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 [...]

Less than a week after the zany P.R. that is the Facebook movie, The Social Network, CEO and Founder Mark Zuckerberg laid out the changes to the massive site in his blog today. Along with the new group features, users will be able to download all the data (updates, photos, videos) that comprises their Facebook presence. [...]

Sometimes satire says a thousand times more than explanatory criticism every could. Martin Robbins lays out a scathing satire of most scientific journalism that, quite frankly, is spot on. Scientific reporting in mainstream media is abysmal. While major news outlets are not generally known for their ‘fair and balanced’ reporting in general, they surpass themselves [...]

Episode 53, is all about Social Media growing pains and the fact that we’ve arrived at the Age of Streaming Media. We break down what happened when Facebook broke down, alongside Twitter’s recent security issues. As for streaming media; we talked about all the set-top boxes last week, but this week, it’s really about the [...]

Welcome to Episode 52 people, where Apple reigns the conversation!  Apple drops new iPods, iTunes 10 and a new Apple TV. Ping falters as Apple forgets to add their Genius tech. The team gets into how to get the hell off the narcotic that is the cable We also speak about some tablet updates. And [...]

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 [...]