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Tom Merritt
Thomas Andrew Merritt (born June 28, 1970) is an American technology journalist, writer, and broadcaster best known as the host of several podcasts. He is a former co-host of ''Tech News Today'' on the TWiT.tv Network, and was previously an executive editor for CNET and developer and co-host of the daily podcast ''Buzz Out Loud''. He currently hosts ''Daily Tech News Show'', ''Cordkillers'' and ''Sword and Laser'', among other shows. Early life Merritt was born in Greenville, Illinois, to a food scientist father who worked on the Coffee-Mate project. Merritt received a BS in journalism from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and pursued graduate work in communications at the University of Texas at Austin. Career Merritt's career in radio began in 1986 as a DJ for WGEL, a country music station located in Greenville, Illinois. In 1993, he worked as an intern for National Public Radio's ''Morning Edition''. From 1999 to 2004, he worked for TechTV in San Francisco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greenville, Illinois
: Greenville is a city in Bond County, Illinois, United States, east of St. Louis. The population as of the 2020 census was 7,083, up from 7,000 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Bond County. Greenville is part of the St. Louis Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is also considered part of the Metro East region of Illinois. Greenville celebrated its Bicentennial in 2015 as one of the oldest communities in Illinois. It is home to Greenville University, the Richard Bock Museum, the American Farm Heritage Museum, the Armed Forces Museum and the Demoulin Museum and a federal prison, Federal Correctional Institution, Greenville (FCI Greenville). It is also home to internationally known companies, including Nevco Scoreboard, the largest privately owned scoreboard company in the world, and DeMoulin Brothers, the world's oldest and largest manufacturer of band uniforms. History Greenville was founded by George Davidson in 1815 in what was then the Illinois Territory, when ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rafe Needleman
Rafe Needleman is a magazine and website editor and published author. He wrote a Star Trek trivia book in 1980 and has covered technology and business since 1988. Previously a co-host of CNET's Buzz Out Loud Daily Podcast with Molly Wood, and CNET's To The Rescue and the Reporters Roundtable podcast and maintains the blog Rafe's Radar. Rafe left CNET in August 2012 to become the Platform Advocate at Evernote. On January 7, 2014, he posted on his Google+ account, "I can finally announce my new job. I’m going to Yahoo. I’ll be editorial director of the new Yahoo Tech site..." Star Trek book As a young man, Needleman wrote the book ''The Official Star Trek Trivia Book'' which was published by Pocket Books. Tech columnist He started covering technology at InfoWorld as a reviews editor. Following that, he launched Corporate Computing magazine, and then moved on to become manager of advanced technologies for ZD Labs. In 1995, he became editor-in-chief of ''Byte''. He joined C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Veronica Belmont
Veronica Ann Belmont (born July 21, 1982) is an American online media personality. She was formerly the co-host of the Revision3 show ''Tekzilla'' alongside Patrick Norton. Belmont was the co-host of the former TWiT.tv gaming show ''Game On!'' along with Brian Brushwood, and the former host of the monthly PlayStation 3-based video on demand program Qore. Additionally, she was the host for the Mahalo Daily podcast and a producer and associate editor for CNET Networks, Inc. where she produced, engineered, and co-hosted the podcast ''Buzz Out Loud''. Background Belmont's mother was a vice president at Coleco. Belmont went to school at Conard High School in West Hartford, Connecticut before attending Emerson College, in Boston, Massachusetts, to study audio production and new media studies. After graduation in 2004, she worked briefly in Boston and eventually secured an internship at CNET. She resides in San Francisco, California with her husband, former Engadget editor Ryan Block ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skype
Skype () is a proprietary telecommunications application operated by Skype Technologies, a division of Microsoft, best known for VoIP-based videotelephony, videoconferencing and voice calls. It also has instant messaging, file transfer, debit-based calls to landline and mobile telephones (over traditional telephone networks), and other features. Skype is available on various desktop, mobile, and video game console platforms. Skype was created by Niklas Zennström, Janus Friis, and four Estonian developers and first released in August 2003. In September 2005, eBay acquired Skype for $2.6 billion. In September 2009, Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz, and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board bought 65% of Skype for $1.9 billion from eBay, valuing the business at $2.92 billion. In May 2011, Microsoft bought Skype for $8.5 billion and used it to replace their Windows Live Messenger. As of 2011, most of the development team and 44% of all the division' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
YouTube
YouTube is a global online video platform, online video sharing and social media, social media platform headquartered in San Bruno, California. It was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. It is owned by Google, and is the List of most visited websites, second most visited website, after Google Search. YouTube has more than 2.5 billion monthly users who collectively watch more than one billion hours of videos each day. , videos were being uploaded at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute. In October 2006, YouTube was bought by Google for $1.65 billion. Google's ownership of YouTube expanded the site's business model, expanding from generating revenue from advertisements alone, to offering paid content such as movies and exclusive content produced by YouTube. It also offers YouTube Premium, a paid subscription option for watching content without ads. YouTube also approved creators to participate in Google's Google AdSens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Jobs
Steven Paul Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American entrepreneur, industrial designer, media proprietor, and investor. He was the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple; the chairman and majority shareholder of Pixar; a member of The Walt Disney Company's board of directors following its acquisition of Pixar; and the founder, chairman, and CEO of NeXT. He is widely recognized as a pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, along with his early business partner and fellow Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. Jobs was born in San Francisco to a Syrian father and German-American mother. He was adopted shortly after his birth. Jobs attended Reed College in 1972 before withdrawing that same year. In 1974, he traveled through India seeking enlightenment before later studying Zen Buddhism. He and Wozniak co-founded Apple in 1976 to sell Wozniak's Apple I personal computer. Together the duo gained fame and wealth a year later with produ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Google I/O
Google I/O (or simply I/O) is an annual developer conference held by Google in Mountain View, California. "I/O" stands for Input/Output, as well as the slogan "Innovation in the Open". The event's format is similar to Google Developer Day. History Evolution 2008 Major topics included: * Android * App Engine * Bionic * Maps API * OpenSocial * Web Toolkit Speakers included Marissa Mayer, David Glazer, Steve Horowitz, Alex Martelli, Steve Souders, Dion Almaer, Mark Lucovsky, Guido van Rossum, Jeff Dean, Chris DiBona, Josh Bloch, Raffaello D'Andrea, Geoff Stearns. 2009 Major topics included: * AJAX APIs * Android * App Engine * Chrome * OpenSocial * Wave * Web Toolkit Speakers included Aaron Boodman, Adam Feldman, Adam Schuck, Alex Moffat, Alon Levi, Andrew Bowers, Andrew Hatton, Anil Sabharwal, Arne Roomann-Kurrik, Ben Collins-Sussman, Jacob Lee, Jeff Fisher, Jeff Ragusa, Jeff Sharkey, Jeffrey Sambells, Jerome Mouton and Jesse Kocher. Attendees were given ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WWDC
The Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) is an information technology conference held annually by Apple Inc. The conference is usually held at Apple Park in California. The event is usually used to showcase new software and technologies in the macOS, iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, and tvOS families as well as other Apple software. WWDC is also an event hosted for third-party software developers that work on apps for iPhones, iPads, Macs, and other Apple devices. Attendees can participate in hands-on labs with Apple engineers and attend in-depth sessions covering a wide variety of topics. The first ever WWDC was held in 1983 with the introduction of Apple Basic, but it was not until 2002 that Apple started using the conference as a major launchpad for new products. Beginning in 1987, WWDC was held in Santa Clara. After 15 years in nearby San Jose, the conference moved to San Francisco, where it eventually became Apple's primary media event of the year and regularly sold out. WWDC retur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Brushwood
Brian Allen Brushwood (born January 17, 1975) is an American magician, podcaster, author, lecturer, YouTuber and comedian. Brushwood is known for the series ''Scam Nation'' (previously ''Scam School''), a show where he teaches the audience entertaining tricks at bars so they can "scam" a free drink. The show also claims to be the only show dedicated to social engineering at the bar and on the street. In addition to ''Scam Nation,'' Brushwood co-hosts the podcasts ''Weird Things'' with Andrew Mayne and Justin Robert Young, ''Cordkillers'' with Tom Merritt, and ''Night Attack'' with Young. Brushwood was also a regular guest on the ''This Week in Tech'' podcast. Brushwood performs his ''Bizarre Magic'' stage show across the United States and is the author of six books. Brushwood also co-hosts a YouTube show along with Jason Murphy called The Modern Rogue'. Brushwood has appeared on national television numerous times including on ''The Tonight Show with Jay Leno'', CNN and Food Netw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Ibbott
Brian Ibbott is a podcaster who lives in Arvada, Colorado, and is best known for his podcast The Morning Stream and secondly '' Coverville.''Waters, Darren (July 19, 2005)"Pick of the podcasts: Coverville" BBC News.Green, Heather (March 13, 2005). '' Business Week''. McGraw-Hill Companies. Ibbott attended art school, and in the 1990s worked for a few months as a wedding DJ. An early website he created was askbrian.com (2000), billed as "Pop-culture trivia questions delivered fresh to your door!", where he "answered nagging questions that stumped people".(Full interview) He has worked in customer service management and technical services, has freelanced in web development, and is married, with one son.Mook, Bob (June 18, 2006)"Will money follow rush to podcasting?" Denver Business Journal. American City Business Journals. Ibbott's podcast '' Coverville'' began in September 2004 along with his business, Coverville Media LLC. Shows are released three times per week, drawn from an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Johnson (cartoonist)
Scott Blaine Johnson (born July 17, 1969) is an American cartoonist, illustrator, game designer, and podcaster. He lives in South Jordan, Utah, with his wife and three children. In 2008, Johnson launched Frog Pants Studios, LLC, an illustration and audio production company. Early life Scott Johnson was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. He grew up and went to high school in the suburb Sandy City, UT, Sandy City. He has also lived in Mississippi and Louisiana while on a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Johnson met his wife Kim during his mission. Comics and illustration Johnson began publishing the webcomic ''ExtraLife'' in June 2001. The subject matter concentrates on many of Johnson's interests such as computers, technology, video games, and movies. In 2009, Johnson launched ''Experience Points'', a second webcomic that draws inspiration from World of Warcraft and other MMORPG computer games. The strip was one of several web comics publish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Chang
Roger Chang is a computer enthusiast and American television personality best known for his time as a segment producer and his appearances on TechTV's ''Call for Help'' and ''The Screen Savers''. He was a senior producer at Revision3. Early life Chang attended Thomas Downey High School in Modesto, California. Upon graduating from high school, Chang continued his education at San Francisco State University. During his appearance on TWiT Live on April 4, 2008, Chang stated that he was an agnostic and a libertarian. Career In 1998, Chang was hired by ZDTV (later TechTV) as an associate producer. While working at TechTV, Chang was involved with the production of two popular productions; ''Call for Help'', which was a live call-in show for fans seeking technology assistance and ''The Screen Savers'', a television show centered around computers, new technologies, and their adaptations in the world. He was also an on-air talent at times as well as an occasional fill-in host on ''Call for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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