Gadgetory

big changes could be coming to the next iPhone and it's time to play the tech name game I'm Bridget Carey and his mercy not update the iphone 5 is said to have a smaller dock connector with 19 pins instead of the standard 30 pin port that has been on pretty much every apple gadgets since the ipod techcrunch is reporting it talked with three manufacturers all of which confirmed a smaller dock port which is about the size of a micro USB so if this is true you're ready to dish up money for new accessories it ain't going to fit that pretty little charging dock on your I home anymore Google TV has another competitor on the way television manufacturers LG and Philips are teaming up to create a universal platform for apps on televisions it's called the smart TV Alliance television apps are fragmented these days there's samsung smart TV Google TV or just put a camera on your existing TV to video chat like this device called the biscotti just don't dunk it in coffee in yesterday's show I must admit I made a mistake i mispronounced the name of a nap spell WA ze the correct pronunciation is ways personally I think calling it was e sounds more like a nap I like to download but there's an issue here worth exploring and it goes beyond this particular app the current tech culture is full of companies and products with bizarre spellings everyone wants to be an Internet star and pretty much every word in the dot-com domain has been taken so what happens these startups go for creative Spelling's problem is if you're creative will anyone care enough to learn your name here's a shopping app you might want to say it's sugar but it's sugar not so sweet you people to spell that one how about this app for monitoring phone radiation levels is it a villain in Mortal Kombat called talc on no it's talk on Picon my colleague Paul Sloane said he just heard from a startup called onus okay they just didn't even try and then there's the folks who just disrespect valves the letter e gets no love from flickr tumblr the RSS readers snacker fashion app trendabl stop going crazy with the valves and let's take something we can all support compounds what's swiftkey clearly it's for typing score big it's got to be about sports Flipboard social cam if you want your app to be remembered just pick one word that has to do with your app and another random noun or verb and voila you got dazzle cat cloud toss jam jump bumble bean and apparently those are also already taken I don't know what's wrong with the world that's your tech news update for today for more in the stories in today's show this is sina com / update from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey