Tech News Today 41

Tech News Today Episode 41

Tech News Today 41: Plants vs Kanye

Zombie cookies, Facebook lets Kanye finish, Plants vs. Zombies announcement, and more.

Hosts

• Tom Merritt (@acedtect)
  • TomMerritt.com
• Becky Worley (@bworley)
  • BeckyWorley.com
• Erik Lanigan (@eriklanigan)

Topics

• Google Develops a Facebook Rival from WSJ

• Got a question? Facebook now provides crowdsourced answers from VentureBeat

• Time Inc.’s iPad Problem Is Trouble for Every Magazine Publisher from AllThingsD

• Privacy lawsuit targets 'Net giants over "zombie" cookies from Ars Technica

• 100 million Facebook pages leaked on torrent site from Thinq

• U.K.: Privacy abuse unlikely in Google Street View flap from CNET

• Consumer Online Privacy Hearing

• Intel reveals 50Gbits/sec interface... but it's not Light Peak from PC Pro

• Kanye West performs at Facebook headquarters from MuchMusic

Lightning Round

• Data Sorting World Record Falls: Computer Scientists Break Terabyte Sort Barrier in 60 Seconds from Science Daily
• AT&T to Be 'Premier' Windows Phone 7 Vendor from PCWorld
• UK's oldest Tweeter Ivy Bean dies at 104 from BBC News
• Verizon Wireless Smartphones Consume More Data than iPhones from Validas
• Apple Grapples With White iPhone Light Leak from The Street
• Just two Chinese ISPs serve 20% of world broadband users from ArsTechnica
• Apple upgrades Safari
• Amazon Kindle Sold Out: No Estimated Date of Availability from Slashgear

On The Calendar

• Firefox 4 Beta 2 out today
• SigGraph Exhibition July 27-29
• Plants vs Zombies announcement coming August 2

Feedback

• Voicemail from Cory about customizable trackpad gestures for Windows
• Voicemail from Trent correcting Tom about the Valve Modern Warfare 2 flap
• Email from Jason about difficulties switching from AT&T to Verizon
• Email from Steve about Apple's rechargeable batteries possibly being re-branded Eneloops

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Production Information

• Edited by: Erik
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