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Do you know any college women interested in scicence, technology and public policy?
The Geek Squad Academy and the Women’s High Tech Coalition are teaming up to offer 2 female college students a Congressional summer internship to work on science and technology-related public policy on Capital Hill.
The deadline to apply is May 6th, so if you know anyone interested, send them a link to the Geek Squad News article today!
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There seems to be some debate going on over Apple’s iPhone more recent commercials. Some critics, such as Macworld’s David Chartier believe that Apple should go back to advertising the core iPhone features, while Dan Moren believes that apps are what generate the most iPhone buzz.
Personally, I agree with Dan Moren. While the iPhone is a great piece of hardware with a slick interface, I’ve found that the user experience is most served with the rich supply of apps available. The tag line of “There’s an app for that” is simple, but also effective because it’s true.
Sure, the competition are putting in place their own app stores, but I think that the rich world of iPhone apps will always be the biggest draw to the platform for consumers.
According to BevReview.com, Pepsi is looking to cash in on consumer nostalgia for the days when soda was sweetened with sugar instead of high fructose corn syrup. The company is releasing an limited production run of “retro” Pepsi and Mountain Dew soda, sweetened with natural sugar as they were in the 60s and 70s. “Pepsi Throwback” and “Mountain Dew Throwback” should be available starting April 20th, and be available for around 8 weeks.
Hopefully, the retro soda will be popular enough to bring back a more permanent supply.
RocketryPlanet.com has a great story of one Ohio man’s attempt to recreate a Saturn V launch using a really, really large model rocket:
On April 25, 2009, history will be made. At Higgs Farm in Price, Maryland, Steve Eves will enter the history books as the person who flew the largest model rocket in history. The rocket will weigh over 1,600 pounds, it will stand over 36 feet tall and it will be powered by a massive array of nine motors: eight 13,000ns N-Class motors and a 77,000ns P-Class motor. The estimated altitude of this single stage effort will be between 3,000 and 4,000 feet and the project will be recovered at apogee.
The Conficker Internet worm continues its assault on your local news channels thanks to hype surrounding the April 1st self-updating code discovered inside. I had an opportunity to put up a Geek Squad blog article about the threat.
I also had an opportunity to talk to WTAM 1100 here in Cleveland about how to protect your system from this and other threats.
The other geek news item making the rounds involves Steve Wozniak’s continued presence on Dancing with the Stars. I had an opportunity to talk to WRMF 97.9 about why Geek Squad loves Woz and our Geeks for Woz twitter campaign to keep Wozniak in the running.