Tech News Today 471: Throttled To Slowsville

Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell

Facebook fights back against Yahoo, RIM’s plan for success, flying cars (or driving planes), and more.

Guest: Jason Hiner

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Running time: 43:34

Tech News Today 470: Cesspool Of Unprotected OS

Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell

Hot iPad not too hot, Dell goes all 1960 on computing, Microsoft conquering all, and more.

Guest: Peter Wells

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Running time: 46:40

FourCast 114: No Keyboard, No Security

Hosts: Tom Merritt and Scott Johnson

We’ll need a disaster to teach us computer security, but we won’t have those nasty keyloggers since we’ll all use tablets.

Guests: Dwight Silverman and Tony Wang

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Running time: 49:59

S&L Podcast – #97 – Oh Man, We’re Near 100!

We realise right off the top of the show that we need to start planning for our 100th episode.  Soon!  We also figure out why SciFi is sometimes better than reality and dish what we thought of The Hunger Games movie. Also: GAME OF THRONES!!!

WHAT ARE WE DRINKING?

Tom: 2011 Viñedos Errázuriz Ovalle Merlot/Malbec Panilonco Reserve Viñedos Marchigüe

Veronica: 2006 Bruno Rocca Barbaresco

QUICK BURNS

Expecto Patronum! Harry Potter is now an e-book 

On sci-fi and technology 

Could the Amazon Kindle Revitalize Science Fiction? 

John Hodgman and Rob Reid talk Year Zero, Aliens, and the RIAA 

CALENDAR

BARE YOUR SWORD

What books would you recommend to someone scared of the Genre?

What do you do when reading?

TV, MOVIES AND VIDEO GAMES

HBO releases extended GoT world map 

Here there be White Walkers in stylized Game of Thrones maps 

GAME OF THRONES companion book announced 

BOOK CHECK-IN

The Magicians by Lev Grossman 

 

Tech News Today 469: Spam-Cop Code

Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell

Foxconn workers unhappy about reduced hours, Google’s plan to sell tablets, MasterCard and Visa hacked to pieces, and more.

Guest: Dick DeBartolo

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Running time: 46:39

Tech News Today 468: Good News Everyone!

Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane and Iyaz Akhtar.

Tim Cook visits a reformed Foxconn, Does Google make more on iPhone than Android? Spotify? How about SpotiFREE!?!

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Running time: 38:34

Tech News Today 467: Galaxy Note Gives You Baby Hands

Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane and Iyaz Akhtar.

Next PlayStation inspired by Simba, Everybody loves China! Spy on Google while it spies on you and more.

Guests: Becky Worley and Veronica Belmont

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Running time: 38:45