010
When I first heard about Twitter in 2007, my initial reaction was something along the lines of “That is the silliest idea I have ever heard of.” Time has proven me wrong and I was determined not to make the same mistake with the newest hot trend in the social web: GeoLocation based social networks [...]
