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• XBox Movie Parties, Some Restrictions Apply (JP)
  • The Next Edition of Xbox Live Dashboard will have the option for Movie Parties
    • essentially a group of friends who all have the netflix subscription  put on their headsets and watch a movie all at the same time streamed to each console
    • not all movies are allowed, and everyone would have to have Netflix subscriptions (movies on demand – not all movies are available this way either)
• Jeremy got accepted into the Xbox Live Preview beta group… I’m awaiting the email to download the new version…
  • I will of course update all our loyal listeners as soon as I get my grubby little paws on it!!
• 1 TB Notebook HD’s now available]
  • 750GB and 1TB in the mobile 2.5″ form factor
  • priced from $190 on up while the 1TB is a measly $250.
  • (reminisce about the size of drives…)
• IPhone 3GS Not as Secure As You Think
  • Able to crack the phone by loading a IPhone jailbreaker (freeware, easily obtainable)
  • then just copy off the data, the IPhone does all the decryption for you as you access and copy to a thumb drive
• Yahoo, Microsoft Ink Ad Partnership  (JP)
  
  • In a 10-year deal announced in the early hours of July 29, Microsoft became the clear No. 2 in a market long dominated by arch-rival Google.
    • How did they jump to number 2? By adding Yahoo’s 20% market share to their own…
      
  • In a long-awaited pairing aimed at taking on Google, Yahoo will handle ad sales while Microsoft gets the real prize: data on who’s doing what online
  • Yahoo will scrap its own efforts to best Google in search and instead rely on Microsoft’s recently debuted Bing search engine. Ads placed next to those search results would be served up not by Yahoo’s ad platform, dubbed Panama, but by a Microsoft technology called AdCenter.
  • Yahoo salespeople will continue to sell search ads that appear on both Yahoo sites and on Bing, and Microsoft agreed to let Yahoo keep 88% of the revenue on ads that appear on Yahoo sites.
    • • AntiTrust ok is still needed for this to go through…
• Apple Kills Google Voice on IPhone
  • this includes 3rd party apps like GV Mobile
  • Cite “duplication of functionality”
  • What is Google Voice? 1 phone number that then can forward it to list of real phone numbers, voice mail, free SMS, etc.(JP – I got my google voice number about a week ago… I am super pissed about this)
  • (Jeremy) AT&T probably the culprits here, cause SMS is a BIG profit center for them
  • there are already apps for blackberry and android
• Jerks Help Break Traffic Jams
  • All based upon computer simulations and scientific research
  • “jerks”, ppl who speed up around slow moving cars, pass on the wrong side, change lanes in the intersection, actually break up patterns improving flow
  • (steven) I personally consider myself an aggressive driver
  • One rule to never break: Tailgating. Scientifically proven to cause more accidents (if you’re tailgating, somebody behind you is probly also)
• Really Cool Technology – New dimension for business cards and more  (JP)
  • a guy from Britain has design a new way of embedding information into a picture that can be read by webcams
    • • you have your picture on your business card, and then the person you gave it to holds it in front of their webcam
      • it shows a video of you introducing yourself and giving your pitch for whatever you do…
      • Great video if you follow the link from our show notes

• Peggle, the WoW version, now Free outside WoW

• This just in: Women becoming more beautiful, Men fugly as cavemen
• Guy scales High Rise Spiderman Style
• South Africa’s ATM’s outfitted with Pepper spray canisters  (JP)
  • What could possibly go wrong??Oh, this is what could go wrong:

    The technology uses cameras to detect people tampering with the card slots. Another machine then ejects pepper spray to stun the culprit while police response teams race to the scene.But the mechanism backfired in one incident last week when pepper spray was inadvertently inhaled by three technicians who required treatment from paramedics.

    • Also, in another incident the canisters malfunctioned (no one was using the machines at the time) but the spray dispersed into a shopping center that had to be emptied…

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