It’s a rather news-filled episode this week with the recent Crunchpad weirdness taking over the first part of the show. Michael Arrington released information on the now halted project that places the blame squarely on their partner in the project. After some initial skepticism, Leo and crew come around to believing Arrington’s claims. Alex is [...]
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Windows Weekly 132: Google Bing
December 1st, 2009
Office 2010 is the big topic for this week, with Leo Laporte and Paul Thurott coming through to give you some tips on getting started. The Office Beta is currently public and Paul notes his preference of the Office Home and Business 2010 option, which offers Word, Powerpoint, Excel, Outlook, and OneNote. The Click-2-Run option [...]
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 [...]
Windows Weekly 131: PDC 2009
November 22nd, 2009
Professional Developers Conference (PDC) talk starts off this edition of Windows Weekly, with Paul telling stories about the segment of most press groups that consist of LiveJournal “professional” bloggers who pal around with real journalists.
After a short flashback to last week’s episode with talk about Modern Warfare 2, Paul discusses the biggest news to hit [...]
MacBreak Weekly 167: Skittles And Beer
November 18th, 2009
Things have been quiet on the Apple front over the past few weeks, and that trend continues here. Leo starts this one with an interview with Paul Kent of Macworld Expo. Leo will be among 3 big guest speakers next February including David Pogue and filmmaker Kevin Smith.
Microsoft recently opened their first retail store an [...]
TWiT 221: Get Off Of My Planet
November 16th, 2009
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 [...]
Windows Weekly 130: Trapped, Like Carrots
November 15th, 2009
Modern Warfare 2 has seemingly infected all media this week, dominating the first half hour of Windows Weekly. The Call of Duty franchise leads to the topic of PC game distribution and Leo and Paul agree that Steam and Good Old Games take the cake.
Paul discusses Windows 7 on netbooks, deciding that productivity is still [...]
TWiT 220: Buffet Neutrality
November 10th, 2009
Unsurprisingly, this week’s TWiT starts with talk about the Verizon Droid. Leo notices that a lot of his friends in the tech community seem to be interested, which says a lot for the phone. Mark Milian talks about how the iPhone is often praised as a good pocket personal computer, but Verizon’s network undeniably guarantees [...]
Windows Weekly 128: The Upgrade Conundrum
October 31st, 2009
This is a big week for Windows Weekly with the launch of Windows 7, for obvious reasons. At the top of the show, Paul and Leo talk at length about all of the issues on Microsoft’s end considering abrasive anti-piracy tactics implemented at the expense of consumers, including notorious false positives in the authentication process.
Paul [...]
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 [...]
MacBreak Weekly 163: Stroke The Mouse
October 21st, 2009
Apple released a slew of new products yesterday including a unibody iterations on the iMac and white MacBook, an up-speced Mac Mini and a new multi-touch enabled mouse, dubbed the Magic Mouse. This many big products aren’t usually launched without a keynote event, so these releases caught many off-guard.
The new iMac now come in 21.5″ [...]
Windows Weekly 133: A Fish Called Windows Audio Only
December 6th, 2009
Windows Weekly kicks off with some obligatory talk about Modern Warfare 2 and it seems that Paul is still addicted to the game. Paul also got a chance to appear on last week’s TWiT, which leads into some conversation about the future of TWiT (definitely worth listening if you’re invested in the content on Leo’s [...]