Archive for December 2010

The Drill Down 167 – Year in Review 2010

We say goodbye to the best tech & social media stories of the year on this, the last week of 2010. Andy, JD & Tom are joined this week by Amy Vernon, Director of Viral Marketing Strategies for BlueGlass Interactive Inc. to discuss Wikileaks, Facebook, Digg, Google, Apple, and many other successes and failures of [...]

The Drill Down 166 – Mega-Supernode

This week our Skype is down, so we jury-rig a broadcast solution via iPhone, hence our spotty audio. We discuss the FCC’s weak ruling on Net Neutrality, Mark Zuckerberg:  Man of the Year & generous philanthropist,  Yahoo ‘sunsets’ several services (& people), Gawker’s passwords are breached, your apps are watching you, and Google launches their [...]

The Drill Down’s taking a break

The Drill Down team are, frankly, exhausted from the holidays and are taking a break this week to recharge our lithiums and come back refreshed. Expect us back next week, however, and stay tuned for our annual year-end best-tech-stories-of-the-year episode. See you next week, and  HEY, quit trying to look up our skirt!

The Drill Down 165 – Hot Potato

This week The Drill Down crew (spontaneously joined again by blogger Amy Vernon) discuss updates to Google Chrome, including the introduction of the Chrome App Store and a test platform for ChromeOS, further developments in Cablegate, including the arrest of Julian Assange and subsequent response from Anonymous, Facebook’s overhauled profile pages, Samsung’s Android-powered Nexus S, [...]

The Drill Down 2010 Holiday Gadget Gift List

Because The Drill Down wants you to be armed and informed this holiday shopping season, we’ve put together our tech gift picks to add to your shopping list. We’ll start with gadget blogger Sukhjit, our guest during our recent Gift Guide episode.