Tech News Today 430: Preloaded With Love

Hosts: Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell

Anonymous is listening to the FBI, Panasonic and Sharp are hurting, watch those Xooms, and more.

Guest: Darren Kitchen and Stephen Johnson

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Running time: 57:10

Tech News Today 429: 57% Zuck

Hosts: Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell

Sony’s in the red, Google got itself a Bouncer, the Facebook fallout, AMD’s new strategy, and more.

Guest: MG Siegler and Fr. Robert Ballecer

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Running time: 54:42

Tech News Today 428: Friend Facebook Financially

Hosts: Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell

Facebook files for IPO, Sony’s new CEO has his work cut out for him, Microsoft and Google are mudslinging, and more.

Guest: Shannon Morse

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Running time: 52:35

Tech History Today – February 2

In 1046: English monks recorded “no man then alive could remember so severe a winter as this was.” They’re analog weather blog entry recorded the beginning of the Little Ice Age.

In 1931, Friedrich Schmiedl launched the first rocket mail (V-7, Experimental Rocket 7) with 102 pieces of mail between Schöckl and St. Radegund, Austria.

In 1935: Detective Leonarde Keeler, co-inventor of the Keeler polygraph, tried out the lie detector on two suspected criminals in Portage, Wisconsin. Both suspects were convicted of assault.

Come back tomorrow for more history.

Tech History Today – February 1

In 1951: TV viewers witnessed the live detonation of an atomic bomb blast, as KTLA in Los Angeles broadcast the explosion of a nuclear device dropped on Frenchman Flats, Nevada.

In 1972, the first scientific hand-held calculator the famous HP-35 was introduced for $395 by Hewlett-Packard. It was the first handheld caluclator to perform logarithmic and trigonometric functions with one keystroke.

In 1985 Shortly after it’s founding the November before, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence kicked off. SETI Institute began operations.

Tech News Today 427: You Got A Frand In Me

Hosts: Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell

Amazon has good and bad news, Megaupload files are safe for now, Google’s privacy policies, …and more.

Guest: Justin Robert Young

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Running time: 53:37