This needs to happen more often.  Google announced today in their enterprise blog that they are going to drop support for Internet Explorer 6 in for their Google Docs and Google Sites web applications.  Frankly, this needs to happen more often.  As we were all reminded of two weeks ago  (if you can remember that [...]

Three-dimensional TVs are all well and good, but deep down inside what our inner nerd really wants is a Holodeck like the one we grew up seeing on Star Trek: a full-fledged immersive three-dimensional world to explore and travel in.   This actually may not be as far-fetched as might be expected.  Researchers at Duke [...]

In this episode, Devindra, Dwayne, and Chris chat about the Apple iPad announcement, Mozilla’s trouble with HTML 5, the Google Voice web app, and more! Subscribe via iTunes of RSS (for other podcast clients), or download the episode. You can email us at symbiotekpodcast@gmail.com. Discussion Highlights (02:06) Our thoughts on the Apple iPad (42:32) Mozilla’s issue [...]

Mozilla has released the third release candidate for their mobile browser on the Maemo (Nokia) platform and interestingly enough, it, like its Safari-mobile counterpart on the iPhone OS, also does not include Flash support.  According to their blog post: The Adobe Flash plugin used on many sites degraded the performance of the browser to the [...]

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 [...]

Why is the iPad special? Is it special? The world will be debating these questions until you are more than sick of them in the coming weeks.  The device is amazing, but really does not exceed anyone’s expectations.  Many improvements to the iPhone OS, like Flash support or multi-tasking, are nowhere to be seen, while [...]

Well the rumors can finally go hide away as Apple has finally unveiled what may end up being the most hyped-up product of the new decade.  Obviously no device will ever live up to such hype and there is bound to be a bit of deflation at all the features we all dreamed of that [...]

[Update: Well. I admit it. I got caught up in the hype.  I was sort of hoping that Jason Calacanis might actually have some useful inside information, but basically nothing he said last night actually came to pass today.  Evidently it was all a joke and yours truly got punk'd.  Regardless, this is why we [...]

In this episode, Devindra, Dwayne, and Chris discuss the rumors about Windows Mobile 7 launching sooner than we expected, the uselessness of 3-D in the living room, why app stores don’t belong on everything, and more! Subscribe via iTunes of RSS (for other podcast clients), or download the episode. You can email us at symbiotekpodcast@gmail.com. [...]

Science and technology have enjoyed a profoundly productive symbiosis in the last hundred and fifty years or so.  One of the main driving forces of technological advancement in the last century has been the explosion of scientific discoveries and innovations.  That scientific advancement has likewise benefitted from scientific and communication and computational tools made possible [...]