In this episode, John Federico (twitter: @gadgetboy), Chia-Lin Simmons (twitter: @zeropts), Craig Calder (twitter: @ccalder) and Steve Hatch (twitter:@shatch) discuss chat about current news and events:
Craig is at TravelZoo and headed to the FocusRight conference in
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December
John will attend the September meeting of the New York Social Media Club
Opinion: The New York Times will print only on Sundays, be digital all other days - for a fee
Let’s make an eReader. All the cool kids are doing it.
THE mass market eReader needs to be $99 or less
We belabor the issue of the iPhone battery life. Again.
Craig just finished listening to The Accidental Billionares, the book about Facebook - “Highly Entertaining.”
Apple announced new products: iTunes 9, iPhone OS 3.1, a revised iPod nano with video capture, a revised iPod Touch and…the iLiver!
Outlook for Mac is coming
John thinks all iPod hardware needs wifi. It would be a boon for media sharing worldwide.
iTunes 9 brings the social! Facebook and Twitter integration.
Apple offers five times the entertainment titles than the combined number of titles for Sony and Nintendo portable game machines,
Got kids? Got an iPhone or iPod Touch? Get Trace. Free in the App Store.
Chia-Lin believes that Android needs 4 million handsets in the market before it reaches a tipping point.
Craig: “Apple’s true [iPhone] competitor has yet to be revealed.”
“The Treo is the 8-track of handsets.”
Android is the open source equivalent of Windows Mobile in the sense that it shares similar challenges.
Craig digs the DigiDay conferences.
Is Apple the new Big Brother?
Motorola announced the Android-based Cliq with the MotoBlur interface
Palm released the Pixi, a cheaper, candybar qwerty without a slider.
“AT&T is the Dick Cheney of telecom.”
Our music is Democracy from Alexander Blu.
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