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Today In Tech History - April 10thPosted Tuesday, April 10, at 2:15 PM Technology hasn't always meant the latest smartphone or laptop...to the human race technology has arrived at different times and in different ways throughout our history. We have "invented" things that solved a problem, prevented a problem, or just down right made life easier. What you will find below is a perfect example...
Union Pacific's #844 steam engine chugged through our area last Wednesday for the second time in a year. The train was in route to the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Shiloh in Arkansas, carrying over 300 Civil War reenactors and period cannons. The modern twist here is that I tracked the journey in real time from Wyoming to a maintenance stop in Scott City on my iPhone...
If you have been reading this blog for a while, then you have read my rambling about the rise of the tablet computer. With aisles of models to choose from at the local electronics store, it can be intimidating...maybe the next few paragraphs will help you out...
The number of smartphones available with the Android operating system is ever growing. Many folks just refer to them simple as "Droid phones" when there are dozens of models and makers out there. The folks at AT&T were kind enough to send me three Android phones over the last couple months to test and review...
Sports Bar/Restaurant chain Buffalo Wild Wings is expanding a pilot program in which customers place orders for food and drinks via Apple's popular iPad right from their table. The iPads are being encased in sturdy cases from Hubworks. Tim Murphy (director of international business for Buffalo Wild Wings) confirmed the details in a chat with Computerworld saying they have already been tested at a Toronto location with 20 tablets, but will soon be in a Minneapolis restaurant. ...
You may have noticed a little gap in my tech blogging. Well fear not loyal readers, the technical one has returned! So now that the Holiday season has passed and 2012 is trucking along...let me share a few things with you that I view as growing trends this year:...
Text messaging is a standard form of communication these days. Over 160 billion texts are sent each month in the US alone by mobile phone subscribers! This week it turned 19 years old. Text messaging was first used on December 3rd 1992, when Neil Papworth, a 22 year old test engineer for Sema Group UK, used a personal computer to send the text message "Merry Christmas" via the Vodafone network to the phone of Richard Jarvis. ...
After a couple hours out in the crowds I am back at the safety of my desk. Video game systems, DVD & Blu-Ray discs, cheap computers, tablets, and TV's are at the top of everyone's Black Friday list. I have to report that Wal-Mart was unorganized, unsafe, and downright crazy. ...
Black Friday 2011 - Popular Electronic Items In Cape Girardeau Part 1 Thanksgiving meals are done for another year and people are in line all over Cape Girardeau waiting for the stores to rollout door-buster deals. As of this blog post at approximately 8:45 PM here are the most popular gadget deals and there locations:...
Black Friday Shopping - Online Black Friday is almost here. Technology has more and more people shopping Black Friday specials from their living rooms and not standing in line. This year the big Holiday shopping players (like Best Buy) are once again promoting "online only" special starting Thanksgiving Day...
The tablet wars are heating up and just in time for holiday shopping. You might remember my blog last month titled "Amazon's Kindle Fire Will Ship With A Free Puppy" where I talked about how the Kindle Fire was not a iPad2 competitor but a Nook Color competitor. Well this week Barnes & Noble fired a shot across Amazon's bow. Not only did B&N drop the price of the Nook Color to $199, but they announced the new Nook Tablet which will carry a price tag of $249...
What's Been Happening In The World Of Tech After a cross country trip and a horrible sinus cold, your personal Technosaurus is back on the beat. I thought it would be a good time to catch up on interesting technology news and happening over the last two weeks. At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, the rapper, businessman and ordained minister announced he has launched a new search engine called WireDoo. What's different than Google? It generates results based on relationships between subjects that run deeper than keywords...
With both smartphones and portable gaming at a peak in popularity, it was only a matter of time before the first certified PlayStation smartphone appeared. The folks over at AT&T let me spend a week with the new Xperia Play 4G from Sony/Ericsson. Simply put, the device is a modern Android touch screen smartphone with a slide-out PlayStation controller...yes slide-out PlayStation controller!...
My iPhone Predictions Were 100 Percent Correct Maybe I should be picking Power Ball numbers instead of writing a technology blog! The predictions I wrote about in my September 22nd blog all proved to be 100 percent accurate for the newest version of Apple's smartphone. Here is a link: http://www.semissourian.com/blogs/technosaurus/entry/43636/...
Steve Jobs, The World Has Lost A Great Man As you read this, I have just learn from the Associated Press that Steve Jobs has past away. Thank you Mr.Jobs for your vision, your wisdom, and everything you gave us...from Toy Story to the iPad. Here is a link to my blog post from August when Steve stepped down from Apple. It will enlighten you about this amazing man...
This week online retail giant Amazon unveiled their new tablet device called the Kindle Fire. Many media outlets (both print and online) have touted the $199 device that will ship in November to be an "iPad Killer". (The Apple iPad2 has a starting price of $499) Truth is that the Kindle Fire is not an iPad, not even close. That said; let's take a look at some good and the bad points of this new tablet...
Two weeks ago at Microsoft's Build Conference in California a developer preview of their next operating system was released. It's different than any version of Windows you have ever seen. There are over 360 million people using Windows world wide, and this may be the move that keeps those numbers growing...or fractures Microsoft's strong hold on the market...
First of all I don't have any top secret info about Apple's next iPhone, but I will tell you what I do know and what my predictions are. Apple has announced new iPhone hardware every June since the introduction of the device in 2007 with the exception of this year. ...
Sirius XM Rates Going Up To $14.49 Monthly I have never been a fan of satellite radio, but 18 million subscribers in North America are. Now the standard monthly fee for Sirius XM Radio service is increasing from $12.95 a month to $14.49 beginning January 1st. The big question seems to be...How much can monthly subscription service rates increase before you don't find the value in paying for radio?...
Ten Years of Technology Since 9/11 Well ten years have come and gone since the day the world watched in awe of the tragic events that would become known as 9/11. The live TV images are still etched in my mind...and always will be. Ten years is but a notch on the timeline of our great country. However when we speak of technology, ten years is a very very long time...
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The Technosaurus  - Blog RSS feed ![[Feed icon]](http://www.semissourian.com/images/icons/feed-icon-14x14.png){kind=icon} - Comments RSS feed - Send email to Gregory Vaughn - Login Gregory has spent the last 20-plus years selling, installing, servicing and teaching others about consumer electronics and technology. He's the proud soccer dad of two kids and an avid musician and songwriter, with personal works available on six continents (working on Antarctica). He's also a huge photography buff. In his blog he writes about, what else, technology.
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