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Facebook security, TV audio levels, Operation chock hold, Rack Space.
News, tips and information impacting your life through technology.
Show Notes Episode 16
What’s New in Tech!
- Facebook Security readdressed
- More Facebook issues
- Even More Reading
- Clayton’s video on security
- TV Audio levels
- AT&T Data readdressed(Dec 18th Operation choke hold)
- The results
- Rack Space goes down hard
Discussion of the Cast
Technology into the next Year
- Average cell phone conversation has drop to 2.3 minutes. (rem: phone purchase today)
- Texting has quadrupled
- Robotics
- Entertainment, Restaurant (Hard Rock)
- Energy and Environment
Tip or Site of Interest
Steve: padmapper
Dave: Christmas 2009 ideas
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Laptops For Tablets and Applications in the Farming Industry
Steve and Dave are back on the regular schedule to bring you another Waves of Tech episode. On this week’s podcast, they discuss a shift in the college classroom – more students are utilizing tablets versus laptops. This speaks volumes to the shift in consumer buying and the tablet industry. Also in the show, they breakdown the use of smartphone applications in the farming industry and what this means in terms of saving lives and preventing injuries.
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Paper Receipts and Time Zone Social Media
McDonald’s replaces people with touchscreens, and Amazon introduces their new electronic buy back program.
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Adding Women To Tech Roles And Computer Vision Syndrome
We continue to examine the diversity question in technology and engineering. GE plans to bolster the role of female employees by 36% by 2020, closing the gap of under-representation in the technology sector. In response to WalMart’s move of dropping its minimum shipping fee from $49 to $35, Amazon made the exact move to compete with the growing brick-and-mortar competition of e-commerce. As we spend more time behind digital screens, Computer Vision Syndrome is a growing concern with optometrists. Plenty of preventative measures are available to correct the issue. And finally, a 7-year old girl writes a handwritten letter to Google asking for a job and the CEO responds!