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August '08 Tech News Update from the Best Damn Tech Show, Period.

BestDamnTech — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:15:05 GMT

News
Ex-Google engineers launched the new search engine Cuil www.cuil.com to ho-hum reviews amidst a massive PR release. With it's slick interface and huge index they may have been expecting more but its poor search results, many have written it off already.
To give you an example, a search for the "Best Damn Tech Show" bring up a Wikipedia result in the top spot that links you to a page that doesn't even exist. Nice one.

Friend of the Tech Show, Ted Stevens the longest serving senator in congress has been brought up on charges (7 counts on failing to disclose - not for being a douche as most people thought). For those who are not sure who he is, we give you a listen to his "series of tubes" insight among some of his Tedisms. Our friend Jon Stewart over at our partner broadcaster Comedy Central also offers some Teddy greatest hits. http://blog.indecision2008.com/2008/07/30/top-5-daily-show-ted-stevens-moments/

Iris on the Virus
Apple gets pie in the face from security researchers over a failure to act on patching serious DNS BIND flaw.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/29/apple_dns_patch_mia/

Schmidt Faced
Gary Vaynerchuck has been ignoring Schmidt and he finally offers up his explanation...he's been busy. In typical Schmidt fashion, he thinks he's being ignored (which is a more likely case anyway) and spurs his alcohol-induced rant.

Rachel's Soy Sauce - Dishing up the gossip for the gals

IBM facilities hosting 3 week tech camps for gals after hearing of the decline in female tech engineers http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?aid=/20080731/business01/807310312

American Asso

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5 things you may not know about BestDamnTech.com

BestDamnTech — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:07:00 GMT

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Best Damn Tech Show, Period. 04.22.08 Phishing and Whaling

BestDamnTech — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:14:52 GMT

Google Maps Predicts Traffic ConditionsGoogle Maps can now predict traffic information for any day of the week and time of the day, based on past conditions. By default, if you click on the Traffic button in a supported area from the US, Google Maps shows real-time traffic information.The Twitter/FriendFeed Desktop Client Arms Race ContinuesA lot of people are addicted to Twitter (microblogging), and a lot of people are addicted to FriendFeed (friends' activity streams). While both are web servicesAlexa Updates Its Web Rankings - Still Not Good EnoughAmazon-owned Alexa has announced a major update to its 10 year old web ranking system. Previously, Alexa's rankings were based solely on data collected from the downloadable Alexa Toolbar, but now the company is aggregating data from multiple sourcesDownload YouTube Videos as MP4 Files(Tip) Answer "No to All" When Copying FilesGoogle's Great American Wireless Auction 'game' annoys US lawmakers Worth mention.IRIS ON THE VIRUSFrom Phishing to Whaling

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Best Damn Tech Show Period 03.18.08

BestDamnTech — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:19:59 GMT

Show Notes - March 18th, 2008

Best Damn News

Quarterlife Dies in the Ass on NBC

Only 3.1 million viewers gets the web-tv series the boot to Bravo

http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/2/nbc_shifts__quarterlife__to_cable

Yahoo

Yahoo to open up search and support the Semantic Web
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/yahoo_supports_semantic_web.php

Tech

Tech Biffo:
Wikipedia leader involved in sex and extortion scandal. Come talk to us Jimbo Wales, we'll give you a fair shake.

According to Nine Inch Nail Ghosts I-IV logged 1.6 million in sales in the first week of release even though it was offered free and widely available via bittorent .
with more on the recording industry, we're getting...

Schmidt Faced
RIAA

Iris on the Virus
Mass compromise via iFrame and site search
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/13/mass_compromise/
US
US copyright domain scam

Tech It Out

AOL to buy Bebo for $850 million
Substory, Bebo rips of Drew Olanoff for "Gap Year" show.

Calling all advertising wannabees. Make an ad for Obama. Head over to http://www.obamain30seconds.org/ brought by moveon.org

Geek Psychic report - after speaking with Jobsy, she leaks to us that Apple is creating a Tivo-like interface for the Apple TV, making it more user-friendly.

Some minor issues are being reported for the MacBook Air, mainly to do with overheating. They're working on it.

Drews Gay News

ANNOUNCEMENT/Exclusive:
Drew Olanoff and other investors purchase Readburner (not to be distributed until after tomorrow)

SXSW Recap
Rock Band causes a stir (show Revision 3 video with Scoble)
People got Drunk (Alex Hillman CONFIRMED)
Zuckermans interview

Around the World Wide Web
Third generation Zune's will be rolled out by 2009 and finally be available to Eurpoeans wanting an ordinary mutilmedia device
http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/third-gen-zune-to-hit-in-2009-make-it-to-europe/

Apple

Apple is plann

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Best Damn Tech Show, Period 12.04.07 The Green Screen Episode (aka The Gay Episode)

BestDamnTech — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 06:00:23 GMT

Our first episode shot entirely using the Chrome Key effect known as "Green Screen". Still working out the kinks so give us a break...

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Best Damn Tech Show, Period. 11.20.07 Fun With Our New Green Screen

BestDamnTech — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 03:36:29 GMT

Need to climb Everest but concerned about cell phone coverage? No more worries there as China's largest mobile phone provider has now installed a transmission station at 21,000 ft. Says a spokesman, "the construction was very difficult". The station was part of the Olympics initiative as they are taking the torch up to the top.

Ubuntu appears to be having an impact. Walmart started selling the $200 Linux machine (1.5 GHz VIA C7 CPU embedded onto a Mini-ITX motherboard, 512MB of RAM and an 80GB) 2 weeks ago and has already sold out. http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=926

Meanwhile

Meanwhile the One Laptop per Child is offering a give one get one program where for $399 ($200 of which is tax deductible) a laptop will be send to a child in a third world country plus you will receive one for the child in your life. In addition, you will receive a year free T-Mobile hotspot access. http://www.laptopgiving.org/en/give-one-get-one.php

GEEK

GEEK CHICK

IRIS ON THE VIRUS
Mighty Morphing Ebay Trojan
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2007/11/15/trojan_bayrob_morphs/

Ebay

Ebay trojan (Trojan.Bayrob) has morphed yet again. This trojan loads a webserver on the victim's computer and serves up false pages for Ebay motors and CarFax reports to fool people into giving money to the bad guys.

SCHMIDT FACED

Sony?s lackluster PlayStation 3 sales more than doubled recently thanks to the introduction of the new 40GB model and a $100 price cut on the 80GB model.

TECH IT OUT
Google is offering up to $10 mill for developers of apps for their android platform.

Sales of the Sony PS3 are up as a result of the $100 price cut from 40,000/week to 100,000 for this week. They still have a long way to go to catch up with XBOX 360 and Wii which are double the total sales.

Look out for YouTube's "high quality video" rolling out in the next few months.

Viddler has officially announced their monetization model which we have been testing for a couple of months. If you are a publisher go a

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Best Damn Tech Show, Period. 11.13.07 Our 5 Favorite Things Around The House That Geek Built

BestDamnTech — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 10:18:10 GMT

Paul Flemo and Adam Plante take us on a video tour around the house, pointing out things that we love. Geek Chick Nic makes an appearance, as does Schmidt and Marc's new band. Rock on, geeks!

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Best Damn Tech Show, Period 11.06.07 Google Show with Live Music!

BestDamnTech — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 05:09:05 GMT

News
From the who gives a shit files, apparently "Tom" Anderson the cofounder of MySpace has set a precedence for lying about ones age on the site. According to his profile, he is 32 but records have uncovered that he is actually 37. Michael Arrington from Techcrunch was outraged "If you can't trust the founders to be truthful in their profiles, how can you trust what anyone says on the site."

Rumor has it that Google and Verizon are in talks to offer the long-speculated GPhone system. Could it be that Verizon are kicking themselves by not agreeing to Apple's stipulations over the iPhone? This may their way at getting some form of redemption. Verizon are well known for their restrictions on phones so this rumor may be a signal that they are willing to open things up - it's tough to imagine. http://techdirt.com/articles/20071031/093942.shtml

Meanwhile

Meanwhile Google are looking to roll out Gmail 2.0 which adds some interesting new features. Proported to be faster and more convenient...we wonder if it will finally be out of beta.

Schmidt Faced
Schmidt's cheap

irus on the virus

Mac porn trojan
(URL: http://www.theregister.com/2007/10/31/in_the_wild_osx_trojan/)
OSX.RSPlug.A
A
A new trojan for the Mac is out. This one uses social engineering to accomplish it's goal as it requires the admin password in order to install.
Users on a dubious site are prompted to view a video. The video appears to be a quicktime mov, but is actually a link to a trojan installer. The user when attempting to view the mov, are informed that they will require a special codec to play the movie file, and are provided a link to download the "codec". What the user is actually installing is a virus known as OSX.RSPlug.A which is a DNSChanger. The site hijacks web requests made to EBay, PayPal, and a few banking sites. So later when a user goes to login to his EBay account, he is unknowingly providing his login credentials to a phishing site. The main thing here is that Macs have been targeted

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