Aug 5th 2007
This Week in Tech 108
The Crash of 2007
Hosted by
Leo Laporte
Here comes Bubble 2.0, Google calls for a phone, and mod chippers go to jail...
Records live every Sunday at 5:15pm Eastern / 2:15pm Pacific / 22:15 UTC.
Guests:
David Prager,
John C. Dvorak
Here comes Bubble 2.0, Google calls for a phone, and mod chippers go to jail...
- Patrick Norton is officially leaving DL.TV.
- Disney has purchased kids social network site, Club Penguin, for $350 million.
- Dvorak thinks that the Web 2.0 bubble is going to burst.
- Google is apparently spending millions on a mobile phone.
- Apple has scheduled an event for the Macintosh.
- An iPhone security update 1.0.1 was pushed.
- Prager has used an app called iFuntastic in order to customize his iPhone.
- iTunes has sold three billion songs.
- Eminem has sued Apple - again.
- A class action lawsuit has been filed.
- Federal agents have busted users of videogame modchips.
- The Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act of 2007 will required a paper trail for electronic voting machines.
- Ted Stevens' Alaskan home was recently raided.
- Steve Ballmer says Microsoft is hell-bent on succeeding in ads.
- Morgan Webb has begun a daily video blog called Webb Alert.
- Elton John wants the Internet shut down for five years.
- The Onion was on the scene at the Internet crash of 2007.