Man, Google–so brazen. They’re going to let newsmakers comment on news stories right on the Google News results page. Doesn’t that make the Google News site, already the target of angry news organizations that feel their copyrights are being infringed, even more of a news destination on its own? Oh, who knows? I’m sure Google …
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Google’s YouTube purchase is turning into even more of a lawsuit morass than predicted. Sure, we figured Google would get sued, but we never thought it would be buried under an increasingly gigantic class action that brings together such disparate parties as rugby associations and American publishers. What’s next, late-night TV commercials? Have your copyrights …
Oh, snap! OK, rule 1: Don’t go around thinking you’re smarter than the folks at Defcon. You’re not, and you’re not going to fool them by trying to be undercover after they already know you’re coming. Rule 2: All fake CEOs will eventually be unmasked, whether we want them to be or not. Rule 3: …
Congress is asking the FCC to apply the V-chip to everything. That pretty much means the Internet, but where does it end? Will I have to install a V-chip on my face? Also, Google expands its empire by getting into the phone market. Where will it end? With armed robots, my friends. Armed robots. Buzz …
Apparently law enforcement careers are as close as you can get to superhero living. That’s the only explanation for why a raid targeting mass production of game console mod chips would be called Operation Tangled Web. Oh, and there was a huge raid targeting mass production of game console mod chips, so hack your own …
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With Molly gone, we actually had three people who would definitely go to space on today’s podcast. Jason Howell, Bonnie Cha, and myself all would be willing to ride a rocket. Now we just need a rocket. But we won’t have much money left after we bid on the 700 MHz spectrum, which will be …
Is a YouTube video with a talking snowman an unseemly way to go about the democratic process? Apparently it is, per Mr. Romney. He and Rudy Giuliani have scheduling conflicts with the Republican version of the CNN-YouTube debate, and Romney says the snowman thing is just too silly. Sorry, guys, democracy is on the Internet …
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What’s a more serious threat to national security than BitTorrent? Well, it’s either Microsoft or pants, depending on whom you believe (I suggest you believe neither). Also, HD DVD takes the low road — the low price road, that is — and Google is for sure, for realsies, no foolin’ going to start filtering copyrighted …
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It turns out Microsoft Windows is a lot like McDonald’s hamburgers–over a billion people served, and a surprising number of them feeling slightly ill. Also in the news today, Sprint is hinting at open networks that may turn out to be not-so-open. the digital TV transition is a digital disaster in the making. and the …
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Apparently, the button people go crazy and gum up gadgets and computers with an almost unbelievable number of unusable and unattractive buttons! At least, that’s how you view it if you live in Tom’s and Steve Jobs’ weird little button-hating heads. In other news, check out Microsoft, making the Xbox 360 HD DVD player the …
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