November 2010
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Burnt Toast and Tech for 112410
Good morning…it’s one day before Thanksgiving (in case you didn’t know. I think today is hailed as the largest drinking day of the year…). So before you get sauced and visit your family…let’s get through a few tech stories to talk about while drinking tonight. - The Patent Office agrees to let Facebook trademark the word “Face”. Facebook, of...
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Burnt Toast and Tech for 112310
^ It’s like a Lewis and Clark drawing of Angry Birds…did you know that they’re coming out with a sequal to Angry Birds?!? ^ - A third party recently graphed network speeds of the US national carriers, and AT&T came out on top. - FCC looking to update 911 to allow text messages. See even the FCC knows that no one makes calls anymore. - Yelp is looking to join...
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Burnt Toast and Tech for 112210
Samsung Sold 600,000 Tabs…but there’s no Newspaper Its Thanksgiving Week!!!…which also means it’s Black Friday Week…which also means the holiday shopping experience is upon us. #Fact: I don’t really like shopping. #DoubleFact: I REALLY don’t like shopping when I can’t find a parking spot and the stores are packed. But that’s days are not...
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Burnt Toast and Tech for 111910
In Brightest Day, In Darkest Night…MySpace is still Dead Yes!!! You’ve made it through another week. Week 42 is done…welcome to Friday. Just looking at that isn’t it weird to notice that there are only 10 more weeks left in 2010. Wow…time does fly. What’s on the tech docket for today…we have some twitter news, MySpace actually...
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Burnt Toast and Tech for 111810
Almost to Friday…only one day away. So I have some tech news including the new Facebook Messaging, improvements to Google’s product search, a keyboard for the iPhone 4(?!?), and LTE for Verizon. Let’s get to the tech. - On Monday, Facebook announced it’s new Messaging feature (which is not e-mail) but will tie in all the different ways people can contact you. A...
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Burnt Toast and Tech for 111710
Good morning and welcome to Hump Day!!! Don’t worry half the week is over and done with and you only have 2 more days to go until the weekend. You can do it. So grab you cup of coffee and let’s cook up some tech. - So Hulu Plus, the streaming service that lets you watch tv on your Xbox, iPad, iPhone, PS3, Roku, and other devices, recently dropped it’s price from $9.99 to...
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Burnt Toast and Tech for 111610
^ It was all smiles for my wife and I before the game…only one of us was smiling on the way home ^ So I went to the Redskins game last night…if you watched the game then you probably know how I’m feeling. To top that off, my Fantasy Football team also lost which puts me back 2 games. Things were looking so well before Sunday night. Let’s get to some tech stories because...
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Burnt Toast and Tech for 111210
We’ve made it to Friday. Good job everyone. The weekend is here, it’s payday for some, and wishing it was payday for others. I’m feeling pretty good today…except that I’m wishing I played the Falcons defense last night. Oh well I hope that won’t lead my team to another L.But enough Fantasy Football talk…there’s some tech news today. So let’s...
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Burnt Toast and Tech for 111110
Good Morning and Happy Vetran’s Day to all those who serve or have ever served our country. We are eternally grateful. Now if you stopped by the site yesterday, you may have been shocked to realize that there was no Burnt Toast and Tech yesterday. Well yesterday was an uber busy day for me, with court and I’m having internet issues at my place. But Being the nerd I am, I tethered...
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Burnt Toast & Tech for 110910
It’s Tuesday!!! Guess what today is?!? Fantasy Football Press Conference Day!!! But that’s later…right now it’s tech. Windows Phone 7 was released. Samsung has some new devices…and I’m still talking about cutting cable. I don’t have a lot more to say…so on to the tech! - Yesterday a new operating system was unleashed upon the world. Windows...
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Burnt Toast & Tech for 110810
And welcome back to another Monday. Hopefully you’ve all been getting that extra hour of rest and are getting reacquainted with the sun being out this early in the am. I took full advantage of the extra hour…and that’s why the tech breakfast is being served up a tad later than usual. I guess this is more of a Bacon Lettuce & Tech today. On to the tech… - Dell is...
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Burnt Toast & Tech for 110510
Yesterday was a big day for me. Well big day for my site at least…it got the largest amount of traffic than any other day combined. Man, now I know how Kik feels. Anyways, I was considering stopping with my daily hit list of topics…but it seems to be well liked, so I’m gonna keep it coming. Also as was seen yesterday, I plan on doing more than just a morning list of topics....
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It's A Kik In The Pants
Remember the late 90s early 2000s when you’d get home from class and all your friends would be on AIM (or Yahoo…or MSN…or ICQ) and instead of using the house phone to make calls to one friend, you would use the interwebs to chat online with all of your friends. Well those days are beginning to return with a new cross-platform messenger called Kik. Kik is a cross-platform...
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Burnt Toast & Tech for 110410
Welcome to another interesting morning in tech news. Yesterday Facebook had a press conference bringing in lots of new features that are possibly so intriguing that I may start using it. Foursquare isn’t trying to be left behind in the geo-location apps either according to the CEO and co-founder…and then we have some MySpace news. so grab you cup of coffee (or tea) because...
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Burnt Toast & Tech for 110310
Hopefully everyone voted in their local elections. If you follow me on twitter then you would have seen my twitter rant about politics. Basically what it boiled down to was the our political involvement does not end after we cast our ballot. #WordIsBond. So I’m going to work on trying to not be dismayed by the media’s perception of politics and start trying to research things myself....
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Burnt Toast & Tech for 110210
- Today is election day…so make sure you get out to vote in your local elections. Every vote counts.What does election day have to do with tech?!? Well social media has some cool tools for Foursquare, Twitter, and Facebook that makes voting fun (and you can get badges!!!) [ Election Badges, Vote by Check-In and Twitter Bubbles - GigaOm ] - SO rumors are starting to circulate that...
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Burnt Toast & Tech 110110
Welcome to the first day and the first week of November. Hopefully everyone didn’t eat all their Halloween candy last night and have some to make it through the week. I had an amazing weekend that I’ll be blogging about later. I went to the #Rally4Sanity and it was awesome, but more on that later. Anyways, here’s some tech news to get your week started. - So I started off...
