Computer Virus on the Space Station!
Orange throttling iPhone 3G speeds. Why offer 3G if you do not want to deliver the product? D90 comes out but not seemingly as good as the Canon. My thoughts on Nikon versus Canon. Computer virus found on Space Station computer. IE8 getting more and more useless PR. Sneaky deal done between Microsoft and Immersion. Lawsuits abound. Dell explaining the Cloud Computing trademark debate. Cisco needs to buy more companies says THE STREET.
Click to listen: [audio:http://m.podshow.com/media/12115/episodes/123993/tech5-123993-08-27-2008.mp3]
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120 GB Zune
Amazon to use Kindle as a platform for textbooks. Canon EOS 50D getting ink. N96 from Nokia has the Smartphone folks buzzing. nVidia getting ink for speeches and the Tegra chip. 120 GB Zune coming out. Will HP target Sun now? Intel spent half a million in lobbying. Photoshop Elements 7 now out. IPO deals off 75-percent. FAA mess needs to be talked up a lot more.
Click to listen: [audio:http://m.podshow.com/media/12115/episodes/123905/tech5-123905-08-26-2008.mp3]
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Laporte Doesn’t Like Mojave But Won’t Explain Why
I was listening to this weeks installment of This Week in Tech this morning. The subject of Jerry Seinfeld doing Microsoft commercials came up and led to a discussion of lame Microsoft marketing. Leo Laporte brought up the Mojave experiment as something that actually helped Apple. I’ve heard him say things like this about Mojave in the past but I’ve never heard him explain why he felt this way.
For those not familiar with the Mojave experiment it went something like this. Microsoft found users who would not use Vista despite the fact that they had never seen it. These are people who would not switch to Vista simply because they had heard bad things but had not taken the time to verify what they heard. Microsoft invited these users to see a next generation operating system they were calling Mojave. The video they made of the experiment shows the users saying very nice things about Mojave. At the end of the experiment it was revealed to the users that Mojave was actually the current version of Windows Vista.
I thought that this was a very good idea. There is a prevailing attitude in the marketplace that Vista is bad and nobody should use it. Consumers are doing very little verification of what they are hearing and are simply avoiding Vista. The truth is that Vista is not so bad as long as SP1 is installed. It is at a point right now where it is quite stable and usable. I would not update an XP machine with it but if I were buying a new computer I’d have no problem taking Vista preinstalled. This experiment was to illustrate that the prevailing attitude in the marketplace is incorrect (or at least not completely correct).
I can understand if Laporte doesn’t like the idea but he has even said that Mojave actually promotes Apple. But I have not heard him explain why. Granted I do not listen to everything Leo says but I do listen to many of the TWiT podcasts so I figure an explanation would have been hard for me to miss.
So what’s up, Leo? Please explain this to me.
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IE will include Porn Mode
Microsoft versus Adobe. Silverlight versus Flash. Microsoft selling Avenue A. AMD selling TV chip business. IE will include Porn Mode. Microsoft looking at HD online video services. Cows line up North and south. Why? Mac Clone company for sale. People do not want VOIP on airplanes. Everyone going to game conferences. Gold farming worth $500 million. People not ready for digital TV. Is Google giving up the free food?
Click to listen: [audio:http://m.podshow.com/media/12115/episodes/123800/tech5-123800-08-25-2008.mp3]
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Microsoft Cloud Crashes
Microsoft to hire Jerry Seinfeld for TV commercials. Comcast has to fess up about P2P throttling or else. Microsoft PhotoSynth site rolled out. Servers go down immediately. This is cloud computing. Big Foot hoax getting funnier. WTC 7 collapse caused by fire. Poland out to get Microsoft. Plasma still good to go.
Click to listen: [audio:http://m.podshow.com/media/12115/episodes/123211/tech5-123211-08-21-2008.mp3]
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