Matthew Petschl and Ryan Rampersad remember some recent adventures and discuss the lost talk show host, bleeping jailbreakers, retina display MacBook Pros with USB3, a fantastic summer with Microsoft deals, Google's new search paradigm, APUs, Verizon's grandfather, that Firefox again and so much more! This week Matthew Petschl and Ryan Rampersad discuss new processors from AMD, missing talk show hosts, soon to be seen Apple rumors, Google’s new searching scheme, Microsoft’s impending Windows 8 P...
May 21, 2012•1 hr 24 min
Matthew Petschl and Ryan Rampersad discuss quite the Journey in the conclusion of college, new hardware from HP and Micron, how Oracle finally won something, T-Mobile's innovation, some Apple rumors, Virgin Mobile's next premiere phone and so much more! This week Matthew Petschl and Ryan Rampersad discuss the end of school, a Journey, new phones with policies, more lawsuits with some resolution in sight, misleading claims, DDR4 and DDR3 from Micron, Windows RT and Mozilla, and more! Links Journe...
May 13, 2012•1 hr 24 min
Matthew Petschl and Ryan Rampersad discuss a CEO's fake resume, the dead-lock in Oracle's case, the EU's timely decision, the lack of Fire at Target, Dropbox getting targeted by Apple, the sad Samsung S3, a Jobs Wonka, the misappropriation of DVD playback and media, and more! This week, note-taking extraordinaire, Matthew Petschl, and Ryan Rampersad discuss finals and next week’s shuffle, Steve Jobs as FDR, Target’s lost Fire, the boring S3, how the EU thinks programming languages are free for a...
May 06, 2012•1 hr 26 min
Tall norn Matthew Petschl and short human Ryan Rampersad return to discuss WWDC's two-hour sellout, python's declining popularity, steam but not for scheme, Oracle and Google - again, Nintendo's failure, arrows in Brazil and how Ubuntu is no longer quite as precise, and more. After a long weekend of Guild Wars 2, tall norn Matthew Petschl and short human Ryan Rampersad return. This week, they cover the ongoing Oracle lawsuit, outrage over Google Drive or the lack thereof, programming language po...
May 02, 2012•1 hr 36 min
Matthew Petschl and Ryan Rampersad, along with guest Sam Ebertz, reminisce about the goat chase, then discuss IBM's POS business, the dual Larry's battle it out over Java, Android and Oracle, Torvalds' prize, Halo 4, a leaky valve led to no cooking, Windows 8 is just Windows 8, finally an bridge worth crossing, and more! Another week with guest Sam Ebertz, hosts Matthew Petschl and Ryan Rampersad. This time, they discuss the absurd Oracle-Google legal relationship – “It’s Complicated”, Windows 8...
Apr 22, 2012•1 hr 6 min
After an adventure, Matthew Petschl, Ryan Rampersad and guest Sam Ebertz discuss the Facebook's purchase of Instagram, BestBuy CEO's resignation and lack of counting skills, Google's earnings and Plus-numbers, Apple rumors on iTunes 11's break up, the iPhone 5 and technical details, the Nook with a light on Amazon heels, cell phone tracking, and so much more. After a nightlong adventure, special guest Sam Ebertz appears alongside Matthew Petschl, musk-rat-hunter extraordinaire, and Ryan Rampersa...
Apr 15, 2012•1 hr 9 min
A few days late, Matthew and Ryan discuss Virgin Mobile rumors, Apple's new Wifigate, a Mac botnet, obligatory rumors, a warranty lawsuit, a patent troll, OS/2 Warp's celebration, rouge statistics, snakes in a what, and more. Matthew Petschl and Ryan Rampersad manage to throw a show together a show and talk about Wifigate, the Java-Mac virus, the words from the seer, the real review of Ryan’s new phone, more lawsuits galore, Yahoo versus Facebook, the OS/2 celebration and so much more! Links Mot...
Apr 09, 2012•1 hr 38 min
Guest co-host Paul Horn and Ryan discuss BestBuy's demise and improvement plan, Android revenue, Apple's misleading advertising, Orbis rumors, Go 1.0, Netflix's interest in DVDs, a spark in Microsoft traffic, and more At The Nexus. Matthew Petschl is absent this week, but his position is filled with by guest co-host, Paul Horn. He and Ryan Rampersad lament the closing of BestBuy and discuss what they can do to improve; Google’s Android revenue, Apple lawsuits, PS4 rumors, Go 1.0 and Netflix stil...
Apr 01, 2012•1 hr 16 min
Matthew Petschl and Ryan Rampersad discuss the new HP laptop in the studio, mail problems, new site designs and for the news, Apple's dividend and sales, HP's printer and PC divisions to converge, the Virgin Mobile outage, Windows 8 in October, new open source graphics drivers, a Twitter and GCC birthday and more At The Nexus. Ryan Rampersad answered the call to a higher calling and plans to get new cell phone, he also talks about the big Virgin Mobile USA texting-data-phone black out. The mad q...
Mar 24, 2012•1 hr 59 min
Matthew Petschl and Ryan Rampersad discuss all the action that Western Digital is getting, early Ivy Bridge benchmarks, a marketing campaign that answers to A Higher Calling, a cheap Sprint Android phone, a couple Dropbox updates, the estimated new iPad costs and more, At The Nexus. This week, Matthew Petschl, garage survivor extraordinaire, and Ryan Rampersad begin with Matt’s run in with a small military base , Ryan’s TWiT brick and the iPad Special. Then Western Digital buys out Hitachi, sell...
Mar 10, 2012•58 min
This week Ryan and Matthew discuss the recently launched Windows 8 Consumer Preview, discuss the last batch of the suspected Apple iPad keynote next week, bird sounds, the Googlighing video, another HTML5 marketplace of failure, the iPhone gas stove, Ubuntu 12.04: Precise Pangolin, and more At The Nexus. This week Matthew Petschl, lab coat-wearing extraordinaire, and Ryan Rampersad critique the landing of the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, discuss the Apple keynote suspected to be for the iPad 3 ne...
Mar 03, 2012•1 hr 14 min
Matthew and Ryan discuss Steve's birthday, Apple rumors and the iPad 3 launch, Mountain Lion features and removals, Microsoft's branding demise, AMD's new cores, Ubuntu's new phone plan and more, At The Nexus. This week, Matthew Petschl, moment capturer extraordinaire, and Ryan Rampersad celebrate Jobs’ birthday, discuss the Apple rumors and upcoming launch, Microsoft’s sundering brands, Office with touch but not Metro, Adobe’s Flash plan, AMD and Ubuntu plans and more! Links 142 Days Apple look...
Feb 25, 2012•1 hr 40 min
Matthew Petschl and Ryan Rampersad discuss Mountain Lion features, AirPlay's future, Google & HP's jokes, poor prime memberships, solid state drive failures, 99.999% uptime, the Windows 8 logo and more, At The Nexus. This week Matthew Petschl, fire-wielding extraordinaire, and Ryan Rampersad reveal the third annual Physics Day with dry ice and cannons. In the news, we cover everything Apple: Mountain Lion, iPad 3 and Apple TV. After that, we touch upon two failed announcements, Amazon Prime ...
Feb 18, 2012•1 hr 43 min
This week, Matthew, Ryan and special guest, Sam, talk about the emerging Windows 8 Consumer Preview rumors, the Apple iPad 3 and MacBook Air rumors, Google and its GDrive, hard drive pricing spikes, double clicking and more, At The Nexus. This week, Matthew and Ryan find Sam and discuss the heating Windows 8 rumors, the launch and the outcome, the iPad 3 and MacBook Pro to Air conversion rumors, hard drives price spikes, Google Chrome on Ice Cream Sandwich and its limitations and G-Drive among B...
Feb 11, 2012
This week we talk about Windows 8, Rusty Firefox, iBooks success, iPad jail breaking, nonsense interfaces, wireless networking futures and more, in our revised tabular studio! W’re back in our new and improved studio now with a desk . This week, we talk about the slight delay for the previous episode, follow up on last week’s SOPA and MegaUpload stories, Windows 8 upcoming beta and future, Ubuntu 12.04’s HUD nonsense HUD interface, iPad Jailbreaking and more! Ryan had a little cold during the sh...
Jan 28, 2012•1 hr 36 min
Special guest Sam Ebertz joins Matt and Ryan via Skype and talks about the Kindle Fire, SOPA's blackout protest, the Apple Education event, and the week's technology news, along with a short review on the Wolfram Networking app for iPad. All that, and more! This week, Matthew Petschl, desk building extraordinaire, and Ryan Rampersad host a guest via mix-minus and Skype! Sam Ebertz is a University of Minnesota student studying Astrophysics and he’s really amazing at math. We talk about his Kindle...
Jan 22, 2012•1 hr 42 min
Matthew talks about Vizio's new computer line, Ubuntu and Google TVs, and Ryan speculates about Apple's special education event and rejects Google+ search integration. All that and more! This week, Matthew and Ryan record early and talk about this week’s CES impact: minimal. Ryan talks about the Google+ search integration and the special education event Apple is hosting in New York. Matthew talks about the success of TV extensions in the future, Apple TV, Ubuntu TV and Google TV. Our special sec...
Jan 14, 2012•1 hr 13 min
On the first episode of the year, Ryan reiterates his love of TV bezels, Apple's rumored publishing event and Windows 8 refreshing and resetting. Matthew questions the Steve Jobs figurine, the Apple password backup charger, and education with technology. All that, and more! The first show in the new year, Ryan Rampersad and Matthew Petschl share the news on Apple, Microsoft, CES rumors and the role of technology in education. Matthew has an egg full of putty and he even chokes a little on the dr...
Jan 07, 2012•1 hr 6 min
Happy New Year! Matthew and Ryan cover more Apple TV nonsense Apple TV rumors, another DropBox alternative, Verizon's payment convenience charge, Samsung's ICS flip-flop, Ive's knighthood and more! This episode summary was written before the launch of The Nexus . Happy New Year! I was on vacation from the moment this podcast was finished until this moment. I’m sorry this is so late. This week, networking tech extraordinaire , Matthew Petschl and I discuss my grandmother’s new Apple TV and what w...
Dec 31, 2011•48 min
On this Christmas adam episode, Matthew and Ryan talk about the death of the AT&T-Tmobile merge, OwnCloud, the AMD Radeon 7970, an iPod nano on your sleeve, Facebook suing Mark Zuckerberg, and more! This episode summary was written before the launch of The Nexus . It’s Christmas Eve! Or Adam, as some might say. This week’s podcast was well crafted and a great journey into the land of technology. Before our normal stories, we talked about my grandmother’s Christmas present, a portal into the ...
Dec 24, 2011•54 min
Another week solo, Ryan covers Kindle Fire problems, MacBook Pro display rumors, new AdBlock Plus rules, HP open-sourcing webOS, continued free calling by Google, and more! This episode summary was written before the launch of The Nexus . On Friday night, we had a little bit of toner trouble . Matthew Petschl could not join me tonight to cover this week’s tech news but that’s fine, I did it anyway, but this time with proper volume and more toner . It’s been a busy week for both of us with finals...
Dec 17, 2011•18 min
After fixing last week's trouble Matthew and Ryan come back strong with news on Apple's database center, the mysterious disappearance of AMD's transistors, Steve Jobs's Biography is #1, Bill Gates's reactor, and more. This episode summary was written before the launch of The Nexus . Last week, we had some trouble making an adequate recording. This week? Well, Matthew Petschl and I think it’s good enough to publish this week. Sadly, my levels are a little low, so if you don’t actually like listen...
Dec 10, 2011•26 min
Due to audio problems, Ryan covers the podcast alone and talks about the Kindle Fire, the new app rating system from the ESRB, AT&T-Tmobile merging and Carrier IQ. This episode summary was written before the launch of The Nexus . This episode was not posted on Ryan’s blog and did not have a post summary. Listen to more at The Nexus and follow us on Twitter and Google+ for our latest episodes and news....
Dec 03, 2011•29 min
Delirius by fumes and turkey, Matthew and Ryan discuss iPad 3 rumors, Facebook's potential new phone, Bulldozer's impact, Penguin Publishing and Amazon Kindle books, and more! Thanksgiving treated us well. Maybe a little too well. On Friday evening, painting extraordinaire Matthew Petschl and I recorded our third episode! This episode is full of unconscious rambling, confusion and hilarity. Actually, we tried to do things a little differently this time around. We created some stable intro-music ...
Nov 26, 2011•38 min
Less than a week later, Matt and Ryan talk about Siri's cracked protocol, ICS and Kindle Fire OS open sourcing, Steve's secret WiFi carrier alternative, AMD server processors and more. This episode summary was written before the launch of The Nexus . Less than a week later, we’ve done it again. Matthew Petschl and I once again created a masterpiece in audio and technology news coverage. We still have no series name, but there is planning this around, we actually collected stories through out the...
Nov 19, 2011•38 min
The premiere podcast of The Nexus, Ryan and Matthew use the MacBook's microphone to record the first episode ever dicussing Batterygate, tablet trends and P2P litigation. This episode summary was written before the launch of The Nexus . Sunday evening, on the night of my nineteenth birthday, Matthew Petschl and I made a alpha-trial-run podcast. There is no series name, there is no planning, there is no craft. In fact, this is the result of standing outside in the cold for two hours and about hal...
Nov 14, 2011•20 min
