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Redlasso.com (Jim McCusker), Rachel. Schmidt, Drdrew Best Damn News Headlines Answering question from last week as to 4th most popular search engine....AOL Google extends lead over competition last month growing to 61.6 percent, up from 59.8 percent in March seemingly proving unstoppable. Also proving that even a merger between Yahoo and Microsoft would not be enough to topple the giant. Larry Page made the trip to Washington to appeal to the powers-that-be for access to the unused TV whitespace in an attempt to blanket the whole country with free wifi. He also talked up a possible Yahoo-Google deal citing a near monopoly in communications if Microsoft and Yahoo were to bed together. Microsoft launches cash for search service that pays users a rebate for buying products they found through the company's Windows Live search engine. Gates claims that MS will partner with more than 700 retailers including eBay Inc, Barnes & Noble, Sears and Home Depot. The One Laptop per Child program is planning to resume its BOGOF program where users can purchase the laptop and donate one to a third world child. They announced plans for the 2nd gen, dubbed XO that should be closer to the $100 goal. They also announced a partnership with Microsoft to offer their operating system for cheap (but not cheap enough at this stage as they still have to work out the licensing agreement.) They also have a new domain at www.laptop.org Schmidt faced http://badvista.fsf.org/blog/don-t-give-microsoft-the-remote-control Microsoft plays a little too nice with the FCC. Iris on the Virus http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2008/05/22/vulnerabilities-in-ical-pose-potential-security-risk Tech Tips Around the World Wide Web Europe is planning a 'big brother' campaign in a bid to counter terrorism. Their plan includes the creation of a digital vault which will contain information on every email, internet visit and phone call. This central repository will be made available to Home Office officials. Tech this out - This one straight from the "Oh my God, this is the biggest news ever!" files. Facebook is planning a redesign. They're talking about tabs folks. http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=509854&id=21073243776#pid=509854 - Napster launched its new mp3 store touting some 6 million unprotected tracks not without its bugs though - HP launches a green initiative for printers...the HP DeskJet D2545 Printer is made almost entirely out of recycled plastic. - Mahaolo are opening up to everyone. The editors will be monitoring but anyone can edit content. - Speilberg has entered the gaming arena with Boom Blox. Teaming up with EA, it has been described as "This is a wacky, addictive puzzle game with precious little story and surprisingly bland characters" Drewmors Site of the Week http://www.howcast.com/ http://ww.redlasso.com

Best Damn News Headlines CBS BUYS online media company CNET for $1.8bill ReadBurner Partners with Netvibes - Drew talks about it Ask (IACI) Buys Dictionary.com for $100m Verizon have announced plans to adopt an open source platform for their phones but will be backing Linux over google's android MySpace fake user Lori drew, who allegedly helped create a fake MySpace account to contact neighbour Megan Meier who thought she was chatting with a 16-year-old boy named Josh Evans which ended up in the hanging death of Megan has officially been charged with "one count of conspiracy and three counts of accessing protected computers without authorisation to obtain information to inflict emotional distress." Public pressure (and what they call potential copyright infringement) has forced the folks at Sega to pull a marketing website/video for their new game "Offset the evil" by using a campaign that resembled the My Little Pony character. As a result of the backlash they decided "we thought it would be a good time to take it down and move the campaign onto the next stage." Yahoo launched its new SearchMonkey platform for developers to add extra features link ratings, add images like a facebook photo aimed at improving the user experience, kickstarting it with the SearchMonkey developer Challenge awarding up to $10,000 for the top apps. These "enhanced results" will apparently replace the current search results. Finally, Google is continuing to roll out (although there is a waiting list) FriendConnect with the aim of integrating social features like blogging and feedback forms without requiring the skills of a developer. On the other end MySpace, Yahoo and Ebay have jumped on to the OpenID option. One platform not accepting of the Google initiative is Facebook...for his opinion on such issues... Schmidt faced Facedbook bans Google Friend Connect: Facebook is all about openness and data portability, as long as that doesn t involve openness or portability of data, it seems. Today they wrote a long 7 paragraph blog post to get a single point across: Facebook has banned Google s Friend Connect access to the Facebook API. They claim that Google's use of the data goes against their policies and wants to work with Google to cometo an agreement, however Facebook's application distributes their info in a similar fashion. Iris on the Virus Safari 'carpet bombing' vulnerability. Apple says 'meh' Tech Tips Around the World Wide Web While Google is starting to blur certain images on their street view option here in the US, they're launching street view in the EU amid privacy concerns. According to one source in France "Unlike in the US, we are mostly beautiful people but we do have some uglies. Generally we like to hide the uglies but with something like this Google streetview, it will be difficult". Tech this out - Comcast has acquired Plaxo - ComScore data has Google jumping to the head of the class by overtaking Yahoo as the most popular website in the US as determined by the number of unique monthly visitors. - Amazon is taking some interest in Animoto, the very cool music video creator - Flash 10 has been made available for public testing Tech Biffo I can't decide who the biffo is between, Myspace and the "Spam Kings" or the Spam King to Spam King for the Spam King title. Self proclaimed "Spam King" Sanford Wallace plus another self-proclaimed "Spam King" Walter Rines has been ordered to pay $230 million to MySpace for hijacking other people's MySpace pages or setting up their own and sending over 700,000 junk messages to members. Meanwhile another self-proclaimed "Spam King" Scott Richter is being pursued by the News Corp giant. Site of the Week www.offsettheevil.com

Flemo's back from Australia!Happy Birthday to the Internet!Microsoft struggles with XP SP3 and Vista.eBay vs. CraigsListHookers Pissed Off over Grand Theft Auto 4 (IV).CrudWare Company Sues despite sucking ass.BBC uncovers Facebook flawJustin.tv Representative pisses off Podcamp community.

Google Maps Predicts Traffic Conditions Google Maps can now predict traffic information for any day of the week and time of the day, based on past conditions. By default, if you click on the Traffic button in a supported area from the US, Google Maps shows real-time traffic information. The Twitter/FriendFeed Desktop Client Arms Race Continues A lot of people are addicted to Twitter (microblogging), and a lot of people are addicted to FriendFeed (friends' activity streams). While both are web services Alexa Updates Its Web Rankings - Still Not Good Enough Amazon-owned Alexa has announced a major update to its 10 year old web ranking system. Previously, Alexa's rankings were based solely on data collected from the downloadable Alexa Toolbar, but now the company is aggregating data from multiple sources Download YouTube Videos as MP4 Files (Tip) Answer "No to All" When Copying FilesGoogle's Great American Wireless Auction 'game' annoys US lawmakers Worth mention. IRIS ON THE VIRUS From Phishing to Whaling

Google Maps Predicts Traffic Conditions Google Maps can now predict traffic information for any day of the week and time of the day, based on past conditions. By default, if you click on the Traffic button in a supported area from the US, Google Maps shows real-time traffic information. The Twitter/FriendFeed Desktop Client Arms Race Continues A lot of people are addicted to Twitter (microblogging), and a lot of people are addicted to FriendFeed (friends' activity streams). While both are web services Alexa Updates Its Web Rankings - Still Not Good Enough Amazon-owned Alexa has announced a major update to its 10 year old web ranking system. Previously, Alexa's rankings were based solely on data collected from the downloadable Alexa Toolbar, but now the company is aggregating data from multiple sources Download YouTube Videos as MP4 Files (Tip) Answer "No to All" When Copying Files Google's Great American Wireless Auction 'game' annoys US lawmakers Worth mention. IRIS ON THE VIRUS From Phishing to Whaling

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Recorded on December 10th, 2007 at the House That Geek Built, home of the "Best Damn Tech Show, Period." and "The RoadieShow". 5th practice with Matt the drummer. Featuring Marc on guitar and vocals, Rand on bass and Matt on drums

Recorded on December 10th, 2007 at the House That Geek Built, home of the "Best Damn Tech Show, Period." and "The RoadieShow". 5th practice with Matt the drummer. Featuring Marc on guitar and vocals, Rand on bass and Matt on drums

Recorded on December 10th, 2007 at the House That Geek Built, home of the "Best Damn Tech Show, Period." and "The RoadieShow". 5th practice with Matt the drummer. Featuring Marc on guitar and vocals, Rand on bass and Matt on drums

Recorded on December 10th, 2007 at the House That Geek Built, home of the "Best Damn Tech Show, Period." and "The RoadieShow". 5th practice with Matt the drummer. Featuring Marc on guitar and vocals, Rand on bass and Matt on drums

Recorded on December 10th, 2007 at the House That Geek Built, home of the "Best Damn Tech Show, Period." and "The RoadieShow". 5th practice with Matt the drummer. Featuring Marc on guitar and vocals, Rand on bass and Matt on drums

Recorded on December 10th, 2007 at the House That Geek Built, home of the "Best Damn Tech Show, Period." and "The RoadieShow". 5th practice with Matt the drummer. Featuring Marc on guitar and vocals, Rand on bass and Matt on drums

Recorded on December 10th, 2007 at the House That Geek Built, home of the "Best Damn Tech Show, Period." and "The RoadieShow". 5th practice with Matt the drummer. Featuring Marc on guitar and vocals, Rand on bass and Matt on drums

Recorded on December 10th, 2007 at the House That Geek Built, home of the "Best Damn Tech Show, Period." and "The RoadieShow". 5th practice with Matt the drummer. Featuring Marc on guitar and vocals, Rand on bass and Matt on drums

One of the biggest stories over the past couple of weeks is the RIAA's victory over Jammie Thomas who was ordered her to pay the recording industry $220,000 in damages. Stories from the jury (who deliverated for only 5 minutes before coming up with a decision) are coming out, most of them are admiddedly not savvy net users and didn't believe her IP spoofing story. One of the Jurors wanted to send a message "that you don't do this, that you have been warned."Meanwhile, a support account has been set up on Freejammie.com which crashed as a result of so many users wanting to donate to her cause but is now back up and has collected some $9000. She is appealing.A hack is now available to add more functionality to the iPod touch, utilizing the Wifi capabilities. Not sure why it wasn't Apple, potentially licencing restrictions. http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/11/ipod-touch-now-running-mail-and-more/IRIS ON THE VIRUS CrudWare dude fined $25k for pushing his CrudBEST DAMN GUEST We sit down with Alive in BaghdadSCMIDT FACED Schmidt loves Madonna...not sure if Madonna feels the same way...YOU SHOULD KNOW THIS SHIT....IF YOU DON"T IGGS'LL TELL YOU One year anniversary of GoogTubeTECH IT OUT Google's rumoured cell phone appears to be more like an operating system than a phone http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/11/google-mozilla-and-the-open-source-phone/GEEK CHICK Vanity RingSITE OF THE WEEK www.aliveinbaghdad.org

Halo 3 is here and the boys are busy playing the hottest videogame to hit Microsoft's XBOX 360 since Bioshock. Paul tries but can't seem to get the crew away from Masterchief, the Flood and the Covenant...

Yahoo! acquires Zimbra GodTube Named Augusts Fastest Growing Site http://mashable.com/2007/09/18/godtube-comscore/ DiggSpaceBooks? http://mashable.com/2007/09/18/digg-social-network/ NYT now offering their info for free, removing the subscription model and adding the ad supported model. Could be pressure from Murdoch's newly acquired WSJ who is expected to drop their subscription model for an ad supported one. Presentlying: Google Presentations Jobs says Apple will fight iPhone unlocking hacks 'It's a cat-and-mouse game,' says CEO in London http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9037398 AROUND THE WORLD WIDE WEB The UK can expect iPhones on November the 9th through the O2 network for 269 pounds The country of Belgium was put up for sale on ebay. http://www.smh.com.au/news/web/ebay-halts-sale-of-belgium/2007/09/18/1189881479834.html Microsoft vs. EU - Schmidt faced The Court of First Instance (CFI) delivered its final judgement on the aged lawsuit between the European Union (EU) and Microsoft. The court upheld the earlier victory for the European Union, requiring Microsoft to enable third-party integration to its rivals through documentation and support, to release a version of Windows without Media Player, to pay a substantial fine and to pay the majority of the legal costs of the case. YOU SHOULD KNOW THIS SHIT, IF YOU DON"T IGGS'LL TELL YOU We're celebrating 25 years of the smiley face emoticon. Iggs has more. TECH IT OUT Trent Rezner, the outspoken frontman for NiN is speaking out against the RIAA, encouraging fans to "Steal it. Steal away. Steal, steal and steal some more and give it to all your friends and keep on stealing," calling Universal and the RIAA "greedy fucking assholes", Said the music industry reps in response "no comment". AOL are NYC bound in an attempt to become more hip to what the kiddies are doing these days. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/17/technology/17cnd-adco.html?_r=2&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&ref=business&adxnnlx=1190142316-ysltiLwMBRc1DCssjUQ6Mg IRIS ON THE VIRUS WHAT'S HOT. WHAT'S NOT. WHAT'S THE GOSS. Hot - TC40, everyone was there Not - TC40, Slimey practices to get startups to pay for a conference that was supposed to bring an end to startups paying Goss - TC40, Twitter changes FakeTechCrunch40 reporter's twitter account name SITE OF THE WEEK http://www.mobicious.com/ringtones/new Make your own ringtones for free! Simple mp3 upload, edit the piece you want, send it to your phone.

Just when you thought Blu-ray was becoming the studio darling comes word that Paramount and Dreamworks will be distributing solely on HD-DVD. They cite cheaper players and discs as being the primary reason and determined that the quality was higher.Skype has recovered and apologized for their gaff, offering users a bonus 7 days of serviceGotta love the MPAA. A 19 year old Virginia gal has pleaded guilty (to avoid a year of jail) to taking a 20 second clip of Transformers movie to show her younger brother. She was turned in by the movie owners http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/08/teen-cops-guilt.htmlyoutubeYouTube has started displaying overlay ads as opposed to the very annoying pre-rolls., The viewer is offered 10 second text ads over the bottom third of the viewer. It looks as though advertisers will be charged by the CPM rather than the clickGEEK CHICK MetroNaps Energypod is the tool for powernapping at workDREW SPEWS NEWSSITE OF THE WEEK www.moanmyip.com

Podcamp Philly 2007 sponsors, presenters and attendees find out which of the great South Philly steak shops make the best cheesesteak.

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Amazon and itunes offer DRM-free music, sex.com is more expensive than porn.com, google makes a few changes, Estonia is under cyber attack, pandora.com goes domestic, FCC approves the iPhone and much more!

Amazon and itunes offer DRM-free music, sex.com is more expensive than porn.com, google makes a few changes, Estonia is under cyber attack, pandora.com goes domestic, FCC approves the iPhone and much more!