Traveling Down the Information Backroad

Steve Jobs captured on film by TMZ. SMS easily spoofed. Pirate Bay thrown out of the Netherlands. Microsoft says Mobile Windows is better than the iPhone for browsing the Internet. Stop saying dumb things! Horizon Group Management Company getting flak for suing woman over Tweet. Intel tells people to finally upgrade. Playstation an Wii sales both down. Good Dvorak column in Marketwatch. Ballmer stunned by reaction to Yahoo deal. Yahoo China may stay the old course. Today’s show brought to you by Avis.com/tech5.

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Yahoo-MSFT deal done. Not good for Yahoo. Virginia Tech studying text messaging and truck crashes. Will the MSFT store be more like Apple or Gateway. Jailbreaking an iPhone is a threat to National Security says Apple. Greenpeace after HP’s money. Ballmer on Google. Spinvox pulls a fast one. Podcast patent a joke. Episode paid for by <a href=“http://www.squarespace.com”>Squarespace.coma> use the code word TECH.

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Texting while driving is bad. Real Estate company sues woman over tweet. China banning online gangster games. Threat to the culture say officials. Verizon to offer Palm Pre. Barnes and Noble free Wi-fi in stores. Move in! ARM chip to get a Windows build? Yes say experts. IBM buys SPSS for 1.2 billion bucks. New graphics card from AMD 4X faster than anything else they say. CIO’s say Win 7 may not get deployed as expected. Study shows that people still do not know what Twitter is. Sponsor: Squarespace.com code word TECH.

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Eye of the ECLIPSE

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Last week’s eclipse – WOW

Eye of the ECLIPSE

Originally uploaded by avikbangalee.

Last week’s eclipse – WOW

Eye of the ECLIPSE

Originally uploaded by avikbangalee.

Last week’s eclipse – WOW

Apple tablet rumors persist. Western Digital does a 2.5-inch terabyte laptop disk! Wow. Foxconn buys off family in China for $44,000. Win 7 is a great gaming platform they say. Get your IE patch now! Dell’s bank accounts frozen in Taiwan. Sprint to go with Android? Fujitsu off to the races with USB 3.0, Yahoo said to have best image search. I do not see it. Pre for $99? Bill Gates quits Facebook.

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MSFT lower profits and revenues down a lot. Forrester says business is warming up to Vista. The Toucan beak is a radiator. Who knew? Bezos apologizes for taking books back. Yahoo buys Xoopit. AMD ships 500,000,000th chip. Bad numbers in tech. The top 10 technologies for 2009 so far. Another bad list. Show brought to you by Squarespace.com, code word TECH.

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Amazon to buy Zappos for $800 million. iPOD classic to be killed? Win 7 ready to manufacture. New family Pack idea allows multiple installation. Pew research says everyone is going wirelessly. GTA IV pre-publicity beginning. Apple shareholders meeting hints at app store redesign. IBM in bed with Juniper Networks. Robo-ethicists want to revamp fake laws? Cripes.

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Yahoo profits up 8-percent while revs go down 13-percent. Government wants to ban all cell phone use in  cars. Barnes and Noble will release 700,000 public domain books. So what? Intel SSD’s improve. Worker commits suicide over lost Apple iPhone prototype.  MSFT poaches Apple real estate picker. MSFT to kill soapbox, another thing never given a chance. Can Amazon spy on Kindle readers? Out today Kingston 256 GB thumb drive. Show promoted by Squarespace.com. Use code word Tech for a fat discount.

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