Aug 4th 2008
This Week in Tech 154
We're Only In It For The Lulz
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Leo Laporte
Laptop border patrol, iPhone modems, trolls, Switzerland, Icahn a no-show, a wet Mars, and more.
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Laptop border patrol, iPhone modems, trolls, Switzerland, Icahn a no-show, a wet Mars, and more.
- Users' laptops now seizable at border sans suspicion
- NetShare shares your iPhone's connection
- AT&T/Apple iPhone to extend to 2010
- FCC slaps Comcast's wrist, lightly
- Is your ISP is holding you back? Switzerland checks your neutrality
- Scrabulous makers' quick comeback with Wordscraper
- NVidia's chipset troubles
- Microsoft's "Mojave Experiment" takes a different approach on marketing
- Yahoo shareholders reject anti-censorship proposals
- Internet trolls are among us
- Man arrested for threatening to poison baby food
- Apple says MobileMe email now works, but users disagree
- Water found on Mars
- AOL tells angry blog staff everything is fantastic
Audible.com picks of the week:
"Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance" by Barack Obama
"Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy, Book 1: Heir to the Empire" by Timothy Zahn
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Show notes by David Di Franco