The Crunchies Award

The ballot boxes stuffed emptied and votes are counted; the winners of the 2012 Crunchies for best…well, just about anything that you could categorize on the Net are….  Some winners were gimme’s like DropBox but some left us scratching our heads in disbelief, e.g. Nest beat iPad2 for Best Devices.  Really?!  Really?!

Jullian Assange, leader of the Internet whistle-blowing site may demand to be called Captain if WikiLeaks investors have their way.  The infamous hacker organization is rumored to be completing a deal that would put their servers on boats in International waters thus avoiding US prosecution for their embarrassing revelations.

Here is a picture of the damaged buss that caused the problems that Ed was talking about with his printer not working on the 1/28/12 show hour 2.  Notice the bite mark taken out of the buss clip in the middle of the picture.

The Crunchies Award

Get on board this 5 year old tech award ceremony to vote for your favorite applications and your digital heroes.  But you have to do it soon because winners will be announced in San Francisco on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012. The awards are sponsored by the folks at TechCrunch.com  Go here to vote.

HP has had a miserable year in the news and on its sales front, but it looks like they have a hit on their hands with  the sleek HP Envy 15.  Look out MacBook Air, PC lovers now have their own ultrabook to envy.

As featured in our 1/21/12 show, Romance Scam is an informational website for people who have been or fear they are involved in a web scam on a dating site.  The site has a chat room which is a place for people talk with a moderator if they have questions about their specific situation.

2012 World Pop 7 Billion

A significant portion of the human race is on track to be “friended” on the social network behemoth called Facebook by this summer. Let’s see: Apple has more money than the US Government and Facebook has about 1/7th of the world’s population subscribed to its services.  Sooooo, who really owns whom?!

Have we really come that far since Bill Gates published his Trustworthy Computing Memo?  A look at the milepost in security and a glimpse into its future.

Larry Dignan looks into his crystal ball and gives us a vision of the future of enterprise technology in 2012.

Viruses, like cockroaches will always be with us and if you have had a bad one it has often meant just reloading your original Operating System (OS) and possibly losing your data and applications if  you didn’t back up (Not YOU!)  Microsoft says that will be a thing of the past with Windows 8; you’ll just “refresh” your OS and all the data and apps will be safe.