Technogaze Show Notes - May 24, 2010

Monday's episode of Technogaze was hosted by Mark Powney and Paul Miguel.

News

Leaving Facebook

Information: YourOpenBook.org

Information: ReclaimPrivacy.org

QuitFacebookDay.com

SaveFace - Secure Your Facebook Profile

CNET: Facebook's Privacy Debacles

AppleGaze: Apple To Lead Australian Smartphone Market

The Age: Apple Threatens Nokia's Dominance

Pakistan Online Censorship

ComputerWorld: Pakistan Blocks Facebook (Maybe this is a good thing?)

A Load of Manure

ComputerWorld: HP Says 10,000 Cows Can Power 1,000 Servers

IBM Hands Out USB with Malware

ZDNet: IBM AusCERT USBs Infected With Malware

AusCERT Website

iiNet's Battle With The Copyright Police

The Age: AFACT and iiNet continue piracy fight

Feature Discussion - Privacy

Special note - during this segment, Paul deleted his Facebook account live on-air!

Google Buzz

Molly Wood (CNET): Google Buzz - Privacy Nightmare

CNET: Google Tweaks Buzz Privacy Settings

Google Street View Wifi Debacle

CNET: Google: Oops, We Spied On Your Wifi

Health Care

Wikipedia: The Australia Card

Wikipeda: Australian Health and Social Services Card

Got Porn? Don't Come to Australia

The Age: Travellers To Be Searched For Porn

Technogaze Show Notes - May 17, 2010

Tonight's episode of Technogaze was hosted by Mark Powney and David Allen.

You can hear David on JOY 94.9's "An Awkward Pause", Monday nights from 9pm.

News

Applegaze: Apple and Lala

Lala's Official Site

Lala Wikipedia Entry

CNET: Why does the record industry hate music lockers?

Gizmodo: Does Lala's Shut Down Mean Streaming iTunes Launch?

Barack Obama Doesn't Play X-Box Live

The Age: Obama Laments Tech-driven Distractions

Slashdot: Obama Calls Today's Ubiquitous Gadgets and Information "a Distraction"

CNET: Obama: iPod, iPad Don't Empower

Android 2.2 "Froyo" details emerge

Engadget: Froyo to include USB tethering, wifi hotspot functionality

Engadget: Froyo and Flash run like butter on a Nexus One

Gizmodo: Froyo is 450% faster

Gizmodo: Google Makes Giant Froyo Statue To Feed Android Alien

Side note: Google's major Android releases are named after various delicious delicacies, the release of each major version is accompanied by a statue representing the dessert showing up on Google's campus.

Cellphone Use Leads to Cancer?

Reuters: 1-WHO study has no clear answer on phones and cancer

Google Street View Cars Mistakenly Collect Wifi Data

CNET: Google: Oops, we spied on your Wi-Fi

Engadget: Street View cars mistakenly nabs personal data

BoingBoing: Google: We inadvertently collected personal data

Betty White delivers SNL Ratings thanks to Facebook

New York Times: Betty White Helps Boost Ratings of ‘SNL’

Facebook Group: Betty White to host SNL (please?)!

Home Electronics: Essentials for Powering Our Future

X-10 Wikipedia Page

Smart Meters

Clever Home: X-10 Home Automation

FCC Gives Go-ahead to MPAA Control

Gizmodo: FCC Grants Hollywood Control Over Your TV

Engadget: FCC will let the MPAA disable analog outputs, kind of

Australian iPad Pricing and Mobile Plans

Australian Apple Store iPad Page

ZDNet: Optus Reveals Apple iPad Plans

Gizmodo Australia: Telstra Announces Its Pre-Paid iPad Plans

Technogaze Show Notes - May 10, 2010

Tonight's episode of Technogaze was hosted by Mark Powney and Dave Glover.

We'd like to extend our thanks to our special guest Philip Beadle, Build Master of the DotNetNuke project.

News

Facebook Privacy Breach
See Other Users' Private Chats
Top 10 Reasons You Should Quit Facebook

BONUS: Gizmodo: Why You Should Still Quit Facebook

Google's Australian revenue brought into question
Report from The Age

CSS: Computer Stress Syndrome
Report from The Sydney Morning Herald

National Broadband Network

KPMG Report

Research In Motion BlackBerry Event
Engadget Report on Keynote Session from WES 2010

AU Court Rules Downloaded Software Is Not "Goods"

Report from ZdNet

Got an iPad 3G?

Convert Your SIM into a MicroSIM... with a meat cleaver!

Feature Discussion

For tonight's feature discussion we were joined in the studio by Philip Beadle, the Build Master of the dotNetNuke Project, an open source Content Management System.

Philip also stayed with us for a discussion about the benefits of Microsoft's Silverlight platform as opposed to Adobe's Flash platform and the upcoming HTML5 web standard.

You can find Philip's new book, Silverlight 4 For Dummies in stores this month.

Technogaze Show Notes - May 3, 2010

News

HP buys Palm

http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/hp-buys-palm/

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31021_3-20003695-260.html

http://blog.palm.com/palm/2010/04/palm-and-hp.html

Google Enumerates Government Requests

http://www.google.com/governmentrequests.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/greater-transparency-around-government.html

McAfee To Pay For PC Repairs After Patch Fiasco

http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/27/mcafee-patches-customers-hearts-with-subscription-extension-re/

http://forums.cnet.com/5208-6132_102-0.html?messageID=3293493

The End of the 3.5-inch Floppy

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-20003360-92.html

http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil/

Australian Government shelves Great Firewall plan, then takes it off the shelf again

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=10/04/30/0048257

http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=10/05/01/038209

Discussion

Android Ported To iPhone

http://gizmodo.com/5521580/the-iphone-now-runs-android

iPad 3G released in the US

http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/01/ifixit-gets-ipad-3g-on-day-one-immediately-destroys-it/

http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/ipad-3g-denies-abc-player-downsamples-itunes-store-video-previe/

Apple vs Adobe, Round 439

• Steve Jobs - Thoughts on Flash: http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/
• Adobe - That's Rubbish: http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/29/adobes-ceo-jobs-flash-letter-is-a-smokescreen-for-cumberso/
• The Free Software Foundation's Response: http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/04/pot-meet-kettle-a-response-to-steve-jobs-letter-on-flash.ars
• Microsoft: Remember Us? HTML5 is the Future. http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/microsoft-weighs-in-the-future-of-the-web-is-html5/