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TTR Ep 4712: VHA on the slide, The new WiiU is out beware! Apple maps now have navigation, Google fibreis lit up, MS sells 4M upgrades for Windows 8 and more...


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Monday November 19 2012
On the show today, Vodafone Hutchison Australia continues to lose customers and money despite a heavy investment in networks and branding, with revenue for the second half of 2012 down 14.8 percent on the previous half.
Google's fibre network goes live in Kansas, Torrent tracker The Pirate Bay has been hit by a distributed denial of service attack with the site ceasing to serve requests from users. The outage was confirmed on Twitter by one of The Pirate Bay's accounts, and is believed to have been orchestrated by a user called Zeiko.
Also Microsoft sold four million upgrades to its Windows 8 operating system in the three days following the system's launch, strangely, Steven Sinofsky, the president of both Microsoft's Windows and Windows Live divisions, is leaving the company with immediate effect and with no reason given? Better offer? Or did he fall on his sword? And Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom, after being denied an African .ga domain, has found his way to New Zealand.
Gadget: Scarecrow Laser Tanks
Website: http://ch.eer.io/ Notification service for app.net
Odd Spot: Taliban email blunder exposes members on their mailing list
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