Facebook is unveiling, Youtube’s going Hollywood, Nook Colors are Flashing, Netflix is growing, The White iPhone is coming, & Location Gate continues with Microsoft joining in the mix. All this while the USA tries to catch up with it’s super slow download speeds. I’d like a Tech Wrap Supreme please to help me digest all …

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On today’s show, the iPhone is apparently storing your location data even when you’ve turned off the location tracking services. And law enforcement agencies and a cottage industry of iOS forensics companies have been taking advantage of these logs for years. Nevertheless, Steve Jobs appears to insist in an email to a customer that Apple …

Read the full post →"BOL 1455: Steve Jobs to you: shut up and eat your hummus"

On today’s show, a brilliant solution to the problem of science education, and which tech companies have the best and worst green records (it is Earth Day, after all — for real this time)! Also, Google and Apple are sending your location data back to the Mother Ship, Amazon is making everyone nervous about the …

Read the full post →"BOL 1454: Don’t make more kids smart … just make more smart kids"

On today’s show, prep is minimal, but the news is pretty interesting: Amazon’s cloud service went down overnight, taking lots of sites with it — including the Cydia jailbreak app delivery store. Apple blew it out with earnings, and so did Verizon — and HTC Thunderbolt sales. We continue to debunk the iPhone tracking discovery, …

Read the full post →"BOL 1453: The poke lobby"

Skynet is self-aware and special guest Brian Cooley is flying to space to get off this rock. SPAM and an underground man cave seems like a better option for BT. We’ll also talk about the revelation that Apple is tracking our location data, but not using it…yet. Kindle users will like going to the library …

Read the full post →"BOL 1452: Judgement Day is coming!"

Tong stood in line all night for Mortal Kombat, while Molly went to bed with her laptop and her brand new Keynote download. Impressive, right? In the actual news, Apple files a major set of patent and trademark lawsuits against manufacturing partner Samsung, Netflix is doing family plans, and what happened to all those 1-800 …

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Can you tell Brian Tong is back on the show? Actually, we’re legitimately wondering whether a home-brew electroshock like battery licking could produce video game skill improvements like DARPA is seeing with their electroshock research. No, really. Also, Google shuts down Google Video, President Obama wants a universal login that’s not Facebook Connect, and Match.com …

Read the full post →"BOL 1450: Lick my 9Volt"

On today’s show, we celebrate the dubious holiday that is Foursquare Day (coming tomorrow), Skype has an Android vulnerability that Donald thinks might just be a feature, and Nintendo is going HD just in time for people to stop buying video games. Also, Best Buy says DVD windowing is totally working, if you enjoy manipulating …

Read the full post →"BOL 1449: Sleazier forms of capitalism"

On today’s show, Donald Bell gives us his in-person BlackBerry PlayBook review, why Twitter is like your freeloading, couch-surfing bum of a brother, and how the FBI’s command and control server could end up taking Elvis off life support. What, you didn’t know Elvis was still alive? The things you learn on BOL. Plus: the …

Read the full post →"BOL 1448: How the FBI might kill Elvis (again)"

Brian Cooley joins the show today to talk about the new privacy bill of rights–which apparently does nothing that browser Do Not Track buttons don’t do, and exempts the federal government while doing it. It being nothing. Also, T-Mobile tries to win new customers with new unlimited plans, Apple may get into the Netflix-killing game, …

Read the full post →"BOL 1447: Mirrored boats and 3DTV hate"