Show Notes, Episode: 007, Let's get ready to Rumblefish!

In this Episode Zach and Mike cover Google's effort to renew it's license by ceasing to redirect China's search traffic to Hong Kong.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/30/technology/30google.html?src=busln

They go on to discuss rumors of Google creating there own social network called Google Me. It seems that Google wants to take on FaceZBook.

 http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Google-Rumored-to-Be-Taking-Another-Swing-at-Social-70303.html

The topic of Windows 8 rumors comes up next. Leaked documents from Microsoft reveal some prospective feature the nex OS might bring.

http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/06/leaked-windows-8-slides-an-app-store-for-windows-ie9-beta-in-august.ars 

They also discuss the recent article on the Ntech Duo Blog which talks about an older Windows 8 rumor that predicts it will be a 128-bit OS.

This leads them into the topic for which this episode is named... Rumblefish,  a site that offers limited rights to music for use in YouTube videos.

http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/29/rumblefish-friendly-music/

Some long awaited news. Kindle available on Android

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_353408862_2?ie=UTF8&docId=165849822&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-1&pf_rd_r=14YT5TCQ4Y3A64ASQ6QC&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1268125162&pf_rd_i=507846

Zack then talks about his search into the new PS3 Plus service and what value if any it may have to offer at this time. 

For the Random topic of the week they talk about the passing of Nicolas Hayek, CEO of Swatch Group. The creator of the very famus and highly collected Swatch Watches.

http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/06/28/the-top-10-swatch-watches/ 

During the show a commercial was mentioned where the camera it was advertising was the smae one used to shoot the commercial.  Mike could not remember the brand or model of said camera. It was the Olympus PEN E-PL1 camera. 

http://www.geek.com/articles/gadgets/olympus-tv-commercial-about-the-pen-camera-was-shot-with-a-pen-20100510/

Episode 6 Show Notes

Episode 6, Summer Noise was recorded on June 22, 2010.
The episode title comes form all the background noise you may hear in the podcast. Since its summer the kids are home. So having a quite area to record wasn't possible. Usually the kids are at school or down for an after noon nap. This go round both Zack and Mike where on hand.

Mike talks about a possible upcoming interview with the Owner of Mile High Automation. A company specializing in high end home automation systems.
Mile High Automation

Zack moves on to discuss the up coming iPhone 4 and a possible early release date to help keep the up coming Droid phones from beating them to the new customers.
http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/21/iphone-4-pre-order-delivery/

Which leads them to talking about the up coming Droid 2 and Droid X.
Verizon Wireless Droid X Page
Droid X teaser
Droid 2 Specs

They go on to talk about Skype releasing an SDK (Software Development Kit) for mobile devices.
http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/22/skype-skypekit-sdk/

Next they talk about the up coming MSN Messenger App for the iPhone.
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/06/microsoft-puts-messenger-on-the-app-store.ars

This leads into updating information about the Kinect for the Xbox 360 and its possible price.
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2010/06/rumor-microsoft-to-charge-150-for-kinect.ars

Next Mike talks about Monday's release of iOS4 for the iPhone and iPod Touch. they talk about some of the new features and limitations that the touch has and about some issues people have encountered when installing the new OS.
http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/handheld/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=225700929&subSection=News

The show ends with Producer Mike's random story of the week.
John Glenn say Shuttle Program Should Stay
This topic was kept limited due to time. Zack could make a whole episode dedicated to space and conspiracy theories.

Episode 004 Show Notes

In this Episode Zach and Mike cover the announcement of the forth coming iPhone 4 and some of its more note worthy features. They also cover the up coming Farmville app for the iPhone and talk about the new gaming Znga plans to introduce to keep there customers hooked. Also haw Zynga has taken over merchandising in 7 Eleven stores.
http://blog.games.com/2010/06/09/farmville-for-iphone-and-ipod-touch-official-demo/

Zach talks about the way Google has improved there indexing to bring about better search results.
http://www.informationweek.com/news/storage/data_protection/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=225600155&subSection=News

Zach goes on to talk about the architect behind WebOS has left Palm to work for Apple.
http://www.boygeniusreport.com/

Producer Mike then brings up a non tech related story about surfing Crocodiles.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j71vPb-NrUpOPcyVVA9ANNmT4XHAD9G7EV780

Zach closes out the show discussing the Archos Tablet and the new Western Digital WD HD Box.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16855501044&cm_re=archos_tablet-_-55-501-044-_-Product

http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/western-digital-announces-wd-tv-live-plus-hd-with-netflix-stream/

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Episode 003 show notes

Episode 003 was recorded a day later then usual due to the holiday weekend. Zach gave us a slight review of his Garmin Nuvi 1250.

We went on to discuss some of the recent tech related headlines.
Woman sues Google over bad Directions:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/197752/woman_sues_google_over_bad_directions_update_it_was_dark.html

Department of Justice Investigates Apple:

http://blog.syracuse.com/entertainment/2010/05/us_department_of_justice_investigates_apples_itunes_practices.html

We then covered Our new site where we have these show notes and will post frequent updates. We will also have tech bios of ourselves posted in the next week or 2.

We then went on to discuss our main topic The State of PC Gaming. Zach mentioned a couple of good game trailer he saw.

http://www.swtor.com/media/trailers/deceived-cinematic-trailer

http://www.mafia2game.com/

This led us into discussing the current state of Netflix and gaming rental services similar to Netflix.

We rounded off the show with a discussion of the new AT&T data plans.

http://money.cnn.com/2010/06/02/technology/att_iphone_ipad/

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