Tech Talk

May 29th, 2008 - It's the original Tech Talk crew in the hizzy. Jeff, Kevin, and Pete tear up the Tech News scene with our off the cuff analysis of the latest stories. Okay, we get a little (or a lot) silly in the second half of the show, but I'm sure you'll laugh at our antics. This week we discuss a free internet service with strings attached, why you shouldn't go to theme parks in England, crazy Apple fanbois, why we hate the MPAA, the best place not to buy a Zune, crazy New Mexicans, and much more. You can provide feedback to the show at www.techtalkshow.com. - Show Notes - News Stories: FCC wants free broadband service, plus content filtering UK theme park bans PDAs, mandates family fun time iPhone line forms at Apple's flagship for absolutely no reason Linking to movies leads to $4 million in fines GameStop to Stop Zune Sales Ready-made Apple TV hack should help non-geeks play DivX New Mexico group tries to ban Wi-Fi Court Finds Dell Guilty of Fraud Mozilla “Download Day” Microsoft Unveils Multi-Touch Technology For Windows 7 Inside the Attack that Crippled Revision3 Weekly Picks: Pete: Age of Conan Jeff: Bacardi Kevin: Penny Arcade Volume 5: the Case of the Mummy's Gold Direct MP3 Download iTunes Subscription RSS Feed

May 22nd, 2008 - This is another Jeff and Kevin show, but you like those ones, right? Who would have thought that an engineer and a mathematician would have so much trouble doing a little bit of simple dividing? Not us... This week we discuss the lameness of Media Center, the crazy buying of both Ars Technica and Cnet, the insane trouncing by the Wii in April, Best Buy's audacity, A Jack Thompson shaming, and that's not all! You can provide feedback to the show at www.techtalkshow.com. - Show Notes - News Stories: Microsoft, Yahoo forced into each others' arms American Gladiators vanquished by optional broadcast flag Breaking: CBS To Acquire CNET For $1.8 Billion Ars Technica acquired by Condé Nast: the low-down Nintendo Wii outsells 360, PS3, PS2, PSP combined in April Best Buy: FCC has no power to fine us over analog TVs Judge's report in Jack Thompson case: guilty on 27 charges NetFlix: First Netflix Streaming Box Review, $100 and Unlimited Downloads! Office 2007 to gain native ODF support early next year Hostile takeover turns docile as EA extends Take-Two offer Microsoft offers cashback search Weekly Picks: Jeff: Bioshock Kevin: VisualHub or iSquint Direct MP3 Download iTunes Subscription RSS Feed

May 14th, 2008 - Show Fifty-Four has been recorded a day early so that Kevin can go the Jonathan Coulton concert on Thursday night. If you live in the Phoenix area, you should go as well to the Brickhouse in downtown Phoenix. The whole crew is here tonight; however, as always, Kevin and Jeff dominate the conversation. This week we discuss some new games coming out next week, the WiiWare launch, Guitar Hero IV, our retarded representatives, the truth behind violent video games, the Air Force wants to create a botnet, Universal Music's hypocrisy, and more. You can provide feedback to the show at www.techtalkshow.com. - Show Notes - News Stories: New Games Next Week Wii Ware Launches at Nintendo First Guitar Hero IV Details Shed House overwhelmingly passes controversial PRO-IP Act Charter To Begin Tracking Users' Searches And Inserting Targeted Ads Air Force Colonel Wants to Build a Military Botnet Video games don’t turn children into blood-thirsty killers Google begins blurring faces in Street View Older DVR Owners Are More Likely to Skip All Ads Philadelphia's municipal WiFi network to go dark NBC-Vista copy-protection snafu reminds us why DRM stinks Funny How Universal Music Thinks Infringement Fines Are Unconstitutional When It's On The Receiving End Weekly Picks: Jeff: The Internet Kevin: Smithwick's Irish Ale Pete: Call of Duty 4 Chris: Internet Porn Direct MP3 Download iTunes Subscription RSS Feed

May 8th, 2008 - Jeff and Kevin are in the hizouse and bring you a show stock full of stuttering, manly giggling, and at least one mention of machismo as it relates to bandwidth usage. This week we talk about the new Nintendo Channel on the Wii, the release of AVG Free 8, Microsoft's white flag, Blizzard's shunning of Steam, the real story when it comes to forbidden media, pedophiles on Wikipedia? and much more. In the end, the one thing you should take away from this show is that you need to go watch Iron Man in the theater. You can provide feedback to the show at www.techtalkshow.com. - Show Notes - News Stories: Nintendo Channel at Nintendo AVG Free Anti-Virus 8 Microsoft says proxy battle not worth it Blizzard Opens Digital Download Store Undercover Shoppers Find it’s Increasingly Difficult for Children to Buy M-Rated Games Activision/Blizzard leaves, still hopes to profit from ESA FBI investigates 'Wikipedophilia' Controversial Pro-IP Act sails through Judiciary Committee Apple losing money in new movie deal Comcast mulling metered access, 250GB monthly bandwidth caps 'Grand Theft Auto IV' makes a killing in first week NBC using YouTube clips to drive Hulu traffic Weekly Picks: Jeff: Doom Kevin: Iron Man Direct MP3 Download iTunes Subscription RSS Feed

May 1st, 2008 - Tech Talk is back online with another episode of tech news. Kevin, Pete and Chris (no Jeff this week) join you to escort you through what interesting things have been going on in the tech world. This week we discuss recent video game releases, XP and Vista sales, video game thiefs, a Canadian iPhone, SP3 for XP, Guitar Hero on the internet, the latest on the Microsoft Yahoo fiasco, and much more. You can provide feedback to the show at www.techtalkshow.com. - Show Notes - News Stories:. Shenanigans: Dell to Sell XP after June 30, Microsoft to Pretend They're Selling Vista to Save Face Rural Albert Lea man accused of video game scam iPhone coming to Canada Microsoft releases the long-anticipated Windows XP SP3 Blu-ray: The Future Has Been Delayed Guitar Hero embeddable widget hits web Mexican attaché attempts to make off with White House BlackBerrys Microsoft Raises Yahoo Offer To $32-$33 Through WSJ; YHOO Wants $37 iTunes Store gets same-day DVD releases An elephant never forgets? George W. Bush's lost e-mails New Microsoft law enforcement tool bypasses PC security New way to save energy: Disappearing ink Weekly Picks: Pete: Jade Empire Chris: GH III Online Kevin: shirt.woot.com Direct MP3 Download iTunes Subscription RSS Feed

April 24th, 2008 - The original Tech Talk crew is here to deliver a solid show chock full of tech news. Jeff, Kevin and Pete all bring you the latest and greatest in the technology world. This week we discuss the end of the internet in 2010, Skype changes nothing, the Xbox is on fire (literally), Zune doing something we don't care about, Sony doing something we don't care about, Comcast smack down, Yahoo ultimatum, Netflix jerkery, illegal search and seizure, and more. This week our opening song is Legend of Zelda Dirty OC Remix courtesy of HouseMasta. You can provide feedback to the show at www.techtalkshow.com. - Show Notes - News Stories: After complaints, Apple tweaks Software Update for Safari AT&T: Internet to hit full capacity by 2010 Skype offers unlimited long-distance plan Xbox 360 burns house down Zune getting Audible FCC's Martin: Comcast Blocking Was Widespread Sony to delay Home online service for PS3 again Big week in Microsoft-Yahoo battle Netflix CEO: Will charge 'premium' for Blu-ray discs Live Mesh - The Version You Can Understand Sony to Buy Gracenote Laptop searches at the border: No reason? No problem The Heron has landed: Ubuntu 8.04 officially released Weekly Picks: Pete: Call of Duty 4 Jeff: Halo 3 Kevin: Adobe Audition Direct MP3 Download iTunes Subscription RSS Feed

April 17th, 2008 - Tech Talk has been putting shows out for a year now, and since this was our 50th show that means we've only missed two weeks, right? It seems like we have missed more shows that that ;-). We start off this show as always by discussing what's been going on with in the last week. Only Kevin has anything interesting to add as he was in Boston for the first part of this week. For our anniversary we talk about tech news stories! This week we discuss Blockbusters odd attempt to buy Circuit City, the real culprits behind the undersea cable cuts, Oklahoma's ineptitude, NBC's attempt to get their content back on iTunes, parents selling game consoles, and much more. You can provide feedback to the show at www.techtalkshow.com. - Show Notes - News Stories: Blockbuster bids over $1 billion for Circuit City Satellites pin blame for undersea cable cuts on cargo ships The Wifi Predator Assassin's Creed on the PC: bad UI, bad DRM, bad port Oklahoma Leaks Tens of Thousands of Social Security Numbers, Other Sensitive Data NBC to Apple: Build antipiracy into iTunes Kid Breaks Vacuum to Play Xbox Instead of Doing Chores; Mom Sells Xbox, Pranks His MySpace Amazon's MP3s not affecting iTunes Windows XP SP3 now set for April 29 debut Survey: 12% of consumers 'borrow' free Wi-Fi Weekly Picks: Pete: Sins of a Solar Empire Jeff: Sins of a Solar Empire Chris: Sins of a Solar Empire Kevin: Heise Security Offline Update Direct MP3 Download iTunes Subscription RSS Feed

April 10th, 2008 - It felt like such a slow news week, but we were able to dig up some interesting things to talk about. Kevin, Jeff, Pete, and Chris are all present at this show and we even have a surprise guest at the end of the show: Senator Ted Stevens. Pete is back with his brand new headset, and if his voice sounds like pure pwnage it's because he's using the fatal1ty headset. This week we discuss the Rick Rolling of the New York Mets, Walmart.com DRM free, Internet safety vs sex education, Strong Bad coming to the Wii, and much more. You can provide feedback to the show at www.techtalkshow.com. - Show Notes - News Stories: All your baseball are belong to Rick Astley Verizon's spectrum plans: Speedier wireless broadband Wal-Mart Going Hardline on DRM-Free Online Music Store Virginia 1st state to require Internet safety lessons Yahoo's new, bold anti-Microsoft plan: clusterfoooock! Episodic 'Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People' coming in June Upstart Gamer Doc to take on GameStop with themed stores Amazon, Wal-Mart jump on the HD DVD rebate bandwagon Backhaul woes put Xohm launch on ice for a couple of months Policing internet 'not ISP's job' Senators still sweating digital TV switch Weekly Picks: Ted Stevens: How the Internet Works and My Music Video Jeff: Portal Chris: Sins of a Solar Empire Kevin: MediaCoder Direct MP3 Download iTunes Subscription RSS Feed

April 3rd, 2008 - Tech Talk strikes again with excellent tech news coverage and witty insight. This show features Chris, Jeff, and Kevin. Pete decided to fry his USB headset this evening, so we had to do the show without him. We discuss what's been going on in our techy lives and then of course go straight into our news stories. This week we converse about Sony getting a taste of their own medicine, Creative's folly, internet in the friendly skies, really expensive internet service, some shocking news about iTunes, Microsoft Surface finally surfaces, and even more. You can provide feedback to the show at www.techtalkshow.com. - Show Notes - News Stories: Sony BMG's hypocrisy: company busted for using warez Creative irate after modder spruces up Vista X-Fi drivers TorrentSpy's closure a win for MPAA; war far from over Adobe joins list of companies not reading own EULAs FAA clears in-flight WiFi for takeoff on American Airlines Comcast launches 50Mbps broadband... for $150 per month Microsoft Surface launching April 17th... with AT&T Amazon rings up shopping via text-message Apple passes Wal-Mart, now #1 music retailer in US The Music Industry’s New Extortion Scheme Judge to RIAA: You can't sue over songs 'made available' via P2P Report: online gaming not as popular as you think Weekly Picks: Jeff: CERN Chris: White Russian Kevin: Synergy Direct MP3 Download iTunes Subscription RSS Feed

March 27th, 2008 - Heya folks. This is going to be a weird show. Skype just did not want to behave on the evening we were recording, so sound quality is not the best on this show. Not only that, but some of the hosts seemed to be off doing other stuff while we were recording... We try to still deliver a solid show through all of these distractions and Talk about Tech. We discuss some underhandedness by Apple, the XM/Sirius merger and crazy demands from Clear Channel, Comcast and BitTorrent shaking hands, and much more more than you bargained for. You can provide feedback to the show at www.techtalkshow.com. - Show Notes - News Stories: Mozilla CEO Objects To Safari Auto Install XM / Sirius merger approved! Clear Channel wants the FCC to force XM / Sirius to obey indecency laws Photoshop Express now free and online A New Tool From Google Alarms Sites Comcast-BitTorrent pact not a substitute for net neutrality WoW bot maker sued after home visit from Vivendi attorney Grandma, grandpa get owned by Illinois' failed gaming law Microsoft Marks Xbox 360 Cheaters, Resets Gamerscores to Zero Xbox Live owners getting content re-licensed to new Xboxes Gibson turns volume up to 11 with new 'Guitar Hero' lawsuit BluRay's BD+ DRM broken Weekly Picks: Pete: Mass Effect Jeff: Mass Effect Chris: Call of Duty 4 Kevin: Newegg Direct MP3 Download iTunes Subscription RSS Feed