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A weekly round-table commentary on the latest technology news, hosted by Edwin Hermann and Brett King.

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Boys of Tech 128: Copylite raw

Story about the IQ of Internet Explorer users was bogus, why Facebook is not worried about the Ceglia lawsuit, the World Wide Web turns 20, Samsung halts sales of tablets in Australia, man arrested for building a nuclear reactor in his kitchen, a LulzSec spokesperson appears in court, British copyright legislation may be in for an overhaul, a Google self-drive car is involved in an accident, driverless cars at Heathrow Airport, hacking a MacBook battery, a computer glitch halts Fairfax news ...

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Boys of Tech 127: Off the back of a Foxconn truck

More fake Applestores found in other countries, news headlines are copyright, the Fox network puts content behind paywall, Apple has more cash reserves than the US government, how the International Space Station is to be farewalled in 2020, AFACT puts pressureon ISPs to work together to combat copyright infringement, the relationship between a person's web browser preference and their IQ, Dominos makes good where Hell failed.

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Boys of Tech 126: Pretty wasteland

Fake Apple stores found in China, Google Labs to close, facial recognition system causes wrong driver licence to be revoked, how an iPhone fares after falling four thousand metres, a New Zealand school includes iPads on their compulsory stationery list.

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Boys of Tech 125: I was made to go on Facebook

Spotify launches in the Unites States, hotfile copyright infringement charges, Google announces over $9 billion in revenue, Microsoft accidentally reveals secret project, Apple's patent claims over the Android operating system, embarrasing pricing glitch on Dick Smith website, location based tourist infomration plays over rental car stereos.

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Boys of Tech 124: Let's be generous and call it a bug

News Corp shuts down News of the World, Facebook to offer Skype video chat, Apple blocking outgoing Mobile Me email based on content, Apple no better off after judge's decision on the App Store trade-mark, the Terrafugia flying car, turntable.fm seeking capital, Telstra and Optus start Web filtering.

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Boys of Tech 123: Agnosticness

Shane Williamson takes us through Google+, Justin Timberlake invests millions in MySpace, Madelaine Zammit's Facebook Song goes viral, LulzSec disbands, Tau Day, the TDL-4 botnet.

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Boys of Tech 122: There's no better place than Brisbane

Man arrested in connection with LulzSec hacking, Sega is hacked, Anonymous and LulzSec working together, the biggest domain name change in the history of the Internet, Dutch coins with QR codes, China no longer has the world's fastest supercomputer, iPads in the cockpit, disgruntled man hacks into former employer's computer, Microsoft says WebGL is harmful, Australian government considers mandatory photo identification for domestic flights, Whangarei doctor falls victim to Rugby World Cup s ...

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Boys of Tech 121: Hoverboards

Google releases Me on the Web, hacker group LulzSec opens a suggestion line, Facebook growth slows, Apple no longer accepts apps identifying police check points, Apple faces law suit over the iCloud name, Paul Ceglia passes a lie detector test, disappointing results for RIM, touch surfaces with dynamic tactility, the New Zealand government announces switch-off dates for analogue television.

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Boys of Tech 120: Judder bars

Apple announces new operating systems and iCloud at WWDC, Sony hacked again, Spanish authorities arrest Anonymous hackers, RSA to replace SecureID tokens, face recognition in Facebook.

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Boys of Tech 120: Judder bars

Apple announces new operating systems and iCloud at WWDC, Sony hacked again, Spanish authorities arrest Anonymous hackers, RSA to replace SecureID tokens, face recognition in Facebook.

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Boys of Tech 119: Two firsts in two episodes

Sony's online systems compromised again, Windows 8 and the desktop, Twitter launches its own photo sharing service, Skype installation includes crapware, Google will no longer support legacy browsers, teenager sells kidney for iPad 2, Eric Schmidt recommends using a Mac.

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Boys of Tech 118: The law show

Aseem Mishra reports back after representing the United Kingdom at the Intel Science and Engineering Fair in Los Angeles, Lodsys targets Android developer, doctors and dentists looking to own your feedback comments, Skype's service outage, France attempts to apply book pricing law to eBooks, the cookie law change is deferred for one year, black boxes in cars, a 200 megapixel camera, Twitter users warned about election day campaigning.

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Boys of Tech 117: Great co-op

Rumours of Apple planning cloud music service, Sony announces an apology package, the Blogger outage, Slovakia implements a paywall for news sites, Mac users fall for fake security software, HADOPI temporarily not receiving copyright infringement data, Android devices leaking access tokens, iPhone developers receive legal threats over patent issues, Internet access at New Zealand libraries may be under threat, why New Zealand is not ready for Chrome OS laptops.

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Boys of Tech 116: Smoke and mirrors

Microsoft buys Skype, Google Music Beta is launched, Google introduces Chrome OS laptops, the poisoning of Google image search results, Facebook involved in smear campaign, private data exposed to developers through tokens, hackers bring back the Other OS option on the PS3, a prototype phone made from electronic paper, the US government puts pressure on Mozilla to remove the MafiaaFire plug-in, how a computer store owner caught a laptop thief.

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Boys of Tech 115: Something more wrong

Google sued over Android location data, Google Shopping debuts in Australia, lobby groups oppose format shifting laws, more security breaches at Sony.

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Boys of Tech 114: I hate buffering

Apple explains hidden iPhone location data, the PlayStation Network outage, the Yahoo! Mail outage, YouTube to launch a movie rental service, Sony plans two tablet devices, the white iPhone has landed, Iran suspects foreign governments behind virus, the Casio F-91W watch, NZ Post looks at digital mail, a day of protest against copyright infringement legislation.

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Boys of Tech 113: Some very single man

The life-size AT-AT walker replica isn't going to happen, multimedia pioneer Norio Ohga passes away, Judgement Day comes and goes, hidden iPhone file stores location history, Android devices also keeping location history, credit card payment solution Square available through the Apple Store, the world's largest Pac-Man game, a lego replica of the USS Intrepid, computer glitch causes New Zealand supermarket to open on a public holiday.

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Boys of Tech 112: Some weird chip configuration

Researchers find security flaw in PayPal integrations, Cisco puts and end to Flip video cameras, Google puts and end to Google Video, Australians spending more time online, RIM's PlayBook a disappointment, plans to make a fully operational AT-ATwalker.

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Boys of Tech 111: A genuine fake

Aseem Mishra talks to us about his drum jeans that won him the title of Young Engineer of Great Britain, US terrorist attack warnings to be made on Twitter and Facebook, a woman with a spade cuts off an entire country from the Internet, new features in Windows 8 revealed, poor sales figures for the Motorola Xoom, Wozniak may consider a return to Apple if asked, the Commodore 64 is back, the Samsung 500 GB drive that wasn't.

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Boys of Tech 110: Robots which sit in cars drinking beer

Google to use Gmail content to target advertising, Tesla sues the BBC, India is the first nation to block the .xxx domain, autonomous quadrocopters playing pong, printing all 2559 featured articles on Wikipedia, Grant Odgers from SwiftPoint talks to us about his company's award winning mouse showcased at CES, MasterCard to offer Tap & Go cards in New Zealand.

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Boys of Tech 109: Virusness

Ben Krasnow talks to us about building a scanning electron microsoope in his garage, the school-yard bullying video that went viral, laptop thief begs to have video of him removed from YouTube, a hacker from Queensland may face charges from the FBI, the .xxx TLD gets approval, Google fined €100,000 for its Street View gaffe, ISPs urged to block file sharing sites, Apple sues Amazon, the inflated amount of damages being sought from Limewire by record companies.

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Boys of Tech 108: Handing over cash to some guys in a garage

Visa to introduce online fund transfers, rumours that Google is going to launch a new social network, another party invitation on Facebook inadvertently open to all, Netflix purchases broadcast rights to House of Cards, another road sign is hacked, the Mark Zuckerberg action figure, Dick Smith Electronics drops Vodafone, the RSA SecurID hack.

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Boys of Tech 107: The perpetual homework machine

A monthly fee to legalise music sharing, how illegal TV streamers are tracked down, Facebook to start streaming movies, Twitter tells third party developers not to make any more Twitter clients, the Google Science Fair, using technology to do away with postage stamps, the latest Pwn2Own results, Australia reaches 2 million domain names registered, five reasons not to buy an iPad 2.

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Boys of Tech 106: Does the Queen own a mobile phone?

Apple announces the iPad 2, rumours that Steve Jobs came close to knighthood, rumours that Jonathan Ive may leave Apple soon, a Windows trojan is ported to the Mac platform, losing $200,000 to a fake online girlfriend, PS3 shipments siezed and held in Europe.

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Boys of Tech 105: Kids with Segways

Intel unveils Thunderbolt, Paypal account belonging to a Bradley Manning support group is reinstated, the Motorola Xoom tablet, problems caused by a Windows Phone 7 update, the market share of iPhones, false party invitation on Facebook attracts the attention of thousands, why Google is tweaking its PageRank algorithm, Anonymous attacks a hate web site, GPS records used as defence in court, New Zealand Post and Yellow settle out of court, 1000Memories.com attracts significant capital invest ...

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Boys of Tech 105: Kids with Segways

Intel unveils Thunderbolt, Paypal account belonging to a Bradley Manning support group is reinstated, the Motorola Xoom tablet, problems caused by a Windows Phone 7 update, the market share of iPhones, false party invitation on Facebook attracts the attention of thousands, why Google is tweaking its PageRank algorithm, Anonymous attacks a hate web site, GPS records used as defence in court, New Zealand Post and Yellow settle out of court, 1000Memories.com attracts significant capital invest ...

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Boys of Tech 104: Detroit

Google announces One Pass, a new twist to high rise apartment living, capturing and dissipating a laser beam, Detroit raises enough for its RoboCop statue.

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Boys of Tech 103: Back in the bathroom

Wikileaks supporters retaliate, the MPAA sues Hotfile, MPEG LA seeks holders of patents infringed by Google VP8, Windows Phone 7 to get copy and paste, a universal cellphone charger, the Microsoft-Nokia alliance, the new super-thin LG Flatron E2290, HP announces three WebOS devices, devising a new definition for the kilogram.

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Boys of Tech 102: The Julian Assange unplugged show

Police make arrests over Anonymous hacks, what is rumoured to be hiding inside the latest PS3 firmware update, Google accuses Bing of copying, a mobile phone is sent into space, Yellow buys Groupy, stolen propery database goes live.

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Boys of Tech 101: A really bad illegal criminal crime

A new CEO for Google, Apple CEO takes medical leave, more Facebook privacy concerns, former Swiss banker hands data to Wikileaks, using Facebook to empty a library, a Facebook status update leads to burglary.

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Boys of Tech 100: The safest deodorant can in all of New Zealand

Join Edwin Hermann, Brett King and Cameron Collie on this 100th episode special edition as they hear from previous guests including including Frank McCabe, Shane Williamson, Jake Briggs, Kate Carruthers, Sam Dalton and Andrew Hamilton.

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Boys of Tech 099: There's a shark in the street

Google's controversial decision to drop H.264 from Chrome, Assange threatens to release files on News Corp, the future of MySpace, movie filmed with iPhones to screen in cinemas, Twitter considers leaving San Francisco, ten years of Wikipedia.

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Boys of Tech 098: A gattling chalk-firing gun

Four new planets identified using a computer, robots in Korean classrooms, the Playstation 3 root key is out in the wild, back door in OpenBSD may not exist.

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Boys of Tech 097: It's a bit like cooking

Bullied Star Wars fan receives lots of support, claims the FBI planted back doors in OpenBSD, Bank of America cuts off Wikileaks, Woman sues Google for showing her underwear.

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Boys of Tech 096: This week in Wikileaks

Wikileaks' insurance file, Wikileaks mirror sites now in the hundreds, leaked information suggests Chinese officials were behind Google hacking attempts, hacktivists attack Mastercard and other services, the Openleaks spin-off from Wikileaks, Avast's innovative strategy against piracy.

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Boys of Tech 096: Wikigoodness

NASA reveals new discovery, wrong photo used in murder article, why Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is lying low.

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Boys of Tech 094: Biodegradable retaining walls

A large portion of time spent on the Xbox is for activites other than games, the future of phone books, online storage is becoming more common, the trend towards Web-based applications, the future of libraries.

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Boys of Tech 093: A full page ad that takes up the whole page

Hacking the Kinect, the potential for targeted advertising via the Kinect, Android as a method of payment, the iTunes announcement that you'll never forget, a French town changes its name because of low Google rankings.

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Boys of Tech 092: He'll be throwing old bananas at me

Cameron Collie talks to us about settling with Google over the name Groggle, Facebook is rumoured to be launching an email service, Royal Navy site hacked, Columnbian domain proves very popular, the mystery missile launch, no charges for accessing APN news content, Facebook antics contribute to jail sentence.

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Boys of Tech 091: Daylight savings not included

David Frampton talks to us about the success of his games Chopper and Chopper 2, Myanmar falls victim to a denial of service attack, how The Times' readership numbers stack up following the introduction of a paywall, an iPhone utility provides Flash video content, an iPhone alarm glitch gives Europeans an extra hour, Apple faces a lawsuit over the iPhone firmware upgrade, Microsoft's change of strategy annoys developers, identifying people from keystroke patterns, Google found in significan ...

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Boys of Tech 090: The Sultan of Brunei, he'd have a nice big lounge

China announces the world's fastest supercomputer, China announces a new mapping service, the world's smallest full HD screen, Apple accused of trade mark infringement, the International Space Station dodges space junk.

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Boys of Tech 089: Geeky epicness

Wikileaks releases more war files, pirates consider launching a satellite, Windows Phone 7 launches in Europe, Medal of Honor goes on sale, the iPhone 4 appears more susceptible to damage, Steve Jobs claims Android is fragmented, a former music label boss suggests a way of beating piracy, the mystery behind Internet traffic being rerouted via China, the end of pre-installed Flash on Macs, the sex.com domain name is sold, the Swiss firm sponsoring the world's largest solar powered boat.

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Boys of Tech 088: Are you sure you don't want a coffee right now?

Google's self-drive car, Chinese hackers get Korean documents, Twitter distances itself from celebrity stalking site.

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Boys of Tech 087: All part of a bigger picture

An Internet crime ring is uncovered, Google takes on JPEG with WebP, Facebook groups, Logitech launches the Revue, a vending machine that can suggest drinks to its customers, scientists use a programmable submarine to study sea ice.

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Boys of Tech 086: The iPlay

Segway boss Jimi Heselden dies in cliff fall, the BlackBerry PlayBook, Microsoft sues Motorola, a baby robot that teaches itself archery skills, the umbilical cord iPhone charger, the Taliban is renamed in Medal of Honor, Google Street View captures dead bodies in Brazil, New Zealand wave generation project receives US funding.

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Boys of Tech 085: The big red button

Facebook's worst outage in four years, why checking privacy settings in Facebook is so important, Microsoft plays down BluRay, Microsoft criticises Android, Intel trials deliberately crippled CPUs, the reprogrammable credit card, Panasonic robot to walk 500 km journey, the next step for Switzerland's solar powered plane, New Zealand parliament Web site hacked, TelstraClear tests 100 Mbps in Wellington.

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Boys of Tech 084: That is why the Internet is square

The Samsung Galaxy Tab, gathering IP addresses in Switzerland is illegal, how decision making times differ between gamers and non-gamers, the end of analogue television in New Zealand.

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Boys of Tech 083: Eaten by wild ducks

The rumoured Google music store, a mandatory Playstation update in response to the jail-break, Apple publishes App Store approval guidelines, the link between what you say on Facebook and the risk of being burgled.

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Boys of Tech 082: The armed technological octopus

Wikileaks founder again faces a rape investigation, Playstation jail-break is now in the wild, outrage on the Internet over animal cruelty video, trying on make-up made easier with virtual mirror, Sony rolls out online media store, Sony's Android-powered television, research supports longer music samples, the Skitterbot electronic insects, scammers pretending to be HADOPI, police in New Zealand clears Google over its wireless sniffing, a couple loses $15,000 in an Internet scam.

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Boys of Tech 081: Big is good

Thief unknowingly photographed by victim, tabacco firms using YouTube to push their message, jail-break hack for the Playstation 3, Facebook not happy with Teachbook, MPEG LA extends royalty moratorium indefinitely, voice calls in Gmail, Minister of Defence criticises latest Medal of Honor game, flipping the charging model around for international bandwidth.

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Boys of Tech 080: Bigger tubes

No rape charge for Wikileaks founder after all, rumour that Apple will launch an HDTV, a milestone in the number of devices connected to the Internet, Adam Hutchinson talks to us about the SEO Challenge 2010.

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Boys of Tech 079: Non-dead

Google offices in South Korea raided by police, Facebook nears saturation point in the United Kingdom, Android Trojan sends text messages, BSkyB in a dispute with Skype over its name, girl lying on the ground in Google Street View photo is not dead, hacking cars through wireless tyre sensors, the Google Alarm, what may have been behind the chaotic iPhone 4 release in New Zealand, authors appea for a licensing fee.

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Boys of Tech 078: 3.14159265358979323846

Google pulls the plug on Wave, Google moves to fix flaw in audio CAPTCHA, using Google Earth for law enforcement, new world record for pi accuracy, a single pedal for acceleration and braking, faceless watches with silent alarms.

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Boys of Tech 077: Film street

Sam Dalton talks to us about purchasing an iPhone 4 on launch day in New Zealand, massive set of Afghan war files published on Wikileaks, hacking ATMs, the new Streetslide technology in Microsoft Streetside, the Facebook data harvester speaks out, University of Ballarat study on copyright infringement of BitTorrent files, Hell Pizzas Web site hacked.

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Boys of Tech 076: One ginormous vice

Al-Qaeda links behind closure of Blogetery, Facebook claims Zuckerberg's contract with Ceglia was forged, Dell motherboards ship with embedded malware, Samsung gives away free phones to disgruntled iPhone 4 customers, trading an old cellphone for a Porsche on Craigslist.

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Boys of Tech 075: Sources other than fingers may be used

Patenting a virtual page turn, Microsoft to release a range of tablet devices, a man claims he owns 84% of Facebook, Steve Jobs addresses the iPhone 4 reception issues, bit.ly links fail on Facebook, mystery shrouds the sudden disappearance of two sites.

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Boys of Tech 074: The Internet is over

iTunes accounts hacked to artificially boost app sales, soldier charged in connection with leaked video, Prince releases his new album as physical copy only, Swiss solar powered plane makes history with night flight, compression technology inventor charged with fraud.

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Boys of Tech 073: A stunning discovery

Google might come out with a Facebook killer, Facebook accidentally deletes BP protest page, the new HDBaseT standard, half a million Sony laptops overheating, the iPhone's signal strengh bars.

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Boys of Tech 072: Silicone gel iPhone gloves

Australia proposes minimum security requirements for computers connected to the Internet, French data protection agency CNIL finds email passwords in Google Street View data, reception problems with the iPhone 4, a new top level domain for adult content, FullCodePress 2010 results, the YouTube vuvuzela button.

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Boys of Tech 071: Civilised Unionised

Security software provided by French ISP turns out to have a significant security hole, Microsoft's new Internet Fraud Alert system, Google and Rumblefish plan to announce a new service, the GoogleCL command line tool.

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Boys of Tech 070: Stop me if you've already seen this

Apple launches the iPhone 4, a zero-day exploit for Adobe Reader and Adobe Flash is out in the wild, police department domain name snapped by campaigner against speed cameras, privacy concerns over threat to publish photos on Facebook, Google may be investigated over privacy issues, the United States proposes a kill switch for the Internet.

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Boys of Tech 069: I bet you haven't tried three dehumidifiers in one day

ISPs in the UK may start collecting information on filesharers, China to become a supercomputer superpower, Jetstar to trial in-flight iPads, rumours that Google is ditching Windows on its staff computers, Microsoft voices concerns over Google's dominance in the search market, mum reunited with daughter after tracking her down through Facebook.

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Boys of Tech 068: You're swearing at me

Microsoft issues a warning about the Parallels Windows migration tool, Mozilla pushes for VP8 to be included in the HTML 5 specifications, Time Warner and Universal refuse to change Flash based interface for iPad users, the person behind the fake BP Twitter account is still a mystery, the live video feed of the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, Microsoft responds to rumours that Steve Ballmer will be at WWDC, what Microsoft needs to do to get ahead.

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Boys of Tech 067: Liquids are far more solid than people think

Dr Stephen Hughes from Queensland University of Technology talks to us about the inaccurate definition of the word siphon in many dictionaries, 9 year old MCSE holder Marko Calasan joins us from Macedonia, Kate Carruthers gives her side of the dispute over the geekgirl trademark, Google's open source codec that could rival H.264, Skype on Panasonic televisions, Facebook identifies the hacker Kirlos, Amazon's next generation Kindle, a new ebook store for Australia, Firefox possibly heading f ...

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Boys of Tech 066: Just as well dictionaries are online now

Facebook privacy concerns, Adobe's disasterous Flash demo, rumours are that Apple are developing an alternative to Flash, Google is rumoured to be working on an alternative to the iPad, Android phone sales in the US outdo those of the iPhone, a possible second iPhone 4G leak, Skype may start displaying third party ads, an Australian physicist corrects an error in the Oxford English Dictionary that went unnoticed for 99 years.

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Boys of Tech 065: Anything's good most of the time

The Courier and Slate tablets won't be released to market, the new Joojoo tablet, Google asks for an extension over the Groggle trade-mark dispute, Internet Explorer 9 will natively support H.264, Facebook hacker rumoured to be in New Zealand is not in New Zealand, Javascript performance in Chrome 5 Beta, non-Latin domains activated, text messages on the Telecom network arrive scrambled.

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Boys of Tech 064: No one reads EULAs

Cameron Collie from Groggle talks to us about the battle between his company and Google over trade marks, Lufthansa offers Gray Powell a free flight to Germany, the police raid the home of Gizmodo editor Jason Chen, McAfee announces it will compensate users affected by its recent blunder, Sony plans to stop manufacturing floppy disks, a well known Russian hacker may be living in New Zealand, Whitcoulls to launch ebooks later this month.

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Boys of Tech 063: An OD filter

Jake Briggs recounts how his webcam set-up alerts him to a burglary at his house while he is at work, McAfee's big blunder, the lost iPhone 4G, Adobe and Apple don't see eye to eye over Flash, the Downfall movie meme may come to an end, Android on the iPhone, TVNZ On Demand on the PS3.

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Boys of Tech 062: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

The Kin phone from Microsoft, eBay ordered to pay out over fradulent user, Nikkei bans unauthorised hyperlinks to its site, Google rankings to depend on server response speeds, TelstraClear announces that Ziln is now unmetered.

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Boys of Tech 061: Women don't seem to lose keys

Shane Williamson talks to us about Microsoft losing his entire blog of six years, Apple launches a new mobile advertising network, the future of Bebo is unknown, one third of Australians have lost their mobile phones, Telecom XT problems continue, Google directs pedestrians through a bus tunnel.

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Boys of Tech 060: You can't trust anything

The iPad is launched, YouTube updates its user interface, uncertainty about the cause of search outage in China, why you shouldn't necessarily trust SSL connections, Sony removes the Linux option on its Playstation 3 devices, users of touch screen phones more satisfied than other smart phone users.

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Boys of Tech 059: Travel trailers

Internet users mysteriously redirected to Chinese servers, a bot defeats Microsoft Live audio Captchas, the rumoured tablet from Microsoft, no Web browser is secure, a new user interface upgrade for Wikipedia, Visa to issue chip and PIN credit cards in New Zealand, yet another Telecom XT outage.

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Boys of Tech 058: Sichuan peppercorn

Microsoft's Waledec take-down was successful, more infected HTC Magic phones, Google is interested to hear what Microsoft has to say about Buzz, when your iPad battery no longer holds its charge, no clipboard for Windows Phone 7 Series, Google is no longer the most popular Web site, sex.com is for sale.

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Boys of Tech 057: The World Wide Web is basically square

Microsoft improves its browser ballot randomness, fake Intel processors, HP reveals its answer to the iPad, malware is found on a new HTC Android phone, the Pentagon trains workers to hack, Sony's new wireless game controller, Vodafone's turn to experience an outage.

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Boys of Tech 056: If you happen to be unconscious listening to us

Spanish police arrest botnet masterminds, leap year bug hits the PS3, Twitter proposes search-based advertising, Skype service comes to Nokia phones, microchip implants in humans, shorter days due to Chilean earthquake, electromagnetic hypersensitivity, Telecom issues SIM cards for compeititor's network.

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Boys of Tech 055: How quickly can you say XT?

Microsoft aims to take out a botnet, Intel was also hacked at the same time as Google, GPS jammers, a legal decision goes against Google in Italy, a famous Rick Astley clip is removed from YouTube, more outages for Telecom, what the new bill says about copyright infringement.

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Boys of Tech 054: Buzz didn't really have a ball to start with

Google drops the ball with Buzz, wireless Internet on the school bus keeps students happy, Iceland's new niche may be as a journalism haven, publishers want more control on iPad platform, a Philadelphia high school is accused of spying on students via webcam, Microsoft's return to mobile devices, Microsoft says a rootkit may be the reason behind patch problems, an estimate as to how much Google earns from mistyped domain names, a misprint on Denny's menus refers customers to a Taiwanese man ...

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Boys of Tech 053: Developers developers developers

A Windows patch causes the blue screen of death, Office 2011 for Mac is coming soon, Mix FM automatically takes live song requests via Twitter, police enquiry into criticism on Facebook of school principal.

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Boys of Tech 053: Developers developers developers

A Windows patch causes the blue screen of death, Office 2011 for Mac is coming soon, Mix FM automatically takes live song requests via Twitter, police enquiry into criticism on Facebook of school principal.

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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.

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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.

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Boys of Tech 051: The iPod Maxi

Apple'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.

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Boys of Tech 051: The iPod Maxi

Apple'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.

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Boys of Tech 050: When you see a handle you expect to pull

A 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.

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Boys of Tech 050: When you see a handle you expect to pull

A 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.

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Boys of Tech 049: The Google episode

Cameron 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 ...

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Boys of Tech 049: The Google episode

Cameron 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 ...

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Boys of Tech 048: Like a bull out of a gate

Live 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.

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Boys of Tech 048: Like a bull out of a gate

Live 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.

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Boys of Tech 047: Food for thought

Why 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.

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Boys of Tech 047: Food for thought

Why 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.

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Boys of Tech 046: We've put a rocket into space

The 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.

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Boys of Tech 046: We've put a rocket into space

The 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.

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Boys of Tech 045: Hello NSA

Mathew 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.

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Boys of Tech 045: Hello NSA

Mathew 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.

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Boys of Tech 044: They are going to be tweets

Google 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.

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Boys of Tech 044: They are going to be tweets

Google 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.

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Boys of Tech 043: Going

Hundreds of thousands of Xbox Live accounts cancelled, security firm takes out botnet, Jetstar to trial SMS boarding passes, disappearing content on Apple TV, Frank McCabe talks about 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 P ...

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Boys of Tech 043: Going

Hundreds 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.

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Boys of Tech 042: Psychoacoustic simulations

EMI's post-concert downloads, bugs in cameras, psychoacoustic simulations, a dangerous Mac game, skewing online polls.

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Boys of Tech 042: Psychoacoustic simulations

EMI's post-concert downloads, bugs in cameras, psychoacoustic simulations, a dangerous Mac game, skewing online polls.

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Boys of Tech 041: Lo

The 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.

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Boys of Tech 041: Lo

The 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.

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Boys of Tech 040: Cloud computing is like a cloud

Microsoft 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.

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Boys of Tech 040: Cloud computing is like a cloud

Microsoft 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.

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Boys of Tech 039: Competitive podcasting

Sidekick'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.

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Boys of Tech 039: Competitive podcasting

Sidekick'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.

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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.

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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.

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Boys of Tech 037: Nothing's going to happen in 2012

ICANN 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.

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Boys of Tech 037: Nothing's going to happen in 2012

ICANN 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.

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Boys of Tech 036: Certified standards non-compliant

What 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.

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Boys of Tech 036: Certified standards non-compliant

What 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.

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Boys of Tech 035: The Internet is full of memes

Addiction 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.

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Boys of Tech 035: The Internet is full of memes

Addiction 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.

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Boys of Tech 034: Just not in the bathroom

Concerns 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.

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Boys of Tech 034: Just not in the bathroom

Concerns 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.

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Boys of Tech 033: New HDTV inside

Google'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.

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Boys of Tech 032: Giant teddy bear robots

Wolfram Alpha's search deal, ganging up against Google, the future of libraries, Apple adds malware protection to Snow Leopard, the Loch Ness monster is found on Google Earth, the new Japanese nurse robot, unsigned singer gets a rare opportunity thanks to her MySpace page.

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Boys of Tech 031: Rocket packs and flying cars

US helps avoid Chinese Internet filter, exploding iPods, the new slim PS3, video ads in print magazines, stress testing the clouds, the IP address shortage, Nat Torkington elected to InternetNZ council.

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Boys of Tech 030: Carnivorous tables and insect-eating clocks

XML patent woes for Microsoft, Toshiba goes Blu-Ray, Google's new search engine, Internet-connected pacemakers, true-to-form Outlook for the Mac, Yahoo's solution to spam, censored story about termination rates for Vodafone and 2Degrees appears on Wikileaks, InternetNZ's suggestion for copyright, US lobby group puts pressure on New Zealand's copyright law, Telecom gives online retailing another go.

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Boys of Tech 029: Just don't ribbon Facebook

Twitter and Facebook DDoS, charging for news content, Apple's approach to settling over a broken iPod, Apple's new black box patent, low-end Adobe software only available as a service, Open Office gets the ribbon.

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Boys of Tech 028: Microhoo

The search deal of the decade, Volomedia claim podcasting patent, the Palm Pre deal of the decade, Apple reject Google Voice app, adverse health effects from wireless hotspots non-existent, Stratford District Council considers free wireless Internet, disgruntled New Zealand Xbox gamers.

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Boys of Tech 027: They're not exciting, but you kinda need them

Musician asked to take down one of his own tracks, the future of Pirate Bay, Amazon acquires Zappos, Microsoft puts forward a proposal to the EU, the reason behind Microsoft's GPL code release, a look at Facebook Connect, Matt Stewart talks about publishing his book on Twitter, using technology as an energy saver for monitors, charging devices wirelessly, Apple asks Microsoft to change laptop hunter ad, Queensland police seek out insecure wireless networks, New Zealand Post ditches Microsof ...

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Boys of Tech 026: Googlised

Microsoft online applications, what Gazelle is all about, using Twitter as a publishing tool, Qantas refuses to run political ad, bringing snail mail into the 21st century, logging key strokes via the electricity wires, Telecom XT attracts a lot of customers, NBR to have a second go at subscription model, new Pacific Internet cable.

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Boys of Tech 025: You never know which ones are full of nuts

A new operating system from Google, a blunder from McAfee, ancient bible texts are now online, Telstra gives up on off shore call centre, the lying down game, a new real estate service for New Zealand, greater surveillance powers for government agencies, Vodafone's special deal for iPhone users.

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Boys of Tech 024: Chalk is cheap

Pirate Bay's new video streaming site, technology to replace parking warden's chalk, USB 3.0, vomit ad pulled, anti-malware software rankings, Open2View to introduce QR codes, a mini cellular network in your living room, no Windows 7 discounts down-under.

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Boys of Tech 023: The Eiffel Tower

Google's new image search technology, screen scrambler technology to prevent prying eyes, flaw in Apache, liver transplant for Jobs, Kodak kills Kodachrome, a twittering house, emulation application pulled from Apple app store, music charts to include online data, why businesses prefer a single browser, Telecom New Zealand to launch a new online music store for mobile devices.

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Boys of Tech 022: These are our mountains

Microsoft giving away free software, Blu-Ray analogue hole to be closed, the story of Conficker, iPod may have saved a girl's life, YouTube lets you decide how ads are played, Bing subdomain for explicit content, a new Twitter client for a very old machine, Microsoft reimbursements only valid for Windows Mobile devices, Steve Jobs, Web acceleration software from a New Zealand company goes global.

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Boys of Tech 021: Leave my Twitter alone

E3, WWDC, the Pirate Party gets a seat, Twitter to tackle fake accounts, Windows 7 without IE in Europe, French overturn three strikes law, securing New Zealand's national DNA database, the first Android phone for New Zealand, Twitter via phone for Kiwis.

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Boys of Tech 020: Earthquake

Windows 7 release date announced, Adobe's browser comparison service, a treasure hunt for a diamond ring, ATMs with malware, Chrome for Linux and the Mac, another birthday celebration.

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Boys of Tech 019: An air of coolness

Microsoft's new search, TCP trick to transmit secret messages, the chk-chk-boom girl, Russian group buys Facebook stake, the Zune HD, Twitter's business model, Google toys with HTML5, EU sues Sweden, Cobol turns 50, Vodafone New Zealand to give away a million dollars worth of air time.

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Boys of Tech 018: It's not a search engine

Wolfram Alpha goes live, the Google tricycle, Vodafone confirms New Zealand's first Android phone, Telecom in talks with Apple, Frucor launches game-based ad campaign.

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Boys of Tech 016: The grass is greener at Yahoo

Swedish government asks Pirate Bay founders for money, DDo$ against Pirate Bay lawyers, Visa trials new credit card, France's new law is at odds with EU law, the great Wikipedia hoax, Twitter community angry at change, Google to re-shoot in Japan, Australia bucks piracy trend, Vodafone signs Twitter deal, new ICT certification scheme.

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Boys of Tech 015: Pest Control

EC wants consumer protection laws to cover software, the good guys hijack a botnet, how Google scans books, Yahoo beats Google by 2 years, Dell to sell via Dick Smith, Vodafone and Telecom fight over network interference.

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Boys of Tech 014: Never shake a baby

What's Popular, plug pulled on Geocities, another controversial iPhone application, a $62,000 movie, a look at who controls the Internet, New Zealand Copyright Act may be rewritten from scratch, John Key joins Twitter.

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Boys of Tech 013: We can't pay and we wouldn't pay

Oracle buys Sun, Adobe Flash on the set-top box, lawyers for Pirate Bay demand a retrial, Paul McCartney says Pirate Bay verdict is far, music pirates are also biggest music buyers, court rules that TV programme listings are not copyright, Chinese hackers compromise US air force computers, UK Government computers ensnared in botnet, UK Government provides free search engine optimisation training to selective Muslim Web site owners, what's new for Google search, Telstra goes Windows 7, iPhon ...

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Boys of Tech 012: You cannot patch people

Pirate Bay founders sentenced to jail, eBay sells off Skype, wireless Internet access on Queensland trains, Internet usage trends, image rotation CAPTCHA.

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Boys of Tech 011: HADOPI

Associated Press fighting back at misappropriation, U2 manager thinks France's proposed anti-piracy law is the bees knees, spies hack US electricity grid, spam levels at all-time high.

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Boys of Tech 010: Keep your greasy pizza fingers off my screen

Cyber espionage network discovered, Skype on the iPhone, Wikia goes bust, EA drops DRM, introduction of anti-piracy law causes massive drop in Internet traffic, France's proposed anti-piracy law, Seeqpod is bankrupt, Europeans love Firefox, Domino's free pizza gaffe.

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Boys of Tech 009: The first rule about the list is that there is no list

Windows 7's touch interface, Mac cracked in under 10 seconds, Chrome only browser left standing, Britain asks Google to turn off Street View for a while, police raid home of wikileaks domain name holder, New Zealand's Section 92A is scrapped, TelstraClear employs hacker, Animation Research to provide Formula 1 graphics.

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Boys of Tech 008: Gazelle

iPhone OS 3.0, rumours about Apple entering the gaming market, another newspaper goes Web-only, Australia's secret blacklist, court allows papers to be served via Facebook, Shell New Zealand hacked.

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Boys of Tech 007: The next train is at 3:30

Google Voice, the road ahead for Internet Explorer, social sites more popular than email, cellphone botnets, film industry's new weapon against piracy, iTunes gift card algorithm hacked, the future of online music, TelstraClear walks out of copyright talks.

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Boys of Tech 006: Please give us back our money

YouTube and Universal close to deal, judge orders defendant to decrypt files, security flaws in djbdns, Google shows secret British military base, Railcorp threatens iPhone app creator, the Vatican wants religion kept out of Internet structure, Microsoft launches online applications in New Zealand.

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Boys of Tech 005: Donkeys and their contribution to society

Xbox DoS attacks, Microsoft's payroll gaffe, legal torrents, home made patch for Adobe, GMail outage, the new variant of Conficker, Microsoft sues Tom Tom, cellular providers unhappy about Skype To Go, New Zealand Government to delay new copyright law, texting 111, 30 years since the introduction of the bar code in New Zealand.

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Boys of Tech 004: The Boy of Tech

Microsoft has $250,000 up for grabs, TechCrunch's YouTube downloader broken, Skype jump into bed with Nokia, Pirate Bay founders on trial, Twitter clickjacking, Nokia's turn to release an app store, Boring couple sue Google, how to avoid having to surrender jackass.com, New Zealand gets its first Android handset, NZ Post upgrades from some obsolete OS to Windows XP, blackout-week in New Zealand.

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Boys of Tech 003: Only a bit annoying

Microsoft's app store, Apple rumoured to introduce entry-level phone, French planes grounded by Windows worm, Kaspersky hacked, Germany's new cyber war unit, a new video format war, unofficial version of Silverlight for Linux.

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Boys of Tech 002: Zombies ahead! Run for your lives!

Google Latitude, Facebook is a goldmine, the new .tel top-level domain name, browser market share figures, New Zealand Companies Office on Twitter, Microsoft says anti-piracy initiative will only be a bit annoying, Vodafone's pricing stuff-up,.

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Boys of Tech 001: The S92A saga begins

Adobe opens RTMP protocol, GMail adds offline access, US military secrets leaked, Wikipedia tightens reins, Encyclopaedia Britannica loosens reins, Google Earth's part in a drug bust, Microsoft's new DRM-laden music store, Apple's new touch-screen patent, UK ISPs not required to disconnect file sharers, road sign warns of zombies, 1 billion people online, New Zealand's child port filter, Google's popularity in New Zealand.

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Boys of Tech 017: It must be true - I read it on the Internet

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