Tech Critiques

Tech Critiques Episode 212 This week in the news we discuss all the latest IPO announcements from internet based companies like Zynga and Facebook.  First off Zynga is said to be planning an IPO with a $10 billion valuation.  Zynga is expected to sell 10 percent or fewer of its outstanding shares...

Tech Critiques Episode 211 This week in the news we discuss the new free iOS 5 programming classes from Stanford University.  The classes are available on iTunes U, a section of iTunes that has thousands of different classes being shared from the iTunes store for free.  So if you have interest in...

Tech Critiques Episode 210 This week in the news we discuss Google's new iOS Gmail app.  This new Google app was highly anticipated by fans of the Gmail service but do to bugs in the app it was quickly pulled out of the Apple App store.  I was not even able to download it to get a copy for review...

Tech Critiques Episode 209 This week in the news we discuss the Groupon IPO that is scheduled to happen early next week. And the controversy about the super voting shares that company founders will have.  Traditionally it has been one vote per share of voting stock that you owned.  Regardless of t...

Tech Critiques Episode 208 This week in the news BlackBerry has suffered a major service outage that has left millions of its customers without messaging service for 4 days straight.  BlackBerry executives have made public apologies for the service outage which started this week on Monday.  This p...

Tech Critiques Episode 207   This week in the news a pioneer in the technology and computer industry has passed away.  Steve Jobs co-founder and CEO of Apple Computer has died at the age of 56.  Steve Jobs 1955-2011.  Here are just a few quotes from around the web that people are saying about St...

Tech Critiques Episode 206   This week in the news we talk about the newly announced Amazon Kindle Fire, a color touch screen tablet for $200.  And how it will effect the tablet market.  Some say the Kindle Fire is a iPad killer and others say it targets an entirely different market. Amazon also...

Tech Critiques Episode 205   This week in the news we talk about the great Netflix company split.  As Netflix CEO Reed Hastings decides to split Netflix into two companies.  A video streaming company and a DVD by mail company.  The new DVD by mail company will be called Qwikster.  This helps to...

Tech Critiques Episode 204   This week in the news we talk about the Facebook IPO being delayed until late 2012.  Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants to delay the IPO so that Facebook employees can focus on improving the Facebook products and not how much profit sharing they will be getting from th...

Tech Critiques Episode 203   This week in the news we talk about the new Adobe cloud service called Carousel that will sync your photos to the cloud.  It also allows you to view all your photos from multiple iOS devices and Macs.  This new Adobe Carousel service sounds interesting but I wonder ho...