Holy Bandwidth, Batman, if you thought network congestion was bad on AT&T before, “you ain’t seen nothin’ yet”!  With just one day left before the new year, Skype releases an upgrade that allows its iPhone/iPad app to do video calls.  You will NOT need Apple’s FaceTime function to make this work; any old 3G network will do.  So if you have a device with a front facing camera and the new Skype app, you are good to go anywhere you can get a network connection, like to your buddy at home on his computer.

We have been hearing a lot of good things about Microsofts new security package called MS Home Security Essentials. We saw the dismal performance of the prior OneCare product my Redmond and weren’t too keen on trying it out but apparently it has come a long way.  Paired with Win 7, MSHE is scoring impressive marks as a light weight but highly effective security package.

Facebook has dethroned Google as the most visited website on the Internet as well as the most searched term.  Next: Reach 1 billion users mark in 2011!

Gary Baker, Ed Rudel, Kurt Hines, Foster Braun

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2010 Tech Review Show Notes:

• The Weirdest, Wackiest and Stupidest Sci/Tech Stories of 2010
• Best and Worst Celebrity Technology Moments of 2010
• How 2010 tech changed retail forever
• IE9 beta blocks 99% of Malicious “Live web threats”
• How to Enable Smart-Screen URL filtering in IE9
• Some of the Crazy things people are doing with the Kinect
• Changing book publishing landscape
• The launch of an entirely new market category, the tablet computer (iPad.)
• The bigger story behind wikileaks and the way we get information on the Internet.
• Stuxnet Virus an Atomic Age of Cyber Warfare
• The “App Store” Phenomenon

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This may be the only way to save the failing US Postal System: Turn all their trucks into rolling data gathering network. (Ed Rudel)

Gary Baker, Ed Rudel, Cal Carson, Foster Braun, Erik Anderson

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Show Notes:

Google Chrome OS and CR 84 Device

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Mark Zuckerberg Time Man/Person of the Year

iPhone and iPad rumors

Microsoft Gives Away 10 Free Products for IT and Home Users

iPhone Color Blind App.

Google set to map a new frontier: The human body

Download the new Chrome HTML 5 (beta) browser and explore the human body.

Nasty new virus: ThinkPoint

Moving theatre seats in Michigan

Once again Happy Holidays and a Blessed New Year.

Gary Baker, Ed Rudel, Cal Carson, Erik Anderson, Scott Anderson, Kurt Hines and Foster Braun

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Mozilla has released its own batch of patches for the second most popular browser on the planet.

.07 seconds power glitch and Toshiba may lose 20% of it Flash drive (NAND chip production) for 2011.  Full Story

VGA has long been the standard for video displays but no longer in high definition world.  Adios VGA.

Looks like Microsoft will round out the year with another monster patch Tuesday.  Reportedly 40 security breaches will be plugged.