Ryan starts off Chrome OS talk by announcing that one of the gdgt’s engineers compiled the developer code preview, placed it into a VMware virtual machine, and made it available on their site. Beyond that, Ryan is mostly unexcited about the OS considering its not much more than a browser. In his characteristic optimism, Peter [...]
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November 17th, 2009
The Palm Pixi is now available and the verdict is mixed. WebOS has not taken off in the way that Palm would have hoped, and the guys argue that the only real chance they have is if they expand to other carriers. The Blackberry Storm 2 also receives middling opinions, but the addition of more [...]
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November 5th, 2009
The recent news that Best Buy is looking to team-up with CinemaNow to deliver digital content is the first topic up this week. If they can get the hardware partnerships in place, this could be a formidable entry into a burgeoning market. Apple has the same sort of idea and is rumored to be looking [...]
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October 29th, 2009
Any other week, the announcement of Netflix coming to PS3 would be big news, but it has been overshadowed by the inundation of activity in the mobile world.
Palm has announced that the Pixi will be launching next month for $99. While this is a reasonable price, it is going to be a hard sell against [...]
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October 26th, 2009
Tired of hearing about Windows 7 yet? The opinions are the same here as they have been everywhere– it’s good. The guys get into the Apple updates and the iMacs seem to be the biggest win. Ryan laments that he would like to pick one up, but he just can’t make the move to a [...]
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October 15th, 2009
The Danger/Sidekick data loss situation has been the biggest story of the week. Danger holds all of Sidekick user’s data in the cloud and something went horribly wrong and they lost all of that data. This has called the idea of keeping all data in the cloud into question for many people. According to Danger, [...]
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October 9th, 2009
Windows Mobile 6.5, now known as Windows Phone is the first topic up this week and the guys don’t have too many good things to say about it. It is more of a stop-gap measure for Microsoft and we won’t see a true smartphone OS competitor from Microsoft until version 7. Ryan does give some [...]
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September 17th, 2009
The Zune HD is sweeping the tech world. Initial reviews have been quite positive with the gdgt guys praising it as well. The user interface continues to be hailed as highly usable and fresh. The OLED display handles blacks well and Ryan compliments the UI’s use of black as good design both aesthetically and in [...]
TWiT 212: Leave The Gun, Take The Calacanis
September 14th, 2009
Settle in for a lot of tech talk this week because this week’s episode clocks in at almost 2 hours. Jason Calacanis is on this week starting out the discussion with the start-up competition TechCrunch50, which kicks-off later today. The topic is talked about here, but the rumor is that we may hear something about [...]
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September 12th, 2009
Apple’s iPod event on Tuesday turned out to be devoid of any big announcements. The addition of a video camera to the iPod nano is welcome, but not Earth-shattering. The storage bump and internal specs revision on the iPod touch are similarly uninspiring and they guys say as much here.
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September 3rd, 2009
The guys are moving through the news quick this week. The big news up front it Apple’s iPod event announced for September 9th. They just skim over a few predictions before talking about the Xbox 360’s recent price drop. They feel like the new price is a decent deal, but Ryan thinks it would make [...]
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December 5th, 2009
It’s a rather dry episode this week. Friend of the show, Michael Gartenberg is on, and quite frankly, the show suffers a bit for it. While he has some nice insight into the topics of the week, the atmosphere of the episode is quite different, and the fun flies out the window.
The recent declaration [...]