A nasty worm spreads quickly through Twitter.com but is quickly smashed. Intel wants you to pay $50 to make the CPU in the PC you just bought run at full speed. Facebook hides the "ignore" option on friend requests. And Germans say "nein!" to Street View. With special guest John Falcone.
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EPISODE 1312
Twitter worms spread quickly thanks to blatant security flaw
http://arstechnica.com/security/news/2010/09/twitter-worms-spread-quickly-thanks-to-blatant-security-flaw.ars
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/sep/21/twitter-hack-explained-xss-javascript
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-20017075-36.html
Did Twitter Know About Security Flaw Late Last Month?
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/did_twitter_know_about_security_flaw_late_last_mon.php
Auto-complete and Reply to All come to Twitter
http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2010/09/21/two-highly-requested-features-come-to-twitter/
Facepalm of the Day: Intel charges customers $50 to unlock CPU features
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/facepalm-of-the-day-intel-charges-customers-50-to-unlock-cpu-features/9742
Other Stories
Facebook Has Quietly Implemented A De-Facto Follow Feature
http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/20/facebook-not-now-follow/
Hundreds of Thousands of Germans Opt Out of Google Street View
http://valleywag.gawker.com/5643538/hundreds-of-thousands-of-germans-opt-out-of-google-street-view
Verizon iPhone would hurt AT&T less than expected – report
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/09/21/verizon_iphone_would_hurt_att_less_than_expected_report.html
Yahoo! ‘owns several patents’ on Google Instant
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/20/yahoo_owns_several_patents_on_google_instant/
HP and Oracle Reaffirm Commitment to Partnership, Resolve Litigation Regarding Mark Hurd
http://h30507.www3.hp.com/t5/Data-Central/HP-and-Oracle-Reaffirm-Commitment-to-Partnership-Resolve/ba-p/82514
http://kara.allthingsd.com/20100920/when-larry-ellison-met-marc-andreessen-plus-mark-hurd-returns-some-dough/
Google Bringing Document Editing to Android, iPad
http://jkontherun.com/2010/09/20/google-bringing-document-editing-to-android-ipad/
Mobile codes to boost Google account security
http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20016881-245.html
Kickers and Science
Double Rainbow Guy Now Trying to Cash In with iPhone App [VIDEO]
http://mashable.com/2010/09/21/double-rainbow-iphone-app/
Voicemail (800-616-2638)
Sam from Tampa on Tivo
Email (buzz@cnet.com)
On episode 1311, Rafe and gang suggested that Verizon’s new plan would be a better deal than Mobile Me. At $8 month per phone for Verizon new protection plan, it will cost a subscriber $96 annually for the same services offered by the Find My iPhone features with Apple’s MobileMe,however with Mobile Me you also get push email, online disk storage, Back to My Mac computer syncing and screens haring services, etc etc etc…. However, Mobile Me is just not a better value, it is cheaper because with Mobile Me you can use Find My iPhone with an unlimited number of iOS devices.
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Duane Andrews
Technosexual