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/