Show Notes, Episode 009: Summer Vacation

Class action lawsuit against Apple and AT&T over “Apple's practice of "locking" iPhones so they can only be used on AT&T's network, and its absolute control over what applications iPhone owners can and cannot install on the gadgets.”
Apple VS. AT&T

Apple TV may include $0.99 TV episode streaming.
Apple TV

Borders new E-Reader meeting stiff competition from the recent drop in price of the Nook.
E-Reader

FireFox 4 beta 1 may be a new lease on life for the browser. Recently FireFox has had issues with add-ons and apps crashing the browser. So FireFox is taking hints from Chrome. Changing there look and isolating apps and add-ons from the browser. It also appears to be fast.
FireFox 4 Beta

Apple’s Steve Jobs claims that Google’s “don’t be evil” mantra is BS. Jobs believes Google is treading on his turf and trying to kill the iPhone. While google has sponsored a phone they don’t actually produce one. They are focused on developing the Android OS. Apples competition is actually coming from the makers who use the Android OS in there phones.
Don't Be Evil

Lucas Films threatens suit over high power laser that loos like a lightsaber.
Lucas Films

New Google app developer program
Google App

Show Notes, Episode 8: Zach wants his flying train.

In this Episode Mike's sister Kristen joins the show to give her view of this weeks tech topics.

First the Trio covers HP's layoff of Palm Employees and move on to discuss Microsoft's layoffs. Which are expected to fall on those who worked on there now canceled Kin Phones.

They move on to talk about Flash 10.1 running on Motorola's Droid X.

Zach then covers Verizon's program to substitute HTC Incredible back orders with the Motorola's Droid X. All with no penalty.
http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2010/06/29/verizon-letting-customers-change-orders-of-incredible-to-droid-x-with-no-fee/


Next they cover iTunes accounts being hacked and More iPhone Rumors. They also talk about iTunes going into the cloud. This leads them into talking about cloud storage and backing up your data.


They then go into there Random Story of The Week.

iPhone 4 with 80’s style antenna

http://erictric.com/2010/07/07/a-simple-solution-to-iphone-4-antenna-issues/

Monday was an interesting day for fans of Back To the Future.  In the movie when doc was first sitting in the Delorean showing Martie how the time controls worked. He demonstrated how you can travel into the future by typing in a date 25 years in the future. Monday was that day. 


Zack want's his flying train and Mike talks about the Flux capacitor at Think Geek which is no longer available. But you can get your own Delorean.

For next week Mike will be on vacation so Zach will either post an interview show or a solo show.

Episode 005 Show Notes

Producer mike does a solo episode.

He first covers the new Motorola smart phone.
2GHz Android Phone

He then moves on to discuss the key announcements from Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3).


Xbox 360 Kinect

Epic Mickey

Rock Band 3

Nintendo 3DS

Sony press conference

Finally as a random story. Something Producer Mike seams to be making a habit of. Planes creating Weird Clouds and effecting weather.
Hole Punch Clouds

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: 004, Surfing Crocs

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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