Hosts: David McVay, Josh Philpott & Shane Gregory
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This Week
Real or beat up? Apple’s iPhone 4 weathered Antennaegate and now we have this crap.
Ryan at GDGT wrote the original article
http://gdgt.com/discuss/with-antennagate-over-is-glassgate-next-iphone-ani/
Followed it up with this article
http://gdgt.com/discuss/following-up-on-yesterdays-glassgate-story-wanted-aod/
And now it is picked up by mass media, so it must be true, right?
http://www.news.com.au/technology/iphone/glassgate-more-cracks-appear-in-iphone-4/story-fn5sd1vk-1225937131068
Now a warranty firm gets in on the action
http://www.news.com.au/technology/iphone/warranty-firm-says-apple-iphone-4-clearly-more-prone-to-damage-than-iphone-3g/story-fn5sd1vk-1225939042866
Can we stop using ‘gate’, it is meaningless. Watergate was the name of a hotel, thus the name.
Duke Nuke’m News
http://www.news.com.au/technology/is-duke-nukem-too-old-to-make-it-in-todays-world/story-e6frfro0-1225938292750
and the fans take over
http://www.news.com.au/technology/fan-made-duke-nukem-next-gen-gets-go-ahead/story-e6frfro0-1225939006130
Malcolm Turnball concedes that the opposition wouldn’t tear up the NBN
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/turnbull-says-built-network-wont-be-torn-up-20101012-16ht5.html
…and while we are talking NBN
http://www.news.com.au/technology/customers-may-be-forced-on-to-nbn-to-keep-phones/story-e6frfro0-1225937431618
ACMA Blacklist complaints increase three fold this year
http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/364349/online_complaints_increase_three_fold_acma/
Big Brother, sorry I mean Apple strikes again – it wants to censor TXT messages
http://www.news.com.au/technology/apple-can-stop-sexting-on-the-iphone-through-patent/story-e6frfro0-1225938579181
Topic of the Week – Windows Phone 7 Launched
Windows Phone 7 finally announced, was it worth the wait?
http://www.news.com.au/technology/microsoft-unveils-windows-7-for-smart-phones/story-e6frfrnr-1225937445910
The Windows Phone 7 features
http://www.pcworld.com/article/189347/windows_phone_7_an_indepth_look_at_the_features_and_interface.html#
The Windows Phone 7 handsets
http://gizmodo.com/5660886/all-the-windows-phone-7-phones
Watch the announcement video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q-HtdW03Zs&feature=channel
Apps of the Week
Our pick of the week in iPhone/iPad apps. David picked ‘Geared’ (for the iPhone) and Geared HD (for the iPad) by Bryan Mitchell both are $1.19 each and ‘Note Taker HD’ (for iPad) by Software Garden for $5.99. Josh picked ‘CamScanner+’ (iPhone) by IntSig Information Co for $5.99 and ‘Mirror’s Edge’ (iPhone) by Electronic Arts for $1.19. Shane picked ‘Tap Zoo’ (iPhone) by Streetview Labs, it’s free and ‘Ringtone Maker’ (iPhone) by Zentertain and it is also free.
As always this episode carries an explicit tag due to some bad language.
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