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Last 20 Shows Boys of Tech 052: Patching while driving More woes for Toyota, Amazon buys touch-screen company, Apple's 15 percent cash payout, Telecom's CDMA and ISDN networks both suffer outages.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boys of Tech 051: The iPod MaxiApple's iPad announcement, Google wants to change the DNS protocol, reverse engineering a spam bot to defeat spam, the new MusicDNA file, another Internet Explorer vulnerability, new standards may mean quieter television ads, Telecom's XT mobile network crashes again.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boys of Tech 050: When you see a handle you expect to pullA new punctuation mark to denote sarcasm, French and German governments issue warnings over Internet Explorer, Baidu.com sues US domain name registrar, the long-rumoured Apple tablet, gadgets at CES, Bill Gates is now on Twitter.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boys of Tech 049: The Google episodeCameron Slater from Whale Oil talks about name suppression in the Internet age, Google hints at pulling out of China, users complain about problems with Google's Nexus One phone and also criticise Google's support model, France considers taxing Google and others to subsidize music, Europe's private copying levy, a patent filing from Google suggests virtual billboard ads in Street View, Facebook denies that it will begin charging for use, the concept of online privacy in the twenty-first cen ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boys of Tech 048: Like a bull out of a gateLive video feed from US drones intercepted, up to 33 million passwords compromised from users of Facebook and MySpace widgets, Google loses French copyright case, playlists for the Web make for a better way of searching the Internet, demonstrating the six degrees of separation, Telecom's XT network meltdown.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boys of Tech 047: Food for thoughtWhy Apple has blocked over a thousand apps from its store, Chinese woman tries fingerprint transplants to avoid detection, Google and Yahoo now include real time data in their search results, Americans consume a lot of data, an airport security manual finds its way onto the Internet, allegations that a florist maliciously changed contact details of competing businesses using Google Maps, concerns over ACTA, name suppression and the Internet.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boys of Tech 046: We've put a rocket into spaceThe DARPA balloon challenge, Switzerland's solar plane test flight, malware asks for SMS as ransom, Psystar ceases selling Mac clones, Mac Pro versus Macpro, Google's new front page.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boys of Tech 045: Hello NSAMathew Peterson explains why he has had to rename his popular iPodRip software to iRip, music sales in Sweden soar, collisions at CERN, pub offering free wireless is fined for copyright infringement, stories from the Kiwicon hacker conference.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boys of Tech 044: They are going to be tweetsGoogle wants to speed up the Web, Switzerland takes Google to court, guessing the purpose behind Apple's new patent, Psystar loses case against Apple, Chinese military site attracts millions of hackers, Twitter ads.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boys of Tech 043: GoingHundreds of thousands of Xbox Live accounts cancelled, security firm takes out botnet, Jetstar to trial SMS boarding passes, disappearing content on Apple TV, Google's Go name clash, hijacking Facebook groups, Blu-ray's DRM, printing more than just colour, YouTube tests skippable pre-roll ads, Microsoft's pseudo sudo patent, Taiwanese invention prevents Lithium ion batteries overheating, browsing iTunes catalogue without iTunes software, BNZ to introduce chip and PIN credit cards.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boys of Tech 042: Psychoacoustic simulationsEMI's post-concert downloads, bugs in cameras, psychoacoustic simulations, a dangerous Mac game, skewing online polls.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boys of Tech 041: LoThe Internet is 40 years old this week, DNS goes beyond the Latin character set, country-specific DNS hierarchies, the Golden Joysticks awards, Geocities closes its doors for good, this year's New Zealand Computerworld Government ICT award.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boys of Tech 040: Cloud computing is like a cloudMicrosoft and Google strike deals with Twitter, another cloud storage failure, Monty Widenius says Oracle should let go of mySQL, Apple's new Magic Mouse, France adopts its three-strikes piracy law, live Twitter billboards in Auckland and Wellington, greater surveillance powers to Government departments in proposed law change.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boys of Tech 039: Competitive podcastingSidekick's massive data loss, Apple's data loss, DVD Jon's DoubleTwist project, Tim Berners-Lee apologises for superfluous slashes, ringtones and royalties, the 2010 Olympic medals, how Windows 7 compares with Snow Leopard.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boys of Tech 038: Where's my caps lock key?Nobel Prize for Physics, Wii Balance Boards for airport security, Google Native Client, disclosing payments behind biased blog posts, when free upgrades aren't really free, Apple takes on Woolworths over its logo, Sony sued for bricking consoles, Bruce Simpson's take on why Google is pushing Chrome, why the FBI director no longer uses Internet banking.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boys of Tech 037: Nothing's going to happen in 2012ICANN to lose dependence from US government, ad-funded music download service, zero-touch wireless pedometer, IBM's entry into cloud-based email services, social network auctions.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boys of Tech 036: Certified standards non-compliantWhat we pay for when we pay for news, Google is against the idea of paying for news, Microsoft ramps up its fight against piracy, Google's solution for Internet Explorer, why text-speak can be a good thing, a blogger is told to stop giving advice without a licence.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boys of Tech 035: The Internet is full of memesAddiction to technology, the Zune HD, performing rights groups demand more from iTunes, developing iPhone applications using C# and .Net, the book being published on Twitter is sold, new technology to power wireless heart pumps.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boys of Tech 034: Just not in the bathroomConcerns over Oracle killing mySQL, providing a micropayment service for online news, Google's sneaky ad technique, iPod Nano now comes with an FM tuner, Panasonic's new LED light bulbs, an Internet TV first for New Zealand, IRD considers open source, digital cop cars.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boys of Tech 033: New HDTV insideGoogle's outage, why Wikipedia will soon fail, Microsoft wants a global patent body, higher insurance premiums for users of social networking sites, AMD's new CPU, New Zealand Post expands its open source trial.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
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