Win7 to Roll on Oct. 22
E3 news coverage pouring in. No real news from Nintendo, Microsoft meanwhile has a full body controller, code named Natal. Could be useful. Microsoft tells us that Win7 on Oct. 22. Larry Ellison shows up at Java One to praise Java. Twitter spam on the rise. Acer to use Android OS on netbooks. Why not Ubuntu. Looks as if Bing is too closely hooked to porn. Show sponsored by Squarespace.com. Use the code word TECH for a massive discount.
Click to listen: [audio:http://m.podshow.com/media/12115/episodes/157822/tech5-157822-06-02-2009.mp3]
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Google Doing e-Books?
iTunes upgraded. Xbox360 to become the world’s greatest entertainment hub. Google to get into the e-books business. Bing launched today. Check it out. Microsoft starter kit to be improved. AMD showing 6-core Istanbul chip. Sony PSP-GO slated to go. Qualcomm has a processor? I guess so. Dell Says the bottom of the sales slump is not here yet.
Click to listen: [audio:http://m.podshow.com/media/12115/episodes/157617/tech5-157617-06-01-2009.mp3]
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Spinal Tap Giving Away “Saucy Jack”
I was having lunch with friends on Saturday when someone mentioned that they were at the Spinal Tap ‘Unwigged and Unplugged’ show at the Beacon Theater in New York City last Thursday. When I showed some interest the friend told me a bit about the show. He mentioned that they played a song called ‘Saucy Jack’ that the band said was mentioned in the movie but that my friend had forgotten about.
The song is mentioned toward the end of the original movie, This Is Spinal Tap, when the band is fragmented and has decided to not play together anymore. Bass player Derek Smalls (Harry Shearer) has a conversation with lead singer David St. Hubbins (Michael McKean) in which he tries to see the silver lining in the band’s break up. The conversation went, in part, like this:
David: Do you remember what we were…do you remember the time?…
Derek: At the Luton…at the Luton Palace…
David: Yes.
Derek: We were talking about a rock musical based on the life of Jack the Ripper…
David: Yeah,’Saucy Jack.’
Derek: Right.’Saucy Jack.’ Now’s the time to do that.
David: “Saucy Jack, you’re a naughty one, Saucy Jack, you’re a haughty one, Saucy Jack.”
Derek: Right…
David: It’s a freein’ up, idnit?
Derek: Yeah.
David: It’s all this free time it’s suddenly time is so elastic….
Derek: It’s a gift, it’s a gift of freedom. You know.
Apparently some time in the intervening decades ‘Saucy Jack’ was, indeed, completed. Or at least the title track was. And, as times are far more digital than they were 20 years ago, the band has made the track available for free download!
And be sure to check out the new album, Back from the Dead, featuring new songs and new mixes of old ones.
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TWiT on Privacy
On this week’s episode of This Week in Tech host Leo Leporte led a discussion about online privacy. The question arose “Is privacy dead?”. I don’t think privacy is dead. I think that people are just now learning how fragile privacy can be in a digital life and how careful one must be. For example, I rarely mention my private life on this blog. I also don’t have any pictures of my family on any of the social networking sites I’m on. I will sometimes refer to a family member on Twitter but never give details about them. In this digital age where we do so much of what we do in online, public forums I think we’re finally beginning to learn what information is not safe to share. But we have a long way to go.
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Woz Reports on Steve Jobs
Stanley Bing wonders if MSFT expropriated his name. Har. Bing looks like a shopping site. Google says 18 Androids coming at you. Google also says the browser will be the new OS thanks to HTML 5. Xbox hits 30 million in sales. Woz says Steve "sounds good." Pre ready for iTunes. Dell Hires IBM executive and gets sued immediately. Go to Avis.com/tech5 for a discount.
Click to listen: [audio:http://m.podshow.com/media/12115/episodes/156919/tech5-156919-05-28-2009.mp3]
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