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The Motorola Droid pre-release round up and one more thing.

So, of course the net was filled with an Android splattered passion that almost felt like hystery, or maybe it was just me. Anyways the Motorola Droid will be released on the Verizon network for $199.99 with a two year contract and your soul.

Does Apple need a cheaper option? A philisophical NO.

With the release of Windows 7 the web is full of insane deals on new notebooks, netbooks, and desktops that are damn good. Does Apple need to do something about the “middle-of-the-road” consumer line who wants quality but not at a premium cost.

The Last 7 Days in Tech: 10/19/09 – 10/25/09

This will be a new weekly post every Sunday at 11:59PM about the last full week in the tech industry. Everything ranging from software to new company news will be linked here once a week. If you would like add something to the list during the week, email me a link, your name, and a short description of the news (one or two sentences). Make sure that it is relevant, tech related, and happened in the last seven days, and I’ll most likely post it.

How To Be a Tech Superstar: Diversify

For tech students and professionals, something that may be as important as knowing how to use functions and classes in programming and how to correctly normalize a database table is being geeky and obsessed with technology. It seems that tech learners and even professionals need to diversify.

Finding your niche in the tech industry: 7 tips that I should follow myself

Tech students and learners should start to find their niche in the tech industry early and be consistent with it moving forward. Here are seven tips that you can use to help find your tech niche:

Digitally recording your life; the book “Total Recall”

I listened to an interview with Gordon Bell and Jim Gemmel about how they digitally record everything in their life with video cameras, digital still cameras, microphones, etc. I have heard about this idea a couple of years ago and sort of stopped…

Notable News: Bloggers to be fined if “freebies” not disclosed

As of today, Bloggers can face up to $11,000 in fines if they don’t fully disclose information about free products and services that they review or try to sell.  The FTC revised their, “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and…

What’s up with the tablet craze and what it means for the near future

Over the past couple of months tech bloggers and journalists have been going crazy about tablet rumors from all kinds of manufacturers, the biggest being Apple and Microsoft with their alleged Courier.  These devices have been the “talk of…

Notable News: Google’s book deal taken down

Straight from San Francisco Business Times, the DOJ has taken down Google’s attempt to scan in thousands of “out-of-print and hard-to-find books” and make them available via there book repository and/or for sale in some places.  Amazon and Microsoft were…

When helping out others with tech is sometimes too much

If you are a MIS or IT student, or just someone who loves technology and computers, you may be asked by many people, especially the not-so tech saavy, how to do certain things with computers, cell phones, digital cameras, software,…