Leo rarely covered gaming topics on TWiT, but this is the second podcast in the last week in which Modern Warfare 2 has received some discussion. The issues surrounding the PC version are covered, as the the 1st day sales figures, and it shows how mainstream Infinity Ward’s latest game is.
Geocities is officially gone. The [...]
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TWiT 221: Get Off Of My Planet
November 16th, 2009
TWiT 218: Escape from Farmville
October 26th, 2009
Twitter continues to branch out with word that the teens are starting to control trending topics. Windows 7 is still the big news with everyone sharing their thoughts on the new operating system. It is almost impossible to find someone who is generally negative on Windows 7, and that’s about the biggest win any release [...]
TWiT 217: The A.I. Spy Club
October 19th, 2009
It’s a joke-laden show this week, but they are not all winners. Comedian and host of the Science Channel’s Future of:, Baratunde Thurston, is on and adds a lot of energy to the mix. Twitter starts out the topics with the news that lists are being integrated into the service. It is not available to [...]
TWiT 215: Who Needs This Crap?
October 5th, 2009
There have been reports flying around the web that Comcast may be in the market to acquire a controlling share of NBC. This could lead to some drastic changes in how easy it is to watch streaming TV shows over the internet with cable providers having a large interesting in driving package subscriptions. A play [...]
TWiT 214: Live From Caracas
September 28th, 2009
It’s back to the classic group of TWiTs this week with Patrick Norton and Kevin Rose. Google’s Sidewiki project is not getting a positive response from Leo. He argues that this is bad for site owners as they lose control of the discussion around their content. USB 3.0 and Intel’s Light Peak lead into a [...]
TWiT 213: The Dog In The Bookcase
September 21st, 2009
This is a world-wide show this week with British programmer and blogger John Graham-Cumming and French blogger Patrick Beja are guests this week with the usual John C Dvorak. John Graham-Cumming has been in the news recently with his altruistic effort to get an apology from the British government over the persecution of early computer [...]
TWiT 211: The Dummy Contract
September 7th, 2009
Google has been known to add some flair to their search page graphic from time to time, but the most recent one was weirdly geeky and pointed straight at game fans. The graphic depicted one of the Os in their name being taken by a UFO with an accompanying twitter code that translated to “All [...]
TWiT 210: Banned In Sweden
August 31st, 2009
Snow Leopard is the first topic this week and no one seems to be too happy about Apple’s latest release. Even Leo feels like the update may not be all it should have been. He speculates that it was probably more of a marketing idea to roll a lot of smaller updates into a bigger [...]
TWiT 209: Dvorak Shrugged
August 24th, 2009
It has been a somewhat light week in technology news, but that doesn’t stop Leo and crew from having some great discussions. Om Malik, of GigaOM fame, is on this week and it’s hard not to feel inadequate when listening to someone this intelligent. He’s a great guest and manages to be a great ying [...]
TWiT 205: Step Up To The Guru Bar
July 27th, 2009
In the latest iTunes update Apple blocked the Pre’s ability to sync natively, but Palm has issued an update to their Pre software that re-enables the functionality. The war is on. This should get interesting very quickly.
This week Pete Cashmore, of Mashable.com, is on and the guys are talking about how MySpace is doomed. This [...]
TWiT 222: 3 Dollah Coffee Pot
November 24th, 2009
This Week in Tech is down to a barebones cast, but that doesn’t mean there’s any shortage of news. The first point of discussion is the class-action lawsuit against Facebook and Zynga, due to their delivery of deceptive, scammy advertisement. Advertising is an oft discussed issue on TWiT, so it shouldn’t be surprising that nobody [...]