tech5: Episodes
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Comcast tells FCC to pound salt. Sony VAIO 440,000 machine recall. Yikes. New Tivo to have a terabyte. Yay. Hard disks down to $189 for a terabyte. Michael on Facebook. Better than a blog? Or no? The little Dell laptop is out for $349. Huge patch Tuesday coming next week. CNBC ...
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Googlers try to sneak in onerous EULA. BUSTED! The company should be ashamed of itself. Web controlled door locks announced. Dumb idea. Xbox 360 to be reduced to $199. Corning warns of LCD glut. Sony raising the refresh rate of its LCD-TV. Why is the phrase "Upping the ...
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Googlers gah-gah over the Google Chrome browser. Will Microsoft be affected? I think not. Chrome is more of a competitor to Safari than anything else. I think it leads to the Google OS. Dell bringing out a ultralite notebook. WiMAX rolling in Baltimore. 802.11n still in draft ...
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Veoh wins court suit regarding video uploads. Good news for Google in Viacom suit. Jobs given false obit. He's still alive. Apple applying for touch screen Mac patent. Microsoft gets patent for the PageUp PageDown butons. nVidia SLI now runs on Intel motherboards. Dell slipping ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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.</span></font> ...
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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 ...
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Toshiba slips in a Blu-ray killer: a regular DVD player that outputs 1920x1080. 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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Microsoft giving up on Windows. Looks like they are taking Midori seriously -- Windows in the Cloud. Gates looks like he is still working to me! Worldwide Internet speeds leaves USA in the dust. We're number 15 -- woot! AMD pumping the 4870 X2. Two chips for the price of two ...
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IBM says it shares a vision of Linux in 2018? Red Hat says Linux will all be in the cloud. AMD may go fab-less? Gartner warns of widespread slowdown in semiconductor sector. Google may be a big content provider? The computer beats a professional player for the game of GO. ...
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Google kills Blogger sites for no good reason. Someone blames Obama. 3/4 of UK searches done on Google. Microsoft getting attacked left and right. Needs to do something. Microsoft doing huge stock buyback. Cisco not buying EMC. Russian gangs hijacking PC's (no kidding!). The Russians are trouble. ...
<p class="MsoNormal"><font>40 Million credit cards stolen. Crooks busted, finally. Worldwide-scheme. IBM pushing the "Microsoft-free" desktop. Nobody is biting. Delta to offer Wi-Fi across entire US fleet. Sony grabs Rocketboom for exclusive distribution rights. PayPal co-founders investing ...
<p class="MsoNormal"><font>Intel decides to get back in to the graphics chip business. I have the backstory. Apple updating the new iPhone already? Looks like the run rate for the thing is 800,000 a week. Meanwhile AT&T keeps the exclusive. Microsoft getting grief over Vista. Company proves that ...
<p class="MsoNormal"><font>Scrabulous returns as Wordscraper. Netflix working with LG only for downloads? NASA looking for water on Mars. The Greek computer stories I am now convinced is a BS PR stunt. Yahoo exec makes Yuil search engine to show up Cuil. EDS to be part of HP. Microsoft redoes the search ...
<p class="MsoNormal"><font>UK hacker to finally be extradited to USA. A waste of the taxpayers money. Scrabulous lives on the Web. Dell going back into the music player business. 2100 year old Greek computer being revisited. Lake of petroleum on Saturn's moon. Intel cheap computer a hit in Portugal. ...