This Week in Tech

Jul 22nd 2007

This Week in Tech 106

Googleverse

Hosted by Leo Laporte

Google challenges the cell companies, Sun Rocket dies and Ooma is born, and the game of checkers is solved...

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Category: News

Google challenges the cell companies, Sun Rocket dies and Ooma is born, and the game of checkers is solved...

  • Motorola has lost money as well as market share.
  • Sunrocket is now dead.
  • Ooma is an up and coming P2P VoIP company that will provide you with free national landline calls for a lifetime.
  • A UC Berkeley ac-cappella group named DeCadence circled some men sparring in Central Park and sang the Mortal Kombattheme.
  • Peter Moore has resigned from Microsoft's Xbox division.
  • Google is ready to bid for the 700MHz frequency to open it up.
  • A New york lawmaker has made a move to make text messaging behind the wheel a crime.
  • Facebook has purchased Parakey, which is basically a web based operating system.
  • Kids are saying e-mail is "soooo" dead. Shooby agrees: IM > email.
  • Researchers have solved checkers. The program that they have developed is unbeatable!
  • Jim Louderback has left PC magazine and is now CEO of Revision3.