We go through though are top picks of news for the week of Feb 12th 2010 in tech and internet culture with guest Co-Host: Blogger / Tech Journalist: Tim Conneally of Betanews .com
Today we talk about:
1.) Unannounced Core i7 Apple MacBook Pro surfaces in online benchmarks site GeekBench’s logs. [Link]
2.) Engadget shuts off comments, tells people how to behave? [Link]
3.) Apple killed the 9.99 Ebook, amazon melts down in response to major publisher. [Link]
4.) Droid Gets Multi Touch officially for US on Nexus One & Droid phones … Conspiracy Over? [Link]
5.) NBC Universal CEO Jeff Zucker Lies to Congress about Boxee at Comcast / NBCU merger hearing. [Link]
6.) Senator Fraken to Comcast & NBC execs: Merger is no Laughing matter! [Link]
7.) Microsoft kills your original Xbox for Xbox Live DEAD! [Link]
8.) First Samsung Bada powered phone comes out in later March / early April? [Link]
9.) JooJoo goes into production this Month, will start shipping in March to pre-orders. [Link]
10.) New Legend of Zelda will REQUIRE MotionPlus attachments…aka the most expensive controller setup of all three consoles. [Link]
11.) Google’s Superbowl ad might make you cry a little bit. [Link]
Today’s music is:
“Colour Television” by J. Arthur Keenes of the 8bit Collective
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