The Pop Tech Jam crew couldn’t help getting their geek on over this past U.S. holiday weekend.
J.D. spent her time off digging up online Cultural goodies from the British Library and New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art while El Kaiser tried valiantly to install customized versions of the Android mobile operating system onto his Samsung and Google branded devices.
In the news Amazon offers selected users the opportunity to sign up for a free 30-day test drive of the Fire TV set-top box ; Oculus Rift technology may become an integral tool in the training of cyberwarriors; Sony will allow customers to download pre-ordered games in advance for the PlayStation 4 game console; Intuit, makers of Quicken, goes shopping; technology paves the way for a new album from Queen with Freddie Mercury on vocals; and the Fine Brother’s “Kids React to Old Computers” video lights up YouTube.
