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TLR 16: Leo on CFRB with John Donabie - Tech News Summary

leo@leoville.com (Leo Laporte) Author: Leo Laporte with John Donabie
Sat, Feb 16, 2008

Hosts: Leo Laporte and John Donabie

My weekly tech news wrap up with John Donabie on 1010 CFRB in Toronto including:
* Blackberry outage is due to a "system upgrade"
* Yahoo looks to Murdoch for help
* Vista service pack 1 gets closer
* According to the Hollywood Reporter, even Toshiba will drop HD DVD

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Running time: 14:37

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Bill Handel

July 1, Californians will join many other states and countries in requiring drivers to use handsfree devices when talking on their cell phones. I called Bill using the Jawbone today.

I currently use the BlueAnt Supertooth Light in my car. It has its own speaker and mic and attaches to the visor. It works pretty well, although I can't vouch for what it sounds like to my callers.

Another system that requires no installation but uses your car speakers is The Tooth Pik.

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Running time: 4:56

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Leo's gives his thumbnail review of the iPhone while Bill mocks him...

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Running time: 5:22

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My regular Friday appearance with Bill Handel on KFI Los Angeles. Today is Christmas Day for geeks, D-Day for the other cellular carriers: the iPhone ships today. We talk about the pros and cons and linesitters.

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Running time: 5:28

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My weekly tech news wrap up with John Donabie on 1010 CFRB in Toronto including the green Apple, Spidey 3 hits the torrents, and the enervating Windows Vista.

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Running time: 7:40

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My regular Friday appearance with Bill Handel on KFI Los Angeles. Today we talk about the face recognition system in the 2008 Lexus 600hL designed to keep drivers paying attention to the road.

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Running time: 4:27

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My regular Friday appearance with Bill Handel on KFI Los Angeles. Today we talk about Steve Jobs's surprising call for the record companies to drop copy protection on digital music.

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Running time: 5:28

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My weekly tech news wrap up with John Donabie on 1010 CFRB in Toronto. The Zune launch is coming and more...

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My regular Friday appearance with Bill Handel on KFI Los Angeles. Today we talk about Microsoft's iPod killer: the Zune.

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My weekly tech news wrap up with John Donabie on 1010 CFRB in Toronto. We cover the Google You Tube merger, Windows Vista license limitations, and Oprah's red Nano.

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My regular Friday appearance with Bill Handel on KFI Los Angeles. Today we talk about the Google acquisition of YouTube.

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Hosts: Leo Laporte and Ronn Owens

My quarterly appearance with Ronn Owens on San Francisco's KGO AM 810.

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My weekly tech news wrap up with John Donabie on 1010 CFRB in Toronto. We cover the HP scandal, a major Windows security flaw, and teens staging fights online.

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Hosts: Leo Laporte and Bill Good

I appear every few months on the Bill Good Show on CKNW in Vancouver for a half-an-hour to talk about current tech stories.

Topics include the new iTunes Movie Store, the difficulties content companies are facing, buying an HDTV, and more.

Running time: 19:13

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Hosts: Leo Laporte and John Donabie

My weekly tech news wrap up with John Donabie on 1010 CFRB in Toronto. As usual, I've left in the pre and post-show chatter.

Topics include airlines that are banning Mac and Dell laptops over battery fears and the new iTunes Store.

Running time: 9:05

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Hosts: Leo Laporte and Bill Handel

On my weekly gadget news with Bill I discuss Apple's new iPods and Microsoft's Zune player.

Running time: 3:41

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I talked with John about the following stories:

The Beatles have finally agreed to online music downloads.

And domain name squatting is back baby. Sex.com sold for $12 million US!

Running time: 16:18

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Tivo gets a second life at the ninth hour. A jury has awarded Tivo $74 million in its lawsuit against the DISH Network (Echostar). That means Tivo effectively owns the patents to the key technologies for DVRs (digitial video recorders) including the ability to pause, rewind, and fast forward live programming.

Tivo probably wouldn't have survived losing this lawsuit. Now all DVR manufacturers will have to license their technology from Tivo.

Echostar plans to appeal.

Running time: 5:57

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Tech News for March 25, 2006

Microsoft says the consumer version of Vista (the next Windows) won’t be out until 2007. Another major setback for this troubled release. Analysts say this could be good for Apple.

France legalizes music piracy… sort of. Will Apple pull out?

Amazon is taking heat for suggesting “adoption” books when searched for “abortion”.

I talked with John about the following stories:

Also of interest, AOL is proposing a system where mass mailers pay a fraction of a cent per email - and the Internet community is up in arms.

And speculation about Microsoft’s Origami device is building.

Running time: 9:58

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