April 27, 2010 - Android News, Tech Security, and Chinese Concert Pianists

On today's show, Android is the main topic. There's lots of news related to Google's OS, as well as some stories of tech security breaches to make us more paranoid than we already are. Links from today's show are below:

• Update: Google Navigation isn't coming to the iphone just yet

• Android market has over 50,000 apps

• The Nexus One isn't coming to Verizon, Google Recommends HTC incredible instead

• Auto app updates in Android 2.2

• Blippy leaks users' credit card numbers

• Photocopiers may be retaining your private documents

• Lang Lang plays an iPad at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco

April 23, 2010 - Google nav on iPhone, where's Palm going?

On today's podcast, we talk about Google navigation possibly coming soon to the iPhone, and what that means for other developers. I review a cell phone case from Waterfield designs. And what exactly will happen to Palm now that HTC is out of the picture?

Waterfield Design Droid case review
http://goo.gl/g7AD
(thanks to @TRKnight for this recommendation)

Google navigation coming to the iPhone
http://goo.gl/8Tfv

And HTC isn't buying Palm
http://goo.gl/ha9Y

And don't miss this video montage about just how bad our lives would be without gadgets:
http://goo.gl/rd7f

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April 22, 2010

On this, the first ever episode of Connecting Tech, we look at Twitter's new plan to make money, Apple's new iPhone 4G, and how we will soon "like" things all over the web, thanks to Facebook.