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When you’re as obsessed by all things tech related as we are, its just too painful to stay silent. When we read all the tech news every day, we just have to talk about these things. Nobody in our families will listen, neither will our friends. They are completely uninterested in what nonsense Steve Ballmer is spouting today, what’s really wrong with Steve Jobs and will he be back at Apple.
So, dear listener, fellow tech-head, you are our captive audience. Our therapy if you will.
This week we discuss…
Kindle 2.0 – Amazon’s baby, the device that they hope will read us all our bedtime stories. Well, if your Gareth’s side of the pond anyway. New design, new features. Have Amazon done enough to part you from 360 bucks?
Mobile World Conference, Barcelona – Reading all the stories to come from there I was struck by the fact that it was dominated by a phone that wasn’t even there…the iPhone!
Sony Portable Fuel Cells – These prototypes from Sony, demonstrate that the technology is not that far from market now. And they look cool too.
10 Trillion bits of data on a disk the size of a quarter – Nanotech research, everybody’s favourite bogeyman, brings the promise of practically unlimited storage. But you’ll probably lose it down the back of the sofa.
Safari 4 beta – Apple’s stab at the one browser to rule them all. Gareth risks the stability of his systems to bring us, his considered opinion.
Netbooks, why? – Gareth tries to explain to me WTF is going on there!
Blackberry doesn’t bite the bullet – Blackberry reject the ‘confrontational’ ad that could have burst Apple’s bubble.
Sayonara Sony? – Is the CE giant going to fall? Or can Super Stringer keep them in the game through the downturn?
Windows 7 – Can Microsoft sweep the disaster that was Vista under the living room rug, and blow us away with Windows 7?
The end of Teletext? – Ofcom questions the need for the venerable old text service. Are we going to lose the first stab at interactivity delivered to our tellys?
And that’s about it for our first show. If you want to get in touch, express your own opinions, argue with us or just flame. Blame Gareth, it was all his idea, honest!! P.S. If you DO know what’s wrong with Steve Jobs, and if he’ll be back, let us know.
