News: Technophilia from May 8th, 2011

May 8, 2011 by Hannibal Tabu Leave a Comment

NOTE: The following is the text of the technology news summary from the Sunday, May 8th It's Komplicated webcast.

Apps and code, hard drives and speedy processors, Technophilia gives you all the details on the world of technology and the future.

ITEM: Blackberry fans will be excited to hear that Research In Motion is announcing their new OS, BlackBerry 7, which is coming for the Bold Touch. That sounds freaky, but it's not. Voice activated searches, HTML video support, a better JavaScript compiler and browser enhancements come with promises of speed and ease improvements. This only works for new phones, so if you've got a Blackberry now, well, sorry.

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ITEM: If you could have the equivalent of an iPod Touch running Android, would that get you going? Gizmodo talked about the Galaxy S Wi-Fi, a four or five inch wonder that doesn't have any phone capabilities. 800×480 screen, 1 GHz processor, 3.2 megapixel camera, front facing camera, 8GB or 16GB models, blah blah blah, Swiss army connection options. Oh, and it launches in Russia and Switzerland, so if you want it in the US, grab a Snickers, it'll be a while.

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ITEM: You like money, right? Well, if you have some time to blow when you're just walking around, and happen to have an iOS device, you can try Gigwalk, an app that fulfills a simple idea. If you need something simple done at your store or other physical location, as long as it's something almost anyone can do, you can put a job up on Gigwalk for people to grab. Jobs like verifying (with a photo) the placement of a traffic sign, or evaluating the quality of service at a retailer. Jobs like that are currently in the system in San Francisco.

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About Hannibal Tabu

Born in Rockford, Illinois; raised in Memphis, Tennessee; matriculated in
Tacoma, Washington and broadcasting live from Los Angeles, Hannibal Tabu is
a writer, a brother, a husband, a misanthrope, a son, an emcee, an uncle, a
poet, a father, a designer, a nephew, a romantic, a storyteller, and by
god, a fan. He spent more than ten years doing the journalist thing for
Vibe, Slave Trade, MTV Online, Rap Pages, America Online, the Los Angeles
Sentinel, Spinnerrack.com, Speak and The Source. Hannibal has worked as a
web designer/producer and graphic artist for American Honda, eHobbies.com,
Quicken.com, Express.com, the California Association of REALTORS, Disney
Channel, NextPlanetOver.com, Toyota Motor Sales, Kaiser Permanente,
California Bank & Trust and many more. As a poet, Hannibal has been
published in The Drumming Between Us, (sic) Vice Verse, Drumvoices Review,
Voices From Leimert Park and other anthologies, as well as being author of
the collection BORN BENEATH AN ANGRY STAR and co-author of FLIGHT MANUAL.
As a novelist, he's written THE CROWN: ASCENSION and FARAWAY (both
available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble & Smashwords) and the upcoming sci fi
political thriller ROGUE NATION. He's the winner of the 2012 Top Cow Talent Hunt, writer of Waso: Will To Power for Stranger Comics, Project: Wildfire for Legends Press, and co-writer of an issue of Watson & Holmes (alongside 2 Guns writer Steven Grant) for New Paradigm Studios. For six years he was the editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Herald-Dispatch group of newspapers, is currently the co-owner and editor-in-chief of Black geek website Komplicated at the Good
Men Project, and uses his Operative Network website (www.operative.net) to
publish his poetry, market what he's doing, rant at the world and emit
strangled cries for help. In addition to all that, Hannibal collects comic
books, has scores of action figures, DJs private parties, is a Mac OS
zealot, sings and sometimes even hosts karaoke, practices a form of
spirituality based on ancient Egyptian belief, and goes to bed every day,
secretly hoping that half the world will commit suicide in his honor.