Archive for May, 2009
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.
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Look for faster 3G speeds by 2011. WiMax can make a move. FCC targeting rural users. HTML 5.0 will have video tagging. This could kill flash forever. Glowing gene isolated and now it is getting ugly. Zune soon. Watson research still working on language translation and processing. Show sponsored by Squarespace.com code word: tech.
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Vista SP2 finally released. Russians drop $200 million into Facebook. Why? MSFT names its search engine BING! Where is Bob Hope? Look for a 32 GB iPhone. Craigslist wins battle with AG’s. Psystar goes under. AT&T to offer the android phone. HP recalls batteries. Nokia OVI store is problematic.
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Apple’s rumored $700 touch screen computer getting a lot of attention despite its lack of existence. Government loses Bill Clinton files. Offering $50,000 reward. Yahoo wants to go on buying spree. Getting into the social networking scene. Craigslist CEO getting into the fight with SC. Hulu to do a live broadcast. This will irk the cable companies. I summarize the winners in the KUMO acronym contest. All hilarious. Today’s show brought to you by Avis rent a car visit www.avis.com/tech5 for a discount on your next rental.
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HP chiefs says things going to get worse. What changed? Craigslist gets kudos from South Carolina for suing them. Huh? Microsoft [pays $200 million for infringement. KUMO coming. The KUMO acronym contest begins. Sun to do the world's biggest app store around JAVA? Oh brother. Ethernet getting some sort of certification process. Dumb story about fitting 300 DVD's on one disk. The Palm Pre continues to be in the news. Pre shortage expected by Sprint. I say make more of them! TSMC cranking things back. Pope tells young to use the Internet.
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Palm Pre has best PR. Google and Google alone gaining in market share. New Atom chip from Intel. Dell has germ free notebook. Hubble fixed. Wal-Mart wants Apple. Mockingbirds have a long memory. Slew of HP stories telling how great the company is. All are planted as far as I can tell. Oracle may sell Sun hardware business. Microsoft clones the Wii remote. Windows 7 getting more ink too. GPS system could failure within a year. Oh no! Today’s show brought to you by Avis.com/tech5. Get a discount.
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Napster goes to $5 a month for its subscription services. Craigslist getting peeved at South Carolina. Biz Week slams iPhone in offhanded way. MSFT Win Mobile 6.5 is announced. Scribd.com has new sales model worth looking at. TSA in trouble over naked picture scanner. Duke Nukem may live. MSFT will buy any search start-ups. JP Morgan says Win7 will not help PC business. AMD and Intel in a beef as usual. Today’s show brought to you by SQUARESPACE.COM. Use the code word TECH for discount.
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Google goes down over routing error. Sony loses $1 billion. First loss in 14 years. Clearwine rolls out WiMAX in Atlanta. Verizon to do a Netbook deal similar to AT&T deal. Kindle to distribute blogs. Planet being ruined by gadgets. Japan irked by Google street view too. Real Networks suing movie industry for being an illegal cartel. HP now says there is a tech slowdown. Dell to develop and market computers for women. Har. Smart phone is new mobile wallet says Sybase. Wolfram Alpha coming up.
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Intel maximum fine discussed at lengths. AMD disappointed in news coverage. Intel mystified by how to comply. Craigslist confirms erotic services shutdown. Clearwire to join forces with Cisco. Steve Jobs not showing up at Apple Development conference. Jobs gets OK to rip down old house. Xbox 360 to challenge Wii. Win7 compatibility to be awesome.
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Google adds filtering to search engine. Mac has new massive OS update. MSFT says hackers are after PowerPoint users. France to implement three strikes rule against pirates. EU will not be happy. BSA says piracy costs $50B last year. Oracle only wanted the software it seems. Zune getting aggressive and going for broke! Let’s see. No more Google street view in Greece. Country is fed up. Wolfram Alpha search engine may be to hard to use. Android growth figures may be bogus. Microsoft may be buying SAP? Win7 has root bug.
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