Who Bought who this week? HP, EDS, CBS, CNet

A lot of tech companies traded like a high stakes poker game. Of course this is not unusal for companies to buy other companies - It is interesting to see who bought what. It makes for the big question: Will the new parent company keep their new child or will we see it in a [...]

This Week in Tech History - 5/12/08

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Items Discussed this week:
Printing Press
Albert Einstein
George Lucas
Apple
Microsoft
IEEE
AMD
CentOS
Nintendo
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Episode 32 05/07/08

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Posting the Show - Computer Fixin - Site redesign - TCT Podcast Guest - Live Show Monday 7PM EST - Need a Job - 
On this day: Millionaire calculating machine patent(1895), Gary Kasparov wins game 4 of 6 vs. IBM Computer (1997), Intel PII releases(1997), Rolling Stone 1000th issue(2006)
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LIVE SHOW 5/05/08

Happy Cinco De Mayo - this was the LIVE SHOW. We talked about a lot today. And at most we got 11 people in the room which didn’t reach the25 person mark, but we will run the contest next week. 25 people in the room and we’ll give away a gift certificate. Everybody that shows [...]

Do we rely on sites like twitter to stick around?

*Note - Changed the link to ustream. The YouTube version was nothing but static. Sorry about that
The other day I was talking with EpicOnline on my live stream at http://live.geekazine.com and we started talking about Twitter and what would happen if the company folded tomorrow. Not that it would happen, but we’ve already seen [...]

Episode 31 - 4/30/08

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Taxes come back to haunt  - Live Show Monday 7PM EST - Sound - 30 LBS - Win Zune or iPod -
On this day: Mothra vs Godzilla (64), Last Episode of Battlestar Galactica(79), Commodore Bankruptcy(80), Tiger Released(05)
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Final Negotiations with Yahoo - Bitstrip Friday

This week we sit down with Steve Ballmer and Jerry Yang to try and resolve this merger issue. Dr. Eric Schmidt also joins the group. Select the picture to enlarge.

 
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Webware 100 Winners - Who won, and what’s new.

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Web Apps.  Can we live without them anymore? What did we ever do without them? Webware put out it’s top 100 and we’re going to go through them and see what was good, what was bad, and what was… well, you know..
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