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ASCAP Sez: Pay Royalty Each Time Phone Rings!

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:33:50 -0700

Apple iPhone has flaw in SMS system. Fix is coming. MSFT Bing does crappy job with news. I am sure it is because of a lack of bots. The company pulls a sickening ad off the net. I have it posted on Dvorak.org. Sheep are shrinking due to climate change says scientist. Mozilla Firefox already has a bug. Motorola going into the femtocell business. The Register says Seagate needs to catch up with SSD business. New Symbian coming out. CIO magazine reports on Ritzy homes. ASCAP contends royalties are due for each ring rung. Huh?

New Firefox Supposedly 251-percent Faster.

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:39:10 -0700

Bing can search Tweets. Go, why would you want to? Ballmer re-announced Bing at the D7 conference. Ha. The geneticists cannot predict mental illness. Satellite phonecos want to make hybrid phones. Will still be too pricey. iPhones are overheating. RIAA beats Usenet in court. More Steve Jobs back at work stories. HP doing a 12-core workstation. Firefox 3.5 very fast they say. We'll see.

China Hates Garfield the Cat

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:11:25 -0700

Firefox 3.5 rolls out. Get it now. China is filtering out Garfield the Cat. Pirate Bay sale worries some. Dell going into the Android too? Where is the picture of Steve Jobs who is supposedly back at work. Confusion over Comcast 4G, WiMax. Forrester says tech biz bottoms in Q3. Palm Pre beating sales expectations says PR company. NYT sez few oldsters see themselves as old. Did someone pay money for this survey? Anti-Google stories surfacing. Yahoo shuts down another company I never heard of. Will this ever end? Maine making sure all kids get a computer. Flash headed to Android phone. Robot navigates like a person. Toshiba last man standing regarding the 1.8-inch HD. Look for a sale on Netbooks.

Palm Screws Sideloaders

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:25:35 -0700

Standardized mobile phone charger now a worldwide phenomenon. Nokia leads the way. Palm kills homemade apps. Why? Sony thinking about PSP phone. Sounds like nGage to me. MSFT fiddling around with Win 7 marketing. Will they ever learn? Kid humiliated by Walkman. Germans not interested in the Kindle. Google voice getting a lot of ink Adam Savage gets free phone service. Intel working seriously on SSD. HD-DVD still beating Blu-ray according to e the NYT. Wikipedia in on blackout of certain news.

Palm Sparks Rally

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:27:40 -0700

Apple pulls plug on selling porn or girlie pics off of the app store. Palm shares rally and takes tech sector with it? Geez. Biggest problem facing Bing? Google. Duh. Long awaited PC cycle upgrade coming say the experts. DiskShred will grind up your hard disks. Dyson develops world's faster motor. Sponsor: Squarespace.com code word: tech.

What is a Plug Computer?

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:50:48 -0700

Tear down says new iPhone costs $179 to build. MSFT Hohm in the news. Seems silly to me. Palm says Pre is selling well. Stock goes up. Windows 7 on sale. Red Hat profits are up. Linux now has an anti-virus product. Weird UK stories. Xmos $4.50 CPU? Also the plug computer is headed your way. Look for phase-change memory to flop along with the flying saucer car. Show sponsored by Squarespace.com, code word TECH. Check it out.

Unlimited International Calling for $5 a month

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:22:44 -0700

Palm Pre hits one million app downloads. HTC Hero has new slick interface. You are too late to get MSFT security software. Company also wants everyone to switch off of Windows 7 Beta and get RC1. Metro PCS says $5 a month for International calls. Sharp TV busted. Boxee now has Windows version. Also they do a deal with MLB. Microsoft sees mobile advertising increasing. Meanwhile Ballmer says ALL old media will be dead in 10 years. HP brags about 5101 Netbook. Larry Ellison looking good. IBM getting involved with food safety? Why?

The Nerd Bird Flies at Night

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:24:11 -0700

Intel in bed with Nokia. Why now? Steve Jobs seen on Apple Campus. Stock pickers are liking Motorola because of Android. Bogus HP PR. The company goes gah-gah over social networking too. Bing could ruin Microsoft. IBM in the battery business? Since when? Microsoft caps downloads for its security software. 3DV bought by Microsoft. Paul Allen offers a MSFT patch himself! The Nerd Bird flies again! Five reasons Blu-ray is hurting. Show sponsored by Squarespace.com codeword Tech.

FTC to Attack Bloggers

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:38:48 -0700

Apple promoting it's current executive over Steve Jobs. This is fishy. HP's new printer does not need a PC. Why? FTC going after the bloggers and Twitterers. Microsoft poaching people left and right. Never works out. The Buick is being re-positioned. It is ridiculous. Apple bans Commodore 64 from iPhone. Why? Who cares? Microsoft will put 10-percent of its income into search. Why? Kodachrome is officially dead. Sony Blu-ray a dud!

No New Xbox360 Anytime Soon

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:50:24 -0700

Google trying to filter porn for the Chinese. Poor woman nailed by RIAA for $2 million. Bozeman wants workers to fork over their Facebook passwords. No Xbox360 anytime soon. Natal controller seems to be dead in the water. Win7 wallpaper on Netbooks may not be changeable. Why? Zune using new nVidia chip. New Sony laptops to have Blu-ray inside. Canada giving up on warrants when it comes to the Internet. This show brought to you by Squarespace.com code word TECH.

Lakeside Resorts on Mars

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:29:32 -0700

.People complaining today. First about the XM radio app for the iPhone and Intel's new chip naming scheme. Microsoft to roll anti-virus next week. Senators going after iPhone's sweet deal. Home broadband Internet use is on the rise. New images show evidence of lake on Mars. I have found a story that proves cloning dogs is a good idea. I discuss the fairness doctrine. Palm Pre not saving Sprint. Microsoft complaining that Google is cheating. Aww. Show brought to you by Squarespace.com use the code word TECH for a big discount.

Sales for Video Games Plummet

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:26:26 -0700

Sales of vid games down big time. Microsoft all over the news. The company will not ship a browser with Win7 in Europe. Bing has boosted ads for MSFT 8-percent in one week. Meanwhile, the company will release anti-virus software for free. US Look for the teardown trend to worsen. Tesla founders suing each other. Microsoft settles with Mississippi. This weeks show brought to you by Squarespace.com code word TECH. Try it.

Online Poker Skunked

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:26:50 -0700

iPOD guru at Apple defects to Palm. Symantec and McAfee get stung. Web 2.0 is now a word? How does that work? Virgin creates pay-as-you-go Internet dongle. MSFT to discontinue MS-Money. 27,000 bank accounts frozen. Online poker players stuck. What is the mother of all inventions? One newspaper wants to know.This show brought to you by Squarespace.com. Use the code word TECH.

PS3 Price Cut Expected

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:38:18 -0700

Western Digital shows off 4-TB drive. Nice! $99 iPhone will begin to erode the cachet of the device. PS-3 price drop expected. ABC News do yet another computer injury story. This Friday everything goes digital. Google going after enterprise users for Office apps. InfoWorld lists hardware Hall of Fame. Horrid list. Today's show sponsored by Squarespace.com code word TECH

Mini Review of Palm Pre by JCD

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:42:11 -0700

Price drops at Apple's WWDC. I do a mini-review of Palm Pre. Listen in. Sprint sales records all broken by Palm Pre. Jeff Moss of DefCon tapped by USA to help with Cyber-Security. Online ad revenue plummeting for newspapers. CNET dogging Win7 for some reason saying it will have no impact. Win7 may cost only $100. Intel drops $3 million into WiMax in Japan. China requiring anti-porn. Sweden's Pirate Party gets a seat in the EU Parliament.

Russians After Microsoft

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:34:05 -0700

Microsoft is getting all the buzz at E3. Apple WWDC is going to focus on software. FTC shuts down world's worst ISP. Tony LaRussa sues Twitter. Will Twitter change your life. Hulu may charge for its features. Russians now investigating MSFT. Intel buys Wind River. Acer showing ultra thin. Bing getting more ink than it deserves. Show sponsored by Squarespace.com code word tech.

New Tricks in Opera 10

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:01:29 -0700

Sony-Ericsson opens an app store. Who isn't? Tetris now celebrating 25th anniversary. Google Square is out. Final Fantasy 14 coming out. When is really final? Opera 10 offers new tricks to be stolen by all. Social networking up 83-percent. Android G2 headed for T-mobile. Apple WWDC gearing up for June 8 roll out. Controller wars coming. Apparently Google and Yahoo collude. Oops. Turn off your computer please!

Win7 to Roll on Oct. 22

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:18:45 -0700

E3 news coverage pouring in. No real news from Nintendo, Microsoft meanwhile has a full body controller, code named Natal. Could be useful. Microsoft tells us that Win7 on Oct. 22. Larry Ellison shows up at Java One to praise Java. Twitter spam on the rise. Acer to use Android OS on netbooks. Why not Ubuntu. Looks as if Bing is too closely hooked to porn. Show sponsored by Squarespace.com. Use the code word TECH for a massive discount.

Google Doing e-Books?

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:07:19 -0700

iTunes upgraded. Xbox360 to become the world's greatest entertainment hub. Google to get into the e-books business. Bing launched today. Check it out. Microsoft starter kit to be improved. AMD showing 6-core Istanbul chip. Sony PSP-GO slated to go. Qualcomm has a processor? I guess so. Dell Says the bottom of the sales slump is not here yet.

Woz Reports on Steve Jobs

Thu, 28 May 2009 15:13:01 -0700

Stanley Bing wonders if MSFT expropriated his name. Har. Bing looks like a shopping site. Google says 18 Androids coming at you. Google also says the browser will be the new OS thanks to HTML 5. Xbox hits 30 million in sales. Woz says Steve "sounds good." Pre ready for iTunes. Dell Hires IBM executive and gets sued immediately. Go to Avis.com/tech5 for a discount.

Flash is Dead? Maybe.

Wed, 27 May 2009 17:13:52 -0700

Look for faster 3G speeds by 2011. WiMax can make a move. FCC targeting rural users. HTML 5.0 will have video tagging. This could kill flash forever. Glowing gene isolated and now it is getting ugly. Zune soon. Watson research still working on language translation and processing. Show sponsored by Squarespace.com code word: tech.

Vista SP2 Reloaded

Tue, 26 May 2009 14:09:53 -0700

Vista SP2 finally released. Russians drop $200 million into Facebook. Why? MSFT names its search engine BING! Where is Bob Hope? Look for a 32 GB iPhone. Craigslist wins battle with AG's. Psystar goes under. AT&T to offer the android phone. HP recalls batteries. Nokia OVI store is problematic.

More Files Lost by Government

Thu, 21 May 2009 18:16:04 -0700

Apple's rumored $700 touch screen computer getting a lot of attention despite its lack of existence. Government loses Bill Clinton files. Offering $50,000 reward. Yahoo wants to go on buying spree. Getting into the social networking scene. Craigslist CEO getting into the fight with SC. Hulu to do a live broadcast. This will irk the cable companies. I summarize the winners in the KUMO acronym contest. All hilarious. Today's show brought to you by Avis rent a car visit www.avis.com/tech5 for a discount on your next rental.

Pope Gaga Over Internet

Wed, 20 May 2009 16:55:07 -0700

HP chiefs says things going to get worse. What changed? Craigslist gets kudos from South Carolina for suing them. Huh? Microsoft [pays $200 million for infringement. KUMO coming. The KUMO acronym contest begins. Sun to do the world's biggest app store around JAVA? Oh brother. Ethernet getting some sort of certification process. Dumb story about fitting 300 DVD's on one disk. The Palm Pre continues to be in the news. Pre shortage expected by Sprint. I say make more of them! TSMC cranking things back. Pope tells young to use the Internet.

Palm Pre Gets Massive Pre-Launch Ink

Tue, 19 May 2009 15:13:54 -0700

Palm Pre has best PR. Google and Google alone gaining in market share. New Atom chip from Intel. Dell has germ free notebook. Hubble fixed. Wal-Mart wants Apple. Mockingbirds have a long memory. Slew of HP stories telling how great the company is. All are planted as far as I can tell. Oracle may sell Sun hardware business. Microsoft clones the Wii remote. Windows 7 getting more ink too. GPS system could failure within a year. Oh no! Today's show brought to you by Avis.com/tech5. Get a discount.

Napster Drops Price

Mon, 18 May 2009 18:38:19 -0700

Napster goes to $50 a month for its subscription services. Craigslist getting peeved at South Carolina. Biz Week slams iPhone in offhanded way. MSFT Win Mobile 6.5 is announced. Scribd.com has new sales model worth looking at. TSA in trouble over naked picture scanner. Duke Nukem may live. MSFT will buy any search start-ups. JP Morgan says Win7 will not help PC business. AMD and Intel in a beef as usual. Today's show brought to you by SQUARESPACE.COM. Use the code word TECH for discount.

Walfram Alpha Ready to Go

Thu, 14 May 2009 16:12:17 -0700

Google goes down over routing error. Sony loses $1 billion. First loss in 14 years. Clearwine rolls out WiMAX in Atlanta. Verizon to do a Netbook deal similar to AT&T deal. Kindle to distribute blogs. Planet being ruined by gadgets. Japan irked by Google street view too. Real Networks suing movie industry for being an illegal cartel. HP now says there is a tech slowdown. Dell to develop and market computers for women. Har. Smart phone is new mobile wallet says Sybase. Wolfram Alpha coming up.

Intel Mystified?

Wed, 13 May 2009 16:06:06 -0700

Intel maximum fine discussed at lengths. AMD disappointed in news coverage. Intel mystified by how to comply. Craigslist confirms erotic services shutdown. Clearwire to join forces with Cisco. Steve Jobs not showing up at Apple Development conference. Jobs gets OK to rip down old house. Xbox 360 to challenge Wii. Win7 compatibility to be awesome.

Will Microsoft Buy SAP?

Tue, 12 May 2009 15:55:08 -0700

Google adds filtering to search engine. Mac has new massive OS update. MSFT says hackers are after PowerPoint users. France to implement three strikes rule against pirates. EU will not be happy. BSA says piracy costs $50B last year. Oracle only wanted the software it seems. Zune getting aggressive and going for broke! Let's see. No more Google street view in Greece. Country is fed up. Wolfram Alpha search engine may be to hard to use. Android growth figures may be bogus. Microsoft may be buying SAP? Win7 has root bug.

Nude Photos on Yahoo

Mon, 11 May 2009 16:18:33 -0700

Amazon pushes content onto the iPhone. Android market share to increase in 2009. Intel looks as if it will get hit with a multi-billion dollar fine by the EU. Palm Pre has charger without wires. 160,000 more medical records stolen from Cal Berkeley. There is a buzz concerning the University of Missouri. J-school now requires iPhone. Yahoo nude photo scandal heats up. NYT has new Adobe Air edition. Microsoft says Win7 out by Xmas for sure. Patch Tuesday for Win7 getting ready. Show brought to you by Squarespace.com Code word: TECH.

Duke Nukem Nuked

Thu, 07 May 2009 14:47:05 -0700

How big can the Kindle get? Activision sales surge. Microsoft dumps WGA. 3D Realms goes under. No more Duke Nukem Forever. NASA to return to the moon. Hacker steals Virginia health records. He demands $10 million for its return. Twitter co-founder says Twitter not for sale. PC World says Win 7 not that fast. Dell has plans for Android. Microsoft search to be built on open source. As economy softens Microsoft studies the mundane. This show sponsored by Squarespace.com Code word: Tech.

Zombie Computers Everywhere

Wed, 06 May 2009 16:16:12 -0700

Kindle DX rolls out. Craigslist under attack by South Carolina. Win 7 XP Mode will not run on some processors. The SSD supposedly runs better on Win7. Dell stock down, but ideas improve with a Google Android Netbook. Seagate has another glitch. Pre FAQ leaked to the net via some employee blog. Virgin to do 200 Mbps broadband connection for some users. Video conferences are gaining momentum. UK government increasing intellectual property fines 10X. More zombie computers than ever.

Will Apple buy Twitter? Why?

Tue, 05 May 2009 18:24:35 -0700

Kindle in the news again. The Microsoft Windows 7 blitz begins. Many problems being discussed only on the back pages. Tojan shipped with some copies of Win 7. Microsoft to layoff 5000 more workers. Amazon to announce new Kindle DX tomorrow. Textbooks on the kindle? Will Apple buy Twitter? Why would they want to? How about textbooks by Google? New iMAX movie to be done at the Hubble telescope in 3D. Apple to make a 3g Netbook? Will there be adult apps on the Apple App store. Digital warfare center to be built out by the military.

EU Wants toTake Over the Internet from USA

Mon, 04 May 2009 16:48:34 -0700

Kindle in the news. Can it save the newspapers? Blackberry outselling iPhone. Meanwhile RIM doing deal with Cisco. Nine-inch nails has a beef with Apple. EU wants to take over the Internet. Windows Vista going to get killed by Win 7 say experts. Google hires goats and gets attention. IBM will pay you to ditch Sun servers. Wolfram will not give me a beta. Apple going big into games?

GeoCities Goes Kaput

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:10:37 -0700

Apple App store ships 1 billion apps so far. Yahoo to close GeoCities. Facebook approves new TOS. T-Mobile sells million G1 phones. Pentagon says data breach wasn't that bad. MSFT quarterly falls! Intel's prediction for the decade. This show brought to you by www.squarespace.com code word TECH.

16 Core Chips and You!

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:13:52 -0700

Apple gets more money from iPhone sales. New CEO loves AT&T. MySpace developer quits. AMD coming up with 16 core chip. Soy toner coming, edible? Twitter changes specs. Congress looking into broadband pricing while Joe Biden wants to stop piracy. Your BOT infected machine and what it can do.

Hackers Everywhere!

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:01:13 -0700

Hackers break into Lockheed, the Defensive Department, the Air Force Air Traffic Control system and the Power grid. Cripes! China Mobile decides to do app store. Oprah joins Twitter and the service is slammed by new users chewing up bandwidth. It may be a fad. Belkin has unique USB charger that slips into the car cigarette lighter. Google Android computer appears. VM Ware does private cloud. MySQL specs new and the product is faster?

Digg dumps Microsoft

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:07:20 -0700

Oracle to buy Sun for $7.4B. Why? Ballmer was shocked and stunned. Adobe doing flash for TV coming. Apple app store makes no money. Win 7 starter kit is nuts. New Apple-PC ads coming out shortly. Fox news uses citizen journalists now. Digg dumps Microsoft.3G upgraded . Pirate Bay was an art project. Apple Netbook is real. OLPC drops AMD for VIA. Ask Jeeves is back.

Will Apple Kill Slingplayer for iPhone? Why?

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:40:25 -0700

Google revenues and sales continue to grow. Video games sales slump. IBM pushing 28nm trick for the next generation of chips. Slingplayer to be killed by Apple. Guess why! Microsoft will public beta Office 2010. Sun back in the sack with IBM? HP tops Dell. Pirate Bay Server becomes a museum piece.

AT&T Will Track Your Kids

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:44:04 -0700

CNNbrk Twitter name sell to CNN.A controversy ensues. Microsoft doing security hosting for spam filtering. Why? McKinsey says the cloud is a money loser. Amazon is the leading e-tailer. AT&T to sell family tracking services. Companies begin to pile on Microsoft in EU case. Here comes the Zune HD. Google to have faster searches. How?

Use a Proxy, Go to Jail

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:58:08 -0700

Intel says PC sales have bottomed out. Have they? Patch Tuesday has 21 patches. Android 1.5 starts to appear. EU cracking down on data interception. Twitter worm killed. NASA to use Twitter. E74 Xbox errors covered by warranty. Should Sun buy Novell. 64-bit Office being released. Use a proxy, go to jail.

Facebook Users Get Lower Grades

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:35:15 -0700

Twitter attacked over the weekend. Facebook users get lower grades. Palm Pre may be Pre- mature. The Pre uses an induction charger. 83-percent of all businesses being polled will not install Win 7 for a while. Dell getting into Android camp? $899 Educational iMac. Oracle and Cisco in the running for Sun Microsystems. Oracle and Cisco after Sun? Microsoft and Yahoo back in the sack. New Ubuntu coming out on April 23.

Nintendo DSi -- A Winner

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:12:25 -0700

Will Scott McNealey take over the reins at Sun? Microsoft steals patent loses a $388 lawsuit. Nintendo DSi is a great product! Honda has a car for dogs. Will Wright quitting Electronic Arts to go to the Stupid Fun Club. 3 strikes law againt pirates rejected by the French. MSFT says Apple machines are expensive. What? Who knew? AP goes after people using their videos even though they encourage it on You Tube. This show is sponsored by Squarespace.com code word TECH.

ION PC Rolls Out

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:55:49 -0700

Next iPod touch will have 802.11N. I discuss the new routers out there. Windows 7 may not be easy to upgrade they say. But desktop search should work well, they say. Megamouth shark caught and eaten. Google moving towards worldwide local search. The Acer Nettop machine, the ION PC is released. Blind protestors complain about ending Kindle voice capability.

Android Netbooks Ahead!

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:05:12 -0700

T-Mobile to do an Android Netbook/tablet. a scheme is afoot. Microsoft wants Windows 7 on Netbooks. They claim people are returning Linux Netbooks are all returned. You can now downgrade Win 7. Ha! Rumors about Google and Twitter boiling over again. U2 bails out on Apple and goes to RIM. Skype on the iPhone to be banned in the EU. Suns board rejects IBM deal. Dell memo is fishy.

Sun Worth $9.50

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:51:26 -0700

Conficker stays in the news. Palm Pre will have a Palm OS emulator. iPhone all over the news. New Jailbreak for version 3.0. Skype being restricted on iPhone. Meanwhile Microsoft hopes to port MSFT Office the iPhone. Sony new camcorder has GPS. I love the idea. Nokia slams Wi-MAX. T-Mobile irked by tethering of G-Phone. IBM will buy Sun for $9.50.Google car in England. Today's show sponsored by SquareSpace. Use the code TECH for your best bargain discount.

April Fools Berserk

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:11:35 -0700

So everyone is doing a slew of April Fools gags. I, after 30 years of producing April Fools jokes, did not take part. Thus I run down some of the more interesting ones on today's show along with the few news items out there.

Wiki Search Dead Already

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:50:55 -0700

Everyone is preoccupied with Conficker. I have one simple question. Hear it hear now. HP may use Android OS for computers, PS2 going to $100. Or is it a joke? Gartner says cloud is getting all the money. American Airlines to put Wi-Fi hotspots in their planes. Wiki Search killed. They cannot afford to keep it going. Netflix going to $8 month for Blu-ray. Honda making robots that read brain waves. Howard Stern to market the Palm Pre.

WDC Goes SSD

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:35:28 -0700

Conficker looking at the Conficker virus. Xeon 550 considered transformational. Microsoft is killing Encarta. Turned out to be a fiasco. Video games improve eyesight. WDC buys SSD company, goes silicon. Why not? Look for Orion Moon to Mars launcher. IBM tries to patent the whole idea of offshoring. Mark Cuban fined for Twittering. I read Motley Fools Five Reasons Dell should buy Palm.

Best Buy Best Buy

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:24:54 -0700

Apple sued over various infringements concerning the iPhone. This will never end. This Saturday is turn off the light day at 8:30 PM. AT&T will act as a cop for the RIAA. Conficker worm aiming at April 1st. Get ready. Fairchild cutting back. The Open Cloud movement begins to develop. MSFT not happy. Fallout 3 wins best game of the year. Best Buy looking good according to experts. Show sponsored by Squarespace.com. Code: Tech.

IBM Back on Track to Buy Sun, Says Intel

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:43:51 -0700

Blockbuster doing a deal with TiVo to deliver movies. Cranky Geeks no longer on TiVo. Complaints building in China over censorship of YouTube. PA Sexting girls suing the DA over his threats. Otellini says Intel will buy Sun. New Canon camera. Psybot infects routers. Sun CEO sees open source as a gateway to the clouds. Sprint WiMAX in 10 cities.

Dell Says it Will Kill the iPhone!

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:11:06 -0700

Google changing strategy and adopting the semantic search model. Dell says it will release an iPhone killer. Oh really? iPhone sued over being used as a book reader. Suse Linux 11 hopes to take over data centers. IBM and Wyse getting together to re-introduce thin client computing. Win7 being changed as expected. Red Hat to be bought by Oracle? More 3D theaters coming soon. Steve Pearlman introduces OnLive. I call it Cloud Gaming.

Will IBM NOT Buy Sun??

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:58:23 -0700

Sony-Ericsson to stay in place. Apple iPhone all over the news with weird stories and gossip. I reveal it here. Microsoft IE8 flopping. People bailing out already! Dell to Buy Palm? Why mot? Al Gore fuss over his speech. I suspect a publicity stunt. IBM Sun deal seems to be fading. Linux World to become Open Source World. Gartner has dire predicton. You will not like what you hear.

Unlocked iPhones for Sale?

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:27:23 -0700

Cisco to buy vid cam company. MSFT IE8 supposedly great. New iPhone models coming? Someone thinks so. Google backs Sony reader. AT&T to sell iPhones without contracts. Birds dying off, they say. New Mozilla mobile browser. Dell Adamo made in China by Quanta. Apple sells HD now. Safari hacked. IBM-Sun merger called anti-competitive. By who? Sony freezes salaries. Google apps to be shut down by government? Why? Cadillac has Internet in the car itself. Visit: www.Squarespace.com use the code "Tech."

Will IBM Buy Sun??

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:55:22 -0700

Will IBM buy Sun? Something called Open Cloud Computing is in the conversation. 1480 stories about iPhone cut and paste. A new flying car in the news. Dinosaurs found with fuzz on them. Amazon sued over Kindle. New Fujitsu reader comes along. Psystar does new Apple clone. Cranky Geeks does a good take on AMD-Intel suit. Meanwhile AMD server chips beat Intel.

Three New Android Phones Coming

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:37:50 -0700

Dell Adamo Laptop getting a lot of ink. Dell stakes claim to the world's thinnest machine. Silverlight 3 the target of Microsoft attention. Cisco still in the news. Cisco embraces Open Source? Why? MySQL injection out of control. Three new Android phones coming. Windows 7 may not drive demand. Why not? Lots of weird start-ups showing off at SXSW event in Austin. UWB standards group shut down. Sigh. IDC says that the economic downturn will drive Linux sales up.

Windows 7 RC1 in May!

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:33:12 -0700

Apple supposedly bringing out cut and paste for iPhone! So what? Cisco brings out what they call a server-computer. SXSW conference appears to have overloaded the local 3G network from too many iPhones. Ha. Meanwhile Apple Mac sales down 16-percent. Decline will continue, they say. Creepy robot runway model developed. MSFT looks to have a release candidate for Windows 7 in May. Intel pulls license from AMD. Opera Turbo in the news. Inventor of the Web conned online. Oracle gives up on MySQL.

WOZ Breaks Foot!!

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:53:45 -0700

Google VOIP to be ported to Gphone. Too much news about iPOD shuffle. Google "behavioral-based ads." I discuss the history of direct marketing. Nintendo has sold 100 million DS's! CBS to stream NCAA tourney. Woz breaks foot! US Air sued for $1 million over lost luggage. Dell releases cool looking computer. Lenovo rolls out a cheapie. Squarespace.com sponsors today's show. Visit them.

Netbook for $219?

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:44:17 -0700

Apple may use touchscreens for its Netbook. Intel's newest design already does. Wireless-only households on the increase in the USA. Guess who is number one? New fast LiON technology. There are 50 million Wii users. Microsoft vows openness with its app store with same split to developers as Apple. Should robots wink? Look for new GMB Netbooks for $219. I give you some details. Other competitors emerge.

Can Woz Stay on TV?

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:51:15 -0700

Apple App store in the news. $7.2 billion broadband stimulus. Legacy Locker, who needs it? Woz is dancing with the stars with a pink boa. Dell going after the Panasonic Toughbooks. Will or can the ARM chip blow out the Atom? Top Netbooks cited by PC World.

Apple Netbook Rumors are Back!

Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:28:19 -0700

Apple netbook rumors reemerge. Meanwhile the Apple App Store now has 25,000 apps. Seagate show super fast data rate disk. Another Google Docs glitch. A bad one. Study sez: your are paying over 3 dollars a minute for that cell phone! Intel working on new white box stuff. CeBit closes on 22-year low. Analysts say Win7 to be done by summer!

Craigslist and the Hookers

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:59:49 -0800

Facebook adopts "copy to win" strategy. 14.8 billion views in Jan. Wow. Cook county sues Craigslist over Erotic Services. Blackberry App Store opens. eeePC in a keyboard coming. DTV coupon program back on track. CeBit underway. New word Sext as in sext message. Sponsor Squarespace.com code: tech.

Open Source Guru Goes to Microsoft

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:24:31 -0800

Amazon to sell e-books for the iPod touch and iPhone. AMD names its new foundry. EU ends full-time monitoring of Microsoft. What changed? Sun CEO says he is now worried. IBM Open Source guru goes to Microsoft. Lenovo selling PC's to China. Shocker. Should HP buy Palm? Is WOW addictive? Italian computer users told to "fast" from tech. Will Twitter be sold to Google??

Apple Rolls Out New Machines

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 17:02:24 -0800

Apple rolls out new machines. iMac unchanged but bigger. Intel Atom chip a big hit. Mobile web search done mostly by the iPhone. More Carol Bartz stories. Microsoft keeps H1B folks. Dell needs to acquire Palm? AMD gets 3Com guy as Chairman. Mobile phones sales down. Qualcomm share rise. Microsoft Kumo search being tested internally only. Other Kumo sites showing up.

Nokia 5800 Lament

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:42:36 -0800

Pentax trying to catch up with digital cameras. Nokia 5800 phone craps out in USA because of the 3G network. March means a new iMac. An asteroid nearly blew up earth today! Kindle 2 has everyone jacked up suddenly. I suspect a PR trick. Samsung bring out new camera. CEBIT opens today with Gov. Arnold in Hannover. Microsoft keeps rebranding search. China satellite crashes into the moon. New Prius 50 MPG. Gates speaking at Rotary club in Seattle. HP service craps out. PC shipments to sink by 112-percent in 2009. DTV reception not always good. Motorola expect mobile business to rebound. Ha.

Dell Earnings Plummet

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:38:11 -0800

Microsoft starts to screw up Windows 7. It begins! Kindle text-to-speech is not going to ruin audio book business. Dell earnings slide 48-percent. How? Microsoft is slashing pay for contractors. New chip technology designed not to work right. Error-prone chips somehow improve battery life. Google lets you add pictures to street view. Judge makes person give up password to laptop.

Nokia Laptop Coming

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:29:58 -0800

Windows Mobile 7 to be released in 2010. Boycott has begun to not buy any e-book priced over $9.99. Sources in Asia say that Windows 7 will be out in September for sure. Check out Cranky Geeks for a debate. AMD Istanbul chip being showed. Dell Mini 10 does not have upgradeable memory. Nokia may be in the laptop business. Juniper Network processor delivers 604 Gbps. Wow. HBO on the PC, maybe.

Office 14 Delayed

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:47:21 -0800

Look out for Excel bug. Get yours fixed. No Office 14 until 2010. Gmail has another outage. Meanwhile everyone still marching into the cloud. Steve Jobs is 54. Google jumps on the anti-MSFT EU case with Mozilla and Opera. Micron lays off 2000. Dick Tracy watch from LG. I list the MIT 10 Emerging Technologies for 2009. Can you spell bogus?

MSFT: Elevate America!

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:04:27 -0800

Microsoft asks laid off employees to give some money back. Look for the green comet tonight, if you can! Apple may do a Netbook for $599. Why so expensive? Microsoft going to do something called Elevate America -- an educational program so people can learn to boot Windows. Steve Jobs may not be at the Apple board meeting. Fired workers are taking confidential data. OMG. Comcast brings out Comcast on Demand. Ballmer's Big Bet. Ubuntu goes for the cloud. IBM doing a data center in ham country. 10 Tbits/sq inch coming. CeBit will have the 10-inch Netbooks.

Intel versus nVidia

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:21:57 -0800

Hulu rethinks everything. Americans conducted 13.5 billion online searches in January. Intel suing nVidia. nVidia says the cpu business of Intel's is decaying. Pirate Bay guys joking around on stand. Gmail goes offline. A winner. Space junk story never ends. Geneva Motor Show shows baby Rolls. Google sued again. I mock dumb slow news day stories.

$100 Netbook Coming?

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:51:44 -0800

Facebook remains in the news for its terms of service. National Academy of Sciences says USA forensics stinks. Flash on iPhone still a controversy. What's a Selphy printer? MSFT kills its EQUIPT program. Never heard of it in the first place. Coming soon, the $100 Netbook. Judge throws out privacy suit against Google. Average age of first phone owners in UK is eight-years-old. Cripes!

!080p on a Cell Phone? Why?

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:28:51 -0800

Facebook attacked for changing the license so they own everything you ever do on their site and your site! LG committing to the Windows Mobile platform. Why? Pirate Bay lawsuit takes a turn. Look for a Universal charger for all mobile phones. Yahoo Mobile shown. HTC brings out the Android 2. NVidia has a cell phone chip that will deliver 1080p. Tech layoffs hit 300,000. Silicon valley is worried. Liberty Media will get Sirius-XM.

Twestivals, Picobox and Nettop Box Coming at You.

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 18:41:56 -0800

Today is Darwin Day. Hooray for the Darwin Awards. Nothing came of it. Space traffic congestion seems to need money. I'm galled by new words such as Twestival and Nettop box. Find out what they are! Does Twitter need an explanation? Babies who gesture have bigger vocabulary. NVidia Picobox now out. Can you downgrade Win 7 to XP? Experts want to know. Microsoft putting huge bounties on virus writers. PHP under attack. Google Buys Paper Mill to convert it to a server farm. Pioneers lays off 10,000. What's an "extra-communist?"

Strange Facts About Darwin

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:15:36 -0800

RIM outlook is grim. Ford sees industry sales stabilizing. Kindle still in the news. When will it end? Author's Guild is irked that the Kindle will talk to you. Yahoo re-introducing BOSS. Darwin Day coming, Strange facts about Darwin listed here. VMWare might be a target from Cisco. Horrible working conditions in China, so they say. Where is America's CTO? SanDisk going after flash market in a big way.

IBM's Future with Juniper is Cloudy

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:29:23 -0800

Too many Kindle stories today. Why? Google wants to get in on the smart grid program. Microsoft Windows 7 beta stopped in its tracks. No multi-touch on G1 because of Apple. $99 iPhone coming this summer. FAA computers hacked. More mobile data to be used in Europe than USA. Nokia 5800 getting ink. Global warming pushing birds further North.IBM and Juniper in Bed. MSFT gets its 10,000 patent.

Fake Dalai Lama on Twitter Exiled!

Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:07:39 -0800

Kindle II rolled out. Nothing special. Google now syncs mail and calendar with iPhone. New AMD tri-core released. Kaspersky hacked! Apple beginning of the end. Fake Dalai Lama on Twitter. Mozilla getting cocky. I go off on a weird planted story.

MySQL Co-Founder Quits Sun

Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:57:38 -0800

Windows 7 has more issues. Privacy groups complain about Latitude being a stalkers tool. Steve Wozniak getting back into the game. Bill Gates releases mosquitoes at TED. Xbox360 and Netflix deal worked out. Painting your room different colors. Microsoft not doing a smart phone. MySpace nets 90,000 sexual offenders. T-Mobile markets an 8-megapixel phone. Who cares? Norway drops legal complaints against Apple. Wolves have a lot of sex with dogs it seems. Lenovo gets rid of CEO. MySQL co-founder quits SUN.

Windows 7 Now Getting Slammed?

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:32:16 -0800

Palm Pre pumping up the stock. Second day of news about the crackpot Singularity University. Cults emerge when there is no work to be had. June 12 should be real date DTV transition. Google Latitude is in the news. Negative stories about Windows 7, finally! Facebook is five years old. Cisco good news and bad news. Why the Feds should embrace the cloud. Motorola hopes to become a trendsetter again? Is Eric Schmidt the next David Geffen?

Windows 7 Getting Over-Hyped

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:32:23 -0800

Windows 7 getting too much ink with new buzz-term "ecosystems." Meanwhile, they cannot bring out one good version. Sun hopes to save the company with the cloud. Cell phones kills man. Moto no moto. Google getting in trouble in Europe. Carol Bartz throwing weight around. G1 users getting voice search. Crazy Singularity University crops up.

Is Google Too Big?

Mon, 02 Feb 2009 13:50:10 -0800

Microsoft says Win 7 does not need a second beta. Propaganda machine cranked up. Google getting slammed with negative publicity. I'm suspicious. Alaskan volcano still going to blow. Flash on the iPhone coming, finally! GoDaddy Ad hits home run. New quad core iMac coming? The design will be interesting. DTV delay may still happen. Microsoft stealing people from Yahoo. Dell Smartphone in the news. Panasonic getting hammered. Nokia to leave Finland? Michael Dell featured in NYT article.

Intel Getty Cloudy

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:18:37 -0800

No Win7 allowed at Georgetown, Alaska volcano about to blow. Sony compared to Nintendo. Amazon to unveil the Kindle 2. Cloned dog still in the news. I got to see the first cloned dog in Korea. Intel going to the SaaS cloud in Europe. Look out for the Aptera. Go to Budget.com/tech. Clicker available for NPR. Listen in to see what I am talking about.

Gmail Goes Anti-Cloud

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:44:46 -0800

Gmail taken offline. I'm calling it anti-cloud computing. M-labs will let you check on bandwidth throttling. Blackberry Storm sells well. Day three of IE8 promotion. Digital phone camera adds clicking sound. Should the movie aspect of the phone add a whirring sound? Cloned dog goes commercial. Acer smart phone coming. MSFT keeps H1Bs while firing citizens? IBM wants money.

Miserable Monday with 40,000 Layoffs

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:56:45 -0800

More Microsoft IE stories. Please stop! IBM guy finally gets into Apple. IPhone patent looks as if it will impinge on Palm Pre. New Zealander get MP3 player with military screts. 2TB Green HD from WDC. USA may require to make cell phones click loud when taking pictures. Chip market to fall 28-percent. EU warns kids to turn down your MP3 players.

Miserable Monday with 40,000 Layoffs

Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:05:08 -0800

Layoffs at Sprint and Philips. IE being finalized. Win7 stops downloading on Feb. 10. Blackberry glitches. Photoshop CS4 pirated version has virus. Femtocell changing the way we use phones. iLIFE 09 ships tomorrow. I have no idea what iLIFE actually is and do not want to know. Twitter valued at $250 million. For what? Zune sales way down. Cisco to do servers. Games outselling DVD's. EU may demand MSFT bundle rival browsers with Windows.

Microsoft Fires 5000

Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:59:55 -0800

Microsoft kills 5000 down, profits fall too. Google revenues up while profits slip. Apple made money from overseas. Sony warning of a full year loss -- $3 billion. Quad core price war breaks out. Now is the time to get a computer! Seagate finally gets the drives fixed. MSFT sends out a bad patch. Texas heads to creationism. Pandora adds audio ads into stream.

Conficker Worm in 6-Percent of All Computers

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:50:14 -0800

Jan. 21 marked by no news. Everyone is on pins-and-needles over upcoming earnings reports. Intel may take a loss for the first time in 22 years. Conficker in 6-percent of all computers says Panda. Seagate hard disk fix doesn't work right. AMD dropping prices again. Linden buying virtual retailers. HP CEO makes 42.5 million. Google earnings tomorrow has everyone wondering.

IBM Sez: Strong 2009

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:51:34 -0800

Payment processor Heartland may have lost 100,000,000 credit card numbers to hackers. Intel's new chips. Steve Jobs needs to disclose health info to SEC. Comcast being probed for phone practices. Android point man quits. Belkin faking reviews. IBM sees strong 2009. Where are the MSFT job cuts? Seagate has maybe 30-percent of drives failing. The Conficker worm is ready to trigger. Google scraps newspaper ad program.

China Numer One on Net

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:31:56 -0800

Steve Jobs takes off six months. Nortel speculation. Motorola and Seagate doing layoffs. iPhone browsers coming out of the woodwork. Microsoft patches keep coming. China now number one on the net. New report says online threats to kids are bullies not sex predators. Check out the Prada on Google earth. IBM tops in patents once more. American Idol egg on face. Win 7 beta destroying MP3 files. Gartner says PC sales almost flat.

Sony Takes a Bath

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:03:37 -0800

Sony to post perhaps a $1.1 billion operating loss. Sony needs to pay more attention. New E-cars cropping up everywhere. Stanford setting up an energy research center. Daimler joins forces with Daimler to swap battery technologies for an electric Smart car. There will be an iPhone Nano! Maybe. SCO plans to auction off assets. MRI images 100X more detail. Yahoo picked a new CEO. Windows7 patched.

Hot New Electric Cars

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:00:43 -0800

CES attendance down 22-percent. I didn't go either. Google footprint issues becoming the big debate amongst engineers. Legislation may ban all cell phone use while driving. 2600 people killed because of cell-phone related wrecks. Cool cars in Detroit. Maserati doing the best. Guitar Hero 3 becomes first billion dollar game. DTV date change may be moved back. Obama is concerned. GM has electric Cadillac in development. Look for Toyota to win this electric war anyway.

CES is as Dull as Predicted

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:10:48 -0800

Adam Curry invited to meet the Queen. Ballmer's keynote panned. Ballmer promised Win 7 this year. Meanwhile top Windows exec warns that it probably won't ship in 2009. Yahoo deal skunked. Sun downgraded by Goldman. Stock sinks. Lenovo looks as if it is trouble. Sony has nifty looking new laptop. OLPC falling apart. Layoffs coming. New Dish Network device has what appears to be a SlingCatcher built-in. Cell chip will be used by Toshiba in their new TVs. Cisco story continues. I am dubious. Memorex is in the news with a lame Cnet story. Dell moving Irish operation to Poland.

CES Best of Show Announced

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:18:49 -0800

Intel sales take a nosedive. Toshiba pounding the midrange DTV's. Look for cell TV. Microsoft will give free upgrades to certain Vista users. Verizon is going with MSFT search engine. Sun jumping into cloud computing. 1UP sold, EGM shuttered. 3G service killing 2G service. Portland gets WiMax. New SanDisk risky player. Milky Way in the news. Best of CES items announced. I discuss.

Motorola Tries Gimmick

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:59:42 -0800

MacWorld begins, CES awaits. Hacker messes up MacWorld keynote. Twitter hacker found out. Copy protection removed from iTunes? PS3 sales up in North America. Motorola to offer phone made from recycled plastic bottles. BestBuy selling refurbished phone. HP new Netbook runs 8-hours. MSFT names new President. Athlon Neo to be released. Cisco doing home networking? Yes, watch 802.11n take off with Cisco behind it.

Sony Baloney

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:30:39 -0800

Steve Jobs blames emaciation on hormone imbalance. Twitter hacked to put up fake posts. China will be punishing search engines for linking to porn. Lenovo unveils clunker. Howard Stringer under pressure to do something at Sony. Freescale to roll out Netbook chip. Expert claims MSFT made huge money over "Vista Capable" scam. New Mac Mini coming out. Blu-Ray dominates Christmas sale. Ballmer to be Keynoter at CES show. Seagate moves to USB 3. Most confusing High-tech buzzwords listed.

End of Year Predictions Show I

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:59:15 -0800

Absolutely horrible predicitons. Most are not predictions at all!!

Digital Certificates Cracked

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:24:03 -0800

Steve Jobs being sick rumor re-emerges. Digital certificates cracked by hackers. Windows 7 Beta downloaded to an extreme. LG coins new Trumotion moniker. Uses scanning backlight. Negative wordage aimed at Microsoft analyzed. Home server coming from Apple. Self-parking car comes from Lincoln. Top 9 skills for 09.

Bad Digital Photo Frames Lurk

Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:20:55 -0800

Microsoft designs a pay-as-you-go patent. Sony PS3 not catching up? HP gets PC and MAC server. So? Extra second added to the year. Windows 7 to come out early, now leaked. Nothing special they say. Will websites have to be rated. Photo frames have malware. Merry Christmas. Verizon wins $33 million from squatter. Apple, Google, MS sued over icon previews.MMO patent emerges. Gov't sets up call center for analog to digital changeover. Texting while driving finally becoming illegal. Seven most under-reported stories of 2008.

4 Things MSFT Did Right in 2009

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 18:16:13 -0800

Santa being tracked by Norad. Notebook sales outpacing dektops. Finally. HP geared up to sell 18 million laptops in 2009. Windows 7 to be out in 2009. The Digital Cliff coming your way. Steve Jobs spirit suddenly "insitutionalized" within Apple. Today's list. "4 things Microsoft got right in 2008.

Microsoft Does it Again

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 18:25:35 -0800

NASA May Give Away Shuttles?

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:58:36 -0800

Microsoft update story continues. More interesting is the fact that Firefox may have huge vulnerability. Toshiba debuts 512 GB SSD at CES. Probably very expensive. Expert expects 25-percent penetration by 2011. Sim City on the iPhone. NASA may give shuttles away from free. Graphite memory coming? Top ten over-hyped products from VNUnet. Sponsored by Budget.com/tech.