Will Sun Microsystems be Sold?
Yahoo and Intel fooling around with Interactive TV. Har. American Airlines hook up three routes with WiFi. No Internet phone calls allowed. Nintendo sued. Comcast to slow traffic to hogs. More Toshiba news. Cox going wireless. Sims coming next year. Lots of news about Sun Microsystems.
Click to listen: [audio:http://m.podshow.com/media/12115/episodes/123103/tech5-123103-08-20-2008.mp3]
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Spam Works? Oh no!
iPod batteries overheating in Japan. Meanwhile, Jobs says he’ll fix crashing iPhone. More on the bigfoot scam. Google Android phone is real. Yahoo opening up Buzz to the public. Sounds like Digg to me. Researchers say Vista gets dumped from 1/3 of enterprise PC’s. Microsoft dropping fees left and right. They also like tailored search now. IDF in play in San Francisco. MSNBC behind the times. 29-percent Internet users buy from spam solicitations.
Click to listen: [audio:http://m.podshow.com/media/12115/episodes/122896/tech5-122896-08-19-2008.mp3]
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25th Anniversary of PCjr
Toshiba slips in a Blu-ray killer: a regular DVD player that outputs 1920×1080. Nice. I want one. NetRadio doomed no thanks to RIAA. Good idea, take music off the air. Dell loses Cloud Computing Trademark. Google getting sued over patents. Bigfoot declared a hoax. Highlight of the day: 25th anniversary of PCjr. My comments.
Click to listen: [audio:http://m.podshow.com/media/12115/episodes/122696/tech5-122696-08-18-2008.mp3]
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Open Source Gets Huge Legal Boost
Open Source breakthrough. Licensing deals binding to an extreme. You can be sued for copyright infringement even if the software is free. iPhone 3G gripes unheeded by Apple. USB 3.0 coming soon at 4.8 Gbps!! Cisco and Oracle spending a fortune on lobbyists. Text-messaging coming to regular phones. AT&T will spy on you and so will the UK government. News: blank DVD’s are cheap.
Click to listen: [audio:http://m.podshow.com/media/12115/episodes/122271/tech5-122271-08-14-2008.mp3]
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Microsoft Surface Surfaces
Apple has huge fire in Cupertino. Social networking sites going global. I’m not a big user and need to comment on the topic someday. Perhaps the Russians are not responsible to Georgian cyber-attacks. 26 patches from Microsoft this last Tuesday. Too many. People now reporting on daily sales of the iPhone as if anyone cares. Microsoft Surface surfaces. Salon magazine says McCain is a computer dunce. Nortel getting into SIP and buys developer of protocol. Liberty Media wants the AOL dial-up business. Why?
Click to listen: [audio:http://m.podshow.com/media/12115/episodes/122145/tech5-122145-08-13-2008.mp3]
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