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The Marketplace Tech Report with John Moe is your guide to the modern world.
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05-25-12 Marketplace Tech Report | This week, the Obama campaign launched an online dashboard for its network of volunteers. It's a bit of technology that tracks all the activity that volunteers have done on behalf of the campaign, including calls made, doors knocked on, money that's been raised. The investment in this type of technology could have a big effect on how the rest of the campaign is conducted and who might win in November. | 25/5/12 | Gratis | Visa i iTunes |
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05-24-12 Marketplace Tech Report | Customers of Comcast's Xfinity service will soon be able to use a Comcast app to make phone calls from their home number over the Internet on any Wi-Fi network. So if you're out and about, in theory, it just got a lot easier to make calls from, say, an iPod Touch without using a cell phone network. Just find a Wi-Fi signal. It's a system called Voice Over Internet Protocol or VOIP. But is it reliable? Plus, IBM has banned the use of Apple's voice-controlled personal assistant Siri from the company's campus. We chat with Siri about it all. | 24/5/12 | Gratis | Visa i iTunes |
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05-23-12 Marketplace Tech Report | The Federal Communications Commission is scheduled to vote on setting aside part of the broadcast spectrum for wireless medical devices. The devices could be used to monitor patients with heart conditions and lung problems, and send out data on how the patient is doing. It's like getting an email from your body. The commission's vote could have an enormous effect on the future of medical treatment. Plus, the new partnership between American Express and, yes, Farmville. | 23/5/12 | Gratis | Visa i iTunes |
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05-22-12 Marketplace Tech Report | A bunch of big cable TV companies have teamed up to give you a present: Free Wi-Fi. If you're a customer of Comcast, Time Warner, Cox, Cablevision or Bright House, you'll be able to use Wi-Fi hotspots from any of those companies. Fifty thousand hotspots nationwide will show up under the name Cable Wi-Fi. So what's in it for the cable companies? Plus, the most musical cities in America. | 22/5/12 | Gratis | Visa i iTunes |
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05-21-12 Marketplace Tech Report | It's the first week of a whole new world at Facebook. The social media site is now a public company. Now the pressure is on to make money for its shareholders, which could mean big changes for the way we use Facebook on our cell phones. Facebook, like a lot of other companies, is having a hard time figuring out how to show us ads, on those tiny little screens, without turning us off. Plus, on the Robot Roundup: Robots are helping paralyzed stroke victims drink on their own. | 21/5/12 | Gratis | Visa i iTunes |
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05-18-12 Marketplace Tech Report | Facebook is going public today. We take a look at what a bunch of shareholders mean to the rest of us friending, picture-posting, regular Facebook users. Think lots of developments: new products, new services, enhancements, branded products. Plus, we look at the e-nose, an electronic sniffing device that's small enough to fit on a smartphone. | 18/5/12 | Gratis | Visa i iTunes |
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05-17-12 Marketplace Tech Report | You might be driving in a car right now with a black box recorder, like the black boxes airplanes have. Congress could make every car have one of these in the next couple of years. They typically record events related to actual collisions, things like how long you pressed the brake before the accident and if you were wearing a seatbelt -- but there's not much clarity about how and when and who can see the data they collect. Should my car be able to tell on me for driving too fast? | 17/5/12 | Gratis | Visa i iTunes |
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05-16-12 Marketplace Tech Report | Ancestry.com unveils new, more advanced DNA testing. | 16/5/12 | Gratis | Visa i iTunes |
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05-16-12 Marketplace Tech Report | Ancestry.com, the genealogy site, is going to offer more advanced DNA testing for its members, helping people find ancestors all the way back to the 18th century. All you have to do is take a home DNA test. These days, home DNA tests are being used for far more than finding clues about Grandpa Joe or Great-Great Grandpa Isadore. There are groups that offer to find your perfect dating match based on DNA, and kits you can use to test for potential future health issues, like cancer, heart disease or obesity. | 16/5/12 | Gratis | Visa i iTunes |
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05-15-12 Marketplace Tech Report | If you text, you've probably gotten text spam. The messages often seem to come in the middle of the night, or in the wee hours of the morning, before the alarm buzzes to start the day. And the number of these annoyances has tripled in the last year -- to 45 million text spams a day, according to the security firm Cloudmark. One reason for the increase? More people are opening up messages on their phones without knowing the sender -- similar to the early days of email. | 15/5/12 | Gratis | Visa i iTunes |
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05-14-12 Marketplace Tech Report | Today in New York, TV networks and advertisers are in the thick of "the upfronts." This is when the networks parade out their fall line-ups and advertisers move in to start the bidding. Lingering over the proceedings this year is The Hopper. That's a new commercial-skipping device from DISH Network. What does this mean for TV and advertising? | 14/5/12 | Gratis | Visa i iTunes |
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05-11-12 Marketplace Tech Report | Elections come and go and many issues change, but one seems to remain: electronic voting. Two years ago, four years ago, eight years ago -- the story's been about the same: the machines don't seem ready for prime-time, but we're using them anyway. Also, the anti-piracy warnings on your Blu-Ray discs get serious. | 11/5/12 | Gratis | Visa i iTunes |
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05-10-12 Marketplace Tech Report | Facebook is courting investors this week for its upcoming initial public offering. But a new report from the Kauffman Foundation declares venture capital is broken -- specifically, the method by which large "limited partners" supply the money venture capital firms invest. And it seems lately investments just aren't paying off, and investors are pulling out. | 10/5/12 | Gratis | Visa i iTunes |
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05-09-12 Marketplace Tech Report | The roads of Nevada are going to be filling up with more cars -- but not as many drivers. After extensive testing, Nevada has approved Google's application to test driverless cars on public streets. So why go driverless? It could be safer -- no worrying about distractions -- and it could help traffic, too. Also, a new vacuum from Sharp makes us feel like we're in "The Jetsons." | 9/5/12 | Gratis | Visa i iTunes |
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05-08-12 Marketplace Tech Report | If you're in an emergency, you call 911. But what if you're in a situation where making a call would put you in danger? What if you're deaf and can't call? Starting next year, Verizon customers will be able to text to 911 instead of calling. But is it coming too late or being pushed ahead too soon? Also, folks at the Boston Globe newspaper are getting rid of the words yesterday, today and tomorrow in stories. | 8/5/12 | Gratis | Visa i iTunes |
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05-07-12 Marketplace Tech Report | Millions of Facebook users are making life easier for thieves and snoops. New research from Consumer Reports says millions of Americans share their birth date with the whole world on Facebook that could be used by identity thieves. Or they talk about being out of town, which is an invitation to burglars. Protecting yourself means managing your privacy settings carefully. Plus, a new Tech Report vocabulary word: Microsub. | 7/5/12 | Gratis | Visa i iTunes |
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05-04-12 Marketplace Tech Report | Target and Amazon are at war. Target is going to stop selling the Amazon Kindle in its stores. The issue seems to be a practice known as "showrooming." That's when a web retailer like Amazon encourages customers to go to a store like Target, scan the barcode of an item with a smartphone, then see if they can get it cheaper online. Maybe buy it from Amazon while they're standing in Target. Showrooming is on the rise, and retailers are getting nervous. Also, email and the stress levels of workers in an office environment. | 4/5/12 | Gratis | Visa i iTunes |
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05-03-12 Marketplace Tech Report | Venerable educational institutions like Harvard and MIT are giving away education online for free in a new partnership called Ed X. Classes start in the fall -- online. Students do five to 10 minute videos, interlaced with online exercises that give instant feedback. There's no emails -- it's all browser-based and online. And at the end, if you master a subject, you get a Certificate of Mastery. Which is neat but not quite a Ph.D or anything anyone's ever heard of. So what good is it? | 3/5/12 | Gratis | Visa i iTunes |
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05-02-12 Marketplace Tech Report | Facebook is helping people become organ donors. You can now go to the site, search 'organ donor,' find links to sign up and list yourself as a donor on your timeline. The hope is that more people sign up on Facebook because it's more pleasant than the DMV, where you can become a donor when you renew your license. Plus, the latest in boom box technology -- and there is such a thing. | 2/5/12 | Gratis | Visa i iTunes |
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05-01-12 Marketplace Tech Report | New online service Wrapp debuted yesterday, and offers a chance to send gift cards from big-name stores to your friends for nothing. What's the catch? When you download the Wrapp app, you allow it to access your data on Facebook, and then the friend who receives the gift card will also have to allow access to their data to get the money. So are we at a point where we can sell our data? For five bucks at The Gap? | 1/5/12 | Gratis | Visa i iTunes |
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