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TWiT 267: You Can’t Say No To Oprah

by Jon Cole in Tech500 days ago

The show starts off with one of the most inside baseball topics discussed on TWiT in a little while, the “Angelgate” scandal perpetuated by industry blog TechCrunch. In short, the site’s founder Mike Arrington wrote a short post telling about a meeting between “Super Angel” investors (those with funds totaling around $50 million) that he managed to walk in on. The problem with such a meeting was that they were supposedly colluding to control the tech startup market, which has garnered the attention of the FBI. Most...

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TWiT 266: Musty Shelbang

by Jon Cole in Tech505 days ago

TechCrunch has a lot of reach within the tech industry and sparked some rumors about an upcoming Facebook-branded phone (which Zuckerburg and his company have since renounced). Baratunde and Nick make the point that such a phone would likely be quite popular, considering the fact that younger demographics use Facebook for many of the same functions that smartphones often deliver. Justin.tv’s new iPhone live streaming app leads to some conversation about how this might contribute to the lifestreaming trend or even just giving rise to a greater...

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TWiT 265: Passing The Stone

by Jon Cole in Tech514 days ago

This Week in Tech unintentionally held a sort of TWiT Reunion episode, welcoming many of the show’s founding members for an excellent episode. Conversation kicks off with the big picture question of how big companies manage to hire excellent employees and how that affects the seemingly open people faucet between players like Facebook, Google, and Microsoft. In other news, a recent case on software resale has been ruled on by the Ninth Circuit of Appeals and it’s not looking good for digital content used sales. Furthermore, it’s...

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TWiT 264: Blackballed

by Jon Cole in Tech520 days ago

This week’s show welcomes some industry veterans to the fold, including Jerry Pournelle and Andrew Keen. As a result, however, the show ends up being a little chunky at almost two hours while meandering on a few big picture issues like net neutrality and piracy. In the midst of these somewhat evergreen topics, they hit on some big news at the top of the show with Craigslist’s closure of their adult services section and the subsequent confusion as to their reasoning. Apple’s Music Conference is probably the biggest piece of news...

TWiT 262: The Bozo Filter

by Jon Cole in Tech533 days ago

It’s a three-man This Week in Tech, maybe even equivalent to a two-man show considering Julio is out of the studio and doesn’t get too many words in. Leo uses this newfound pulpit to rant a little bit about his utter disappointment over social media due to a recent issue he had with Google Buzz. Real news enters the conversation before too long, starting things off (as usual) with some Apple rumors. This time, the guys speculate about the role of a possible iTV set-top box and propose the idea that the Magic Trackpad might be intended...

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TWiT 260: Sex, Lies, And Contractors

by Jon Cole in Tech549 days ago

This Week in Tech mixes it up a little this week since Leo is on vacation, instead welcoming Tom Merritt as the host. As the host of several other shows on the TWiT network including Tech News Today, Tom is very familiar with the show’s format while adding a little bit of his own flavor to the mix. TechCrunch has recently published a very extensive story which purports that… you’ll never believe this… Verizon and Apple are going to be releasing a CDMA iPhone in January. Even news that Verizon will be presenting a keynote...

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TWiT 259: Next Stop: Gilbert, Arizona

by Jon Cole in Tech556 days ago

This week’s TWiT is a little scattershot as far as topics are concerned, but that’s mostly because of the great crew this week that includes John C. Dvorak, Baratunde Thurston, Brian Brushwood, and Felicia Day. The big topic to start things off is the Apple iOS4 stable jailbreak, which Leo somehow convinces Brian to perform on his own iPhone live on the show. Luckily, no iPhones were harmed in the production of this program. The update to the Amazon Kindle series allows for a brief dive into the perennial topic of eReaders and the merits...

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TWiT 258: It’s The New Sex Talk

by Jon Cole in Tech561 days ago

TWiT starts things off with the recent news of revenue and profit from Microsoft and Apple. While Microsoft still managed to keep ahead of Apple’s total revenue (which hit an all-time high), the guys talk about the strange juxtaposition of Microsoft’s financial success and perceived lack of relevance in the market. A big question in the law-related tech news world at the moment is FlipBoard and the legality of content scraping. There’s no question whether or not the way FlipBoard presents content is compelling, but the fact that...

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TWiT 257: Smell Like Your Grandpa

by Jon Cole in Tech569 days ago

Anand Shimpi joins This Week in Tech in the wake of Apple’s iPhone 4 antenna issues and offers an expert opinion due to his unique coverage over at Anandtech.  They tread the issue extensively but not too far beyond the plethora of coverage up to this point, ultimately reaching the conclusion that most people who buy the iPhone could really care less about reception issues. The recent financial success of both Intel and AMD has inspired some optimism about PC computing, though John takes a little issue with that.  While mobile products are...

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TWiT 256: The Shirtless Page Turn

by Jon Cole in Tech575 days ago

As is standard practice for TWiT at this point, Apple talk starts things off, talking about some of the experiences the guys had with the iPhone 4.  The high pixel density “retina display” clearly impressed Dwight, who goes as far as to say that the iPad feels old in comparison even for the sake of reading text.  Conversation then turns to the iPad, which revolves around the issue that Microsoft has patented the page turn feature employed in iBooks.  Leo oddly holds some vendetta against the feature, while Josh admires the sense of...

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TWiT 255: You’re Holding It Wrong

by Jon Cole in Tech582 days ago

On this week’s edition of TWiT, Leo Laporte welcomes some of the old folks onto the show, including Jerry Pournelle and Steve Gibson.  To be frank, this results in a somewhat aimless show that hits on very few big topics but covers a lot of small ones.  So, as a word of warning, avoid this episode if you’re looking for discussion of the bleeding edge tech news of the week. The iPhone antenna “crisis” has swept the tech world by storm and of course opens up the conversation this episode. Leo brought in an industry expert...

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TWiT 254: Digg 4 Was My Idea

by Jon Cole in Tech589 days ago

TWiT founding member Kevin Rose joins this week’s episode to give some exclusive coverage about Digg 4 and its new social-friendly features.  It seems like they main thrust of the update is making news feeds relevant to you and the people who follow you, with later pushes for lending “tastemakers” credibility to help build the quality of the whole network. Due to Facebook’s decline in popularity in the tech world, just the tiniest spark of news about a Google-powered competitor has set the scene ablaze.  Google Me was initially...

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TWiT 253: E3 iPhone 4

by Jon Cole in Games, Tech598 days ago

This Week in Tech is more like This Week in Games, which shouldn’t be a big surprise to anyone tuned into the events wrapped around E3.  The most interesting thing about this particular episode that it brings together a great set of people to talk about it – Leo Laporte, Jeff Gerstmann, Jeff Cannata, and Veronica Belmont. They do manage to delve into the major tech announcements at the conference, including Microsoft Kinect, Playstation Move, and Nintendo 3DS.  They each manage to hit on a couple of their games of the show, which include Mortal...

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TWiT 252: The Legend of Vuvuzela

by Jon Cole in Games, Tech603 days ago

As per usual, Apple talk capitalizes the beginning of the show and Brian hits on the biggest theme of the iPhone 4′s announcement – getting less than you expected.  He goes on to say that Jobs is the P.T. Barnum of the modern day, selling old tech like video phone calls like they’d never been seen before. Wrapping up the Apple talk, John theorizes that the lack of a partnership with Verizon may be temporary, as they booked a conference room three days after the initial release of the phone. Hulu has been rumored to be offering some...

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TWiT 251: Flop Sweat

by Jon Cole in Tech, Uncategorized611 days ago

For the first time in a while, This Week in Tech doesn’t cast a wide net on topics for this episode, rather focusing in on a couple of big picture stories in the tech industry.  With the WWDC Conference taking place this week and TWiT recording on the Sunday beforehand, much of what the guys talk about is somewhat inaccurate in the details yet illuminating in concept.  The iPhone 4 is clearly the biggest thing in the collective tech hivemind and the huge dump of related rumors leads Josh to talk a little bit about how Engadget approaches...

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