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Holiday shopping is tough, and we’ve just made it tougher as we each suggest three gifts for your most beloved nerd.  Listen in to find out which inThirty host gives the most fun gifts and which might be a little too into Dexter. All Chaim wants for Chanukah is a Galaxy Nexus, will it be… Continue reading Holiday Gift Wrap Up

Either don your tinfoil hat and ditch your smartphone or get comfortable sharing your personal thoughts with the engineer who’s in charge of the datacenter your texts and emails pass through. Guess which member of inThirty chooses which? We discuss the impact of Carrier IQ and whether asking users to opt in to data collection… Continue reading What’s Your Carrier IQ?

You think you know everything there is to know about Mommy Blogs? Think again. The Mother of All Bloggers (a title proudly bestowed by the inThirty team) Elizabeth Norton joins us to discuss to how she uses technology to keep in touch with a close nit group of fellow mothers. Elizabeth, without a single pregnant pause, takes… Continue reading The Mother of All Bloggers

Money, money, money, money…MONEY: We talk with Skyler Fox, an expert in payment processing and customer loyalty about NFC, RFID, CARD and every other financial acronym we can wrap our minds around. Not even Skyler, however, is able to answer the question: Can a Galaxy Nexus use its built in NFC to pay for itself? Guest… Continue reading The Evolution of Money

It’s good to be cing, and it’s good to have Klout. Harry earned a free Windows Phone 7, a Samsung Focus, for his courageous tweeting and shared it (and pizza) with his fellow inThirty hosts. We pick it apart and marvel at its simplicity and the lack of Blue Screens of Death, though its connector software did… Continue reading Windows Phone 7

Because inThirty has a team of lawyers making sure we strictly follow all EULAs and TOS, we never created a Google Plus personal profile with first name in, last name Thirty. Now that Google’s introduced Pages for Google+ we’ve gotten clearance to add, or, if you will, +, ourselves to the network to share our… Continue reading Google Plus Pages, a Minus?

Please sir, can I have some more over the air updates? Not if you’re using the majority of Android phones. As a follow up to yesterday’s show, we’re lucky to have the creator of the chart that puts the Dickensian state of upgrade support across Android phones on display, Michael Degusta, with us on inThirty.… Continue reading Android Orphans

Ice Cream Sandwich hasn’t even had time to melt and someone out there on the internet has the nerve to create a chart showing just how infrequently all those Android devices actually get the latest version of the mobile OS. Michael DeGusta, the man who laid out the sad state of Google’s hardware support in… Continue reading Fragmentation Threshold

After two episodes that revolved around the iPhone last week it’s certainly nice to spend some time talking about delectable frozen treats…wait, is that Chaim saying that Android releases are named by desserts in ascending alphabetical order? This week we discuss the new features Android has to offer and trends in mobile operating system development. Chaim feels pushed towards… Continue reading Is Ice Cream Sandwich Delicious?

The cornerstone of Apple’s push towards iOS 5 is iCloud and we decided it deserves a 30 minute block of it’s own. Are sync services central to digital devices going forward? How does Apple’s method compare to Google’s? We also discuss what really happens when all of those 8 megapixel pictures from new iPhone 4Ss… Continue reading iCloudy with a Chance of Google