Summary: Show #42; April 15th, 2010 Four Dudes On Tech Podcast Show # 42 - To be Shanked or Shived? Microsoft Fest! * Microsoft announces its newest "social" phone, the Kin Twitter Fest! * The Library of Congress will now archive all tweets Ransomware * Trojan downloads your web history and posts it on a public website, you can pay to take it down New Technology in Cabling * Intel's new Light Peak brings fiber optic data transfer to the masses Notes Four Dudes on Apple http://gizmodo.com/5512635/iphone-os-4-all-the-new-features * The latest and greatest iPhone OS, version 4.0 * New features include: multitasking, app(lication) folders, a new mail app(lication), iBooks, iAds, etc. * iPhone 3GSes and iPod Touch 3rd-gens devices will get all of the new features * iPhone 3G and Touch 2G will get "many things," which doesn't include multitasking http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=1904 * New Apple SDK for iPhone OS 4.0 * A new restriction is angering many developers, especially big software makers like Adobe * Developers can no longer use cross platform compilers (as in they can't make an application in Adobe Flash and then compile it for use on multiple platforms, including the iPhone) * Says Steve Jobs about the controversy: "We’ve been there before, and intermediate layers between the platform and the developer ultimately produces sub-standard apps and hinders the progress of the platform." http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/apple-refreshes-macbook-pro-family-with-intel-core-i5-and-core-i/ * MacBook Pros get a processor upgrade * They've moved from the Intel Core 2 Duo chips to the Core i5s and i7s * The most affordable MacBook Pro is still shipping with the Core 2 Duo * Holy crap on the prices! http://thenextweb.com/mobile/2010/04/13/approved-opera-mini-app-store/ http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/opera-mini-now-the-number-one-free-download-in-all-22-app-stores/ * Opera's popular Mini Mobile browser has just been approved for the iPhone * "Opera uses compression methods that allow you to view a full website, yet download noticeably less data" * Could this cut into the use of Apple's Safari browser on the iPhone? * Its pretty freakin' popular so far! Four Dudes on Microsoft trying to be like Apple http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8614764.stm * Microsoft launches a phone called "Kin" that is aimed at social networking * "This is a phone that knits together a tight community of kindred spirits..., the phone personifies true kinship between people, technology, friends and customers," said Robbie Bach, president of the entertainment and devices division at Microsoft. (Sound of me vomiting loudly!) * Multi-touch screen and slide out keyboards * "The phone has an area dubbed the "spot" on to which owners can drag content, such as videos, and then decide how to share it and who to share it with. The phone works with popular social network sites such as Facebook, Twitter and MySpace." Disciplesaurus has finally made it to the Library of Congress http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/04/library-of-congress-were-archiving-every-tweet-ever-made.ars * The Library of Congress will be archiving every tweet EVER since the inception of Twitter in 2006 * "So if you don't want history to remember that burrito you had for dinner last night (and its aftermath), tweet carefully—now it's for posterity." Talk about airing dirty laundry! http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8622665.stm * A Japanese trojan is installing itself onto computers downloading from the file sharing site Winni. * It collects your browsing history and posts it to a website with your name * Wants a payment to take the info down USB... that's so 2009 http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2353569,00.asp
