It’s National Star Wars Day and we celebrate with someone who loves space, Brian Cooley! Spotify sets its sights on iTunes, but its still only available in Europe. The Department of Justice is taking a deeper look at the AT&T/T-Mobile merger deal, and DO NOT rent a laptop from Aaron’s unless you want someone spying …

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Every company can be hacked, but we didn’t expect Sony to tell us that an additional 24 millions users and over 12,000 credit cards were acquired. It’s not looking good for you guys.Microsoft and RIM are new BFFs in the mobile space and they need each other, plus new iMacs! Just like we predicted. Buzz …

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Twitter shines in another moment for citizen journalism and the internet. And then there’s that guy who live-tweeted the whole raid, without knowing about it. Sony officially apologizes for the PSN outage and they’re giving back to the users, but is it enough? And we Like what the BOL Menu is serving. Buzz Out Loud …

Read the full post →“BOL 1460: Twitter breaks the Osama Bin Laden news!”

It turns out that no matter how technologically savvy we get in the world, we could always be betrayed by the meat puppets behind the servers. Thanks for that one, Donald. And human error does appear to be what happened to Amazon, and also the Yankees. DSLReports, on the other hand, just plain got hacked. …

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Dear every company on earth who’s apparently selling our data to anyone who will buy it and/or collecting it in fat, juicy databases that are like candy to hackers: can you just, like, try to be a tiny bit more careful? And maybe we will, too? Ok, thanks, great. Verizon’s LTE service is creeping back …

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Sony comes clean about six days after its network intrusion and admits that its hack attack actually led to the reveal of tens of millions of usernames, addresses, dates of birth, and maybe even passwords, security questions, and credit card numbers. So, that’s a pretty bad day over at Sony. Also, Apple comes clean on …

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Facebook is unveiling, Youtube’s going Hollywood, Nook Colors are Flashing, Netflix is growing, The White iPhone is coming, & Location Gate continues with Microsoft joining in the mix. All this while the USA tries to catch up with it’s super slow download speeds. I’d like a Tech Wrap Supreme please to help me digest all …

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On today’s show, the iPhone is apparently storing your location data even when you’ve turned off the location tracking services. And law enforcement agencies and a cottage industry of iOS forensics companies have been taking advantage of these logs for years. Nevertheless, Steve Jobs appears to insist in an email to a customer that Apple …

Read the full post →“BOL 1455: Steve Jobs to you: shut up and eat your hummus”

On today’s show, a brilliant solution to the problem of science education, and which tech companies have the best and worst green records (it is Earth Day, after all — for real this time)! Also, Google and Apple are sending your location data back to the Mother Ship, Amazon is making everyone nervous about the …

Read the full post →“BOL 1454: Don’t make more kids smart … just make more smart kids”

On today’s show, prep is minimal, but the news is pretty interesting: Amazon’s cloud service went down overnight, taking lots of sites with it — including the Cydia jailbreak app delivery store. Apple blew it out with earnings, and so did Verizon — and HTC Thunderbolt sales. We continue to debunk the iPhone tracking discovery, …

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