Blogs: Posts Tagged ‘ Tech Tease ’

(◑﹏◑) If you’re not totally over all of the year-end retrospectives…a few more highlights from 2011. The #SATX hashtag For a moment we almost lost our hometown Twitter category to South Austin, Texas tweets. Thankfully, San Antonio microbloggers out-tweeted the Austin based accounts enough to keep the #SATX hashtag homesliced. When you get a...
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After Adbusters‘ Occupy Wall Street campaign went national, a San Antonio based contingent manifested. Social Justice leaders within the Bexar County are were skeptical of the ‘leaderless’ crowds. For years Social Justice scholars have studied historical protests. A leaderless movement? Could a fledgling group of dissenters in SA survive without infrastructure? And why hasn’t...
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Beer! Keep track of your beer tasting notes and ratings. Beer Pong. Multi-player, in-game chat, and table selection. DrinkFit knowing the carbohydrates and calories per beverage. Blood Alcohol Calculator (B.A.C.) App. For entertainment purpose only. BeerChooser. Personalized recommendations beers you’d like and don’t like.  
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Should I be blogging about Steve Jobs? I didn’t know him. All kidding aside…he did get me to Think Different. Can we really deny how he contributed to the digital era? I’ve decided to pay homage to Jobs by outlining how Occupy San Antonio might use technology tomorrow, when they join the rest of...
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I was just a tween back in 1986. My favorite movie was Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, and for my brother it was Top Gun. Together we watched reruns of the Cosby Show and Growing Pains. Thanks to my parents we were exposed early on to everything from David Bowie to Kiss. My...
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As a San Antonian I'm not voting for Elizabeth Warren. But her thought-provoking speech, well, made me think.
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Sadly, nowadays I make many assumption about my tech gadgets. I presuppose that most of what I buy comes from China, or somewhere else where cheap labor is exploited. From the Phone Story website: Phone Story is a game for smartphone devices that attempts to provoke a critical reflection on its own technological platform....
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My dad had just celebrated his 30th birthday. At the time he was working all nighters for the first cable company in San Antonio, Rogers CATV. Tonight, he came home somewhat early with a light brown box in hand that had little black and white numbers. The appliance was then connected to our television...
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Cisneros’s shilling for an AT&T/T-Mobile merger as a boon for Latinos strains his remaining credibility.
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Via Art Director Jamie Gurnell
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Source: TestKing
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Pundits and policy wonks continue to debate the potential of the accelerating tech-aided revolutions across the Middle East. Who’s up? Who’s down? What does it mean for U.S. (economic, chiefly) interests? Just before the popular uprisings began to collapse dictatorial regimes from Tunisia to Bahrain, the recently slicked-up Foreign Policy magazine ran an excerpt...
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