X3 with John C. Dvorak

Guests:

Andrew Eisner, Retrevo.com

Joseph Engo, Mevio

Topic:

X3: MSFT's Billion Dollar Bribe

Microsoft has agreed to pay Nokia more than $1 million for choosing its Windows Phone platform to power future smartphones.  Bribery, extortion, or just good old purchasing power?

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David Spark, Host, The Spark Minute

Chris DiBona, Open Source Program Manager, Google

Cade Metz, U.S. Editor, The Register

The Topics:

Farewell, Cranks!

Vanessa Fox, Founder, NineByBlue.com

Roger Chang, Senior Producer, Revision3

Andrew Eisner, Director of Content and Community, Retrevo

The Topics:

The New Twitter

IDF 2010

Intel's New Wares

Steve Jobs, Ninja

The Killer Kindle Ad

Dan Googin, Reporter, The Register

David Hornik, Partner, August Capital

David Prager, Vice President of Special Projects, Revision 3

The Topics:

Google Goes Instant

On Privacy and Social Networking

Hurd Sued Over Oracle Deal

Craigslist and Hookers

Ping on iTunes: Hot or Not?

Carlos Rodela, Producer, Chemical Bun Productions

Patrick Norton, Host, Tekzilla

Rob Enderle, President, The Enderle Group

The Topics:

The Apple Event
Amazon's New Subscription Service
On 99 Cent TV Shows
Is Google Paying for AP Content?
Oh No! No More OED?!

Carlos Rodela, Producer, Chemical Bun Productions

Sarah Lacy, Author, Personality

Dan Goodin, Reporter, The Register

The Topics:

Inside the $7.6B Intel-McAfee Deal

Netflix Signs a Huge Deal With Hollywood

Doing Good While Digitally Downloading

How the Kindle Won...and Everyone Else Was Wrong

Is Space the Valley's Final Frontier?

Scott Muse, Tech Journalist

Andrew Eisner, President, Retrevo

Cade Metz, U.S. Editor, The Register

The Topics:

Major Facebook Announcement Today?

Apple's Bribery Deal

That's Dr. Geek Squad To You

Adobe Says "Flash This, Apple!", Releases 10.1 for Android

Joseph Engo, Systems Manager, Mevio

John Markoff, Reporter, The New York Times

David Spark, Host, The Spark Minute

The Topics:

Heard of Mark Hurd Lately?

P Does Note Equal NP?!

Here Come the iPad Killers

iPhone Users Have More Sex?

PC vs. Mac Marketing Egos

Carlos Rodela, CEO, AllOfUsAreFamous.com

Rik Myslewski, Writer/Editor, The Register

Dan Goodin, Reporter, The Register

The Topics:

Intel's Optical Future and the FTC

Is the Smartphone the New Credit Card?

Wikileaks Publishes Encrypted 'Insurance' File

Google TV: Piracy Enabler?

Nintendo 3DS Reducing Eye Strain?

Joseph Engo, Systems Manager, Mevio

Mark Glaser, Host, PBS MediaShift

Cade Metz, U.S. Editor, The Register

The Topics:

Facebook: 500 Million Served

iPhone Jailbreaks Legalized!

The Rise of Data-Driven Journalism

Yahoo!: Google Goes Big in Japan

Is the Droid Shortage Bogus?

Joseph Engo, Systems Manager, Mevio

Rob Enderle, President, The Enderle Group

Tim Bajarin, Principal Strategist, Creative Strategies

The Topics:

Google Kills the Nexus One

Is 3D Ready for Prime Time?

The Future of Kinect

Did Steve Jobs Kill The Magic of the iPhone?

Playboy Launches New SFW Website

Joseph Engo, Systems Manager, Mevio

Sarah Austin, Host, Pop17

Cade Metz, Executive Editor, CNET

The Topics:

Google Secretly Invests $100M in Zynga

iPhone 4's Antenna Issues

Kids and Computers Don't Mix, Says Study

Kinect a Big Winner for Microsoft?

Will Zuckerberg Lose Control of Facebook?

Today's Guests:

Daisy Whitney, Author; Host, New Media Minute

Roger Chang, Senior Producer, Revision3

David Spark, Tech Journalist; Host, The Spark Minute

The Topics:

Microsoft Cuts the Kin

Are Road Warriors Slobs and Weirdos?

Relativity and Netflix Stream Pact Pushes Pay TV

Prince Declares the Internet Dead

Foursquare Now Worth $100M

Andrew Eisner, Content/Community Manager, Retrevo

Vanessa Fox, Founder, NineByBlue.com

Chris DiBona, Open Source Manager, Google

The Topics:

Google vs. Facebook

Can Apple Doing Any Wrong

YouTube Weighs in on HTML5 and Flash

Is the Kin a Loser?

The Cult of Busy

Dan Goodin, Reporter, The Register

Joseph Engo, Systems Manager, Mevio

David Spark, Writer/Host, The Spark Minute

The Topics:

Sony and Nintendo Go All Out For 3D

The Great iPhone 4 Pre-Order Disaster

AT&T and the Multiple Security Breach

Safari Finally Exterminates A Bug

Is Chatroulette Working on Genital Recognition Software?

Adam Curry, President, Mevio

Rob Enderle, President, The Enderle Group

Rik Myslewski, Writer/Editor, The Register

The Topics:

iPhone 4 and WWDC

Is Digg Dead?

Facebook and the Low-Hanging Fruit

HP Enables Print By E-Mail

How Microsoft Could Beat Google and Apple in Smartphones

Joseph Engo, Systems Manager, Mevio

Cade Metz, US Editor, The Register

John Markoff, Science Reporter, The New York Times

The Topics:

Are You Ready To Quit Facebook?

Google Goes Open Source

Sprint's Shiny New 4G 'Evo'

Facebook Revamps Privacy Settings...Again

Apple Announces Two Million iPads Sold

David Hornik, Partner, August Capital

Roger Chang, Senior Producer, Revision3

Andrew Eisner, Executive Editor, CNET

The Topics:

Apple Takes Over

Google's Pac-Man Costs Millions

AOL Celebrates 25 Years

Google TV

Flash on Froyo, Finally!

David Spark, Host, The Spark Minute

Dave Mathews, Inventor/Tech Journalist

Rob Enderle, President, The Enderle Group

The Topics:

Adobe Hearts Apple!

The Computer is a Communications Disease

Google's Street View Snooped for Personal Data

Is Intel Aiming for New Platforms?

HTML 5 Unfit, Says Hulu

Sebastian Rupley, Co-Crank

Chris DiBona, Open Source Program Manager, Google

Dan Goodin, Reporter, The Register

The Topics:

Is Apple Building Its Own Flash?

University Snubs Gmail Over Privacy Concerns

Can You Really Trust Facebook?

Will the iPad Take Down the Kindle?

The Porn Domain Debate Returns

Sebastian Rupley, Co-Crank

David Spark, Host, The Spark Minute

Sam Levin, Brand Evangelist

The Topics:

Does Chrome OS Bet Too Much On the Cloud?

Google’s Chrome OS is a bet that consumer and business netbook buyers will be perfectly happy to trust everything to the cloud. There won’t even be hard disks on Chrome OS netbooks — only solid-state drives. Will users accept such a model and be willing to forego local data?

Is Apple Moving to AMD?

Apple's computers have exclusively used Intel CPUs for four years, but some rumors suggest that may be about to change. According to a post on AppleInsider, Apple is looking into AMD chips. The post cites lower prices and increased flexibility as reasons.

Library of Congress to Archive All Tweets

The U.S. Library of Congress has said that it will archive all of the world's tweets, thanks to a partnership with Twitter, which donated its archive. Any public tweet will be made available to the Library after six months, except for tweets which have been designated as private. Those will remain so.

3D On Your iPad?

3D has come to the iPad. Sort of. Florida-based kode80 has announced an update to its HoloToy application for iPad that gives the app a simulated 3D effect. How does HoloToy's 3D effect work? It creates perspective based on the angle of the device, fooling brains into perceiving a sense of depth. Does 3D have a future on the iPad?

Too Much Fragmentation for Mobile Apps?

PCMag’s Dan Costa recently attended the ThinkMobile conference where developers expressed a deep exasperation at the effort and cost required to build separate applications for every mobile platform. Is there too much fragmentation and too many walled gardens?

Sebastian Rupley, Co-Crank

Andrew Eisner, Content/Community Manager, Retrevo

David Spark, Host, The Spark Minute

The Topics:

Possible Next-Gen iPhone Found in the Wild

Is the Next Tech Boom Here?

The iPad Is Fun--But Is It Essential?

Toshiba's 200GB Drive--For Cars

Ning Lays Off 40 Percent Of Staff

Sebastian Rupley, Co-Crank

Cade Metz, U.S. Editor, The Register

Rafe Needleman, Editor, CNET's Webware

The Topics:

iPhone OS SDK Irks Developers

The Adobe/Apple Dust-up

FCC Won't Back Away From Net Neutrality

Has Apple Trounced Microsoft With the iPad?

Sebastian Rupley, Co-Crank

Dan Goodin, Reporter, The Register

Rob Enderle, President, The Enderle Group

The Topics:

iPad Arrives to Lines, Good Reviews

What's Wrong With the iPad?

Software Discovery is Broken

Sharp's 3D Screen for Mobile Devices

Microsoft vs. Google Chrome

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The Topics:

Apple's Biggest Macworld Surprise Isn't a Product
With a single quick press release, Apple was able to stop the steady stream of rumors about its Macworld 2009 product announcements. January's Macworld Expo will be Apple's last; and, perhaps more consequently, it will no long have Steve Jobs as CEO. Why such extreme moves?

$99 Netbooks at Radio Shack?
Acer, AT&T and RadioShack have collaborated to offer a deal that brings the Acer Aspire One netbook to sell for only $99. The Acer Aspire, with integrated 3G wireless technology, usually sells for $500. AT&T is subsidizing the cost of the device, however customers must agree to a two-year AT&T DataConnect mobile-broadband service, which start at $60 a month.

Beware the Netbook Hype
 In a new column, Lance Ulanoff  says, "I get a big kick out of the way everyone is falling all over themselves to anoint 'netbooks' as the next big thing," . Ulanoff agrees that the economic downturn is positive news for these $350 stripped down portable computers, but thinks their success is largely coming from  good marketing. Is a pricier laptop a wiser choice?

Will Microsoft Buy RIM?
Even though Tim Bajarin dubs the prediction outrageous, the notable analyst is predicting that Microsoft may make a bid for RIM in 2009. "BlackBerry customers are almost as fanatical as Apple users," he argues, and Microsoft's Windows Mobile strategy is growing unstable.

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The Topics:

 Corrupted Youth

The Josephson Institute's Center for Youth Ethics released a survey saying that American youth are becoming completely unethical in all possible ways. Fully 40 percent thought that you cannot succeed in the U.S.A. without lying, cheating, or stealing. A lot of stealing goes on on the Internet. I say that kids should be allowed to take information from the Net, but include proper citations..

Cybe-Bullying Can't Stop Net Anonymity

Lori Drew was recently convicted of computer fraud in a cyber-bullying case. The Missouri mother used Myspace to make a fake persona for a teenage boy, leading a teenage girl to believe that persona, and ultimately engaging in cruel behavior that led to the girl's suicide. "The reality is that many, many people lie about their identities online," says PCMag editor-in-chief Lance Ulanoff. This will not change, and whether Drew committed "computer fraud" is questionable..

The Netbook Hype Machine
"I get a big kick out of the way everyone is falling all over themselves to anoint "netbooks" as the next big thing," says Lance Ulanoff in another recent column. Ulanoff agrees that the economic downturn is good news for these $350 stripped down portable computers, but thinks their success is largely coming from marketing. Is a slightly more expensive laptop a better choice?

Sex v. Internet
According to a study commissioned and released by Intel, close to half of the women questioned by Harris Interactive said they'd be willing to give up sex for two weeks rather than give up their Internet access. Only 30 percent of the men surveyed were willing to do the same. For women 35 to 44 years old, the figure jumped to 52 percent. Are these numbers believable?

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iPhone Hackers Boot Linux
A new opportunity was discovered in the ongoing battle between Apple and iPhone hackers, now that a hacker group has created an iPhone boot with a Linux 2.6 kernel. The announcement of the successful kernel porting was made on the "Linux on the iPhone" blog, complete with thorough instructions and source code.

SCO's days over?
Though SCO still has the option to appeal, federal district court judge Dale Kimball has now officially written its death sentence in the form of a somewhat fierce final verdict. Judge Kimball decided that SCO was subject to a contract with Novell, which it infringed upon by revoking SVRX confidentiality provisions in a licensing agreement with Sun. Many bloggers praised the judge's decision, calling SCO officials "patent trolls."

Sling.com: Like Hulu, With a Twist
Video-streaming site Hulu has become a popular place to catch TV shows, video clips and movies for free on the Web, since its launch in March. This week, Sling Media, which makes the Slingbox device that lets you watch your home TV remotely, created a "beta" version of its own video-streaming site, Sling.com. If you have a Slingbox device, which lets you control and view your TV from any Mac- or Windows-based computer with high-speed Internet access, you can also use the site to control your Slingbox.

More Yahoo! Speculations
The Sunday Times of UK reported, or speculated, last weekend that Microsoft is going to buy Yahoo's search business for $20 billion in a very complicated way. The story states that Jonathan Miller, formerly chief executive of AOL, and Ross Levinsohn, a former president of Fox Interactive Media, are going to direct the new management team. Is this justifiable a rumor?

Interpol Increases Use of YouTube
Interpol, the "world police" is boosting up its social networking efforts. Utilizing sites such as  YouTube, Interpol has been able to thus far, arrest two pedophiles and collect video clips of Rwandan war criminals through the user-video site and other social networking platforms.

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The Topics:

Microsoft CEO Must Testify in Vista Capable Debacle
Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, has been mandated by a federal judge to testify in a class action lawsuit over the "Vista Capable" fiasco. US District Judge Marsha Pechman gave consumers approval in February to file a class action lawsuit against Microsoft for giving false information about Windows XP computers being able to run Vista. Plaintiffs in the case allege that Microsoft artificially inflated demand in the run-up to Christmas 2006, by advertising that PCs would be capable of running the full version of the firm's delayed Vista operating system.

eBooks Are Now Thriving!
Random House announced Monday that it is making thousands of additional eBooks available in digital form, now that sales are exploding, even in the currently sluggish market. Products include novels by John Updike and Harlan Coben, as well as several volumes of the children's series, "Magic Treehouse".

Obama's Cell Phone Privacy Violation
After some nosey employees took a peek at President-Elect Obama's cell-phone records, Verizon Wireless had to apologize however privacy advocates say what happened to Obama is just an example of what is happening to the broader whole of the American public.

Facebook Wins $873 Million Judgment Against Spammer
In a recent court case against Adam Guerbuez of Montreal, Facebook has won a $873 million. The  Canadian, who bombarded users with millions of unsolicited messages about drugs and sex, was targeted his business, Atlantis Blue Capital. Facebook claimed that Guerbuez had tricked users into giving their passwords so he could send out over 4 million messages that included promos for marijuana.

The Pentagon Bans Flash Drives
Due to a serious virus threat officials detected on Defense Department networks, the Pentagon has temporarily banned the use of external computer flash drives. Friday, Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman provided no details on the virus, but he described it as a "global virus" that has been the subject of several public alerts.

Bill Schmelzer, Tech Analyst, Ziff Davis Media