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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 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boys of Tech 127: Off the back of a Foxconn truckMore 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boys of Tech 126: Pretty wastelandFake 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boys of Tech 125: I was made to go on FacebookSpotify 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boys of Tech 124: Let's be generous and call it a bugNews 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boys of Tech 123: AgnosticnessShane 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boys of Tech 122: There's no better place than BrisbaneMan 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 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boys of Tech 121: HoverboardsGoogle 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boys of Tech 120: Judder barsApple 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boys of Tech 120: Judder barsApple 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boys of Tech 119: Two firsts in two episodesSony'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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boys of Tech 118: The law showAseem 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boys of Tech 117: Great co-opRumours 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boys of Tech 116: Smoke and mirrorsMicrosoft 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boys of Tech 115: Something more wrongGoogle sued over Android location data, Google Shopping debuts in Australia, lobby groups oppose format shifting laws, more security breaches at Sony.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boys of Tech 114: I hate bufferingApple 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boys of Tech 113: Some very single manThe 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boys of Tech 112: Some weird chip configurationResearchers 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boys of Tech 111: A genuine fakeAseem 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boys of Tech 110: Robots which sit in cars drinking beerGoogle 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boys of Tech 109: VirusnessBen 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boys of Tech 108: Handing over cash to some guys in a garageVisa 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boys of Tech 107: The perpetual homework machineA 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boys of Tech 105: Kids with SegwaysIntel 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 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boys of Tech 105: Kids with SegwaysIntel 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 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boys of Tech 104: DetroitGoogle announces One Pass, a new twist to high rise apartment living, capturing and dissipating a laser beam, Detroit raises enough for its RoboCop statue.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boys of Tech 103: Back in the bathroomWikileaks 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boys of Tech 102: The Julian Assange unplugged showPolice 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boys of Tech 101: A really bad illegal criminal crimeA 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boys of Tech 100: The safest deodorant can in all of New ZealandJoin 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boys of Tech 099: There's a shark in the streetGoogle'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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boys of Tech 098: A gattling chalk-firing gunFour 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boys of Tech 097: It's a bit like cookingBullied 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boys of Tech 096: This week in WikileaksWikileaks' 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boys of Tech 096: WikigoodnessNASA reveals new discovery, wrong photo used in murder article, why Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is lying low.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boys of Tech 094: Biodegradable retaining wallsA 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boys of Tech 093: A full page ad that takes up the whole pageHacking 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boys of Tech 092: He'll be throwing old bananas at meCameron 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boys of Tech 091: Daylight savings not includedDavid 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 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boys of Tech 090: The Sultan of Brunei, he'd have a nice big loungeChina 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boys of Tech 089: Geeky epicnessWikileaks 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boys of Tech 087: All part of a bigger pictureAn 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boys of Tech 086: The iPlaySegway 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boys of Tech 085: The big red buttonFacebook'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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boys of Tech 084: That is why the Internet is squareThe 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boys of Tech 083: Eaten by wild ducksThe 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boys of Tech 082: The armed technological octopusWikileaks 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | |