Andy Marken talked about what’s coming up in the technology world and what might be worth our dollars. MS Mobile smartphones (WP7.5 is looking better and the Amazon Fire looks very promising as a reader. But netbooks don’t have the power that workhorse desktops have. The new ultrabooks will have improved battery life. The amount of content available is exploding. Although ‘they’ want you store everything in the Cloud, security isn’t reliable or secure.

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