Yahoo fires their CEO, TechCrunch in flames, and Windows booting in 8 seconds? What. The. F**k. Yes, and welcome to the TECHGEEK Weekly Podcast this week.
Hosted by Stewart Wilson and Terence Huynh, they are joined this week with Tom Solari and Mark Caetano, with additional soundbytes from Michael Selvadurai. Yes, it’s a pretty hectic podcast.
Oh, and happy birthday Chris for Friday!
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Show Notes
The Top Stories
Carol Bartz fired as Yahoo CEO over the phone
Carol Bartz exclusive: Yahoo “f—ed me over”
Yang Says “Not for Sale”: All Hands on Yahoo’s Slippery Deck!
Will Yahoo Acquire AOL? Apparently Not
After Arrington: Anarchy at TechCrunch
Give Me Back My Baby: Michael Arrington Trying to Buy Back TechCrunch From AOL — But Would AOL Sell It?
Editorial Independence
SF police confirm search for lost, unreleased iPhone
SF police launch probe into iPhone search
Apple iPhone Prototype Loss Prompts Security Job Listings: Report
In the Loop
Rumour Mill: Is Steam coming to Xbox 360?
Price cut helps 3DS sales soar 260 percent
Nintendo confirms right thumbstick coming to 3DS
Tom’s Stockings (1)
First, Apple has successfully managed to uphold an injunction in Germany that would see the Samsung Galaxy Tab tablets banned in the country. So, fuck you Apple. Fuck you.
Samsung is also facing another lawsuit in Japan from, you guessed it, Apple. Apple is claiming that the Galaxy phones and tablets infringe on its design. Yes, that’s right. Anything that is sleek and black apparently looks like the iPhone or iPad. Again, fuck you Apple.
Meanwhile, in its fight with Apple, HTC has added nine patents that it got from Google to say that Apple has copied them from Google. Patent law is so tricky, isn’t.
In Other News
Is Microsoft planning to hand out a Samsung Windows 8 slate at BUILD?
Watch Windows 8 boot in eight seconds, thanks to kernel hibernation
Windows Server 8 includes a Metro style server management console
First image taken with iPhone 5′s 8-megapixel camera possibly uncovered
iPhone 5 rumor rollup for the week ending Sept. 9
Minecraft 1.8 Leaked
HTC’s Android better than iOS, says Choice
Google+ finding it tough to grow in Asia Pacific market
Both Koreas are developing EMP bombs that can kill everything tech
Aussie penis pranksters deface Google Street View
Tom’s Stockings (2)
Turns out, everyone wants to get a .xxx domain. The official registrar, ICM Registry, has been caught trying to sell companies their brand with a .xxx domain in order to prevent them from being bought by others. Because, really, people will confuse bieber.xxx and disney.xxx. (Sarcmark)
Microsoft’s Office 365 suffered its first major outage. To be fair, it did also happen to SkyDrive and Hotmail. Microsoft has since fixed the issue – but five hours is a long time. A very long time without email…
HP is repeating history. Well, Palm’s history. It will split the webOS division into two – software and hardware with the hardware still part of its Consumer PC unit and software moving over to Strategy and Technology. Palm did this in 2003 – and was a disaster. So, enjoy webOS as much as you can, because it could be like a walking zombie. Dead but still kicking.
Antivirus on your phone? Well, like true Windows style, you will need one. AVG has made a virus scanning tool for Windows Phone 7 and many are questioning its validity and the fact that it could be sending data to their servers. Scary. But, does this mean its extra protection, or is Windows Phone 7 extremely secure?
