Will Microsoft Buy AOL?
Looks like Microsoft may want to buy AOL now. Perhaps this is another attempt to screw Yahoo. Apple demands recall of Psystar. Apple drops cost of manufacturing for iPhone 3G. Dish Network Echostar IX should add more HD to the system. 400GB 2.5-inch drive for notebooks coming from Toshiba. AOL Spammer jailed. Calculations indicate he got one minute behind bars for each piece of junk mail sent out.
Click to listen: [audio:http://m.podshow.com/media/12115/episodes/118939/tech5-118939-07-16-2008.mp3]
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Intel Centrino in the News
Microsoft is actually after a patent from Yahoo. Viacom and Google decide to mask 12TB of data if Viacom actually cares. E3 the main news source. Everyone trying to get into the act. I’m distressed by GTA going on the DS machine. I don’t like the idea. Kidney stones in the news. An IT guy in San Francisco locked down a database to prevent police snooping. How common is this possibility? Ton of PR about Intel rolling out new Centrino.
Click to listen: [audio:http://m.podshow.com/media/12115/episodes/118825/tech5-118825-07-15-2008.mp3]
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Apple Sells One Million Phones Instantly
Blackberry and Palm release new phones. Apple says it bought 1 million iPhones already. EU to regulate SMS roaming charges. Netflix looks like it is going on the Xbox360. It may never work out if the Net clogs up as predicted by at least one study. Load expected to be 100X worse. Icahn and Ballmer on Yahoo deal. But it’s not their company. Yahoo will reject any offer. Xbox360 to go to 60GB. IBM reveals 8-core Power 7 chip.
Click to listen: [audio:http://m.podshow.com/media/12115/episodes/118740/tech5-118740-07-14-2008.mp3]
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Comcast Helping Vonage?
The trouble over the DNS poisoning continues. Will hackers take over the whole Internet? Maybe. I reminisce about Alternic from the olden days. Google working on a Second Life clone. Why not go the way of Microsoft and copy what other people do. New earthquake predictor coming? Comcast decides to work with Vonage to make VOIP work better. Good for them. Why is everyone worked up about the Dreamworks-Intel deal? Crazy people lined up for new Apple phone. Why? Why? Why? Sony does another fix for PS3. What is the Xbox360 Elite?
Click to listen: [audio:http://m.podshow.com/media/12115/episodes/118325/tech5-118325-07-10-2008.mp3]
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Blame the Boys for Pirac
Congress looking at online advertising, it may take action. Samsung rolls 128GB solid-state drive. They may be overrated. Getty Images to buy good photos from Flickr. Wish list for mobile phones turns them into laptops. Boys are to blame for downloading DVD. Horror stories beginning to appear. Microsoft launches Vista compatibility checker. It’s about time. Microsoft patch stopped Zone Alarm from working. Is CEO of SUN on the way out? Cisco says spending in doldrums. Jerry Yang says Microsoft destabilizing Yahoo intentionally. Botnets seem to be winning the SPAM wars.
Click to listen: [audio:http://m.podshow.com/media/12115/episodes/118180/tech5-118180-07-09-2008.mp3]
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