The Weekly Spin

The Weekly Spin 30-Media Spin

Hosts:

Mike Gdovin

Michael Plasmeier

Stories:

1. Plaz’s Fios upgrade

2. Cost Of iPhone 3GS’s Additional Features Is $4.63

3. Bankruptcy judge lifts stay in Apple’s suit against Psystar

4. Speed test comparing iPhone 3G, 3GS, and Palm Pre has surprising results

5. Windows 7 pricing announced: cheaper than Vista

6. YouTube Mobile Uploads Up 400% Since iPhone 3GS Launch

7. Internet groans under weight of Michael Jackson traffic

8. Zune HD rumor mill: $249, 720p movies, 64GB model down the road?

9. Google Voice
10. Billy Mays Was On Conan
11. Cable Vison Remote DVR Legal

 

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The Weekly Spin 29-Mobile Spin

Hosts:

Mike Gdovin

William Termini

Stories:

1. Autonet Mobile

2. US declares victory as DTV transition goes rather smoothly

3. Canonical to boost Ubuntu usability by tackling “papercuts”

4. Microsoft blunders with DTV transition for WMC

5. Need to Know: Google Wave

6. @Twitter from StateDept: delay upgrade to aid Iran protests

7. Leaked: Microsoft Security Essentials (codename Morro)

8. Opera hoping to reinvent the Web by making browser a server

9. 5 Apple Tablet Clues In The New Mac OS

10. iPhone OS 3.0 walkthrough

11. Iranian media photo-shoped photos of pro-Ahmadinijad rally to make it look bigger

12. Congressman has bill ready to give FTC veto on ISP data caps

13. Google To Launch Shiny New News Site

14. Flip Has Little Chance In An iPhone World

15. Palm Pre App Catalog Makes a Slow Start

16. Most iPhone Owners Haven’t Upgraded To iPhone 3.0 Software

17. New Intel/Nokia partnership a huge win for mobile Linux

18. Flash Arriving on Almost Every Phone OS in October

19. Jobs Had Liver Transplant

20. Steve Jobs Already Back at Work

 

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The Weekly Spin 29-Smartphone Spin

Hosts:

Mike Gdovin

Michael Plasmeier

Stories:

1. Bank says its e-mail too important to be spam

2. 4 Things Still Missing From Apple’s iPhone

3. Ars Reviews the Palm Pre, part 1: the BlackBerry killer

4. The man who started the “net neutrality” war to run GM

5. When Pro Doesn’t Mean Pro Anymore

6. Everyone Calm Down, You Won’t Have To Pay To Re-Download Apps On The iPhone

7. Traces of Gunman’s Online Life Begin to Vanish

8. EU to pursue antitrust case, despite Windows 7 E

Smartphone Buyers Guide

 

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The Weekly Spin 27-Big News Spin

Hosts:

Mike Gdovin

Michael Plasmeier

Stories:

1. Windows 7 arrives on October 22

2. Windows 7 Taskforce - Most popular submissions for the past 30 days

3. 12 Terrible Stats For The Newspaper Industry

4. Review: Palm Pre’s software helps it beat iPhone

5. Will the Palm Pre Kill the iPhone

6. “Wake up and smell the converter box”: FCC talks DTV switch

7. To Bing or not to Bing? Hands on with Microsoft’s new search

8. Online, Meter Is Running, But How Would You Know?

9. Mojo Mobility shows off wireless charging on Intel MIDs

10. Apple Store Pwned, Now Advertising DVD Jon’s doubleTwist

11. Consumerist - Comcast Programming Guides Won’t Display Porn Next To Kid’s Shows Anymore

12. WWDC 2009 Roundup
13. Palm Pre Review

Leo Laporte Unboxing Palm Pre

Leo Laporte flips Out on Mike Arrington

Leo Laporte flips Out on Mike Arrington (Play him Off Keyboard Cat)

 

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The Weekly Spin 26-Off-Topic Spin

Hosts:

Mike Gdovin

Stories:

1. Apple Rejects Project Gutenberg App over Kama Sutra Inclusion
2. Psystar Declares Bankruptcy
3. Mozilla Messaging Spins Off To Develop Thunderbird 3
4. Steve Jobs Sounds ‘Healthy, Energetic’, Says Woz
5. Steve Jobs Returns to Apple Campus, Sources Say
6. Adobe offers online presentation technology
7. The Zune HD: a new hope for Microsoft?
8. White MacBooks Upgraded With Faster Processors, More Space, Faster RAM
9. Gmail in real-time: Google does the Wave
10. With no buyers in sight, Time Warner finally to spin off AOL
11. Apple remodeling 100 stores with larger Genius Bars, displays
12. Snap! Palm Pre Will Sync Seamlessly With iTunes
13. Google Wave: A Complete Guide
14. Hulu Labs debuts with desktop app
15. Cloud Computing Poised for Post-Recession Boom
16. Microsoft Details How It’ll Cripple ‘Windows 7 Starter’ For Netbooks
17. Landmark study: DRM truly does make pirates out of us all
18. Poised to Sell E-Books, Google Takes On Amazon
19. No More Free App Re-Downloads on iPhones

 

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The Weekly Spin 25-Memorial Day Spin

Hosts:

Mike Gdovin

Michael Plasmeier

Stories:

1. The Facts Behind Game-Trade Kiosks
2. Online Video up 53% in 2009
3. Netflix Comes to Vista Media Center
4. InkSeine Update
5. NebuAds Shuts Up Shop
6. Next iPhone Details
7. Can You Build A Webpage? Then You Can Build A Firefox extention with Jetpack
8. Analysts Predict Apple Tablet in First Half of 2010
9. Amazon Web Services Import Export
10. How Google’s Cute Doodles Became Satan Pawns
11. Japanese College Giving Students free iPhones to Track Students Attendance
12. 32 GB iPhone Advertised? 16 GB End of Lifespan?
13. Palm Pre Plans Leaked
14. US Army Arming Windows PCs with Vista by End of 2009
15. Systemax Relaunches Web-only Circuit City
16. Speedier Google Chrome
17. What’s Cooking for WWDC 2009?
18. Everything There is to Know About the New Nokia Tablet
19. Solver

 

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The Weekly Spin 24-Late Spin

Hosts:

Mike Gdovin

Michael Plasmeier

Stories:

1. Big Content’s “Theater of the Absurd”
2. Are You App-Noxious?
3. Verizon Dumps 5 Million Landlines
4. Uh-Oh: No Steve Jobs or New iPhone at WWDC
5. Gmail Adds Import Contacts and Mail from Other Mail Providers
6. Apple Changes Apps Store Policy
7. Why You Will Never See 200 MbPS on a MbPS Network
8. History of Sweden’s Piratparteit
9. New Mac Ads
10. Apple Serious About Background Apps on iPhone 3.0?
11. Office 2010 Technical Preview Leaked Screenshots
12. New iPhone Rumor Specs, Release on July 17?

 

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The Weekly Spin 23-Spin Hour

Hosts:

Mike Gdovin

William Termini

Michael Plasmeier

Stories:

1. Pros and Cons of cheap Macs
2. New Kindle DX
3. California Open Source Textbook Plan Faces Barriers
4. WGA dubbed Windows Activation Technology for Windows 7
5. MPAA: Teachers should Record Monitors not Rip DVDs
6. Journalism Students Required to Buy iPhone or iPod Touch
7. Microsoft and Intel Goof up Windows XP Mode
8. Norwegian ISP: Dig Your Own Trench Save $400

 

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The Weekly Spin 22-Apple Rumor Spin

Hosts:

Mike Gdovin

Michael Plasmeier

Topics:

1. Facebook, Firefox and Twitter lead Web Statistics
2. Apple Prototyping iPhone Lite and Macbook Mini
3. Real DVD not for Pirates
4. Panda Introduces Cloud Anti Virus
5. iPhone, A Hot Acquisition Market
6. WWDC Sold Out in Record Time
7. Obama Justice Department to Google, “Were Watching You”
8. Pirate Google Set Sails to Show Copyright Hypocrisy
9. Apple to Introduce Cheaper Macs
10. Disney Buys into Hulu
11. Apple Serious About Gaming, Steals Xbox Director
12. Supreme Court Oks Breathalyzer Source Code Request
13. Mozilla Ponders Policy Change After Firefox Extension Battle

 

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The Weekly Spin 21-Mobile Spin

Hosts:

Mike Gdovin

William Termini

Michael Plasmeier

Stories we Covered:

1. Study Says Pirates Buy More Music, Yeah Right
2. Presidential Blackberry Enters Final Testing
3. Yahoo Pulls The Plug on Geocities
4. Facebook users Vote yes To New Content Ownership Terms
5. $62,000 Movie Download A Result of Poor Planning
6. World of Warcraft coming to iPhone
7. Apple May Hear Verizon Now
8. Windows 7 Will Have Windows XP Mode
9. Amazon Buys Stanza Ebook Application for iPhone
10. Forchan Creator voted Most Influential Person

 

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