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Mike Thinks News 352 Don’t junk my Touch…or something like that TSA

Friday, November 19, 2010 No Comments

Its a fine like between security and stupidity, a line that seems to get crossed quite regularly these days.  I know you all have heard about the TSA and its determination to fondle their way into a secure airport!  Yea, thats a little extreme, but it isn’t that far off the truth.  You just cant [...]

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Mike Thinks News 351 your e-Reader and you

Tuesday, November 2, 2010 No Comments

Theres a transformation in the way we consume many forms of media these days.  Television is changing from appointment TV to on demand.  Movies are moving from the theater to your home theater.  Music has nearly crested the hump from CD’s to MP3 files.  So it should come as no chock that your library of [...]

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Tags: ebook, ereader. e-reader, kindle, news, nook, science, tech, technology

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Do you really have any privacy?

Wednesday, June 2, 2010 No Comments

Its been a long few weeks for Facebook.  It doesn’t bode well when even people who are absolutely not tech savvy, web savvy or any other savvy (except maybe Jersey Girls Savvy) are talking about Facebook and privacy.  The only problem is, that though they seem to talk big for a moment or two, they [...]

#294 Mike Thinks News How to destroy a TV show

Friday, May 21, 2010 No Comments

For many of us, a good television program means much more than just a few minutes of mild entertainment. Its a way to escape the everyday grind, a way to explore our imagination and to allow our hopes and fears to be transformed into an idea we can share with out friends. Its [...]

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Tags: facebook, heros, history, nbc, science, tech, technology, television

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Mike Thinks News “Only Driven on weekends”

Monday, April 5, 2010 No Comments

There are few things as harrowing to someone as buying their 1st new car.  Now I know your thinking, wow, thats kind of harsh…after all buying a new car is supposed to be fun Mike, isn’t it?  Well, Im not sure what its supposed to be, but I do know that its full of pitfalls [...]

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Tags: car, culture, firefighter, history, internet, news, podcast, tech, technology

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LifeLock in trouble with 35 states and the FTC

Monday, March 15, 2010 No Comments

Do you remember when we did the story a few years ago on LifeLock?  Ya, know the one where the owner who likes to showboat around with his Social Security number on a truck billboard.  All the while claiming how safe he is because that may be his real Social Security number, but he is [...]

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Tags: apple, FTC, life lock, lifelock, news, podcast, science, tech, technology

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The Illusion of Time

Saturday, March 6, 2010 No Comments

Its no secret that time marches on, every day we are reminded about how things change.  Some days these changes are small, while others have magnitude that may cause you to question the very foundation of your day to day beliefs.  Sue time works out well for most of our everyday common place experiences, but [...]

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Tags: conspiracy, coverup, geek, hdtv, led, science, tech, technology, Time

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3D TV, may not be a good idea…unless your really bored

Monday, February 22, 2010 No Comments

This week broke a few very interesting stories.  First we have Apple taking the fight against all things titillating and taking the now familiar step of banishing apps from the iTunes store aka super Jobs nirvana land.  Seems that someone had the nerve to make apps that had cleavage and bare chested men and such…who [...]

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Tags: 3D, appl, blind, dysphoria, mikethinks, news, newscast, spycam, spying, tech, webcam

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Getting jealous of Google, Iran wants a piece of the monitoring action

Saturday, February 13, 2010 No Comments

So this week it comes to light that Iran would like to be its own email client…seems they realized just how much information Google is able to glean by reading all your emails (you do know they do that right?)  Anyway, so now if you live in Iran you get the privileged of using the [...]

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Tags: bored, geek, geektech, gmail, internet, iran, mail, podcast, tech

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Water on the Moon, Droid Phone Focus and much more news

Monday, November 23, 2009 No Comments

The finding of “significant” amounts of water on our Moon, not only
brings the hope of a permanent base stations closer to a reality, it
also lends a real opportunity to using the Moon as a place to launch
interplanetary missions from. After NASA finished its initial review
of the date from the LACROSS space probes impact on the lunar surface,
it became clear that there was a lot of water by the standards most
scientists would expec

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Tags: android, discovery, droid, droids, moon, science, space, space travel, tech, technology, water

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