Connected Social Media’s Kevin Edwards knows a thing or two about Apple technology. In this podcast Jason Lopez chats with Kevin about the highlights of the company’s newest announcements at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2012.
Inertia – Apple WWDC 2012: In the mid-90s, when the Wintel platform came to dominate the sweet spot of the business/consumer computer business, Apple at least had one loyal constituency: high end users. While Apple didn’t sell a lot of computers compared to PC makers like IBM, the company continued to appeal to creative people [See the full post…]
Silicon Minds: The legend goes that Don Massaro, President of Shugart Associates in the 1970s, drew the 5.25 inch dimension of the minifloppy diskette on a napkin at lunch. “That’s not quite true,” says Don Massaro. “If you go look at the Wikipedia entry and look at the 5.25 inch story, I’ve tried to fix [See the full post…]
PALO ALTO – Apple plans to start paying a dividend to investors in the later part of the year. The company has more than $100 billion dollars in cash reserves. It says the quarterly dividend would be $2.65 a share, or about $2.5 billion paid out each quarter. In addition, Apple plans to buy back [See the full post…]
Intel – The Personal Cloud: Jason Chase-Dobiash, his wife, and their three children live in a bustling household in Monument, Colorado, that is also the site of Jason’s graphic design business, PowerPlant Design CO. The family has four Apple computers, two for work and two for fun, and Chase-Dobiash did his best to keep the [See the full post…]
Steve Wozniak motored by on his Segway during the IDF Blogger mixer. He was on his way to do preparation for his next-day keynote interview with the public radio host of Tech Nation, Moira Gunn. Hang out at the Blogger Upload Lounge on the 3rd floor of Moscone West and who knows who’ll happen by.
Here’s one student that takes the “Science Fair” to the next level. Bridger Maxwell, a high school student at Utah County Academy of Sciences (UCAS) decided to create a multi-touch table for his Science Fair entry–kinda like an iPhone screen, and Microsoft Surface on a budget. The multi-touch experience allows for object movement, rotation, growing [See the full post…]
Recently, NPD Group reported that Apple’s iTunes store moved into the number two spot in 2007 for music retail sales in the U.S. (Wal-Mart remained at number one.) Selling music has been tough — ever since the RIAA took on Napster and Grokster, less downloaded music is being paid for, not more. Where does this [See the full post…]
Ripping DVDs, transferring video from cameras, or converting downloaded videos from various sources for Apple products can be a difficult and time consuming process. Now with a software update for the Turbo.264 hardware-based video encoder from Elgato Systems, Macintosh users now have a definitive best and fastest way to encode video for all of Apple’s [See the full post…]
PodTech’s Jason Lopez and Kevin Edwards roamed the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show floor where it seems Apple rules–in certain product categories–without even being there. In this 18 minute podcast Kevin and Jason check out a few of the many products made for iPods/iPhones and talk about Apple at CES 2009 in anticipation of the MacWorld [See the full post…]
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