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The Queue: Week in review

2007-06-01
it's the moment you've been waiting for hey there I'm rich demuro with cnet TV and you are in the queue we can review we're talking the top tech stories for the last week of may 2007 and a little bit of june let's get you started with some eye candy red bull gives you wings and not just the jittery caffeine and sugar induced ones the red bull air race is a flight competition or pilots maneuver fast and close to the ground racing against time it speeds up to 250 miles an hour crowds are closed for in your face action there's a race in Turkey this weekend to tech titans took the stage at the fifth annual d all things digital conference walt mossberg and kara swisher oh yeah and they also got to talk to Bill Gates and Steve Jobs we've kept our marriage secret for over a decade now the 90 minute discussion touching on everything from those I'm a Mac I'm a PC adds to the early days of Macintosh and Microsoft the joint on stage appearance the first in over 20 years if you're like me you got your smartphone so you don't have to lug around a computer all the time but handheld pioneer palm is betting big that road warriors are tired of swinging at small screens and cramped keyboards their folio mobile companion links up to your smartphone and lets you edit emails documents and surf the web through bluetooth or Wi-Fi device is not meant to replace a laptop five-hundred-dollar folio features a 10-inch screen five hour battery life and weighs in at two and a half pounds my biggest problem with apple TV is the lack of high-definition programming available for it after all the device is meant to connect to your HDTV what Apple is going even lower res by adding youtube video to the device beginning in mid-june you'll be able to wirelessly stream selected YouTube videos through the device apple will start with current and popular videos then continue to add the full library now since the quality is pretty choppy on computer screens I can only imagine how blocky it's going to look on the big screen but you will be able to use your Apple TV remote to browse and play the snack size shorts definitely not a bad idea but I still like to see some HD movie content soon finally the beta mogu google has page rank and ask used to have Jeeves and now they have that algorithm when it's a human touch you want in a web search say hello to Mahalo the human-powered search engine uses guides to handcraft results pages the neat thing about this site is that you won't find any spam and its search results and pages only include the best links to tell you more about your topic there are 4000 popular searches now live mahalos goal is to have 10,000 by the end of the year my favorite is the Mahalo top 7 these are right at the top the 7 best links for each search term and a good link for you the CNN TV blog there you can learn more about what we talked about right here on the q i'm rich demuro with seen a TV in new york city and i love the extra legroom in exit rows for more video like this go to cnet.com and click on cnet TV
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