June 2008 Archives

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31 Days of the HDX Dragon Notebook Giveaway
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Show Notes:
Universal Fire no Music Masters Lost - News
Revision 3 will not Sue - Internet
BitTorrent Latency - Internet
Superstorm Plasma - Science
Windows Safari Security Issue - Security
Phoenix Touches Mars with Diggers - Space
Toshiba to offer new HD Format - Business
HP Voodoo Special Announce Soon - Business
Adobe Acrobat.com - Internet
Buzz Lightyear to ISS - Space
Smartphones Security Issue - Security
Free Starbucks Wi-Fi - Business
HP Private Investigators Fined Big Time - Business
UTube.com? - Internet
Facebook Open - Business
Microsoft Wins HP Search bar - Business
Phoenix Lander Website Hacked Wordpress Strikes again - Security
Time Warner starts Metering of Broadband Service - Business
At&T Offers Mobile TV - Commerce
Discovery Docks at ISS - Space
Share Podcast Wirelessly with Zune - Podcast
Canadian DMCA Criminal - Internet
Low Down on Space Toilets - Technology

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Congratulations to Henry of Chicago who was out HP HDX Dragon winner. I am back in Hawaii with a great show for you today. Major rant on Time Warner!

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31 Days of the HDX Dragon Notebook Giveaway
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Show Notes:
Mark Cuban is Self Serving - Internet
Reason to be Green - Environment
Canada DMCA and Wikipedia - Internet
Whats happening to the bees - Science
Cool Water Slide - Non Tech
Pirate Bay Cop Compromised - Crime
New Oil Refinery - Business
Blackmailing Virus - Security
Verizon to buy Alltel - Business
Camera calls home to Mama - Crime
New Flip Camera Reviews - Hardware
Vudu Wireless Kit - Hardware
DMCA Takedown Inexact Science - Internet
Conduit - Service
Qik on Windows Mobile - Service
280Slides Like Keynote - Service
Kibo Added to ISS - Space
Kibo Opened up - Space
Patch Tuesday - Security
L.A. Sure Time Warner - Business
Extreme Programming at NASA - Space
Comcast to throttle Bandwidth Hogs - Internet
British Telecom Spying in Net Users - Crime
More Airline Pain to Come - Business
50 Questions on Android - Mobile
Video about Times Square - Info

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Show Notes:
Doug Kaye Needs Help!
MobileMe Introduced - Internet
Airport Profits - General Interest
Cool Offices - Information
Saturn Rings from the Other Side - Space
Americans on Travel - General Interest
Sling Player for iPhone - Reviews
MPAA wants some DVR Recording Halted - Legal
Blogging is Good? - Information
iPhone 2.0 Activation In Store Only? - Hardware
iPhone 3g Hands On - Hardware
.Mac is Dead - Services
Supreme Catch a Patent Holders - Law
STS-124 Mission Wrapping up - Space
Phoenix has trouble with Dirt - Space
May Top 25 - Podcast
Virgin Spying on Users - Commerce
Amazon Websites Trouble Continues - Internet
How to Get Windows after June 30th - Software
Sprint - Clearwire vow third pipe for consumers - Internet
Kibo Lab is Huge - ISS
Britannica to Follow Wikipedia Model - Internet
Windows Home Server Upgrade - Software
More Oil - Environment
Blogging and the Law - Legal
8 Questions for Apple 3G iPhone - Hardware
Is the iPhone really half the price? Not? - Hardware

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A very fast paced show, I cover some history, and introduce a new contest that should be a lot of fun. I talk a little bit about all my travel and what is forthcoming. Also please send me Feedback on our AIM Call Out Sponsor!

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A Wii for the PC
Comcast and Time Warner's Attack on IPTV

Show Notes:
The Apple PR Machine - Business
Cool Mini Airplane - Technology
Firefox 3 Field Guide - Software
15 Tools for Faster Web Pages - Resources
Cell Phone Radiation - Health
Phoenix Lander and Snow Queen - Space
No Facebook - No Job - Business
Healthy Fast Food Takeaways? - Health
Ares 1x-V2.1 Test Simulation - Space
Alzheimer's Drugs New - Science
Canadian DMCA on the way - Internet
NASA Testing New Lunar Rover - Space
Google and Yahoo get Married - Business
Cool Aviation Technology - Hardware
Sprint and Clearwire to save the day? - Business
QIK on iPhone - Service
Monsters Wireless HDMI - Hardware
Flixwagon iPhone Video - Service
Twingly - Internet
Blogit - Software
Wordpress Hacked A Lot More - Security
Google co-founder headed to ISS - Business
Phoenix gets some Dirt - Space
Shuttle to Land on Saturday - Space
AT&T looking to charge Heavy Net Users - Internet
Aiptek HD Camera $199.00 Nice - Hardware
Road to Snagit 9 - Software
NASA contracts to buy new Moon Spacesuits - Space
How Phoenix Calls Home - Space
Robots Rule Space - Technology
Microsoft goes after Pirates - Legal
Metallica Says its Sorry - Business
Pioneer 10 Anniversary - Science

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Fun Live show tonight held on Mogulus, still working out the show management on that. But had a bit of a dark room. Explained in detail on the show. Relaxed show tonight but lots of fun for all.

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Canadian Copyright Issues
30 Things a Canadian can do over the Canadian DMCA
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Web Based Virtual Computer
Web Site Font is Libel Suit

Show Notes:
Nice Firefox review - Software
Educational Video Games Raise Scores - Education
Earth Like Planets - Space
Need a cool Business Card? - Informational
APOD Turns Eight - Science
Seven ways to Save Energy with Water - Informational
What Happens to Apple Rivals - Business
Wired for a year $3.00 - Commerce
Microsoft Portable Navigation Device aka GPS - Products
Teenager Music Trends - Copyright
Windows XP end of era - Software
Vista Developer Adoption - Business
Charge for Bags but Watch your iPod - Business
Lori Drew Wacko Mom in Court - Legal
RIAA Judge Shopping - Legal
Songbird 0.6 - Software
FCC New Counting of Broadband Users - Internet
Google Toolbar trojan horse - Information
Petabyte Storage by 2020 - Technology
More Usenet Blocking - Internet
LaCie 1TB Drives - Hardware

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Lot's of tech content tonight and I also talk about a cool giveaway we are going to have on the show I record live on Monday! If you want to see the video from the show that was recorded in my hotel room check out the link below.

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Show Notes:
12 Million Downloads - Software
Financial Privacy Invasion in Housing Bill - Legislative
Drill or Not - Environment
5 Things you Need to know about Google - Information
39 Years for Hacking Grades - Legal
Cancer Patient Cured with own Cells - Science
17 Startup Mistakes - Business
Protect Yourself from Wire Tapping Identity Theft - Technical
Laptop Refurb - Hardware
Windows Media Extenders - Hosting
XP gonna cost you $50.00 more - Business
Most Video's have 3 day Shelf Life - Internet
Ice on Mars - Space
Yahoo Bleeding Executives - Business
EBay Fraud Protection - Security
AT&T Phone Subsidy - Business
Ymail boy thats Original - Internet
5 Billion Song Sold Sounds Like McDonalds - Internet
A.P. has Violated my Copyright - Legal
Reddit now Open Source - Software
Internet a GoGO - Business
iPhone Wannabes need to get Busy - Business
Samsung 500gb Laptops Hard Drives - Hardware
Skype Version 4.0 - Software
Microsoft PlayforSure Saved - Internet

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I gave away a nice crisp 100 dollar bill to a listener on the live event today. Lots of chances to win this summer and of course a great deal of tech news. Info on Listener and Podcaster Meetup after Podcamp Ohio on Saturday!

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Human DNA
Mars Weather
Illegal Internet Spying
Canadian DMCA Write up
Amazing NASA Pictures

Show Notes:
New Levelator - Software
ISS New Look - Space
Mars Ice - Space
2000 Year old Seed grows - Science
Alzheimer Protein Found - Health
EFF Attacks RIAA Premise - Legal
Comcast says we have Fiber - Advertising
SpaceShipTwo Pictures - Space
1 Billion PC Worldwide - Commerce
Alesis iPod Digital Recorder - Hardware
White Noise Generator - Gadgets
T-Mobile Eases Termination Fees - Business
Share FeedDemon - Software
Mac Trojan Attacks Macs - Security
Domains Domains Domains - Internet
Broadband Realities - Internet
1 Billion Dollars Shift to Web - Advertising
CannonPC Demo - Hardware
NASA Job Cuts - Economy
Prepaid iPhone $600.00 - Business
Plurk.com - Internet
Bell Canada under Investigation for Throttling - Internet
California to Follow NY on Internet Censorship - Crime
AP Video Ok - Text Bad - Stupidity
Helicopter Chases UFO - UFO

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Headed to Podcamp Ohio but my last night in Portland is being spent in a Hotel 6 Yuck. Anyway looking forward to Podcamp Ohio, and getting back to Hawaii next show from the Studio in Honolulu!

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Show Notes:
Bill Gates on the Move - Business
Yahoo Chaos - Business
ICANN open up Top Level Domains - Internet
BBC Weighs in ICANN Decision - Internet
IE6 Zero Day Bug - Software
Firefox 3.1 in July - Software
Giving Vista anther Chance - Software
Mars Hemisphere Puzzle - Space
Outsource School Work? - Ethics
Congress not Happy about Laptop Inspections - Law
Reformed Computer Criminals Protecting Coutries IT? - Opinion
Firefox 20 Million Downloads 7 Days - Software
State by State Handsfree Laws - Information
Single Woman sells Home and Wants Husband eBay - Information
Multiple Gmail Acounts - Tips
World record Dirt Bike Jump - Information
Martian Soil will Support Life - Space
Another HD Mini Camera $179.00 - Hardware
Image Spoiler - Hardware
Cyberlink uses Video Cards to Transcode 1080p - Software

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