Technology Viewer

Or at lest that’s what Business Insider claims.

Me I think it’s a necessary first step, but it’s only the first step.

However the point they make are worth a read.

— The Industry Perspective: Reaching The Female Gamer By Ignoring Stereotypes | Ypulse

— End Piracy, Not Liberty – Google

Wow Android Life might have just won the award for the worst tech headline ever.  Well probably not, but still that’s a pretty misleading headline.  

Sprint is “betting the farm” on LTE, thats sort of like gamboling that the sun will come up tomorrow.  Well this is 2012, but even so…. I think you get my point.  

They aren’t betting on anything, they are going with the sure thing, that everyone else has picked.  Which means…  

We might actually be headed towards a phone system in America where you can carry your phone from one carrier to another.  We will all be on LTE shortly.  

Woot!

Roku to Launch Cordless Streaming Stick for TVs

Ok interesrting, the idea is you just plug this “stick” into the back of your TV, and boom you have ROKU without the little box.   

Neat idea, except… why bother?  Why not just put the Roku service inside the TV.  Just about everything being sold today is a connected TV, right?  So just include Roku as a menu option…   

Oh yeah right…  unless the TV manufacturers buy the rights from Roku to do that, Roku doesn’t make any money.  They make money by selling hardware.  

Hmm  can you smell Roku powered TV’s in our future?  Well it would make more sense to me than a Stick.  

Disclosure, I own and love my Roku box, it’s the best $75 I ever spent.  

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No Warrant Needed for GPS Monitoring, Judge Rules

Ahh Panic, the government can track your every move!  wait wait wait settle down a little.   Yes this is scary, no doubt about it, but lets think about it for a second.  

The government, has never needed a warrant to tail you?  To follow you around all day and record you activities in a notebook, from a public place, has never required a warrant to my knowledge.  In fact anyone can do it, not just the government.  

The same law that allows me to take photos of people, objects and events in a public place, allows anyone, the government included to do the same thing.  

Now if you didn’t click through to the article, let me summarize.  The police attached a GPS tracker to a car via a magnet, no damage was done, they didn’t invade use cell phone gps or carrier tracking, they just attched a tracking bug to a car.

This let the cops tail the suspect with out going through the cost to taxpayers or the environment of driving around following the guy for several days.  

This is a good thing, it’s greener, and police could be solving crimes, writing tickets, or whatever it is they are normally paid to do while the little GPS tracker did it’s thing.  

Normally I am one of the first to shoult invasion of privacy, especially when the government is involved, but in this case they aren’t invading anyone’s privacy, they just track a cars location as it used public roadways.  They did it in an economical, and environmentally friendly fashion.  

Oh and they caught someone stealing taxpayer dollars from the City of St. Louis.  

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Low cost, real time GPS tracker with advanced features

The first of the Netflix produced original content is about to hit the streams.  

“Lilyhammer” a story about a mobster that’s moved via the witness protection program to Lillehammer Norway, is set to debut it’s first season next month.  

Season one is only six episodes, but…   I am all over it.  I am really excited to see what netflix can bring to the table with it’s own content.  

House of Cards the remake of the brittish mini series is slated to debute later this year, and of course the much anticipated return of Arrested development’s new episodes in 2013, looks to be a good start.

But Netflix after the 2011 you just had, I recommend you keep hitting us with new deals and new content as quickly as you can. 

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