Jan
30
The Weekly Spin 93-January 30, 2011
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Steve Jobs To Take ‘Medical Leave Of Absence’, Stays On As CEO
Verizon iPhone Will Have $30 Unlimited Data Plan
AT&T allowing unlimited iPhone data plans for some
Google Voice gets number porting on a permanent basis
Skype 5 for Mac goes live with group video, one-pane UI
LinkedIn’s IPO: An Overview
Apple and News Corp. announce February 2 event to unveil The Daily
Internet ‘Kill Switch’ Legislation Back in Play
Amazon Leaks Details About Their Netflix-Like Movie Subscription Service, Free For Prime Members
“TWO *REAL* GUNS POINTED AT ME”: how the FBI raided Anonymous
How Egypt did (and your government could) shut down the Internet
MPAA, BREIN take down more torrent sites; Internet barely notices
Hulu may rebrand itself as cable-like TV bundle provider
Finally: Google, nine others to run “white space” databases
25% of files downloaded from The Pirate Bay are fakes
Google flips the switch on autocomplete censorship
Facebook turns on HTTPS to block WiFi hijacking
LightSquared unleashed to sell wholesale 4G mobile broadband
Netflix: ISPs who charge by the gigabyte are ridiculous
BlackBerry Balance coming in 2 months to phones and the PlayBook
Ongo: a “curated” online news service for $7 per month
Leaked docs finger 1.2GHz CPU for 9.7″ Topaz webOS tablet
Jan
23
The Weekly Spin 92-January 23, 2011
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Verizon iPhone: no longer a myth, available in February
New iOS 4.3 beta returns the “screen lock” switch function
Verizon’s “New Every Two” program going the way of the dodo
Tweet away, troops: Pentagon won’t ban social media
Angry Birds stretches its wings and swoops in on the board game market
Apple planning to drop Xsan, Final Cut Server?
Universal, Sony get a clue with “on air, on sale” policy
HP / Palm’s webOS tablets — pictures, plans, and more
Microsoft’s Office Team Steps Onto iOS With ‘OneNote
Justice Department OKs Comcast-NBCU with Strings Attached
Eric Schmidt stepping down as Google CEO
Mozilla blocks Skype add-on: caused 33k Firefox crashes in a week
HTML to lose the version number
IFPI: Fighting music piracy is a government job
Google Voice tests $20 number porting
Big content to ICANN: make it easier for us to challenge domain suffixes
Comcast: $10/month Internet—and cheap netbooks—for the poor
Inclusion of Qt in Ubuntu 11.10 is a win for developers
Conservative tech policy goal: ramp up IP enforcement
Sprint to levy extra $10 charge for “premium” 3G data use
Did a US government lab help Israel develop Stuxnet?
Those Facebook “stalker apps”? They don’t work, so avoid them
“Crime is crime”: meet the Internet police
Jan
09
The Weekly Spin 91-January 9, 2011
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Paul Thurrott’s SuperSite for Windows: Test Drive: Internet Explorer 9 Beta
Skype Video Calling for iOS Has Arrived
You Can Now Lend Your Kindle Books to Friends for 14 Days
Skype brought down by double whammy of overloaded servers, client bugs
Final Cut updates due in March or April, Steve Jobs still sour on Blu-ray
Amazon details pricing, approval process for Android app portal
Mac App Store goes live with Mac OS X 10.6.6
Verizon Schedules Press Event for Tuesday, Will It Announce the iPhone?
Clamcase iPad keyboard case hands-on
Dish Network’s Sling Receiver lives
Mirasol-equipped Qualcomm reference tablet hands-on (update: Android tablet confirmed to be a mock-up)
Kno single and dual-screen tablets hands-on
Exclusive: Verizon Slingbox in the wild
Verizon intends to take its FiOS TV to every box, maybe even everywhere
Skype group video calling sheds beta as paid Skype Premium service
Hands-on: Motorola’s Atrix Android phone leads secret double life as a netbook
New national cybersecurity plan? Zeus trojan says bring it on
Windows 8 to come in ARM, SoC flavors
Copy some webpages, owe more than the national debt
Jan
02
No Show This Week Due to Lack of Stories
We decided that we aren’t going to do a show this week because it was a slow week for news stories since it was a holiday. We will be back next week with a new episode that will also cover everything that happened at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show!
Dec
27
The Weekly Spin 90-December 27, 2010
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AOL Acquires About.me Four Days After Official Launch
How Microsoft Can Fix Windows 8, Part 1: User State Virtualization
Mozilla improves sync setup and WebGL in Firefox 4 beta 8
Android Market carrier billing comes to AT&T
Comcast + NBCU approval likely in January with some strings attached
Porn site: publicizing takedown notices is copyright infringement
MasterCard may cut off file sharing sites over piracy
How Wikileaks killed Spain’s anti-P2P law
Windows Phone 7 on Nokia? Not likely
It’s here: FCC adopts net neutrality (lite)
Republicans on new FCC net neutrality rules: kill!
Why everyone hates new net neutrality rules even NN supporters
Dec
20
The Weekly Spin 89- December 20, 2010
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Thanks Google, For the Free, Unusable Wi-Fi on Planes This Holiday
High-Tech Ads Create Super Hand Models
Google Chrome OS gets detailed
Google Books: The Worst iOS E-reader, But Still a Winner: Apple
Google Chrome OS: What You Need to Know: Tech News
Google unveils Cr-48, the first Chrome OS laptop
Netflix licenses even more TV for streaming from ABC/Disney
Hands on with Google’s Chrome Web Store
Obama Is Missing the Broadband Boat
OpenLeaks to mimic WikiLeaks minus the “political agenda”
Time to get the feds involved in ‘Net peering and transit ruckus?
Want to watch a first-run movie at home? $20,500 please
Chrome Web Store: a solution in search of a problem?
Mac App Store Will Launch January 6th
Yahoo Killing Or Merging Del.icio.us, Yahoo Buzz, People Search And More
The Best Services for Migrating Your Delicious Bookmarks
Yahoo Claims It’s Not Killing Delicious
Dropbox Grows Up With Version 1.0
Peering problems: digging into the Comcast/Level 3 grudgematch
The Men Who Stole the World
Google TV Faces Delays Amid Poor Reviews
Users get voice control, better movie results with Google TV update
Can ISPs charge more to make gaming less laggy? They already do
It ain’t heavy, it’s my e-reader: a review of the Nook Color
US calls for online privacy “Bill of Rights”
Judge kills massive P2P porn lawsuit, kneecaps copyright troll
Senator: New net neutrality plan worse than “doing nothing at all”
Is a UN Internet takeover looming? Not quite
T-Mobile keeps pushing 3G into 4G territory, up to 650Mbps
Google Demo Slam
Dec
12
No Show This Week- 12/12
There will not be an episode of The Weekly Spin this week because Plaz and I have finals this week, we will return again next week!
Dec
04
The Weekly Spin 88-December 4, 2010
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Netflix formally launches $7.99 streaming-only plan, bumps unlimited DVD plans by a buck or more
iOS 4.2 to Be Released Today, ‘Find My iPhone’ Now Free
Verizon FIOS Available at 150Mbps (for $200 a Month)
Netflix Is Getting Rid of the Instant Queue
Verizon Wireless to launch 4G LTE Wireless Network Dec. 5
Xmarks Saved by Password-Syncing Service LastPass
Why Netflix Won’t Get What It Wants Most For Christmas
Video Barbie in FBI Cross Hairs
Viacom Says YouTube Ruling Will ‘Completely Destroy’ Copyright
WikiLeaks Attacks Reveal Surprising, Avoidable Vulnerabilities
Google Maps & Label Readability
Body Scanners Gone Wild
FTC wants “do not track” button on your browser, pronto
FCC chief backs some rationing of Internet traffic
EaCongress acts to stifle loud TV ads
Comcast: We bent over backwards to help Level 3!
Clear disses Verizon 4G data caps: why “count every megabyte”?
Nov
21
The Weekly Spin 87- November 21, 2010
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SPs on net neutrality: TV networks are the real villains
Dish Network Claims Hulu Will Destroy The TV Industry. So What?
Nicaragua Blames Google Maps for Accidental Invasion of Costa Rica
AirPrint may not print to shared printers out of the box
Facebook Announces New Messaging System: “It’s Not E-mail”
Google Voice Blog: Google Voice for iPhone
Hulu Cuts Price Of Paid Service To $7.99 A Month
Air Force warns troops about Facebook, Foursquare
Google Fashion Shopping Site Makes Debut
Chinese Scrutinized for Meddling With Web Traffic
Cellphone Signal Boosters Under Siege by Carriers
Nov
07
The Weekly Spin 86- November 7, 2010
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Dead Drops: An Art Project That Puts Memory Where Your Mortar Is
Q&A: Lawrence Lessig – Technology Review
Anti-cyberbullying 101: soon required at your public school?
iPhone gives Europe extra hour of sleep
Google puts bounty on security bugs
Google Docs to soon get cloud printing, device sync
Apple Will Give You 90-Second Song Previews In iTunes Soon
Gawker to move away from blog format
Here’s Everything Facebook Just Announced
Xmarks: Alive and Kicking
ICANN set to open top-level domain floodgates
Apple’s Xserve hits end of life, order yours before Jan, 31
When the Tech Guy Is 13 (or Even 10)
Google points finger at Facebook hypocrisy, blocks Gmail import
Hands-on: latest Firefox Mobile beta is svelte and smooth
$42 German P2P fine stark contrast to seven-figure US judgments
Third P2P verdict for Jammie Thomas: $1.5 million
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