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The “always on, always connected” culture is accelerating due to mobile devices and it seems like everyone has a mobile phone, laptop or tablet (which we know is not actually the case…yet). What does being always on and always connected mean for work, education, and socializing when we can find out anything or connect with anyone in an instant? When even monkeys are mobile, how mobile are you with your work, education and socializing?

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Music: David Bennett Cohen playing “Cookin’ with Cohen” via the podsafe Music Alley.

Discussed during the show:

• New Macbooks and iFixit tears down the new 15” Macbook Pro
• Daring Fireball’s take on iPad2
• Motorola’s Xoom Starts Tablet Wars With iPad (Walt Mossberg review)
• AllThingsD: Q3 4.5M tablets sold, 4.3M of them were iPads
• Android Book Market and Google Apps Marketplace
• Minneapolis/St. Paul (MSPWordpress) WordPress user group has a new site
• According to a white paper and video from Deloitte, Technology, Media & Telecommunications Predictions 2011, which says there will be a significant consumer and enterprise shift away from the desktop and laptop PC in favor of mobile devices like smartphones, tablets and netbooks in 2011
• Google on mobile commerce. Square…and an article about how they’re now in a mobile payments war with Intuit
• Michael Robertson Launches Cloud-Based Radio DVR
• UPCOMING EVENTS:
  • Sunday, February 27th: DEMO (Graeme will be liveblogging it starting Monday morning, and is also using Fanchatter on his blog to aggregate all the DEMO conversation). Also, DEMO has partnered with FORA.tv to bring DEMO LIVE to audiences around the world.  The full program will be available starting Monday, February 28th at 9:00am Pacific Time, and later on-demand.
  • Saturday, March 19th: MOBILE MARCH New part of this years mobile event…Mobile 3D
  • Wednesday, March 23rd: Cloudcamp MSP
  • Thursday, March 24th: MSP WordPress User Group meeting
  • Saturday, March 26th: Overnight Website Challenge
  • Monday, April 11th: MinneWebCon