Category: TWIT Archive

Another TWiT is in the can! This week’s, episode 62, Leo Laporte, David Prager, Robert Heron, and John C. Dvorak all gather around the table to talk about this week’s tech news and other assorted hilarity; all the goodness you’ve come to expect from a good TWiT discussion.

Amont the topics this week are the fact that television had the lowest ratings in recorded history this week, and that simultaneously Nielsen announced that 6.6% of the U.S. adult population has recently downloaded a podcast and that podcasts are more popular than blogs. Also, The Sci-Fi Channel puts a pilot of one of their new shows online before they air it, trying to drum up anticipation, the death of the author of The Anarchist’s Cookbook, where to buy analog phones, a hacker who only tried to crack a database is jailed for 5 years, exploding dell laptops, Intel’s new kick-ass chips, Wired Magazine and Wired News come back under the same roof, the coolest 9 links on the web according to Yahoo!, and much much more!

This Week in Tech [TWiT] Episode 62 // July 17, 2006
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Leo Laporte, Will Harris, David Prager, Robert Heron, and John C. Dvorak all join us this week for another fabulous TWiT, this week discussing some of the week’s hottest (and not nearly so hot) technology news. Among the talking points for the week are the Google founders’ big private jet and the subsequent lawsuits, the Emmys’ new broadband category and the old media that dominates the category and the new media that’s been largely ignored, the unbooming of Rocketboom, AOL mulling over focusing on its pay web-services and ditching internet access, Apple dumps the eMac-finally an end to the Apple CRT era, Microsoft claims to be readying an iPod killer for the holidays, the end of a linux lab in one Toronto high school, Alienware’s “what the hell” PC designed specifically for Dell, Leo’s blog on Vox, and much much much more!

Another TWiT is in the can!

This Week in Tech [TWiT] Episode 61 // July 9, 2006
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This week on TWiT, Leo Laporte, Patrick Norton, David Prager, Bill Machrone, and John C. Dvorak all gather around the table to discuss tech news and info, including Alaska Republican Ted Steven’s hilariously inaccurate description of the Internet and how it works. Also among the week’s topics are Apple rumors galore, including Engadget’s wrapup of Apple Mac OS 10.5 rumors and screenshots, Microsoft cuts off downloads of Windows Vista Beta 2 but releases Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3, and another sad blow to net neutrality and where the movement goes from here.

This Week in Tech [TWiT] Episode 60 // July 2, 2006
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On this week’s TWiT, Leo Laporte, Patrick Norton, Roger Chang, Robert Heron, and John C. Dvorak gather around the table to talk about this week’s tech news. A fine panel for a fine week’s podcast.

Among the topics this week are the video working its way around the net of the Comcast technician that was on hold with his own office so long he fell asleep on the customer’s couch, whether or not the White House ordered the siezure and closing of The PirateBay’s offices in Sweden, Verizon serves DSL at Wal-Mart connection centers, some consider the pricing of Microsoft’s upcoming security suite as “ruthless” and predatory,” and more.

Because we’re launching a DiggNation mirror as well as a TWiT mirror, we’re going back in the archives to toss out some of the old mirrored podcasts; we’ll only keep about 10 episodes of each at a time; so if you’re going back in the archives to find those old episodes, click the episode notes and download from there. We’ll list the AOL radio link as well as the TechTV Forever mirror! Here here for more downloads!

This Week in Tech [TWiT] Episode 59 // June 25, 2006
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On this week’s TWiT, Leo Laporte, Patrick Norton, Chris DiBona, Doug Kaye, and Molly Wood all sit around the table and talk about Mila Jovovich, which is a shame since we all know how much Kevin Rose loves her.

Seriously though; this week on TWiT, the crew is at Yahoo! for Podcast Academy 3, the big news that Bill Gates will be stepping down from his position at Microsoft and transitioning out over the next several years, Google’s still rolling out the goodies with a new beta for Google Earth 4, and a Shakespeare resource site, the Apple story of the week-the iPod city in China and the conditions in which the workers there live and work, the rumors that Apple might be readying a flash-based ultraportable notebook computer, the ringtone that only kids can hear, Amazon’s getting into the grocery market, Blockbuster and Netflix going back and forth in the courtroom, Netscape rips off Digg, Flickr disses screenshots and says they’re not “real photography,” and much much more.

This Week In Tech [TWiT] Episode 58 // June 18, 2006
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This week’s TWIT comes live from Vloggercon, or the convention for video bloggers, and covers a whole messload of topics, including Microsoft’s announcement of a set of massive security updates for Windows, questioning China’s commitment to intellectual property rights, working conditions at Apple’s iPod factories, Microsoft embraces bittorrent to distribute Windows Vista Beta 2, more PS2 boxes are still selling than XBox 360 consoles, Google’s Firefox sync tool, and more.

This Week in Tech [TWiT] Episode 57 // June 12, 2006
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Another TWIT is in the can! The TWiTs are back from vacation this week and in fine form for another podcast to open the week with. Our hosts this week are Leo Laporte, Patrick Norton, John C. Dvorak, Doug Kaye, Michael Geoghegan, and Molly Wood. Among some of the topics to be discussed this week are IT Conversations’ third anniversary in podcasting, Boycott Yahoo!, ThePirateBay strikes back after being raided by Swedish authorities last week, Adobe kills Freehand and GoLive, McAfee reveals a competitor to Microsoft’s OneCare, Google strikes a deal with Microsoft, and much much much more; definitely a winner this week.

This Week in Tech [TWiT] Episode 56 // June 4, 2006
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This week on This Week in Tech, the panel hosts are Leo Laporte, Robert Heron, John C. Dvorak, Steve Gibson, and Wil Harris, and they get down to business discussing this week’s hottest tech news, including the release of Apple’s Macbook notebook computer, the unveiling of Windows Vista system requirements, Apple’s countersuit against Creative, encryption key disclosure laws passed in the UK, Yahoo’s new home page, and the Supreme Court deals a blow to patent trolls. TechTV Forever mirror is up; download away!

This Week in Tech [TWiT] Episode 55 // May 21, 2006
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Another TWiT is in the can! This week’s hosts are Leo Laporte, Patrick Norton, John C. Dvorak, Jenn Cutter, and Al Lowe; and the crew get right down to business discussing the events from the Electronic Entertainment Expo, including Nintendo’s surprise show-stopping performance, Microsoft announcing they’ll allow their XBox 360 and PC users to play against one another online in th games they release for both platforms, Sony execs defend the PlayStation 3 pricing and say it should even have costed more, the French government caves to Apple, Apple beats the Beatles, ICANN disses the .xxx domain idea, Yahoo! spurns Microsoft, Microsoft adds blogging functionality to Word, and much much more!

The TechTV Forever mirror of the show is up and running, snag it and listen away!

This Week in Tech [TWiT] Episode 54 // May 14, 2006
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Another TWiT is in the can, and this week’s hosts are Leo Laporte,Robert Heron, Alex Lindsay, Chris DiBona, and Wil Harris. In this week’s episode, the crew discusses spammer getting back at anti-spam companies, is MySpace a fraud designed to collect personal information, Blackberry is back in court, is Microsoft pondering a purchase of Yahoo!, rumors that Apple will release a consumer end portable this week called the MacBook, Apple’s hilarious new TV ads, and speculation that IPv4 will run out of IP Addresses by 2012.

Definitely a well rounded TWiT, and the TechTV Forever mirror is up and running. Head on over and check it out!

This Week in Tech [TWiT] Episode 53 // May 7, 2006
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Leo sits down again with Jake Fischer, executive director of IPac [ http://ipaction.org/ ] to bring us up to date on what the geek lobby has been up to recently, including fighting against legislation in congress that will make life harder for anyone who loves their digital devices, including the Intellectual Property Protection Act, also known as the DMCA II, and the launch of FireHatch.com [ http://firehatch.com/ ] designed to help unseat Orrin Hatch, the Utah Republican who once said that he would be all for letting the music industry blow up people’s computers if they downloaded copyrighted material (and was then found violating copyright on his own website), the Perform Act, the Induce Act, and much much more.

If you’re concerned about digital freedom and your rights as a customer of some of these industries that are aggressively lobbying to restrict your rights and freedoms, you should definitely check this out, and get involved!

TWiT Special IPac Update // May 4, 2006
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On this week’s glorious TWiT, Leo Laporte, Patrick Norton, Robert Heron, David Prager, and John C. Dvorak join forces to bring you this week’s tech news and commentary! Among the discussion topics this week are John C’s trip to Brazil, Nintendo renaming the Revolution to the Wii, reports that new Xbox360s will come with HD-DVD units inside and the competing Blu-Ray standard will be shipping on May 23rd. Also, dual format DVDs; are they in our future, and more importantly, wil we see dual-standard players? YouTube is burning through cash to pay its bandwidth bills, and the Bush Administration quashing an EFF lawsuiit by pulling the “national security” wool over our eyes. Ransomware viruses, buying jets on eBay, and much much more!

This Week in Tech [TWiT] Episode 52 // April 30, 2006
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Another week, another TWiT is in the can! This week’s hosts are Leo Laporte, Patrick Norton, Kevin Rose, Alex Lindsay, Robert Heron, and David Prager, and Kevin takes center stage right out of the gate to explain what Digg is and how Digg really works, especially in response to criticism lately that the editors of Digg have something to do with what stories make it to the front page and which stories get popular and which don’t. Congress is readying to clamp down on your fair use rights even more and readying a DMCA II, Yahoo! sends a third Chinese dissident to jail by giving their personal information to the Chinese government, more Apple news, and more, of course!

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This Week in Tech [TWiT] Episode 51 // April 23, 2006
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Wow! TWiT is 50 episodes strong! It’s been a long time since the old Screen Savers gang gathered around a microphone to chat about tech news and how great it was to get back together, and here they are, 50 episodes later, still talking tech and bringing tech news and commentary to the masses. Congratulations guys! You’re definitely the podcast that defined the entire genre!

This week on TWiT, a small crew for such a big episode, including Leo Laporte, Roger Chang, Wil Harris, and John C. Dvorak. Among the topics covered are the death of the net neutrality bill thanks to congressional republicans, Ubisoft drops Starforce copy-protection from its games, Blizzard gets out the banhammer and bans over 5400 people from World of Warcraft, new surveys show exactly who’s listening to podcasts, will BootCamp start a massive exodus to Windows, Aero (the new graphics engine in Windows Vista) will be unavailable in pirated versions of the OS, and much much more!

This Week in Tech [TWiT] Episode 50 // April 16, 2006
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A mini TWIT pops up this week to get people introduced to one of my favorite political action committees. The fact is that geeks like you and I don’t really have much of a voice in government, while the voices of intellectual property owners, organizations like the RIAA and the MPAA, and other large interest groups can whisper and the legislature jumps in response. Get involved! In addition to one of our favorite groups, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, [ http://eff.org/ ] Leo introduces us this week to IPac [ http://ipaction.org/ ] , and talks with Ren Bucholz, one of IPac’s founders and board members, and Jake Fischer, Executive Director. Ipac’s website says the following:

IPac is a nonpartisan group dedicated to preserving individual freedom through balanced intellectual property policy.

We believe that technological innovation and individual creativity are vital to the future of this country. We believe that a prosperous and democratic society depends on freedom for all individuals to pursue scientific invention and artistic expression. Unfortunately, new intellectual property laws threaten to stifle these freedoms and restrict public participation in science, art, and political discourse.

Snag the most recent version from the TechTVForever.net mirror (linked below) and let us know what you think! Head on over to the ipac website and sign on to their statement of principles! Ipac, in case you might remember, is where the “your senator needs an iPod” campaign started; the folks that managed to get Ted Stevens of Alasaka, a known enemy of individual rights and freedoms (among other things) an iPod that he loved so much that he was astounded that the music industry was trying to make it illegal for him to use it! If iPac can change Stevens’ mind, think about what it can do with your help!

This Week In Tech [TWIT] Episode 49a // April 12, 2006
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It’s that time of the week, which means there’s a brand spanking new TWIT to open the week with! This week’s TWIT is a little short sadly enough, but they hit on some pretty big topics! This week’s hosts are Robert Scoble, Leo Laporte, Patrick Norton, Kevin Rose, Molly Wood, and John C. Dvorak. (who must be gloating something fierce right now)

This week’s discussion topics include of course, Bill Gates’ odd choices of public appearances, whether or not anyone’s really listening to podcasts, Microsoft’s attempts at IPTV via Channel 9 and Channel 10, (we’ve mentioned them before) Disney’s cell service for kids, and more! Download away, we’ve got our mirror up!

This Week In Tech [TWIT] Episode 49 // April 10, 2006
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This week on TWIT, your esteemed hosts will be…well…just Leo. But he’s got four of the original Apple employees on the line to chat about Apple’s 30th anniversary, including Bill Fernandez, Andy Hertzfeld, Daniel Kottke, Randy Wigginton, and Steve Wozniak, And that’s right, the episode is all about Apple’s 30th birthday. Now I’m as much of an Apple fanatic as the next person, don’t get me wrong, but I’m not so sure that this was a great TWIT idea; maybe it should have been a MacBreak special, since that’s the community it’s geared at, but all in all, I still think it was a good show. I did miss the perspective of the other TWITs though. Love it or hate it, it’s here and ready for your download!

What did you think of the show? Let us know in the comments!

This Week In Tech [TWIT] Episode 48 // April 2, 2006
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This week on TWiT, the gang’s back together and your hosts are Patrick Norton, John C. Dvorak, Doug Kaye, and Leo Laporte, making for a small but rowdy bunch. Hot topics this week are the announced delay of Windows Vista, whether Apple’s going to win for this, Dell’s purchase of Alienware, and all the rest tech news you know you were bound to hear about this week. The TechTV Forever mirror is up, so download away!

This Week In Tech [TWIT] Episode 47 // March 26, 2006
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This week’s TWIT is a roundtable audio call; no video this week. The crew this week consist of Patrick Norton, John C. Dvorak, Alex Lindsay, Roger Chang, and David Prager, and they get right into things by starting off by discussing the breakthrough of Windows XP running on the new Intel Macs, AOL’s new Internet television network, and Google being forced to hand over their data to the Justice Department.

France’s new law that makes piracy nearly legal, the US Senate tries to make a run for the .xxx domain again, and Sony announces that the PlayStation 3 will be delayed until November of 2006. No more Katamari, as the dev team goes their separate ways, PC World’s call-quality survey, and much much more!

Head on over and check it out, and the TechTV Forever mirror is up and ready for downloading. Enjoy!

This Week In Tech [TWIT] Episode 46 // March 20, 2006
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On this week’s TWIT, your fine hosts are Leo Laporte, Patrick Norton, Robert Heron, Doug Kaye, and John C. Dvorak. Special guest this week is Wil Harris of Bit-Tech.net. The crew gathers this week to discuss all the recent tech news, including net TV aimed at new audiences, no EFI support for Windows Vista, another Apple event coming at the beginning of next month, Microsoft unveils the Origami Project, and the Mac OS X security flap. Enjoy!

Oh! One more thing! We’ve gotten a few requests to start mirroring the TWIT mp3 again, so we’ll go ahead and do that from now on! We were thinking that the AOL Radio links would be enough, but there’s obviously room for the service, and we’re gonna offer it! So our mirror is up now, and you can download straight from us. Are there any other shows you guys might want us to mirror for you?

This Week In Tech [TWiT] Episode 45 // March 13, 2006
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