Tech News Today 402
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Published: December 27, 2011 Duration: 24:41 |
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Tech News Today 402: Biggest Stories Of 2011
We discuss the biggest stories of the year including Steve Jobs, HP, Netflix, and more.
Submit and vote on story coverage at technewstoday.reddit.com
Hosts
Top Stories of 2011
1 - Steve Jobs
2 - HP (and Yahoo)
3 - Netflix
4 - PSN
5 - Music Streaming
6 - Amazon Kindle Story
7 - Patent Wars
January 2011
- NVIDIA announces Project Denver ARM CPU for the desktop
- Amazon readies Android app store
- Apple Opens Mac App Store With 1,000 Items, big discounts
- Feds subpoena Twitter seeking info on ex-WikiLeaks volunteer
- Sony heads to court to stop PS3 hackers
- Apple boss Steve Jobs takes 'medical leave'
- Netflix Enrages Subscribers By Limiting DVD Queue
- Cable-ization of the open Internet": Comcast/NBCU deal approved
- Video Is 40% Of All Mobile Traffic, But Most Of Us Don’t Watch It
- A Big Quarter From Google, and Shake Up At The Top – Larry Page To Become CEO
- Meg Whitman, Patricia Russo Among Five Joining HP Board
- Amidst chaos and riots, Egypt turns off the Internet
- Sony's NGP announced: stuffed with tech, no price or release date
February 2011
- Honeycomb is here: Google unveils Android 3.0, new Web-based Market
- Egypt internet comes back online
- Sony lawyers now targeting anyone who posts PlayStation 3 hack
- Today’s HP webOS Event
- Capitulation: Nokia adopts Windows Phone 7
- Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 official: Tegra 2, Honeycomb, dual cameras (hands-on with video)
- Apple: if we get you subscribers, we deserve a cut
- Congress Wants To Shut Down ‘Rogue’ Websites, But Verizon Wants Limits
- Apple intros updated MacBook Pros, dev preview of Mac OS X Lion
March 2011
- Apple announces iPad 2
- Judge OKs subpoenas for PS3 hacker's accounts
- The YouTube Earthquake – Video From Japan
- 8.9 earthquake hit at 2:46 PM local time, centered 236 miles east of Tokyo. Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs said KDDI’s undersea cables are broken and the telecom is working to fix telephone and mobile services.
- Engadget’s Top Editors Topolsky and Patel Exit From AOL’s Giant Tech Site
- Netflix going up against cable with original series deal
- New York Times Paywall Launches Today In Canada; Globally March 28
- RSA Under “Extremely Sophisticated” Attack; Yes, That Includes Those Tokens
- AT&T swallows T-Mobile to create US' largest carrier
- Now Open: Amazon Appstore Launches With 3,800 Apps for Android
- Amazon Cloud Player goes live, streams music on your computer and Android
April 2011
- AOL Confirms Tim Stevens as New Engadget Editor-in-Chief
- Anonymous targets Sony over Geohot suit
- Google’s Page Begins Major Reorg: Engineers, Not Managers, In Charge
- George Hotz, Sony quietly settle PS3 jailbreak lawsuit
- Apple sues Samsung for 'copying' the iPhone and iPad
- Amazon’s Cloud Crashed Overnight, And Brought Several Other Companies Down Too
- PSN Network still down (day 2)
- Barnes & Noble adds apps to Nook e-reader: Gets email app before PlayBook
- Nintendo confirms Wii Replacement 2012
- Apple comments on iPhone location storm, software update soon
- Finally: white iPhone 4 arrives April 28 on AT&T and Verizon
- Hackers claim to have stolen PSN credit card info
May 2011
- Sony gives more PSN attack details, details "Welcome Back" packages
- Local man apparently live-tweeted Osama bin Laden mansion raid
- Warner Bros. to Acquire Rotten Tomatoes Owner
- Sony offers identity theft protection, little news on PSN relaunch
- Google announces music streaming in beta, movie rentals for Android
- Google announces Android Ice Cream Sandwich will merge phone and tablet OSes
- Microsoft to Acquire Skype
- LimeWire settles with RIAA for $105 million
- Lodsys Threatens to Sue App Store Developers Over In-App Purchases and Upgrade Links
- PSN update now live across the U.S., go change your password now
- Not so fast: Sony’s PlayStation Network hacked again
- Sony estimates $3.2b loss this year, $171 million cost for PSN breach
- MS announces Windows Phone 7.1
- Blacklists, ahoy! PROTECT IP Act sails on to Senate floor
June 2011
- HP CEO Léo Apotheker Says He Won’t Ship TouchPad Till It’s Perfect
- Windows 8 shown at D9
- Syrian Internet Shutdown
- UN: Disconnecting File-Sharers Breaches Human Rights
- Apple details iCloud's digital storage and syncing, free 5GB of storage
- NGP renamed PlayStation Vita: WiFi-only $249, AT&T-only 3G $299
- Spain arrests 3 Anons for Sony, bank hacks; AnonOps vows revenge
- Streaming site sues U.S. government over seized domains
- LulzSec hackers demand hats, threaten release of Brink user data, also exposed 26,000 sex website passwords.
- Google ‘Nexus 4G’ rumored for Thanksgiving launch with 720p display, LTE, and Ice Cream Sandwich
- RIM implodes: announces layoffs, 500,000 PlayBooks shipped
- LulzSec leaks 62,000 emails and passwords, also targets CIA
- LulzSec: "We might be brought to justice, but we just don't care."
- LulzSec Teams With Anonymous, In Operation AntiSec
- Hulu Considering Selling Itself After Receiving An Offer
- Nokia's first Windows Phone: images and video, codenamed 'Sea Ray'
- LulzSec's first Operation Anti-Security release: Arizona DPS
- Notorious Hacker Group LulzSec Just Announced That It's Finished
- Google+ Project: It’s Social, It’s Bold, It’s Fun, And It Looks Good — Now For The Hard Part
- LightSquared faces challenge from the House
- And the HP TouchPad shipping in the US tomorrow for $499, coming to the UK on July 15 for £399
July 2011
- Facebook announces Skype video calling integration, Group Chat
- Spotify is coming to the US, invites are open now
- Netflix officially separates DVD, streaming pricing; $15.98 and up for both
- Spotify's US launch: three tiers, free is currently invite-only
- Microsoft says it will have a ‘single ecosystem’ for PCs, tablets, phones, and TVs… and is ‘Windows’ dead?
- Amazon to Release Android Tablet This Fall
- OS X launching tomorrow.
- Senate antitrust leader opposes AT&T/T-Mobile merger
- WP7 Mango Released to Manufacturers
- Key LulzSec figure nabbed as legal attack on PayPal launched
- LightSquared to buy 4G from Sprint for billions
August 2011
- Airbnb Apologizes, Offers $50,000 Guarantee in Hopes of Defusing Security Concerns
- Apple keeps Galaxy Tab 10.1 from sale in Australia—for now
- iCloud Pricing: 10GB For $20, 20GB for $40, 50GB for $100
- Google Blames a Human for Its Robot Car Accident
- Court Refuses to Return Seized Domain Name, Claims Shutting Down Speech Doesn't Cause a Substantial Hardship
- Google Plus gets games
- Facebook unveils revamp to games platform
- FCC Launches Inquiry Into BART Wireless Service Shutdown
- HP to follow IBM, ditch its PC business
- Microsoft starts to talk Windows 8, all but confirms App Store
- After Pushing webOS Off a Cliff, HP Watches Its Stock Take a Deep Dive
- The $99.99 TouchPad phenomenon, in your words
- Exclusive: Tim Cook e-mails Apple employees: "Apple is not going to change"
- Department of Justice files to block AT&T / T-Mobile merger
September 2011
- Netflix loses Starz Play deal on the eve of controversial price hike (update)
- Exclusive: Carol Bartz Out at Yahoo; CFO Tim Morse Named Interim CEO
- Microsoft's Build keynote: 5 key takeaways
- Netflix apologizes, rebrands DVD business ‘Qwikster’
- Google+ Opens To Everyone, Adds Search, Expands Hangouts
- Apple’s Next Event to Be Held on October 4, Starring Its New CEO
- Windows 8 secure boot could complicate Linux installs
- Amazon launches Kindle book-lending service with 11,000 US libraries - Beta period over, that was fast.
- It’s Official: Meg Whitman Named HP CEO; Apotheker Out; Lane Is Exec Chairman
- Facebook introduces Timeline: ‘a new way to express who you are’
- Amazon Kindle Fire page
October 2011
- Rhapsody Buys Napster Subscribers from Best Buy
- Apple announces iPhone 4S: Same design, GSM/CDMA, A5 chip, 7x faster graphics, 8MP, 1080p Video
- Microsoft reveals new TV providers including Verizon and Comcast coming to Xbox 360 (video)
- Apple’s Steve Jobs Has Died
- Samsung and Google postpone Galaxy Nexus launch
- Netflix abandons plan to split DVD services
- Yang eyes Yahoo buyout with private equity
- Microsoft Closes $8.5 Billion Skype Deal
- Disney, Fox Commit To Hulu; Halt Sale Talks
- Motorola Droid RAZR unveiled
- Samsung's Galaxy Nexus gets official: Android 4.0, 4.65-inch HD Super AMOLED display
- The Revelations from the Steve Jobs Biography
- Struggling Wikileaks stops publishing classified files
- Nokia Hopes Services, Design Will Make Its First Windows Phones Stand Out
- Breaking: HP Will Keep PC Division
- Samsung Overtakes Apple as World’s Biggest Smartphone Shipper
- Hackers' threaten Mexican drug cartel in YouTube film
November 2011
- Welcome to The Verge
- Share your TV habits with Yahoo's IntoNow app, now on the iPad
- Amazon bypasses library, lends Kindle books directly to Prime users
- Piracy problems? US copyright industries show terrific health
- Nook Tablet announced: $249, available November 17th with 1080p video and Nook Cloud storage
- Adobe ends Flash development for Android and PlayBook, will focus on HTML5
- Exclusive: HP's Meg Whitman on webOS 'it's not obvious exactly what to do here'
- Senate blocks bill to overturn net neutrality guidelines
- iTunes Match goes live: sync up your entire music collection for $24.99 a year
- Kindle Fire and Kindle Touch now shipping
- Google's 'These Go To Eleven' Android event starts at 5PM ET, get your liveblog here!
- Galaxy Nexus on sale in the UK today: First Galaxy Nexus sold in the UK came loaded with an older Android 4.0 developer ROM
- Which tech companies support SOPA
- Gates testifies in $1B lawsuit against Microsoft
- Water pump reportedly destroyed by SCADA hackers
- Microsoft Signs Nondisclosure Agreement With Yahoo
- AT&T pulls T-Mobile application from FCC, records provisional $4bn loss
- Facebook settles with FTC, under privacy watch for 20 years
- Spotify announces third-party apps store and open platform
December 2011
- Carrier IQ: What it is, what it isn't, and what you need to know
- Cable joint venture selling $3.6 billion of spectrum to Verizon Wireless
- SOPA on the ropes? Bipartisan alternative to 'Net censorship emerges
- Microsoft's bid to rule your living room with the Xbox 360 begins tomorrow
- Reuters: Verizon planning limited Netflix competitor for 2012 in non-FiOS markets
- Win 8 app store revealed: more money for devs, beta in late February
- Schmidt Reckons Most TVs Will Have Google TV By Mid-2012
- Twitter gets major design overhaul for web, iOS, and Android
- HP: webOS to live on through open source, hardware lineup still dead (for now)
- Justice Dept. Asks Judge to Delay AT&T/T-Mobile Trial
- Motorola wins Apple wireless patent fight in Germany
- Justice Department, AT&T Agree to Halt Court Proceedings Until at Least January
- Megaupload to Sue Universal, Joins Fight Against SOPA
- Nokia Reentering U.S. Smartphone Market With a Low-End Windows Phone for T-Mobile
- Judge gives Universal Music 24 hours to explain takedown spree - given till the end of TODAY
- Universal has 'Tech News Today' episode yanked from YouTube for reporting on MegaUpload promo video
- Net founders fight piracy law with 'censorship' claim
- (Facebook) Timeline: Now Available Worldwide
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Production Information
- Edited by: Jason
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