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Tonight on Down the Tubes

Silva — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:51:05 +0000

Tonight on Down the Tubes;
-MWC Wrapup
-Windows Phone 7 Recap
-The Puma Phone
-Symbian
-Desktop Social Media Aggregators
The Latest and Greatest Tech News Via the Tubes.
Tune in tonight @ksuradio.com

Semester premiere of Down The Tubes Today!!

Silva — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 07:48:10 +0000

This week on the Semester Premiere of Down the Tubes prepare for a recap of all the technology news you may have missed over the holiday, and the Best and brightest of the gadgets seen at this years Consumer Electronics Show (CES). I’ll also be talking about 3d TV’s, EBook readers, Tablets, and more.
Also, the Nexus One Google’s highly anticipated Handset and why it probably isn’t the iPhone killer everyone thinks it is.

Don’t forget to tune in this afternoon at 6pm for the best Technology News via the Tubes. @ ksuradio.com

Don’t forget to check out the fan page http://www.facebook.com/pages/Down-The-Tubes/193841881454?ref=mf

The iPhone Facebook app updated.

Silva — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 04:58:52 +0000

Facebook’s iPhone app is one of the most popular apps for the iPhone, and version 3.1 brings some eagerly expected features to a great application.

Push notifications are here! Push notifications are a very logical update. Instead of having to fire up the Facebook app all the time to see if anything is new, you can now opt to get push notifications for new messages, wall posts, friend requests, friend confirmations, photo tags, events, and comments. Of course this adds the problem of never being able to escape those Farmville Notifications. But you can always shut them off in the settings.

Another interesting update that you may not have expected is address book sync.

Facebook’s new contact sync for the iPhone is especially interesting. It examines the contacts that you already have on your iPhone, trying to match it to a Facebook user. If it finds a match, it pulls down that person’s profile picture, making it that his or her photo on your iPhone. It also adds other information, such as a link that takes you to that person’s profile in Facebook’s app.

Version 3.0 was a big jump forward for Facebook’s iPhone app, version 3.1 delivers some really cool features that round out Facebook’s offering on the iPhone nicely.

Microsoft Word and Office to be barred from sale starting January 11

Silva — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 05:11:51 +0000

Today the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has just upheld a decision that would see Microsoft Word and Office banned from sale starting January 11. As you may know, Microsoft lost a patent infringement suit against XML specialists i4i back in May when it was found that Word’s handling of .xml, .docx, and .docm files infringed upon i4i’s patented XML handling algorithms, but the injunction against further Word sales was put on hold pending the results of this appeal. Now that Microsoft has lost once again, we’d expect either another appeal and request for the injunction or for a settlement between these two that would end this nonsense right now.

And for those of you who think i4i is just trying to make a quick buck. It’s not it’s a database design company that shipped one of the first XML plugins for Office and revamped the entire USPTO database around XML to make it compatible with Word back in 2000. Also, the patents don’t cover XML its self but the specific algorithms used to create and edit XML code.

Personally I think Ballmer should just pay up and quit fighting it, but that’s just me.

Update: Microsoft has moved quickly and now plans to release XML free versions of Office 2007 in order to circumvent the court decision.

As if there weren’t enough URL Shortener’s already

Silva — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 06:00:23 +0000

As you may have heard last week Facebook and Google each launched their own URL Shortening services, Fb.me and Goo.gl respectively. Today Youtube decided to join the ever-growing snowball of URL shorteners on the interwebs by launching their own Youtu.be URLs.

The one redeeming factor of this service is that Youtu.be URLs can only be used for YouTube videos making it tougher for spammers to trick people with fake Video Links. This is possible because each Youtu.be URL is paired with an unique YouTube Video ID The Part after the “v=” in regular YouTube Links. And while this allows for greater security and ease of analytics it adds some length to a “Short” URL about 7 characters more than the average Bit.ly Link, and in cases where every Character counts (Twitter) this could make or break the service.

(Via The YouTube Blog)

Return of the Blog

Silva — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:42:20 +0000

Down the Tubes is Back!

After a week long hiatus Down The Tubes is once again the number one place for the best Technology News. Starting Monday Don’t forget to check www.ksuradio.com for your daily Tech News Fix.

Make it a Continuum Christmas

Silva — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:02:24 +0000

For those of you who tuned in yesterday you probably might have heard about Continuum. You probably did because I’m pretty sure we mentioned it about once every five minutes. But for those of you who didn’t here’s the basics;

Continuum is a surprisingly fun incredibly addictive multiplayer space fighting game in which your goal is to KILL EVERYONE, sounds fun right? Well it is, if you’re interested then just click the link below and you’ll be mashing Hot-keys and making lazer noises “ pew pew ” in no time.

http://getcontinuum.com/

Today on Down the Tubes.

Silva — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:29:21 +0000

Tune in this week to hear about The recent Apple purchase of Music Streaming service Lala, The Demise of the the Crunchpad, and all the best Gadgets and Games coming out this Holiday Season, featuring special guest and Senior Game Correspondent Jeff Wilson.

Don’t forget to tune into The Season Finale of Down the Tube’s This Wednesday at 6pm for the Best Technology News Via the Tubes.

First!!

Silva — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:53:17 +0000

Down The Tubes Blog has Officially begun!

Further updates and news are forthcoming.