TWiT 370

TWiT Episode 370

This Week In Tech 370: Take the Gun, Leave the Nokia

Panel

• Leo Laporte (@leolaporte) (Leoville.com)
• Trey Ratcliff (StuckInCustoms.com)
• Doug Kaye (DougKaye.com)
• Ryan Block (@ryan) (gdgt.com)
• Mike Elgan (@MikeElgan) (Elgan.com)

Topics

• Apple announces special event for September 12
  • Expected to be the announcement of the next generation of iPhone, and potentially other devices.
  • Apple announces special event for September 12

• Apple Plans Web Radio Challenge to Pandora

• New images of Apple's Campus 2 building show amazing detail

• Amazon's new Kindle Fire HD, Paperwhite e-reader, and 2012 Kindle lineup: the full story

• Eric Schmidt: "There Are Now 1.3 Million Android Device Activations Per Day"

• Amazon's Silk Browser Now Tracking User Behavior For New "Trending Now" Section…Wait, What?

• Apache Foundation creates firestorm over user privacy choices

• The FBI pours $1 billion into facial recognition technology project, going nationwide in 2014

• Nokia Lumia 920 official: Dual-core 1.5GHz Snapdragon S4 CPU, 8MP PureView camera, Windows Phone 8 (video)

• Bing It On: Microsoft Claims 2:1 Users Prefer Bing's Search Results Over Google's In Blind Test

• Taxi & Limousine Commission Tells Uber It Can't Legally Operate a Taxi App In NYC, Uber CEO Disagrees

• DecorMyEyes Merchant Vitaly Borker Sentenced To Four Years In Federal Prison

• Facebook Cancels Secondary Offering, Zuck And Board Members Won't Sell To Keep Shares Off The Market

• YouTube Flags Democrats' Convention Video on Copyright Grounds

Notable Quotes

• "Notable remark or comment."
  • -- Panelist @ MP3 time code

-- TWiT 374 --

Sisyphus had the stone roll him back down the slope. Prometheus stole fire, and the Champion Mike Tyson got his ear eaten.

Significant Products

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-- TWiCH 189 --

Nouvel employé, Chad Johnson, est donné carte orange.

Sponsors

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