Archive for May, 2012

Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell

Facebook IPO – Immediate Poop Out, Yahoo to ditch Alibaba, TPP is the new ACTA, or worse, and more.

Guest: Darren Kitchen

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Running time: 43:35

Roger’s impressions of Hawaii, what made The Avengers so good, and could a Justice League movie ever get pulled off.

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In 1857 – William Francis Channing of Boston, Mass. and Moses Gerrish Farmer, of Salem, Mass. received the first U.S. patent for an “electromagnetic fire alarm telegraph for cities” (No. 17,355).

In 1961 – Venera 1 became the first man-made object to fly-by another planet by passing within 100,000 KM of Venus. The probe did not send back any data having lost contact with Earth a month earlier.

In 2006 – Apple opened its 20,000-square foot store at 767 Fifth Avenue. It was the second Apple store in New York City but the iconic glass cube made it the most famous.

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_pkRAEPGOs

Hosts: Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell

Edward Saverin’s renouncing his citizenship and US senators say pay up, Comcast ditching Data caps- temporarily, Yahoo’s suing, and more.

Guest: Ina Fried

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Running time: 53:07

Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell

Apple gets HTC phones seized, Google’s answer to Bing’s social search, Pirate Bay under attack, and more.

Guest: Martin Giles

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Running time: 35:15

In 1923 – The first patent application for the rotary-dial telephone was submitted in France by Antoine Barnay.

In 1969 – Apollo 10 launched, completing all the stages of a moon landing mission without landing on the Moon. Astronauts Eugene Cernan and Thomas Staford descended in the Lunar Module to within 15 KM of the lunar surface.

In 1998 – The United States Department of Justice and twenty U.S. states filed civil actions against Microsoft, alleging the company abused monopoly power regarding operating system and Web browser sales.

Matt Cutts is the head of the webspam team at Google. That means that if you type your name into Google and get porn back, it’s his fault. Also learn 3 or 5 things you never knew about the “face” of Google.

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Tom Merritt

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Running time: 01:05:53

In 1902 – A strange device was discovered near Antikythera off the coast of Greece. The device is later found to be a sophisticated calculating mechanism dating from 150 BC.

In 1943 – The U.S. Army and the University of Pennsylvania signed a contract to develope ENIAC. It was planned to use vacuum tubes and calculate ballistic firing tables.

In 1954 – The first shovel load of earth was dug on the Meyrin site of the first CERN Laboratory building in Geneva.