Archive for June, 2007

Best Damn Tech Show, Period 06.26.07

by drew on June 26, 2007 in tech show with 4 Comments


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The Guys take it easy during the summer, this week’s episode proves it. The crew enjoys a traditional American barbeque and manage to deliver a few precious tidbits of tech news.

News
Terry Semel steps down as head of Yahoo, or was pushed out. Yang takes center stage again with Susan Decker stepping up as president.

Rumor has it that Rupert Murdoch is considering an exchange in the form of MySapce.com for 25% share of Yahoo!, an estimated 12 billion dollars.

YouTube launched their remixer program last week in conjunction with Adobe’s Premiere Express software already available on PhotoBucket. There are a bunch of alternatives out there if you like this sort of thing. Our pick is JumpCut.com

Around the World Wide Web
YouTube extends its global reach by announcing versions of its site in Brazil, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain and the United Kingdom with translations where appropriate.

Iris on the Virus

Tech it Out
Sony are looking to roll out older TV shows (like Starsky and Hutch in 4 minute episodes especially for our ADD generation. They’re calling them minisodes.

With more and more clout, Google is taking on public policy via their new blog http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/

Tech Biffo

Amid accusations by Google, Microsoft has agreed to alter the Vista search when it rolls out its first service pack by adding a link to change the default desktop search option and agreed to give competitors technical instructions to help optimize performance.

Best Damn Tech Show, Period 06.19.07

by drew on June 20, 2007 in apple, bdtsp, tech show, tech tips with 3 Comments


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Twas a bit of mixed day for Apple at the WWDC in Frisco.

Apple released Safari for Windows and announced that Safari will be running on the new iphone.

Google are coming under increasing pressure amid privacy concerns following a report by UK-based human rights agency Privacy International that gave them the big thumbs down coming last behind the likes of Yahoo, Apple and MySpace.

Yahoo investors had a bit of a cry at the recent shareholders meeting, many calling for Terry Semel’s head and questioning recent executive departures. We all know Plante loves his Yahoo!

Disney’s ESPN has purchased the largest cricket website cricinfo.com in an attempt to become more global.

China are allegedly blocking Flickr after photos of the Tiananmen massacre from 1989 were posted according to Yahoo!s Hong Kong office. They cannot confirm these details.

A leaked report found on the NYT has Google accusing Microsoft of making it difficult for 3rd party search engines to replace the default live search on Vista.

Continuing on their out of control collision course, ebay has apparently pulled Google’s advertising after a plan was leaked to crash the ebay user conference in Boston to promote Google Checkout with promises of free booze and women (actually made the woman part up because it sounds good). We wish to see an all out brawl between Meg Whitman and Eric Schmidt.

YouTube apparently ready to start testing a product that theroretically identifies copyright clips and blocks them which should please media companies.

7 sex offenders caught. Aside from liking sex offense, they all have a myspace profile.

Have a Geek Week!!

Best Damn Tech Show, Period 06.12.07

by drew on June 13, 2007 in tech show with 4 Comments


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Google StreetView fallout, Apple iPhone almost out, DreamHost gets hit, the Swedes re-invent paper, NetFlix and Amazon team up, WordPress rocks, Geek Chick, Schmidt Faced, Iris on the Virus and much, much more!

Best Damn Tech Show, Period 06.05.07

by drew on June 6, 2007 in tech show with 5 Comments


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Boost your wifi signal with a cellphone and a cat5 cable, Microsoft and Google debut badass map technologies, CBS buys last.fm for a ton of loot, Microsoft shows off thier new expensive coffee table pc, iris on the virus, dr. drew and much, much more!