Brian Gongol
Show notes: Brian Gongol Show on WHO Radio - July 27, 2014
Amazon wants to sweeten deal on new Fire phone with a free year of Prime
NCAA makes a token effort to track students who may have been concussed
Frank Caliendo...in Morgan Freeman's voice...reading LeBron James's words
(Video)
What became of the top companies in the first Fortune 500
Success is never perpetually assured
Apple is laying off employees at newly-acquired Beats
Facebook is kicking all of its users onto Messenger
They want people to use a standalone app for chatting, rather than the built-in service previously used inside Facebook
When the police are called in to dispatch a penguin
That this story even makes the news is a good sign that troubles aren't nearly what they could be in the Quad Cities
DMX rides a slingshot
(Video - language not appropriate for some audiences)
What to do (or not) about the F-35
The brutally-honest cover letter
Self-piloted cars are coming to the UK
USB firmware can be made to carry malware
And it's incredibly hard to detect. May be time to stop sharing flash drives, with or without a good virus scan.
Corn crops look great, demand is flat, and prices are in the toilet
Chicago's automatic red-light enforcement finally gets serious scrutiny
The Chicago Tribune found that the system had a bunch of apparent flaws, and now the city is hiring an outside auditor to review the anomalies. But the bottom line is that nobody should be surprised that there were problems with a system that gave a private company the financial incentive to ticket people on behalf of the city, which itself is in dire financial straits itself and could use any possible source of new revenues it can find.
Indianola gives a laptop to every high school student
The district calls it a "1:1 digital learning environment"
FCC criticizes Verizon for throttling wireless users with unlimited data