TalkTech Podcast Episode 37:

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You can also get it at Vassar’s iTunes U site by clicking on this link.

These are the links  for TalkTech Episode 37 on May 27th, 2010. If there is something you can’t find, please email me.

Big Tech

• Dell to offer a new Android-based tablet
• Warner Brothers accused of pirating anti-pirating technology
• MS cancels innovative courier project
• Apple has more value than MS

Social Networking Tech

• Bulgarian politician voted off the budget committee for playing Farmville
• Test yourself for online addiction

EduTech:

• New digital depository for Sociology instructors
• Unconference gains ground
• Google launches new course scheduling system
• Professor designs software for student engagement
• The incredible shrinking CIO
  

Mobile Tech

• VidPhone confirmed for next iPhone
  

Area Tech

• June 15: Another chance to vote on Arlington school budget – meeting tomorrow at 9 am in the Faculty Parlor
• Ford Scholars and URSI studentsicked off their work this summer
• 3 of IBM’s top ten awardees from Hudson region
• Chester Cycle: Antichrist – successful, my photo on AAVC Home Page

Chester Cycle Battle

Picks

• Skim Open Source .pdf annotator for OSX
• http://www.data.gov/
• LectureTools – Freeware (for a while) tool  for professors to use to increase engagement during class

Fun Tech

• In memory of Greg Smith
• BFBC2 Onslaught mode coming your way
• Red Dead Redemption – one of the year’s have to get games, but a few fun bugs reported
• Get your own Android for $225,000
• Lost ends, much unexplained
• Logan’s Run Remake selects Erik Rinsch as director

Listen to Episode 35 by clicking on the Flash player below.

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You can also get it at Vassar’s iTunes U site by clicking on this link.

Links can be found on the previous post.

These are the links  for TalkTech Episode 35 on May 6th, 2010. If there is something you can’t find, please email me. Sorry there was no podcast for episode 34 due to technical difficulties.

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Big Tech

• Copiers – more dangerous than suspected
• FCC push to regulate broadband expected
• FCC Commissioner pushes for net neutrality
• New Google look and feel

Net Neutrality Explained

Social Networking Tech

• Facebook Glitch highlights security concerns
• Formspring invites insults

EduTech:

• Chasing the single login dream
• A School pushing back against Facebook
• Search committee by Skype

Mobile Tech

• Convert a SIM to a microSIM with a meat cleaver
• Why Apple won’t bring Flash to its devices
• Open Screen Initiative

Area Tech

• HigherEdWeb Conference right here in Poughkeepsie
• Robot Birth Simulator at Vassar Brother’s Medical Center
• Police and school officials repeat web safety warnings

Picks

• Articulate for easy publishing of eLearning materials
• Adobe Connect easy online classroom hosting and recording
• Tiny Chat
• http://www.tumblr.com/

Fun Tech

• Halo Reach Beta reaches 1.2M on first day
• Best Free Games of 2009
• Facebook and Battle.net
• Updates for BFBC2 and Dragon Age Origins: Awakening
• What has Chad been playing?
• Play WoW on your iPad

Wow on iPad

These are the links  for TalkTech Episode 33 on April 22, 2010. If there is something you can’t find, please email me.

Episode 33 Recorded April 22, 2010:

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Big Tech

• The Lost iPhone 4G
• iPhoneGate
• IBM & Columbia Launch Green Skills Initiative
• Sponsored Tweets Coming Soon…

Social Networking Tech

• Chat and Youth are Killing the Meeting
• Son Sues Mother Over Facebook Posts (via slashdot)

EduTech:

• Woodbury U Banned from 2nd Life…Again….
• Will the Ipad Succeed on Campuses where the Kindle Failed?
• Will Venture Capital Follow the Kids?

Mobile Tech

• Run Android on your i Phone
• Portable Projection at a Reasonable Cost

Area Tech

• 30th Annual I won’t Grow Up Day
• in Facebook “Keep Arthur S. May Elementary open”
• Online Petition to keep Arthur S. May open
• Climatologist to lecture at Bard
• IBM earnings dazzle

Please sign the petition Save Arthur S. May by clicking here – Start a Petition or online petition

Picks

• Pico Projector
• http://foursquare.com/

Fun Tech

• Mech Warrior 4 will release for free
• Gamepoocalypse
• danah boyd research
• Roger Ebert claims video games can never be art
• Just Cause 2

You can listen to our podcast from last Thursday’s show by following this link (requires iTunes).

The links for this podcast can be found in the previous post.