Show #127

News

• Military Issuing ITouch
• $230 - vs. MUCH MORE for ruggedized specialized hardware
• Sheathed in a rugged case for Military purposes
  
• Soldiers = Swiss Army Knife
  
• Translation software - word translator and gesture translation (VCommunicator)
  
• Annotate Maps - In Dev - Take pictures of streetsigns and the Iphone will give intelligence about the location
  
• BulletFlight (Ballistics Calculator)
  
• Video Player
• Camera
• IPhone still a little too expensive for general deployment
  
• Oracle Buys Sun
• Oracle is the largest DB Vendor in the world
• Sun owns MySql, OpenOffice, Java, Large portion of Unix world
• Will Oracle still offer DB on Windows platform
• Will OpenOffice and Java still be free?
• Flash on TV's
  
• Software already written
• Announcement at the annual National Association of Broadcasters convention
• Set-top boxes by end of year, embedded into TV later
  
• TW admits defeat on Tiered Bandwidth
  
• Retracting Pilots for tiered bandwidth that were to start in fall
• Grass Roots, and Senators all went after Time Warner
• Claims of "Stifling Creativity" and Monopolistic practices (inability to stream video without exhorbitant pricing) were cited
• Last straw could have been when U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y got on board and threatened legislation
• Competitor Frontier communications was already in the process of retiring a tiered plan
• Will still provide tools so ppl can educate themselves on bandwidth
• No promise that program won't go into place in future
  
• Google 3D Plugin
• How many failures before they get hint that the Internet is a commodity?
• They are still in WAAAAAY exploratory phase
• Mozilla and Google presented different applications, not compatible
• What level will it take before 3D will be acceptable on Internet?
  

Gamer's Corner (Conferences, New Developments, Game Reviews)

• New Fallout IP game, New Vegas

Intarweb Goldmine

• 217k Texts, 27k bill
• Insurgent Truck Bomb

Reference

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Show #126

News

• Twitter Slammed by Phishing Malware
• Usually manifest by a tweet: Visit DailyStalk, better than twitter, with pictures
• If you visited the profile of that person, you were infected too
• You began to send the same messages
• Different variations, happened twice
• Twitter "claims" to have fixed the problem
• shortened urls are just ripe for taking you to sites you don't want to go to.
• TinyUrl has a feature called "Preview" that will ask you if you want to visit that site
• Only go to links from twitterers that you trust and fit what they usually tweet (limits mass blast take-overs, can't target individuals and their prefs)
  
• Broadband Cap from Time Warner Draws Lawmaker's Ire
• U.S. Rep. Eric Massa of New York
  
• Lawmakers looking to legislate out the ability to cap in monopoly markets
• TW's response: $150 unlimited fee? (ridiculous)
• "Time Warner's decision has the potential to more than triple customers' current rates, and I think most families will find this to be too taxing to afford,"
• South Korean Blogger Arrested for Blogging about Failing Economy
• 18 Month jail sentence
• falsely reporting that South Korea had barred banks from purchasing U.S. currency.
  
• Google Losing 1.65 million a day on YouTube
• Bandwidth, Servers, Support, Bandwidth
• $1-2 per visit per user
• Loss Leader for keeping Google on the tongue?
• Investment for future. getting in early and being #1,
  
• Cost will go down, Bandwidth only becomes cheaper
• Facing more competition with places like DailyMotion, blip.tv, Hulu (diff. model but still online video entertainment), etc
  
• DiggBar Stirs Controversy, Unveils Compromise
  
• Diggbar acts as a URL shortener and disguises the site url in a frame
• Your URL is your identity on the Internet
• Companies have been writing programs for years that "break frames"
• A LOT of ppl have complained so Diggbar came halfway, they made it an "opt-out" service
  

Talk Points

• 20 Twitter Apps
• People are organizing politically on Twitter: #teaparty and #teabag
• http://michellemalkin.com/2009/04/15/live-tea-party-twitter-feedsopen-thread/
• #teaparty: Used to protest government's intervention into businesses / combat socialism
• #teaparty used the hashtag to organize demonstrations across the US and even has signage
  
• #teabag: organized in opposition to #teaparty / Basic tenet of group is that #teaparty is organized by a bunch of Obama haters and are currently happy with the changes in gov't
  
• Freedom of speech is a good thing right?
  

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Gamer's Corner (Conferences, New Developments, Game Reviews)

• WoW: 3.1 hit with a thud on day 1, downloads were slow, finding the MAC patch was even harder. I personally chose to stay away for a couple days away
• Just goes to show that no matter how good your infrastructure is, its really hard to get out large content pushes to 10 million ppl all at once on the Internet.
  
• "Braid" comes to PC, Level Editor Included
• Very popular puzzle game that works on a time mechanic
• Unique Look-n-feel
• Was on consoles, now on PC (steam, etc)
• Hidden Level Editor included for PC version only
• Later support for imports from Photoshop
• Burnout Paradise reveals Cops and Robbers Mode
• Not much is known but it but introduces a chase mechanism
• There's a trailer out there, just follow the link in our shownotes
  
• Criterion is looking to continually change the way ppl play their popular racer by download packs, instead of releasing whole new games.
• I WANT A CRASH MODE (as seen in previous versions of Burnout)
  

Intarweb Goldmine

• Woman Rubs Chili Pepper in her Eyes After Setting New World Record
• Man Bites Snake to Save his Life