New rumors have been coming out in the last couple of days that Facebook is going to build their own mobile phone. That they have been headhunting Apple engineers who worked on the iPhone. During the initial interviews they are being asked specific questions that only would be asked by someone who was building a [...]

It has taken a while, but this weekend Comcast has finally rolled out a  streaming app for Android devices.  The new Xfinity app lets users choose from thousands of on-demand movies and TV shows and stream then right to their phone or tablet.  Shows are available from premium channels as well as standard cable so [...]

This week Apple responded to the DOJ e-book antitrust charge by throwing down the gauntlet. Basically they ripped apart each and every one of the DOJ charges against Apple.  Their first shot was directed against the DOJ contention that before Apple entered the e-book market it was a market with a ?robust price competition?. Apple was [...]

Before you get too excited about the whole cellular radiation debate, which is mostly debunked by the way, this in-depth report was about tower workers falling to their deaths due to poor regulation of safety issues while climbing these monstrous metal towers (climbers are 10 times more likely to die than construction workers).  Frontline aired [...]

Pandora was  not the first internet radio service to come along, but it quickly became the most prominent because of it’s tie-in to the Music Genome Project, which makes it unmatched at putting together playlists of related music based on a particular style or beat.  Today, Pandora released details of their financial information and included [...]

Not one, but two, gaming companies have done some employee layoffs this week. Both BioWare and 38 Studios have let some, or all, of their employees go. As someone who enjoys playing video games, I find this to be sad news. No one wants to be unemployed, and especially not from something that many gamers [...]

The past show winner declined a second prize so I have re-awarded the prize to Jerry Mcfalls with tonight’s prize going to Tom with the Comcast address. Wining is easy just sign up for the shows newsletter.. May is listener appreciation month and we are giving prizes away every show. Tonight I am pretty pleased with [...]

Welcome to The Gadget Professor’s NetCast. Show #58 hosted by Don Baine. Are you spending too much money for HDMI cables, how about banana plugs ? If you are buying them at Best Buy – then you are paying too much. I will show you where I buy all my audio & video cables. Get [...]

The Internets are quietly humming with the recent realization that Apple is, uh, absorbing your ?personal? data if you use Siri ? the voice-activated personal assistant (of sorts) that lives in the iPhone 4S (launched in October 2011). What does that mean, precisely? Well, according to information disseminated by the ACLU, Apple?s privacy policy in [...]

Langley, Spin, Starman and Kacey discuss the eclipse, SpaceX, Diablo III, Skyfall/Bond, Skinny Jeans, Gilbert Gottfried and more… End Track: Spring Heeled Jack “Pay Some Dues” (mp3) from “Welcome To Skannecticut” (Elevator Music) Buy at Napster Buy at Rhapsody Stream from Rhapsody Buy at Puretracks Buy at Amazon MP3 Buy at mTraks More On This [...]