Leo has been off in China for the past 2 weeks, but he is back with a small and tight group this week. Kevin Rose was on a completely unrelated China trip last week so be ready for some China talk between the two.
Google’s Chrome OS is being faced with more criticism as time goes by. Bill Gates is the latest to come out and discount the announcement as unexciting. The prevailing opinion is that with nothing to show Google will probably deliver nothing more than a stripped down linux distribution level piece of software.
The rumors of Amazon buying Netflix is big news, not just for us consumers, but for the likes of Apple as well. If this happens it may just put Amazon in a viable position to challenge Apple and iTunes.
Twitter was hacked a few days ago and TechCrunch took it upon themselves to put out a lot of their internal information. The guys have more than a few opinions on how this happened and how Tech Crunch handled the situation.
Chrome OS, Firefox 3.5 flaw, Amazon + NetFlix, Google Design, Twitter hacked, and more.
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TWiT 204: Taste Like Dirt
10:24 am
July 20th, 2009
Google’s Chrome OS is being faced with more criticism as time goes by. Bill Gates is the latest to come out and discount the announcement as unexciting. The prevailing opinion is that with nothing to show Google will probably deliver nothing more than a stripped down linux distribution level piece of software.
The rumors of Amazon buying Netflix is big news, not just for us consumers, but for the likes of Apple as well. If this happens it may just put Amazon in a viable position to challenge Apple and iTunes.
Twitter was hacked a few days ago and TechCrunch took it upon themselves to put out a lot of their internal information. The guys have more than a few opinions on how this happened and how Tech Crunch handled the situation.
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