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We honor the life and times of Steven P. Jobs with Peter Cohen, of the "Angry Mac Bastards" radio show and Executive Editor for The Loop, and Adam Engst from TidBITS and Take Control Books. Peter will also discuss Apple's media event that featured the launch of the iPhone 4S. You'll hear more about the latest and greatest iPhone, along with the shortcomings of Google's Android OS and Microsoft's efforts to deploy Windows everywhere, from Daniel Eran Dilger, of Roughly Drafted Magazine and AppleInsider.

The topic list this week includes the forthcoming Amazon Kindle Fire, predictions of future Apple products, and a discussion about a new audio/video/messaging app for the iOS and Android OS. Our guests include: Dan Moren and Jim Galbraith from Macworld, Avram Piltch from Laptop magazine, and Jake Levant of fring.

The topic list includes: The curious decision of Netflix to split streaming and DVD services into two separate companies, the good, bad and ugly aspects of Apple’s OS X Lion, Mac speech recognition software, and possible replacements for Intuit’s Quicken for the Mac. Guests: Peter Cohen, of the “Angry Mac Bastards” radio show and Executive Editor for The Loop, Bob “Dr. Mac” LeVitus, and commentator Kirk McElhearn.

We explore Windows 8, Microsoft’s forthcoming OS upgrade that will combine mobile and desktop systems, which is widely expected to arrive in 2012. Our guests include cutting-edge commentator Daniel Eran Dilger, from Roughly Drafted Magazine and AppleInsider, and Seth Rosenblatt, from CNET, who had a hands-on encounter with an early beta of Windows 8. Macworld writer Lex Friedman talks about the online theft of gift card balances from iTunes.

Adam Engst, from TidBITS and Take Control Books, explores the value of social networking, particularly with FaceBook and Twitter, and offers an Apple update. Avram Piltch, Online Editorial Director of Laptop magazine, offers his impressions of Google Plus. He'll also discuss Windows 8, and Intel's Ultrabook initiative and how it might compete with the MacBook Air.

We explore the dark side of Google with Ben Edelman, PhD., an Assistant Professor of Harvard Business School. Commentator Kirk McElhearn reports on his problems with a 27-inch iMac, and you'll hear an insider’s report on life at Apple Inc., and possible solutions in Apple’s quest to conquer the living room with John Martellaro, a Senior Editor for The Mac Observer.

We discuss the surprise resignation of Steve Jobs as CEO of Apple Inc. with industry analyst Stephen Baker of the NPD Group. We also explore Google’s decision to buy Motorola Mobility, and HP’s decision to ditch its WebOS products with Daniel Eran Dilger, from Roughly Drafted Magazine and AppleInsider and Peter Cohen, of the “Angry Mac Bastards” radio show and Executive Editor for The Loop.

We cover the controversial decision of Google to purchase Motorola Mobility, a handset maker, and how it will impact the smartphone industry, with Jim Dalrymple, Editor in Chief of The Loop, and John Martellaro, Senior Editor of The Mac Observer. Karen Sohl, Communications Manager from the Linksys division of Cisco, covers home networking.

Macworld writer Lex Friedman discusses an online method used by some developers to bypass Apple’s “walled garden” approach. Laptop magazine’s Online Editorial Director, Avram Piltch makes a pitch for changing or eliminating current patent laws, which he says allow large companies and so-called patent trolls to restrict innovation.

Cutting-edge commentator Daniel Eran Dilger, from Roughly Drafted Magazine and AppleInsider; security reporter Paul Wagenseil, of Security News Daily, details the known security issues for personal computers, mobile gadgets, and your car; Macworld lab director Jim Galbraith brings you up to date on Mac test results; commentator Ted Landau addresses such issues as the alleged dumbing down of OS X Lion.