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share music wirelessly, BYOE (bring your own earphones)


The TechtalkRadio Product of the Week is the i2i Stream.

You can watch Andy’s Tech Tuesday segment that was on KOLD at http://www.techtalkradio.com/koldtv/koldtv.htm (Tech Tuesday airs every Tuesday around 5:40am. His latest KOLD website column is at http://www.kold.com/Global/story.asp?s=8900102)

The i2i Stream allows you to broadcast to other i2i Stream devices…

Each unit comes with a neck lanyard, and a belt/pocket clip. Plug an audio player into the bottom of the i2i Stream, earphones into the top, and you can broadcast what you are listening to to other i2i Stream receiving units.

Every i2i Stream can broadcast or receive music via 2.4 GHz (that is useable up to 30 feet between units). There are seven channels to broadcast with, so if there can be at least seven people broadcasting seven different types of audio in the same area.

The sound quality is like that of CD audio: 10Hz-24kHz frequency response, and a 16bit @ 48ksps Stereo bit rate.

The rechargeable batter life is 5 to 7 hours, and is charged via a USB cable.

Inside the i2i Stream Two Pack box:
2 i2i Stream units
2 12” Audio Cables
2 28” Audio Cables
2 USB Charging Cables
2 Neck Lanyards
2 Belt/Pocket Clips

An i2i Stream One Pack is in the works:
i2i Stream
12” Audio Cable
28” Audio Cable
USB Charging Cable
Neck Lanyard
Belt/Pocket Clip

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Text Messaging the VP Running Mate Announcement

A First for a Presidential Campaign as the Democratic Running mate to the U.S. Senator Barack Obama was announced via an SMS Text Message.

Sprint sent out a press release this morning which stated traffic rose 255 percent following the announcement which was texted shortly after 3am EST.

The text was read as:

Barack has chosen Senator Joe Biden to be our VP nominee. Watch the first Obama-Biden rally live at 3pm ET on www.barackobama.com Spread the word!

Just how widely used is text messaging? More than 48 billion text messages were sent each month in the US as of Dec 2007 according to CTIA- The Wireless Association.

Sprint hasn’t played favorites here and has also stated that they would be standing by to share the news of U.S. Sen. John McCains pick later this month.

It’s impressive that we’ve come to sending a Text Message to announce a Running Mate, Let’s not picture Sen Obama sending this text message while driving. It’s become standard place to send Text Messages, I would have been even more impressed had he twittered it!

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Wallace Wang Audio interview at TechtalkRadio


We talked with Wallace Wang today about his most recent book, My New Mac. 52 different task on working around the Mac are laid out in this easy to read Task Book. Listen in to why many technology users may have started to shift to the Mac and what drove the author to move in that direction.

It’s all up on the Website at http://www.techtalkradio.com/books/mynewmac.html

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Xplore Technologies iX104C4 on TechtalkRadio


We talked today with Patrick Gray of Xplore Technology on the new iX104C4 Rugged Tablet for the Computer User looking for a Rugged Portable Solution. The device builds on the success of the previous iX104C3 and doubles the memory capacity and triples the storage while delivering performance in a Strong Sturdy form factor which, according to the company, can handle a 4 foot drop onto Concrete!

Tune in to hear more about the iX104C4 on TechtalkRadio
http://www.techtalkradio.com/hardware/xplore.html

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BSOD at the Beijing Opening? Not quite…

A blogger onsite at the opening caught a couple of shots of one of the huge displays surrounding the stadium at the Beijing Opening for the 2008 Olympics.

While the typical Microsoft Naysayers are blasting BSOD jokes over one of the screens displaying blue with white text at the opening of the Beijing Olympics, it is, in fact, not OS troubles, but hardware (this error screen shows up as a prevention, stopping potential system damage; caused in this case by some USER error or hardware/driver error and not Windows OS)

Regardless…I wonder how many people Balmer called on the carpet over this mishap?

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