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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Everyone on TWiT this week has a bit of a history in the podcasting space, so things kick off with an interesting conversation about Leo and Patrick’s history at TechTV as well as the nature of the podcasting medium as a whole. After that tangent, the guys talk about the newfound “oomph” of a lot of Android phones like the HTC EVO 4G and the HTC Incredible that truly give the iPhone a run for its money. Patrick got to check out the EVO specifically, being impressed by both the hardware and some of Sprint’s offerings in...
As always, This Week in Tech manages to hit on a lot of huge issues, but somehow avoids talking about Apple for most of this week’s show! Starting things off, the guys talk about the aggrevating steps that the FCC is taking to appease the MPAA. They’ve recently ruled that the MPAA and associated movie studios have the right to disable analog video output for films broadcast through set-top boxes, in a move to offer pre-release access to movies on the track to sell on DVD.
Facebook has been in the news a lot lately for their controversial...
Things start off in a fairly predictable manner, hitting on the iPhone 4th gen scandal news that precipitated earlier in the week. However, that issue is clearly not the biggest story, as Leo pointedly wants to “get it out of the way” at the beginning. HP’s acquisition of Palm is the biggest shift in technology, marking the possibility of yet another major player into the mobile space. Due to HP’s pedigree, however, there’s much speculation as to their tablet strategies wielding WebOS (especially in light of the...
