The iPhone 4 is now available for pre-order (well sort-of if you’ve been following the AT&T ordering fiasco). In this week’s Buzzword Bingo, we explore the iPhone 4. What features are compelling? Is it worth the upgrade? What is the media saying about it? We’ll discuss this and more with a terrific cast of characters. Jeremy Laurenson (Cisco Technology Solutions Architect) and Andy Waschick (Owner – Gestalt, Inc.) join Jason and Mike. As always, we rant, we opine and we make fools of ourselves (all in good geek fun, of course). The call-to-action will definitely make you ROFL (everyone knows what that stands for by now, right?).

Show #14 Agenda

• Think-Outside-the-Box Main Topic: iPhone 4
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  • Retina Display
  • A4 Processor
  • Front and Rear Camera
  • HD Video Recording
  • 2nd mic for noise canceling
  • B/G/N Wireless
    • AppleInsider | iPhone 4 keynote plagued by high-tech Wi-Fi meltdown
  • iOS
    • Cisco IOS Technologies – Cisco Systems
  • FaceTime
    • Skype won’t use FaceTime, still hints at iPhone 4 video chat
  • The Walled Garden – Neven Mrgan’s tumbl
  • AT&T Tethering (for a $20 Fee of course)
    • AT&T: No iPhone-iPad tethering
  • AT&T Tiered Bandwidth $15/200MB $25/2GB
    • AT&T Learns Exactly The Wrong Thing About Data Usage « Design By Gravity
  • Gawker Crap
    • iPad security breach: Who’s at fault? [Updated] | TechBlog | Chron.com – Houston Chronicle
    • Don’t blame Apple for AT&T’s security ineptitude
    • How Apple Tricks You
    • Steve Jobs Bragged About Privacy—Days Ago
• Mike’s Rant:
  • I’m a Fanboy (of technology)
  • From late last night: You’re Damn Right I’m A Fanboy
• Jason’s Rant:
  • Government Agency Efficiency
• Jeremy’s Rant:
  • IM Losers
• Andy’s Rant:
  • Wow. I’m in the future
• Call-to-Action:
  • Toby Turner: YouTube – FARMVILLE Commercial!! (Facebook Parody #1)

Running time: 00:58:18
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We’re not just Apple fanboys on Buzzword Bingo. A new breed of fanboy has emerged: the Android fanboy. We have two awesome guests on the show to discuss Android phones, tablets and other tech gadgets. All the way from Amsterdam this week we have Jan-Willem Ruys and Jerry de Boer. JW and Jerry are both Consulting Systems Engineers with Cisco focused on Collaboration and Mobility. They have been using the HTC Desire for a month now and they share their opinions of Android as compared to the iPhone. Plus, we all share our rants and another musical call-to-action mashup.

Show #13 Agenda

• Think-Outside-the-Box Main Topic: Android Impressions
  • HTC Desire Pros and Cons
  • Buzz by Robert Scoble (EVO 4G Pros and Cons)
  • Nearly a quarter of U.S. homes only use cellphones
  • Android demolishing iPhone in sales
  • Android and Flash: Is it needed?
    • H.264 Already Won—Makes Up 66 Percent Of Web Videos
    • Flash Crash on Android tablet
  • EVO’s Qik Video Chat to Cost an Extra $5 a Month
  • Android Fanboys
    • Android Fanboys Have Arrived. And That’s A Good Thing
    • An iPhone Lover’s Take On The HTC EVO 4G
    • Android Fanboys Have Arrived. And That’s A Good Thing
• Jason’s Rant:
  • Apps that change your screen focus
• Mike’s Rant:
  • Toy Packaging
• Jerry’s Rant:
  • Virtual Everything
• JW’s Rant:
  • HTC needs “manly” product names
• Call-to-Action:
  • Paul Dateh: Telephone Violin Mashup

Running time: 00:58:18
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There are plenty of enterprise collaboration applications to choose from. Wikis, blogs and forums are all the rage, but are they really better than email? This week on Buzzword Bingo, Jason and Mike talk enterprise collaboration tools with Michael Popovich and Jeremy Laurenson. Michael is a Consulting Systems Engineer with Cisco. Jeremy is a Technology Solutions Architect with Cisco. Together they provide some great insight on the usefulness of enterprise collaboration tools and their impact on end-user productivity.

(Sorry, but I messed up the chapters in this episode. They’ll be back next time. But now, if you subscribe to the video podcast in iTunes, there are chapters in that version.)

Show #5 Agenda

• Think-Outside-the-Box Main Topic:
• Enterprise Collaboration Tools
• Net-Net News:
• Outlook is Broken
• Apple Sells Over One Million iPhone 3GS Models
• Our favorite iPhone applications
• Skype video calls from 30,000+ feet on Southwest Air WiFi!
• Hands-on experience with the Verizon MiFi
• Best Ad from Microsoft EVER! (Bing)
• Facebook for iPhone 3.0 Coming Soon
• Mike’s Rant:
• URL Pronunciation
• Jason’s Rant:
• FAA: Update your In-Flight Rules
• Michael’s Rant:
• AT&T FAIL
• Call-to-Action:
• “Weird Al” Yankovic – Craigslist

Running time: 01:13:50
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