Show #111
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News
- NY Times finally picks up on Text Message Scam
- Derek Explains how Text Messages work (no overhead)
- Europe currently doesn't charge for Text Messages
- US mainstream finally questioning practice of charging
- Malware sent out on Digital Picture Frames
- The gift that keeps on giving....
- Mercury Digital 1.5" Digital Photo Frame at Walmart
- http://www.virscan.org/report/ad3a216af3ba2c3a7d9369f85d884e35.html
- Trojans, Backdoors, etc. galore
- Samsung SPF-85H Sold through Amazon also infected
- RIAA Changing Tacks
- Instead of suing consumers, forcing ISP's to track and cut off offenders
- Not cheap to dig through gigs of logs and install packet sniffers
- ISP's pushing back and asking RIAA to pay for costs
- Joost is becoming more like Hulu, web only
- Google Analytics Event Tracking
Top 5 Scary Tech of 2008
- Hearing Voices at the Store
- Directional Sound
- Law Enforcement Takes Your Laptop
- Entering the Country
- Without Probable Cause
- Cyberwar
- Attack the nation's infrastructure
- Emergency Response Services
- Banks
- Electrical Grid
- Water
- Technological Singularity
- AI
- Technology deciding we're irrelevant
- Large Hadon Collider
- Create a black hole at Earth's surface?
- Material called strangelets.
- Back online June 2009
Tech Predictions of 2009
- Apple: Steve Jobs Step Down? / Hearing About the Next Gadget
- MS: Windows 7 Uphill Battle (has to erase bad Vista blood)
- MS: Web Office Launch head-to-head with Google Docs
- MS: E3 announce XBox720
- Google: Web Based GoogleOS
- Nintendo: Quiet Year / More Peripherals + Games
- Sony: PS4?
- Blu-ray make-or-break year
- Mobile devices will take over, Smartphones on crack
- Twitter will go away or need to find money
Gamer's Corner (Conferences, New Developments, Game Reviews)
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