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This will be the only time I talk about this:

Two weeks ago while attending Blogworld – New Media Expo 2009, I went to upload my video content to TVazine – hosted by Mevio. The uploader didn’t work. After trying to get a solution from the online forums, I was told that the person who could help me was not in the office and I wouldn’t have a solution until “the weekend, maybe later”.

Because of this issue, I lost out on 4 days of video content. I had put some of it up on geekazine.blip.tv. That uploader was working just fine.

I took a week off from producing video content. The decision was made earlier this week and I had begun moving content. I am not sure if I will put up past episodes on blip.tv just yet. Certain videos will be up there, like the “Window7 on Ubuntu 9.04″, since it’s still being circulated.

I had 2 sponsors with Mevio – Eastbay and Footlocker. Because I ended relations with Mevio, I have to end relations with these sponsors. It is sad, but necessary.

I wish Mevio the best and maybe we will work together in the future. For now, the new 5 Tech Things will be found over on the new home of tvazine.com – geekazine.blip.tv.

Thanks.

Jeffrey Powers

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Here are your 5 tech things you should know for this week:

• Apple PC
• Password Hack
• Why Apple walked from US Chamber of Commerce
• AT&T and Verizon
• Will Twitter take things to next level?

We celebrate Eyebrow day as today Marx (pun intended) Groucho’s birthday. He was born in 1890 and died 3 days after Elvis.

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Here are your 5 tech things you should know for this week:

• Rocky Mountain Bank Gmail snafu
• Michael Tchao and the Apple Tablet rumor
• Warner Music and YouTube
• Security Essentials
• LightPeak

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• Windows 7 Upgrade
  • Mike Smith
  • Upgrade can take up to a Day
• Zune or iPod Touch?
  • Zune HD not that many applications.
    • Does have HD Radio – Where iPod has FM?
    • HD has OLED Technology
  • Could Zune be the BetaMax of Mobile Devices?

• Google purchases Re-Captcha, Adobe purchases Omniture
  • • Open Source
    • Using OCR technology
  • Adobe and Omniture
    • Website analysis
• Banking Lawsuit
  • $26,000
  • Bad verification
  • Personal issues
• Skype Being Sued
  • Joltid – founders of Skype
    • own patent P2P Tech
    • Niklas Zennstrom & Janus Friis
    • Suit since March
    • 75 Million / Day & injunction
    • 15 Billion since Joltid pulled the patent in March
  • Suing ebay and new owners
  • “Their allegations and claims are without merit and are founded on fundamental legal and factual errors,” eBay spokesman John Pluhowski said in a statement.
  • Can Skype create a new technology and leave Joltid in the dust?
  • Can Joltid cause such a rift for the consumer?

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• Skype Sold
  • Sold to ebay in 2005 for 2.6 billion – Meg Whitman – sore issue
  • 1.9 Billion was sold – 2.75 Billion overall – eBay keeps 35%
  • Silver Lake Partners with venture-capital firms Index Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz, as well as the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board
  • Joltid Ltd.  Skype co-founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, retained the rights to the peer to peer software when they sold the company.
• Snow Leopard Freezes
  • Spinning circle
  • Press the C key

• iPhone to get MMS
  • September 25^th.
  • Software update
• G-Screen
  • Dual screen laptop
  • Windows 7 – Intel Core 2 Duo – 4 GB of RAM – Nvidia GF900M GT discrete graphics – SATA, DVD, 6 or 9 cell batteries -weigh 8.7 pounds
  • Could change the Netbook?
• Twitter 101?
  • Depaul University
  • Digital Editing: From Breaking News to Tweets
  • Utilizing Twitter

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-         Steve Jobs in the cave.

• Tablet? Don’t think so.
• iPod Cameras
• Sept 9th

-         Sony E-reader – Google joining in

• Competes with Kindle
• $399 – more than Kindle
• Google Open Library – books.google.com
• Audiobooks – http://librivox.org/

-         When Pirates become Corporate Raiders

• Global Gaming Factory X,
• Swedish company that plans to buy The Pirate Bay domain for
• SKr60 million (about $8 million)
• Legal Site

-         Looking at Microsoft ad.

-         Don’t post your vacation plans

• Hint people will be there – Throw off scent
• Home Alone – Light timers – silhouette?
• Park a car in the driveway

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100 – a look back at the Podcast – Thanks to Frank for helping out – Summer of Podcasts Winners -  New Computer install – ASUS M4A78t-e with Phenom II X4 – 945 - $50 GC given away, open call for more email. My ultimate disgust with Starbucks & AT&T WiFi. – Not too impressed with Tweekdeck for iPhone – Day in Tech History growing fast

Important dates to remember: Ep. 150: Aug 04, 2010 – Ep. 200: July 20, 2011

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I – S.U.N. (Straight Up News)
130 Million CC’s
$300 PS3 – Is that really cheaper?
Build Your Own iPhone App
Palm Pre Opens Up Store
Dell Chinese Phone
Tumblr Additions – Hashtags and Facebook
XBox Failures at 54%
Windows 7 RC Ends Thursday
Army – Microsoft Moratorium Ending
Bing and Better
Users Sue Facebook
Hacker Sting Backfires

Listener email – Winner of $50
II
DNA Microchips
Why I Don’t Like Apple Rumors
Are You an Apple Die-Hard?
-Adobe Abandons Mac – The Power PC version anyway
Verizon iPhone – Will it be better?

QOTW – Are you an Apple die-hard?

III
Who Will Save MySpace? – iLike
Saturday Email to go Bye-Bye

Extras:
Holograms for the iPhone
A 3D Camera
16 Back to School Products

YouTubin
Fireball Air Cannon

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1 away from 100 – Madison Non Profit Day – Thanks to all on Summer of Podcasts. Winners will be contacted soon – Other giveaways – The Newest Podcast in Geekazine: the Day in Tech History – The New Computer is Ordered and Coming. It includes: ASUS M4A78t-e with Phenom II X4 – 945

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I – S.U.N. (Straight Up News)
Tr.im gets Trimmed
Banking by iPhone
Going to ECCC? – Sept 26
Google Voice iPhone – Still trying
Apple Antiglare – on Macbooks
Monitor Prices – Earthquake Affecting?
Microsoft Gets Netflix
Fewer Game Blockbusters
XP RC Mode Available
9 XP Patches
Yahoo Buys a Domain

II
Facebook / Friendfeed – The Google of Social Networking?
- Will Digg Rumors Happen again?
- Are you a Twitter Quitter?
–Nielson Results
- Would you Twitter the Birth?
- Don’t Emergency Tweet
- Archive your Tweets

QOTW – Do you think the Facebook / Friendfeed is a good marriage?

III
Why is everyone upset over a clean install of Win 7?
A Faster Google
Touchable Holography

Extras:
Shoot it! iPhone Postcards
Who owned this car?
Promethia at 18
Top 10 iPhone Business Apps
How to NOT Sell your Netbook

YouTubin
Guitar Hero – – Rubix Cube Solvin Kid

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-         Twitter went down

• What is a DOS –
• Block the door
• Nielson report teens don’t tweet.
  • 16% under 25
  • 20% are 55+
  • 3^rd party apps

-         Apple updates

• iPhone 3.0.1
• Windows Leopard
  • 18 updates for pictures
  • AirPort, Bluetooth, Safari 4 (Mac OS X 10.5)
  • iCal 3.x, MobileMe iDisk
  • Snow Leopard on Sale $29 for one machine, $49 for 5-user pack

-         No Twitter, but Google Voice

• Marines not allowed to use Twitter, MySpace, Facebook…
• Allowed to use on personal devices
• Security threat
  • I agree
  • Megaphone
• ESPN just announced they will do the same
• Google opens up Voice to US Soldiers
  • How this is different
  • Like a Care Package
  • Connection via computer

-         Defcon brings the bad

• Kevin Mitnik and Dan Kammersky websites compromised
• USB Conficker
• Wireless sniffed – password on Wall of Shame
• 2 ATMs – put
• Good items coming out
  • Hacker Badge security
  • Learn about new issues

-         The Shack

• If you see a faded sign
• Selling Radio Tubes in 1921
• Bought by Tandy in 1962
  • Introduced the Trash-80 – TRS 80
  • Aug 3^rd 1977
• Loosing
• April 2009, Radioshack began the “The Perfect Store Initiative”. In which stores are required to meet weekly layout and cleaning deadlines
• Q2 profits were up 18% from
• Will Q3 be better now that everyone is talking about them?

Site issues; but now it’s faster! Blogworld bound – The iPhone Update caused some problems today. Video studio is starting to shape up, but the computers need attention – Two more to Show 100 (August 19th). Congrats to Todd and GNC Show 500.

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I – S.U.N. (Straight Up News)
Did you update your iPhone to 3.0.1?
Snow Leopard Pre-Orders
The Shack – No Basketball players or B52 song here
1TB SSD
Zune HD Press Shots
10 Years for Modding XBOX
ABC on Netflix – Your TV is getting lonely
Million Linux Kernals at Once
Baby Used on Craigslist – He’s not up for Adoption
Why the App Developer was Banned
-NOTE to PCMag – Annoying Ad.
Nintendo Facebook
Palm Pre Ads
The Scammer Scams Defcon

II
Google vs. Apple – The war begins….
Google vs. Microsoft – Billboards tell all
FTC Steps In

QOTW – Is Google Waging Too Many Wars?

III
Consumption Meters
The Tenenbaum Issue – Did RIAA win?
Sony Not Doing Too Well?
Tech Cars Need Juice

Extras:
Nikon S100pj
Lego Lightbulb
Mimo 710s USB Monitor – WHAT!?! $149.00!?! Awesome!
Death Star Cookie Jar
World’s Largest Soap Bubble

YouTubin
Watch SSD Get Built
The Funny iPhone Commercial

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Challenge to Notebook / Netbook Makers. The Podcast Machine back up and running… – Final Days – Summer of Podcasts & announcement on Podcast Carnivale – Three more to Show 100 (August 19th). Thoughts out to Andy McCaskey. Looking for some supplemental income.

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I – S.U.N. (Straight Up News)
FreeyourID is Free
Sex Offender iPhone
Booyah!
Changes in Blip.tv
China Bans Mafia Wars
Intel Halts SSD – The fastest data corruption possible.
WD on Laptop 1TB
Million Dollar Netflix Challenge – Revamp and win
Samsung Chips Hit 1Ghz – Speed baby!
Monkey Brain
The 3-D Revolution – James Cameron’s Titanic will go on.

Special Report:
The AP and it’s Practices
Apple Tablet Rumor

II
Apple Blocks Google Voice
-17+ Apps
AT&T Blocks 4chan -
Verizon Palm Pre
-Sprint Acquires Virgin

QOTW – Do you use Hotel TV or your Notebook?

III
What is ‘Augmented Reality’?
Hotel Entertainment Changing?

Extras:
Desktop Background
Great .gov Websites
Bike of the Future
Gizmodo Apple Hype Probability Meter
7 Ways Technology Owns You
I lost the Cheese

YouTubin
How to guess the number of M&M’s

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