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Hosts: Leo Laporte, John C. Dvorak, Pete Cashmore, and Jason Hiner.

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Audible pick of the week: The Course of Human Events Abridged, By David McCullough, Narrated by David MuCullough. To get two free audiobooks, visit Audible.com/twit2.

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Running time: 1:48:48

Chrome OS, Firefox 3.5 flaw, Amazon + NetFlix, Google Design, Twitter hacked, and more.

• Leo reports via on AudioBoo from China
• Laporte wins TechRepublic's mock election for 'President of the Internet">
• Going to China, Language Reactivation, and Other Mischief
• TweetReel
• Insane that 20+ people are at our tweetup in Beijing, all used proxies to access Twitter http://bit.ly/3sYqAi
• Ethnic Riots Spread in China's West; 156 Killed
• AT&T Is A Big, Steaming Heap Of Failure
• US State Dept. workers beg Clinton for Firefox
• Zero-day flaw found in Firefox 3.5
• Microsoft patches 9 bugs, leaves one open for hackers
• Google Chrome for Mac Developer Release
• Google Chrome OS
• Android
• Bill Gates on Google's Chrome OS
• Google's Lead Designer Doug Bowman Leaves for Twitter, Cites "Paralyzing" Lack of Design Focus
• Netflix Rises on Speculation of Amazon.com Buyout
• Amazon-Netflix? Let’s Make It Happen, Please
• Facebook Movie is An Adaptation of The Accidental Billionaires
• Pirates of Silicon Valley
• WarGames
• King of Kong
• Amazon: We Won’t Remotely Delete Books Again
• From 2007: Fifteen geek movies to see before you die
• From 2008: iPhone 3G tethering App pulled by Apple (updated)
• The official Kindle 2 case is cracking the Kindle 2, $5 million lawsuit filed
• Kindle DX
• The Crowd Is Wise (When It’s Focused)
• The Wisdom of Crowds (Paperback)
• Digg
• FriendFeed
• DiggBar Commits Career Suicide, Starts Redirecting Users To Digg Homepage
• DaringFireball April 2008: How to Block the DiggBar
• Cronkite Remembered
• We Choose the Moon: Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Lunar Landing
• Dwight interviews Craig Nelson, author of Rocket Men, on the Technology Bytes podcast
• Dell, HP neck and neck in second quarter U.S. PC shipment race; Apple slips, Acer surges
• Twitter hack raises questions about 'cloud computing'

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Running time: 1:43:55

Chrome OS, outlet and laser data theft, $98 Blu-ray player, flat panel growth, memristors, and more.

• Chrome OS for the clueless: What it means for real people Google Chrome OS
• Microsoft's "Gazelle" browser detailed -- it's more of a research project
• O M G I G P Internet Explorer 8 Puke Vomit Girl
• You can upgrade to Windows 7 from the Release Candidate
• How to use electrical outlets and cheap lasers to steal data
• Beware the Airport Wireless
• Walmart Rolls Back Blu-ray Player To $98
• Netflix on Xbox
• Quadraphonic Sound
• Flat panel revenue growth forecast as anemic
• Beware the Airport Wireless
• Palm Pre hacked and running on Verizon
• Mario Marathon
• UK's National Portrait Gallery Threatens To Sue Wikipedia User
• Apple iPhone MMS Delayed, Coming Sept, Tethering $55 Extra
• Memristor minds: The future of artificial intelligence

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Running time: 1:13:31

Sony Ericsson goes Android, Teledildonics, Compuserve, ringtone concerts, shoes, GDGT and more.

• Leaked: Sony Ericsson's Upcoming Android Phone
• Billshrink
• CrunchPad Will Be a 'Dead Simple Web Tablet
• Haptic Feedback, Fingerprint Identification, and RFID Tag Readers in Future iPhones?
• Teledildonics NSFW
• Apple Pulls iPhone App That Allowed for Child Pornography Uploads NSFW
• Michael Jackson sales surge expected to last months
• Lenovo increases the size of the delete key
• Compuserve
• Judge throws book at Usenet.com in RIAA lawsuit
• Ringtones Are Not Concerts, Groups Tell Judge
• Keyboard Cat
• Bing Gains Market Share and Searches Tweets Too
• A simpler Yahoo! from 1996
• Kindle getting ads
• Spinning the Web: P.R. in Silicon Valley
• Physicists Demonstrate Quantum Memory with Matter Qubits
• Since March, Internet Explorer Lost 11.4 Percent Share To Firefox, Safari, And Chrome
• Is everyone on board with a tech turnaround?
• Endless.com, Amazon's shoe page
• Pirate Bay Sold, Reportedly Going Legit
• Apple Blames Global Warming for its Overheating iPhone 3GS
• It's EGM, But Not As You Know It
• Gizmodo, Engadget, and Now GDGT
• Pirate Bay Sold, Reportedly Going Legit

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Running time: 1:20:39

Amazon vs. sales tax, some IPTV ads cost more than equivalent TV, Windows 7 Pricing, Yahoo stockholders meeting, and more.

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Audible pick of the week: A Game of Thrones: A Song of Ice and Fire, Book I Unabridged, By George R. R. Martin, Narrated by Roy Dotrice. To get two free audiobooks, visit Audible.com/twit2.

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Running time: 1:14:48

For show 200, some of the original TWiTs talk about a $1.9 million fine for 24 pirated songs, Morro, Steve Jobs, and more.

• Woman fined to tune of $1.9 million for illegal downloads
• Steve Jobs’ liver transplant: The second-day stories

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Audible pick of the week: iCon Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business Abridged, By Jeffrey S. Young and William L. Simon, Narrated by Alan Sklar. To get two free audiobooks, visit Audible.com/twit2.

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Running time: 1:32:40

Palm Pre, iPhone 3GS, AT&T protest, the end of analog TV, MySpace layoffs, gaming industry down, and more.

• Palm Pre
• Palm Pre vs iPhone
• Digital TV launch leaves some stranded
• MySpace prepares for "massive" layoffs: report
• Video Game Industry Sales Hit Two-Year Lows
• Facebook vanity URLs

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Audible pick of the week: The Road Abridged, By Terry Pratchett, Narrated by Tom Robinson. To get two free audiobooks, visit Audible.com/twit2.

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Running time: 1:31:09

The Palm Pre, Apple's WWDC 2009, voting on advertisements, Bing, E3, Google gets cozy with the White House, and more.

• FriendFeed for this episode
• Is Palm's "Pre" An iPhone Killer? Market Share Battle Heats Up Between iPhone, Blackberry And Pre
• Palm Pre on Sprint
• WWDC 2009: What will Apple do?
• iPhone finally gets cut and paste
• Qik
• Nokia N97
• Nokia N97 Demo Video
• Mifi
• Fantasy features of an Apple tablet
• Imagining an Apple Netbook
• Amazon Kindle
• Kindle iPhone app
• Boiling Point (Paperback) by Tom Merritt (Author)
• This Week in Startups
• Digg Will Charge Less for Ads Its Users Like
• Facebook ad voting
• TiVo Tracking
• Memetrackers
• Bing's Early Lead Over Yahoo Not End of Race
• Microsoft's Bing playing fast and loose with fair use?
• Perfect 10, Inc. v. Google Inc.
• Updated: Why You Can't Search The Word 'Sex' On Bing
• Pirate Party
• Not Playing Ball
• Text of Complaint in La Russa TM Suit Against Twitter
• Jennifer Leggio
• How 'Beatles: Rock Band' came together
• Project Natal
• Sony demos its own motion controller with Playstation Eye
• God of War III
• the Beatles Rock Band
• Scribblenauts
• Nintendo DS
• Rhythm Heaven Nintendo DSi Commercial Featuring Beyonce
• Are Google And The White House Getting Too Cozy?
• Inside the Obama White House
• Best Buy memo explains that Vista doesn't work, details Windows 7 upgrade plans

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Audible pick of the week: The Road Unabridged, By Cormac McCarthy, Narrated by Tom Stechschulte. To get two free audiobooks, visit Audible.com/twit2.

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Running time: 1:34:15

Newspaper collusion, real-time Web, Bing, Google Wave, transforming education, and more.

• Bar Camp San Diego
• Norbert Wiener and Cybernetics
• Collusion Course: Does today's hush-hush meeting of newspaper executives violate antitrust law?
• Clay Shirky: Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkabler
• Geffen Made Offer to Buy Stake in New York Times
• Rahaf Harfoush
• FriendFeed
• Huff Post Hires 'Wash Post' Editor to Head New Investigations Unit
• Bing, Microsoft's new "decision engine"
• Google Wave
• Rafe Needleman: Microsoft Bing: Much better than expected
• WebKit
• Aussie devs make Wave with Google Web Toolkit
• Why We Are Cautious About Google’s Wave
• Vic Gundotra
• Kevin Marks of Google OpenSocial
• Unfollow Diddy
• Spymaster
• Spy Vs. Spy: The Spymaster Backlash Begins And Twitter Needs To Fix It

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Audible picks of the week: Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything Unabridged, By Don Tapscott, Narrated by Anthony D. Williams, and
What Would Google Do? Unabridged, By Jeff Jarvis, Narrated by Jeff Jarvis. To get two free audiobooks, visit Audible.com/twit2.

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Running time: 1:10:37

Armstrong tweet controversy, Vista memory, TV still king, OQO end, and more.

• Taciturn Armstrong sparks Twitter media boycott
• Twares: United Airlines Offers Special Fares to Twitter Users
• Jump Start Twitter cartoon
• Exclusive: Microsoft to remove 3 app limit from Windows 7 Starter
• Biz Stone on Twitter: No ads
• Licensed Memory in Windows Vista
• Despite rise in streaming, 99% of all video watched on a TV
• MID-life crisis: the end of OQO, and the end of an idea

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Audible picks of the week: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Unabridged, By Thomas S. Kuhn, Narrated by Dennis Holland. To get two free audiobooks, visit Audible.com/twit2.

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Running time: 1:30:06

Wolfram Alpha, Pirate Bay DDo$, Crackho.com, Craigslist massages, Facebook boobies, and your car warranty has expired.

• Wolfram Alpha launches amid glitches
• Wolfram Alpha
• Acer Profit Falls as Shoppers Seek Cheaper Computers
• Dell unveils Della website to help women choose which totally cute laptop they prefer
• Apple Ships Latest, Possibly Biggest Update to Mac OS X Leopard
• Hackintosh netbook
• Crackho.com
• domain prank ruffles Sarah Palin's feathers
• Pirate Bay Founder Devises DDo$ Attack
• We Demand the Press Stop Using Pirate to Describe Computer Nerds
• Not-so-shocking: Jammie Thomas, RIAA unable to settle
• Filename Security Risk
• Zune subscriptions
• Google outage this morning, company now says it's fixed
• Random House shuts down Kindle text-to-speech for their titles
• Intel Could Face Civil Charges in Europe
• Sorry, Twitter, Prop. 8 has not been overturned
• Craigslist's erotic ad concession 'half-baked'
• Danger Mouse’s Dark Soul (with photos)
• Jew Haters Welcome At Facebook, As Long As They Aren’t Lactating
• Alarm bells ring over 'sexting'
• FTC Sues to Halt Car-Warranty Phone Spam

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Audible picks of the week: Angels and Demons, Abridged, By Dan Brown, Narrated by Richard Poe. To get two free audiobooks, visit Audible.com/twit2.

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Running time: 2:02:01

This episode takes your calls live on TalkShoe, covering Kindle DX, Star Trek, 3D Realms, FriendFeed, Nintendo, and more.

• Amazon unveils large-screen Kindle DX
• Duke Nukem Developer 3D Realms Shuts Down
• Nintendo's annual profit rises 8.5 percent
• Star Trek
• A Fifth of U.S. Homes Have Cell Phones, No Landlines
• Twitter Not For Sale: Biz Stone

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Audible picks of the week: Marley and Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog, Abridged, By John Grogan, Narrated by John Grogan. To get two free audiobooks, visit Audible.com/twit2.

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Running time: 1:48:30

Encarta checks out, Disney/ABC joins Hulu, Cablevision upcaps bandwidth, Apple chips, a post-PC world, and more.

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Audible picks of the week: The Eye of the World: Book One of The Wheel of Time, Unabridged, By Robert Jordan, Narrated by Kate Reading and Michael Kramer. To get two free audiobooks, visit Audible.com/twit2.

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Running time: 1:29:47

Swine flu, Microsoft revenue drops, Apple poo-poos netbooks, The Pirate Bay, and more.

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Audible picks of the week: Earth Abides: The 60th Anniversary Edition and Blade Runner. To get two free audiobooks, visit Audible.com/twit2.

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Running time: 1:38:11

Oprah tweets, Facebook lowers grades, Susan Boyle, new Sidekick, The Pirate Bay trial, and more.

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Audible pick of the week: Shadow Country: A New Rendering of the Watson Legend, Unabridged, By Peter Matthiessen, Narrated by Anthony Heald. To get two free audiobooks, visit Audible.com/twit2.

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Running time: 1:33:54

Skype buyback, San Jose fiber cut, Twitter hacked, Steve Jobs, Yahoo/Microsoft, IBM/Sun, and more.

• Dell's refurbished computers
• Skype creators want to buy Skype back from eBay
• Joost, Hulu, ChannelFlip and other online video sites.
• Spitfire Club pub dropped from Microsoft campus, 22 employees fired.
• Fiber optic cables cut in San Jose.
• Twitter hacked again.
• Steve Jobs expected to return in June.
• Yahoo and Microsoft's possible search partnership?
• IBM-Sun at it again?
• Palm Pre coming out in May?
• Zune HD
• Girl overcharged for SMS
• Google cant get visas for their employees
• Best career to be in now? Journalism.
• Monster Cable suing again
• Tier pricing for bandwidth?

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Audible pick of the week: Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen, Abridged, By Julie Powell, Narrated by, Julie Powell. To get two free audiobooks, visit Audible.com/twit2.

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Running time: 1:48:35

Time Warner bandwidth cap, Netflix, Hulu, Wired.com layoffs, YouTube at work, digital distribution, and more.

• Time Warner bandwidth caps
• Netflix ships its two billionth disc
• Wired lays off a significant portion of their web content workforce. Also see BNET blog entry.
• YouTube and Facebook access makes employees more productive at work
• Microsoft kills off Encarta
• Digital distribution of interactive content with Valve's Steam

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Audible pick of the week: Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions, Unabridged, By Dan Airely, Narrated by Simon Jones. To get two free audiobooks, visit Audible.com/twit2.

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Running time: 1:25:16

UVA kills computer labs, RIAA, open cloud manifesto, new Microsoft ads, and more.

• Twitter
• The University of Virginia is getting rid of its computer labs
• Mark Cuban yelled at the ref on Twitter
• Earth Hour
• Apple sued
• ISP RIAA cease and desist, Piracy
• Configure variant
• iWoz
• New York Times: The Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama thought the Chinese were intercepting their email
• Malware to control computers
• IBM might be buying Sun
• Open cloud
• Google AdSense kicking people off
• Web-based video production
• Japanese rape game banned
• Myspace girl arrested
• Hamster wired with nano wires creates power
• Becky plays the ukulele
• New Microsoft ad campaign
• Best Buy's future
• WiMax
• Dell forgot to buy adamo.com before releasing the Adamo
• RIM app store
• Bottle water found contaminations
• Newspapers going non profit
• OnLive – the future of gaming?
• Medica tech revolution
• ShamWow guy punches a prostitute

Audible pick of the week: Shantaram, Unabridged, By Gregory David Roberts, Narrated by Humphrey Bower. To get two free audiobooks, visit Audible.com/twit2.

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Running time: 2:08:06

SXSW, new Facebook, FourSquare, Flip/Cisco, iPhone cut and paste, and more.

... with brief visits by Kevin Pollak and LeVar Burton.

• South by Southwest
• Digg launching new TinyURL-like product
• Bit.ly
• Retweeting
• Zicam Twitter coupon
• LobbyCon, BaconCon, and the Baconator
• New Facebook layout: Kevin Rose's Fan page
• Pownce
• Scoble: Why Facebook has never listened and why it definitely won’t start now
• FourSquare
• Dodgeball
• Seltzer sisters
• Facebook Connect
• Facebook 175 million
• Twitter 1300% growth
• Zuckerberg Bill Gates model
• Propeller
• Facebook 1 million petitioners
• Mighty Mouse
• Kevin Rose' gets rumors right cut and paste
• 24 inch tv for Apple?
• Apple buying touchscreens? Kevin Rose says no.
• Kevin says new iPhone hardware coming up.
• Palm Pre
• G1
• Netbooks on Android platform?
• Will Steve Jobs come back to Apple? What would Apple be like without Steve Jobs? Hasn't it started to change already?
• AT&T's Unlocked iPhones to Start at $599
• Kevin did not block Leo on wefollow.com
• Gina says to microwave M&Ms on high for 30 seconds
• Cisco buys Flip Video maker for $590 million
• Freaks and Geeks' Samm Levine on Twitter
• How Much Is A Suggested Slot On Twitter Worth? Jason Calacanis Offers $250,000
• Squarespace.com/twit
• Kevin Pollack on Twitter
• Seattle Post-Intelligencer goes out of print (online only).
• Kindle
• Ashton Kutcher Twitters and scoops paparazzi
• Christopher Walken on Twitter
• Wozniak beats out Belinda Carlile on Dancing With the Stars
• Battlestar Gallactica
• KevinPollaksChatShow.com
• Pragerpedia.net

Audible pick of the week: Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There, Abridged, By David Brooks, Narrated by David Brooks. To get two free audiobooks, visit Audible.com/twit2.

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Running time: 1:46:26