Tech News Today 65

Tech News Today Episode 65

"Piracy Is Theft!"Hosts: Tom Merritt, John C. Dvorak, Jason Hiner, Patrick Beja, Erik Lanigan Recorded: August 31, 2010 Published: August 31, 2010 Duration: 44:07 Transcript Previous episode – Next episode

Contents 1 Tech News Today 65: Piracy Is Theft! 1.1 Hosts 1.2 Top Stories 1.2.1 Other Stories 1.3 News Fuse 1.4 Kickers and Weird Science 1.5 Calendar 1.6 Voicemail 1.7 Email 2 Sponsors 2.1 Slingbox 3 Production Information

Tech News Today 65: Piracy Is Theft!

Why monkey DNA is better than McAfee, Samsung tablet headed to Verizon, and Obama's after the pirates.

Hosts

• Tom Merritt (@acedtect)
  • TomMerritt.com
• John C. Dvorak (@therealdvorak)
  • dvorak.org/blog, channeldvorak.com
• Patrick Beja (@notpatrick)
  • http://frenchspin.com/
• Jason Hiner (@jasonhiner)
  • techrepublic.com
• Erik Lanigan (@eriklanigan)

Top Stories

• Samsung Galaxy Tab headed to Verizon?

• Samsung Galaxy Tab is Verizon Wireless’ tablet

• Samsung to Launch Media Hub, Android Device on Sept. 16

• Gmail's "Priority Inbox" sorts important e-mail for you

• Apple Said to Plan Netflix Streaming Service on New TV Product

• Murdoch may be key to Apple's plan to offer 99-cent digital rentals of TV shows

• Apple may release iPhone 4 with revised antenna after Sept 30

Other Stories

• German judge chides Google over YouTube freeloading

• Obama administration: "Piracy is flat, unadulterated theft"

• Motorola Issues Warning About Updating Droid X Unofficially

• This Is the Nuclear Bunker Where Wikileaks Will Be Located

• Game-addicted man scores rare win over software lawyers

News Fuse

• An Indian Home Ministry official told the BBC that "any company with a telecoms network should be accessible" to monitoring by the Indian government. He then went on to use and Google and Skype as examples of companies that would have to provide data in future.

• Toshiba has started churning out 24 nm NAND Flash memory boasting they now offer the world's highest density and capacity per single chip. That boast refers to the 2 bits-per-cell 64 Gb parts.

• This ones for the Google Wave user in our audience. You and Gina Trapani will have until the end of this year to export your waves. Google has said they may integrate Wave functionality into other productsand coincidentally introduced collaborative highlighting to Google Docs today.

• TechCrunch reports that Digg has hired Amazon exec Matt Williams to be their new CEO. Williams has been at Amazon for over ten years and is currently GM of consumer payments.

• Microsoft is releasing a controller with a new, updated D-pad on November 9. The D-pad can be transformed from a disc into a plus. You won't be able to buy the controller alone; you'll need to buy the Play and Charge Kit to get it, for $64.99.

• A judge removed a juror from a trial in suburban Detroit after the young woman wrote on Facebook wrote on Facebook that it was "gonna be fun to tell the defendant they're guilty." Sadly the the trial was not over yet. Hadley Jons could be found in contempt when she returns to the circuit court Thursday.

• Never Hand Out Your Password Again: Twitter Goes OAuth

Kickers and Weird Science

• Tesla Motors pays fine for lacking emissions Certificate of Conformity

Calendar

• Samsung Epic 4G now on sale at Sprint (update: save $50 at Amazon)
• Samsung Fascinate launching on Internet September 8 - all channels September 9?
• Open Hardware Summit begins tomorrow in NYC
• Paramount, MGM and Lionsgate movies start streaming on Netflix tomorrow
• Apple announcement at 10 AM tomorrow. TWiT will cover it live.
• TWiT at Dragon*Con. Meetup Saturday night September 4 - RSVP to lisa@twit.tv Don't forget the NSFW Show live at 7 PM Eastern on Friday Night. Sundial Restaurant

Voicemail

Francoise: Caller with a lengthy story about why the new jetpacks are probably really dangerous.

Email

Tom from Minnesota writes:

...In regards to yesterday's show where you talked about Intel buying Infineon's wireless unit, it really seems like Intel is positioning to be a dominant manufacturer in the mobile market. Imagine next year when they announce a new chip that has an on-die GSM or 4G radio controller, as well as anti-virus or firewall coding added to the instruction set. Now you possibly have power savings from everything on one chip, as well as a light-weight AV solution that takes advantage of the hardware acceleration, for cell phones - provided by McAfee by default, of course. Seems like a good play to me.

Sponsors

Slingbox

• Slingbox.com/twit
• SB #3
• ad times: 00:34-00:45 and 19:05-19:48

Production Information

• Edited by: Erik
• Notes: Mediafly publish: 4:55

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