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• Jeff Dungan, VP of Operations & Product Marketing - Control4
• Michael Romanies, Head of Marketing - Honestech
• Jose Hernandez, Mktg. Mgr., Dig. Cameras & Photo Frames - Samsung
• Chuck Hamby, PR Manager, Florida Region - Verizon Wireless
• David Rodarte, President & COO - NuVo Technologies

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• Wireless Update with Chuck Hamby from Verizon Wireless
• This Week in Tech History with Chris Graveline brought to you by C.Crane
• Into Tomorrow Product Spotlight with Rob Almanza
• Into Gaming Minute with Mark Lautenschlager

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The Love of TV Isn't Ebbing Anytime Soon
Consumers won't be switching off the TV in favor of other electronic broadcast-capable devices, according to Deloitte's 2010 TMT Predictions. "Our estimate is that over 90 percent of all television watched and over 80 percent of all audio content consumed will be via traditional broadcast," the report said. More

Microsoft May Have Phone in Zune's Future
An upgraded Zune MP3 player may carry the ability to make phone calls, according to a published report that cites driver files in a recent firmware update for the Microsoft device that points to inclusion of voice software. One analyst has already predicted that Microsoft would introduce the "Zune phone" at a global event next month or that the company could elect to wait until the CTIA WIRELESS conference in March. More

Cool Windows Trick: Monitor Network Activity
This clever trick shows you how to hack Windows and bring back the network icon that blinks when there's network traffic. It's very helpful. Check out this quick tip that shows you how to bring back XP's blinking networking icon for newer versions of Windows! Video
-- Tekzilla, Revision3

HMMM... Don't wrestle with pigs: You'll get all muddy and the pigs will love it.

The Best Verizon Smartphones
Steve Jobs did not unveil an iPhone for Verizon Wireless at his tablet-fest, but users of the nation's most-celebrated wireless carrier don't need to fret. For the first time in years, they have a range of smartphones that stand up to any other carrier's options. More
-- Sascha Segan, PC Magazine

MartinLogan Purity Review
Worth the Effort - MartinLogan's new Purity line of electrocstats are self powered, so not only don't you need a receiver to run them, you can plug in a source like an iPod directly for the biggest and best iPod dock you'll ever hear. Of course, that's not all they can do. More
-- Dennis Burger, East Coast Editor - Home Entertainment Mag.

Video Game Environment Becoming an Entertainment Hub
The three titans of video gaming—Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony—increasingly are looking to offer consoles that not only play games, but also function as entertainment hubs, according to this report. Microsoft, for instance, is testing a version of the TV game show "1 vs. 100" that could be played via the company's Xbox Live service. More

HMMM... "My luck is so bad that if I bought a cemetery, people would stop dying." -- Ed Furgol

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Tech's Early Zealots Are Changing their Tune: Has Age Made Them Wiser or Just Older?
Maybe you haven't noticed that we've become the nation with the collective attention span of a tsetse fly. Or that our kids are spending more time in front of a screen each week than we spend in an office. Douglas Rushkoff, Jason Lanier... some of the earliest cheerleaders for the virtual world are having some misgivings. What about you?
-- Robin Raskin

Company Envisions Holographic Gaming
A Los Angeles company named Provision Interactive Technologies is developing a system that will project holographic images three feet in front of a video screen. Curt Thornton, the company's chief executive officer, said that the system would work with video games and that Provision had tested it with the Xbox, Wii and PlayStation consoles. More

HDMI to Release 3-D TV Specification
HDMI Licensing said it will make the 3-D portion of its latest HDMI specification available for free on the Internet as it looks to help TV networks produce 3-D content that will be compatible with 3-D TV sets. "I see it as a necessity," said Steve Venuti, president of HDMI Licensing. "These companies don't want to pay to get the spec, but they need it to understand how 3-D will work in the marketplace." More

HMMM... I get enough exercise just pushing my luck. Submitted by listener George Duke.

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This year instead of paying someone else to prepare your taxes, use one of the many free online services
More and more tax preparation software companies are offering their basic tax return packages for free and you can do them online right from home at any time of the day or night. You can check out the free services from TurboTax where they also offer upgrades to packages for filing taxes on rental investments, small businesses and any other tax needs you have. H&R Block is also offering tax filing services from the free basic return to their premium edition. There are many other sites offering you the ability to file your free simple federal tax return including eSmart Tax and Tax Slayer. If you aren't sure where to go to file your return why not ask the IRS? Happy filing and when you are finished, please visit us "Into Tomorrow" to find out what new high tech items you'd like to spend that tax money on.

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