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Speaker 1: tech stuff from how stuff Works dot com. Hey there, everybody,

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Speaker 1: My name is Chris Bollett, and I am an editor

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Speaker 1: here at how stuff Works dot Com and cracking up

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Speaker 1: across from me as usual because I said something goofy

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Speaker 1: as senior writer Jonathan Strickland, just think about it. Our

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Speaker 1: whole world is sitting there on a computer. It's in

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Speaker 1: all right there. Everyone is stored in there. It's like

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Speaker 1: this little electronic shadow on each and every one of us,

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Speaker 1: just just begging for someone to screw with. And you

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Speaker 1: know what, They've done it to me, and you know

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Speaker 1: what they're gonna do it to you. Dune Dune, Dune,

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Speaker 1: I was gonna gonna do that? Or Hi everybody, since

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Speaker 1: Today we thought we would talk about some of the

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Speaker 1: interesting tech that debuted or became popular in the last

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Speaker 1: So some of it's going to be stuff that we

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Speaker 1: particularly like. In some cases it might not be, you know,

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Speaker 1: technology that we particularly like or use, but we found

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Speaker 1: it notable in some sense. So, um, would you like

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Speaker 1: me to start to do? Want to start? Um? Well,

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Speaker 1: the iPad, Apple's device, which, uh, you know we made

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Speaker 1: I mean, you know what, frankly, I didn't expect it

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Speaker 1: But and it it's it is, but the niches bigger

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Speaker 1: thing to ever be on the Internet ever. And the

429
00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:02,800
Speaker 1: fact that he is it became sort of a joke

430
00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:06,280
Speaker 1: overnight and has a good a good sense of humor

431
00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:08,879
Speaker 1: about it. Um, I think just makes them that more

432
00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:12,879
Speaker 1: endearing to people. Yeah, so anyway, Yeah, I love that.

433
00:24:12,880 --> 00:24:14,359
Speaker 1: I mean, wow, that was a long time ago, but

434
00:24:14,400 --> 00:24:19,359
Speaker 1: I guess it was this year. Man, lull Here. Here's

435
00:24:19,359 --> 00:24:21,920
Speaker 1: the thing about memes to write. Memes tend to have,

436
00:24:22,680 --> 00:24:26,680
Speaker 1: with a few exceptions, a meteoric rise. They're really popular

437
00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:29,560
Speaker 1: for a couple of months, and then they disappear and

438
00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:31,600
Speaker 1: then typically and then the next meme will take over.

439
00:24:31,760 --> 00:24:34,120
Speaker 1: Some of them last longer, some of them become kind

440
00:24:34,119 --> 00:24:36,479
Speaker 1: of a joke later on that you can reference, but

441
00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:40,400
Speaker 1: no one's really, you know, watching the videos actively anymore. Yeah.

442
00:24:40,640 --> 00:24:44,320
Speaker 1: It's like, you know, right, You'll see you'll see a

443
00:24:44,359 --> 00:24:48,200
Speaker 1: two or three week period where the views on YouTube

444
00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:51,560
Speaker 1: just skyrocket, and then after that they trickle off pretty quickly,

445
00:24:51,560 --> 00:24:54,120
Speaker 1: and they still might have steady viewership that it will

446
00:24:54,119 --> 00:24:57,200
Speaker 1: be a fraction of what used to be. Oh nos, Yeah,

447
00:24:58,720 --> 00:25:03,760
Speaker 1: let's see what else Internet Explore nine. Internet Explore nine,

448
00:25:04,080 --> 00:25:07,640
Speaker 1: there's another browser that that debuted, um, and people talked

449
00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:09,800
Speaker 1: about how fast it was. That There's some other developments

450
00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:12,879
Speaker 1: within and to Explore nine that seemed pretty interesting to me, like, Uh,

451
00:25:12,920 --> 00:25:16,600
Speaker 1: they're going to incorporate the no tracking system, so you

452
00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:19,160
Speaker 1: can if you have it active, then you aren't tracked

453
00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:22,800
Speaker 1: while you navigate the Internet. Uh. You know, you've got

454
00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:26,800
Speaker 1: private browsing on various systems as well, but the definition

455
00:25:26,840 --> 00:25:30,760
Speaker 1: of private seems to be somewhat flexible depending upon the browser.

456
00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:35,679
Speaker 1: So let's see that that came out. Uh, what else?

457
00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:38,159
Speaker 1: One other big big stories should we talk about or

458
00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:41,840
Speaker 1: just Google? We like Google Chromos. Google Chromos which is

459
00:25:41,920 --> 00:25:46,320
Speaker 1: just at the end of well, at the end of

460
00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:48,879
Speaker 1: two thousand nine, we knew that the developer rolled for

461
00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:51,520
Speaker 1: Chromos was out and they had said at that time

462
00:25:51,560 --> 00:25:55,919
Speaker 1: that this was geared toward a launch in the end

463
00:25:55,920 --> 00:25:58,760
Speaker 1: of right, so it's not a surprise, but but it

464
00:25:58,840 --> 00:26:01,720
Speaker 1: is releasing and the the app store that goes with it. Now,

465
00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:04,720
Speaker 1: the the the surprise I would say from Google was

466
00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:07,440
Speaker 1: the driverless cars. Yes, that was a big surprise. It

467
00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:09,199
Speaker 1: was a big surprise because it turns out that they

468
00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:11,320
Speaker 1: had been testing this for a long time ye hundred

469
00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:14,120
Speaker 1: forty tho miles before they actually announced it. That's that's

470
00:26:14,119 --> 00:26:16,119
Speaker 1: a lot of miles to be driving around with no

471
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Speaker 1: actual active human driver. And there was there was someone

472
00:26:20,119 --> 00:26:22,600
Speaker 1: behind the wheel at all times. There was never a

473
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Speaker 1: moment where the car was by itself, like there was

474
00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:26,919
Speaker 1: no one in the car. They always had someone who

475
00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:29,800
Speaker 1: could take over should there be a catastrophic failure of

476
00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:32,560
Speaker 1: the system. But as far as we know, there there

477
00:26:32,560 --> 00:26:36,040
Speaker 1: were no such incidents. There was a couple of stories

478
00:26:36,119 --> 00:26:40,439
Speaker 1: about accidents that the Google Car was involved in, um

479
00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:43,000
Speaker 1: at least one of them. I remember it being the

480
00:26:43,080 --> 00:26:45,360
Speaker 1: Google Car was rear ended, so it may or may

481
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Speaker 1: not have been the Google Car's fault. I mean, if

482
00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:51,760
Speaker 1: the Google car stop suddenly, then it probably was its fault,

483
00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:53,320
Speaker 1: But I just don't know the details of that. I

484
00:26:53,320 --> 00:26:55,520
Speaker 1: think I said that when we did our podcast on

485
00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:58,200
Speaker 1: the Google Car, and I never went back to actually

486
00:26:58,240 --> 00:27:01,359
Speaker 1: read the story to see how it turned out. Yeah. Yeah.

487
00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:04,639
Speaker 1: And then there was the incident with the the black

488
00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:09,480
Speaker 1: trans Am, which apparently was jealous of the other driverless car. Michael,

489
00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:16,000
Speaker 1: I'm going to sing about the Constitution. I'm sorry, I'm

490
00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:18,879
Speaker 1: mixing up the movies now, yes you are. And one

491
00:27:18,920 --> 00:27:20,920
Speaker 1: of them is the TV show it's not even a movie. No,

492
00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:23,360
Speaker 1: there were. There was the made for TV movie I'll

493
00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:28,679
Speaker 1: have you know. Oh, night Writer. Yeah, okay, so Night

494
00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:32,600
Speaker 1: Writer six, it was brilliant. And then and then the

495
00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:37,560
Speaker 1: Google Phone. Yeah, also the Nexus one, yeah, which which

496
00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:41,000
Speaker 1: was released into the nine but really yeah, but at

497
00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:42,399
Speaker 1: the time we were talking about it like it was

498
00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:45,560
Speaker 1: going to start with the Google Store and they were

499
00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:47,080
Speaker 1: going to sell they were going to get in the

500
00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:48,639
Speaker 1: phone business, and they were really going to do this.

501
00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:52,399
Speaker 1: And then a few months later, earlier this year, they said, yeah,

502
00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:55,560
Speaker 1: you know what, No, Yeah, that was kind of a well,

503
00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:58,480
Speaker 1: I mean, it's still a developer phone, and it originally

504
00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:01,320
Speaker 1: was a developer phone. It became a consumer phone at

505
00:28:01,320 --> 00:28:04,639
Speaker 1: the very beginning of two thousand ten. I remember because

506
00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:06,520
Speaker 1: I was at CS and there were people who had

507
00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:10,000
Speaker 1: literally just had it delivered to them before they left

508
00:28:10,119 --> 00:28:13,359
Speaker 1: for the show. Yeah, but CS is right at the

509
00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:15,880
Speaker 1: bleeding edge of the first of the year. So yeah,

510
00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:18,400
Speaker 1: so it depends on how you look at it. But yeah,

511
00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:21,080
Speaker 1: twenty ten was pretty much when the consumer Nexus one

512
00:28:21,359 --> 00:28:23,960
Speaker 1: became a reality. It had already been a developer phone

513
00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:26,600
Speaker 1: for a few weeks before that, and as and Google

514
00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:29,359
Speaker 1: employees had had it for months. Yeah, yeah, and apparently

515
00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:31,560
Speaker 1: and now when they discontinued, they also said that it

516
00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:35,280
Speaker 1: might be available to Google developers and some other people

517
00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:36,920
Speaker 1: after the fact that they were no longer going to

518
00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:41,280
Speaker 1: sell it to the public. Now, the Nexus S may

519
00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:43,960
Speaker 1: mark the It seems to be marking the return of

520
00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:46,480
Speaker 1: Google to the phone market. And that seems to be

521
00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:48,640
Speaker 1: an interesting device too, But it's not going to I

522
00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:50,920
Speaker 1: don't it's not supposed to actually hit the streets by

523
00:28:50,920 --> 00:28:53,440
Speaker 1: the end of twenty ten. It will actually happen from

524
00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:56,120
Speaker 1: what I've read if and I you may or may

525
00:28:56,120 --> 00:28:58,840
Speaker 1: not know the answer to this question. But as I recall,

526
00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:01,280
Speaker 1: do you remember what was the Nexus one? Was that

527
00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:04,560
Speaker 1: an HTC device, and the Nexus S is a Samsung

528
00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:08,240
Speaker 1: I believe that to be true. That's right. When you

529
00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:10,800
Speaker 1: actually start to start talk about something else, Okay, well,

530
00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:15,000
Speaker 1: let me look at my list. Um, motion controlled gaming

531
00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:18,560
Speaker 1: became yet another story. Of course, we already had the

532
00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:24,000
Speaker 1: we mote m Yes, I'm we loading that story. But

533
00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:27,280
Speaker 1: you know, we had the that and then Sony and

534
00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:30,280
Speaker 1: Microsoft both came out with their motion controlled systems in

535
00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:32,920
Speaker 1: two thousand ten. Of course, the Sony Move and the

536
00:29:33,080 --> 00:29:38,640
Speaker 1: Microsoft Connect respectively, and uh, they are two different systems.

537
00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:42,440
Speaker 1: Both of them use cameras to track movement. In the

538
00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:44,959
Speaker 1: case of the Sunny Move, the camera is tracking the

539
00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:47,520
Speaker 1: motions of a l e ED that's on the end

540
00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:49,800
Speaker 1: of the controller. That's the thing that's inside the little

541
00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:53,640
Speaker 1: snowball thing at the end of the controller. Yeah, so

542
00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:55,840
Speaker 1: the wand and stuffing like that. The LED can light

543
00:29:55,920 --> 00:29:58,040
Speaker 1: up different colors. It's supposed to light up a color

544
00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:01,800
Speaker 1: that shows up out against whatever background it happens to

545
00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:04,720
Speaker 1: be in front of, and then the camera attracts that

546
00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:07,640
Speaker 1: motion and translates that into the actions in the game.

547
00:30:07,840 --> 00:30:10,600
Speaker 1: The Connect of course, has cameras that are trained on

548
00:30:10,680 --> 00:30:16,160
Speaker 1: the user him or herself, and your motions can control

549
00:30:16,360 --> 00:30:19,280
Speaker 1: the actions of a character in the game. Um. And

550
00:30:19,280 --> 00:30:22,600
Speaker 1: we've seen some really really cool hacks with a Connect already,

551
00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:25,480
Speaker 1: some neat stuff where like we saw the one where

552
00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:28,240
Speaker 1: a guy was able to do real time lightsaber effects

553
00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:31,000
Speaker 1: using the Connect where he just picked up essentially like

554
00:30:31,040 --> 00:30:33,880
Speaker 1: a broom handle, but it looked like a lightsaber, and

555
00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:35,960
Speaker 1: he could, you know, waving the broom handle around and

556
00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:38,960
Speaker 1: then in real time, his digital version of himself is

557
00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:43,080
Speaker 1: waving around a lightsaber. We've also seen them some people

558
00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:45,800
Speaker 1: use it for digital puppetry and other applications as well,

559
00:30:45,840 --> 00:30:48,120
Speaker 1: so that it seems like that's going to be really

560
00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:51,480
Speaker 1: a cool device in eleven, something for people to play

561
00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:55,600
Speaker 1: with and find new ways to to uh create user

562
00:30:55,640 --> 00:30:59,920
Speaker 1: interfaces and and interactive computing devices and all sorts of application.

563
00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:03,280
Speaker 1: And yes, the answer to our question, uh, the NEXTUS

564
00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:06,880
Speaker 1: one was built by HTC and this the Samsung will

565
00:31:06,920 --> 00:31:11,960
Speaker 1: do the Nexus s excellent. So, UM, I'm what we're

566
00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:14,960
Speaker 1: kind of running low on time. Um, We've we've gone

567
00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:17,000
Speaker 1: for a good while here. I've got one other thing

568
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:19,160
Speaker 1: I will talk about that I thought was kind of neat.

569
00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:24,640
Speaker 1: Something that was launched in kick Starter. Now are familiar

570
00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:28,120
Speaker 1: with Kickstarter a little bit. Kickstarter is a it's it's

571
00:31:28,120 --> 00:31:33,160
Speaker 1: a fund raising um uh system. Really, it's what you

572
00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:35,520
Speaker 1: can use Kickstarter to be able to raise funds for

573
00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:40,200
Speaker 1: various um um charities or or causes. And the way

574
00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:44,960
Speaker 1: it works is that you create an amount that you are.

575
00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:47,120
Speaker 1: You know, it's your target amount. This is how much

576
00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:49,480
Speaker 1: money you want to raise, and you create the amount

577
00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:52,440
Speaker 1: of time that you have to raise that money. So

578
00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:55,200
Speaker 1: let's say you've got two months to raise two thousand

579
00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:59,640
Speaker 1: dollars and then you start soliciting donations to this cause

580
00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:02,320
Speaker 1: through Kickstarter. People can go and they can make a

581
00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:05,360
Speaker 1: donation through Kickstarter to your cause. If you hit two

582
00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:08,800
Speaker 1: thousand dollars, then everything goes through and you're able to

583
00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:11,520
Speaker 1: use that money for whatever the cause was. If you

584
00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:14,880
Speaker 1: don't make it, if you only get to dollars, then

585
00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:17,840
Speaker 1: all of those payments are canceled. No one has charged

586
00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:21,000
Speaker 1: any money for using you know, for donating to the cost.

587
00:32:21,080 --> 00:32:23,160
Speaker 1: So if you if you donated fifty dollars and they

588
00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:26,000
Speaker 1: did not make their amount, it's not like that fifty

589
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:28,240
Speaker 1: dollars is gone, you get you get it back. It

590
00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:31,000
Speaker 1: doesn't actually get charged to you. Cool. So it's a

591
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:34,560
Speaker 1: neat Yeah, it's neat internet based way to try and

592
00:32:35,080 --> 00:32:38,600
Speaker 1: do fundraising. Yes, and I came up with one last

593
00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:44,160
Speaker 1: one o UM the Governmental Release of Data Data dot

594
00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:48,480
Speaker 1: gov and the the equivalent in the the UK as well,

595
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:51,240
Speaker 1: those that both launched this year. People have been able

596
00:32:51,280 --> 00:32:55,360
Speaker 1: to get their hands on a lot of information from

597
00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:57,720
Speaker 1: all kinds of government agencies that can be used in

598
00:32:57,800 --> 00:33:01,000
Speaker 1: reports and and mash ups. Um and you know it

599
00:33:01,120 --> 00:33:04,760
Speaker 1: just previously it was very hard, not because it was

600
00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:08,000
Speaker 1: classified so much, but because you didn't know where to go.

601
00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:10,600
Speaker 1: It was hard to find um. And you know, it

602
00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:13,040
Speaker 1: could be used used by lots of different people for

603
00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:15,160
Speaker 1: a lot of different things. Uh. You know, of course

604
00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:18,680
Speaker 1: journalists like having that kind of thing on hand, so um,

605
00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:23,200
Speaker 1: you know, the the making that information more readily available

606
00:33:23,480 --> 00:33:26,520
Speaker 1: as a pretty neat deal. And if you couldn't find

607
00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:29,200
Speaker 1: it there, you could go to wiki leaks. We didn't

608
00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:31,680
Speaker 1: talk about that either. That's a that's a different sort

609
00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:38,080
Speaker 1: of governmental That was a big story. But launch launched

610
00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:40,400
Speaker 1: in two thousand seven, but it it did make huge

611
00:33:40,440 --> 00:33:44,160
Speaker 1: headlines around the world in UM I have I totally

612
00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:46,040
Speaker 1: forgot to mention this, but it's one that I can't

613
00:33:46,120 --> 00:33:48,840
Speaker 1: let go because it was one of those things that

614
00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:52,040
Speaker 1: people anticipated and then we're still kind of anticipating it.

615
00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:55,959
Speaker 1: The BlackBerry Playbook, Oh, that's true, we totally forgot about that.

616
00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:59,560
Speaker 1: That was another tablet device that got launched in just

617
00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:03,240
Speaker 1: like Samsung Galaxy Tab also launched in But the BlackBerry

618
00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:07,480
Speaker 1: Playbook was this, you know, that was the enterprise tablet,

619
00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:10,520
Speaker 1: right because you think of the iPad. Not everyone thinks

620
00:34:10,520 --> 00:34:12,080
Speaker 1: of that as an enterprise device. I think of that

621
00:34:12,120 --> 00:34:14,319
Speaker 1: as a personal device, although there are apps on it

622
00:34:14,360 --> 00:34:18,120
Speaker 1: that you can use in enterprise functions. But I think

623
00:34:18,160 --> 00:34:21,040
Speaker 1: a lot of people think of that as a play thing,

624
00:34:21,160 --> 00:34:25,239
Speaker 1: not a work thing. And so the the BlackBerry Playbook,

625
00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:27,719
Speaker 1: despite the name, is more of a work thing than

626
00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:31,120
Speaker 1: a plaything. Now we still haven't really seen this yet,

627
00:34:31,200 --> 00:34:33,680
Speaker 1: so it'll we'll have to wait to get our hands

628
00:34:33,680 --> 00:34:35,760
Speaker 1: on it. But that announcement got a lot of attention

629
00:34:35,760 --> 00:34:38,439
Speaker 1: in Yeah, and I think one that will get some

630
00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:42,640
Speaker 1: attention in that was announced in is uh mac os

631
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Speaker 1: ten point seven Lion, which will come up in the

632
00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:49,279
Speaker 1: Linux community. The Linux community had two releases as they

633
00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:53,040
Speaker 1: always do this year and uh Maverick mere Cat UM.

634
00:34:53,080 --> 00:34:56,600
Speaker 1: They're they're going through some interesting changes to that's the

635
00:34:56,600 --> 00:35:00,280
Speaker 1: most current release where they're changing the look and feel

636
00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:04,920
Speaker 1: of the the Ubuntu UM releases. So I think the

637
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:06,920
Speaker 1: Lenox community has a lot to look forward to in

638
00:35:06,960 --> 00:35:10,240
Speaker 1: the next couple of years too. But they moved some

639
00:35:10,239 --> 00:35:12,200
Speaker 1: some made some big steps this year as well. But

640
00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:16,040
Speaker 1: you know, that's probably a different community than a lot

641
00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:20,520
Speaker 1: of our listening audience. Yeah, although it's becoming more of

642
00:35:20,520 --> 00:35:22,840
Speaker 1: a news worthy item now that more people are aware

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