The Waves of Tech - Technology impacts to life

The Waves of Tech comes to you this week with a host of new conversation and tech news. This week’s show brings you a segment dedicated to product reviews by John Hanlon. Check out his review of some of the latest Verizon products. Steve and Dave provide commentary on the role Microsoft in playing in the educational markets as the provide huge discounts on their Surface RT tablet. Finally, we breakdown the state of broadband service and adoption in the American market

This week on Waves of Tech 183, Steve and Dave are joined by Rick from Tech of Sports as they talk about Apple’s WWDC announcements and discuss an interesting meetup between Rick and a few Microsoft representatives. Enjoy the podcast and don’t forget to share the podcast with a family member, friend, or coworker this week. Get ready, it’s time to ride the waves of tech

We scroll through our Twitter streams and randomly select tweets to analyze and discuss. What a different experience that was! We also touch base with how the tech world in changing the way amusement parks improve the experiences of their guests. Disney has a cool new product, set to debut within the next few months.

Steve and Dave are back on the regular schedule to bring you another Waves of Tech episode. On this week’s podcast, they discuss a shift in the college classroom - more students are utilizing tablets versus laptops. This speaks volumes to the shift in consumer buying and the tablet industry. Also in the show, they breakdown the use of smartphone applications in the farming industry and what this means in terms of saving lives and preventing injuries.

We never thought Saturday morning cartoons would make its way into our podcast conversation, but it did this week. We discuss the availability of child content from Dave’s childhood to today’s on-demand lifestyle. Also, we have a lengthy discussion on teenage texting while driving as compared to drunk driving and we both agree to a 30-Day Challenge – our cell phones will be off while behind the wheel for the next 30 days. Will you join us? Share your experiences with us at @NetCastStudio and @rollerderbydave. #30DayChallenge

We have a packed podcast in this week’s episode of Waves of Tech. The Internet Sales Tax debate has pushed through the Senate and heads to the House for debate. YouTube is beginning partnerships with large enterprises to bring a paid subscription-based policy on board. And finally, we discuss some of the off-the-wall and not so smart things we do on our smartphones.

We celebrate the 10th Birthday of iTunes and relive what the platform has done for the music industry, the musical artist, and the music consumer. We also have a lengthy discussion on how Ford is beginning to transform the car industry be utilizing big data gained through vehicle diagnostics and hard drive information.

On this week’s episode, we dedicate the entire show to discussing the technology used during the Boston Bombing and subsequent Boston manhunt. We dive into new age tech advancements and into some older viable systems still in place.

This week’s podcast features two topics of discussion. First, Steve highlights his attendance at the NAB Show 2013 in Las Vegas as the broadcasting business quickly incorporates itself into the audio and video podcasting realm. Second, Steve and Dave try to keep their heads straight around Google CEO’s Eric Schmidt’s comment about having everyone being connected by 2020.

We discuss the impression Tim Cook is leaving on Apple as its CEO. The decisions he is making today are making Apple a stronger company, internally and externally. In our second segment, we celebrate the Kodak Instamatic turning 50 this month and how the development of a simple camera in 1963 revolutionized the camera and photography industry.

This special edition episode is a time for celebration - NetCast Studio is celebrating it’s 1000th produced episode! NetCast Studio started as a single podcast, Waves of Tech, and has evolved into a large scale network responsible for producing one thousand podcasts from 14 shows. With this event being such a milestone, Steve invited Rick (Tech of Sports), John (Google at a Glance), Joshua (Beyond the Brick), Debbie (Busy Ladies), and Dave (Waves of Tech) to tell their stories of the struggles, victories, favorite moments, and milestones over the past 5 years. Even though each podcaster has their individual set of memories and successes, we can all agree that podcast is a passion we share. When we all sit behind our mics and get ready to record a podcast, we share in living out our lifestyle choices and love sharing those lifestyles with the audience and our listeners.

We have a wide variety of topics for today’s show including learning personal and professional electronic courtesy, the newest Redbox Instant service, and the connection between March Madness and Twitter. Join in the podcasting fun with us as we make our way through the never ending exciting world of technology.

Waves of Tech is all new this week with a show primarily based on becoming healthier! With the introduction of cell phones, tablets, handheld gaming devices, and e-readers, the use of such devices are causing health related issues and injuries. Also on the show, Yahoo! announced a new policy towards reducing telecommuting in their business. We discuss the benefits and challenges of telecommuting from a personal, professional, and health platform.

This week, we talk about all things smartphones. Smartphones are getting… well smarter as the days pass by and some cool features on the horizon are worth talking about. The mobile market is about to be introduced to a new OS – Firefox OS. Mozilla is set to debut their OS this year in international markets.

Facebook has displeased millions of Americans this week with the news that the company isn’t paying any federal or state tax for the year. In international news, China has taken a #1 spot away from the US in a major tech category and we find that Sweden is the new epicenter of tech.