Nightline Tech Talk 2012-01-24

the popular Galaxy S smartphone that sold 10 million units last year and the 7-inch Galaxy Tab tablet won’t be upgraded to Android 4.0. The company’s argument is that they lack sufficient RAM and ROM to run the new OS alongside TouchWiz and other “experience-enhancing” software. This will come as a massive blow to the great many users of the Galaxy S, who would have rightly expected the 1GHz Hummingbird processor and accompanying memory to be able to handle ICS — it’s the same hardware as you’ll find inside the Nexus S, and that phone is receiving

Nightline Tech Talk 2011-12-20

December 21, 2011 by theheadnerd

This show’s topics:

SproutSocial.com : aggregates the social media you are using
Vericorder iPhone mic.
Would you pay $7,260 for a 3 TB drive? Charting HDD and SSD prices over time
Twitter Wins $300 Million Alwaleed Investment
Dell quits netbooks
Review of Samsung Galaxy Note. Overall score of 3.62 / 5.

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Magnus Nystedt appears weekly on Nightline, a show on Dubai Eye 103.8 hosted by James Piecowye.

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Impressive credentials

December 16, 2011 by theheadnerd

Vint Cerf: SOPA means ‘unprecedented censorship’ of the Web:

By way of background, I am a Vice President and the Chief Internet Evangelist for Google. I also serve as a Fellow of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and I am a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
I have held positions at MCI, the Corporation for National Research Initiatives, Stanford University, UCLA and IBM. Until 2007 I served as chairman of the

Google pulls 22 more malicious Android apps from Market

December 13, 2011 by theheadnerd

Google pulls 22 more malicious Android apps from Market

Google has removed nearly two dozen malware-infected apps from its official Android Market in the last several days, a security company said Sunday. So far this year, Google has yanked more than 100 malicious Android apps from its download distribution channel. San Francisco-based Lookout Security said that it and other vendors had notified Google of several recent waves of malicious apps — 22 apps altogether — that reached the Android Market. Google has yanked those programs from the e-mart, said Lookout. Lookout spotted nine malware-infected apps last week, and another 13