Tech Buzz - 012008

Local tech news in a compact, digital format.

Apple Swap Meet Next Weekend
It's coming! The Houston Area Apple Users Group semi-annual swap meet is happening next weekend, January 26th at the UH Hilton. Please check the HAAUG site for registration information and fees. Good luck finding that Apple Newton or Lisa you've been looking for!

Sprint Nextel To Close 35 Retail Stores In Houston
From the Houston Business Journal come this interesting news that Sprint Nextel will close 125 retail stores and cut more than 4000 jobs company wide. Houston will see 35 of it's retail stores close shop. The ax will fall for these locations and employees in the first half of this year and will also include management positions.

Local Events
¤ Web Guru - The Houston Web Design Meetup Group holds court at The Stag's Head Pub on Wednesday night at 7 p.m., January 23rd.

¤ HAL-PC will have it's next general meeting January 26th and will feature presentations on Tax Preparation and Identity Theft. Click here to find out how to join HAL-PC and become a member of this great community of PC users.

Local Independent Technology Blogging
Our favorite local dunderpate, Mike McGuff, is back in the swing of things with a great new tech post on his blog where he covers some iTunes and Facebook stuff as well as other topics. Grand Stream Dreams has an awesome Linkfest as well as a support post, Logitech mouse problems, security news and some software offerings. jkOnTheRun reviews the Kindle e-book reader, gets Google Calendar to get events from multiple email accounts and makes his first trip to the Apple Genius Bar.

Local Professional Technology Blogging...errr... News From The Chron
Local professional technology bloggers at the Chron have come up with these stories for the week. Dwight Silverman covers Apples new offerings and tells us why he thinks the wait for Windows 7 won't be too long. Meanwhile James Kendrick snuck in Dwight's Tech Blog to post on CES 2008. Dr. Mac extolls the virtues of RSS. Jay Lee's Help Line blog tackles the annoying automatic additions to the Outlook Express address book and answers the age old question; deleted files, are they really gone?

It Came From Other -ist Sites
Sadly, The Tech Buzz has been overlooking other -ist sites that have some sort of regular tech feature or post frequently about technology and the internet. So, in order to be a better fellow -ist site, we vow to bring these stories to you too!

Over at Phyllist The Whiz of the Web pumps out five great posts a week. Seattlest went to MacWorld while SFist devoted two posts to the event.

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