Segment 1:
* Apple on Monday began shipping its new iPhone 3G S handsets to customers who were among the first to place their pre-orders last week following the handset's introduction at the company's annual developers conference.
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/06/15/apple_begins_shipping_first_iphone_3g_s_pre_orders.html
Segment 2:
* In a story headlined "Fear grips Google," the New York Post reports that the launch of Microsoft's Bing search engine has so upset Google co-founder Sergey Brin that he has top engineers working on "urgent upgrades" to Google's service.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-10264417-75.html
* Hunch is a collective intelligence decision-making system that uses decision trees to make decisions based on users' interest.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunch
* The big DTV switch is essentially over and while the FCC continues its mopping up campaign, some consumers are still struggling with converter boxes and antennas to get reception.
http://www.informationweek.com/news/personal_tech/TV_theater/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=217801189
Segment 3:
* One of the Chinese developers of the "Green Dam" filtering software pledged to patch the software's vulnerabilities, while intimating that he may take legal action against the authors of a U.S. report that discovered them.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2348720,00.asp?kc=PCRSS03069TX1K0001121
* Twice the power, half the battery drain of last year's GPU--a pretty bold claim, and one that nVidia makes about its new 200M series laptop GPUs.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/15/AR2009061501460.html
* The Palm Pre launched only a couple weekends ago and the developer and home brew community is hard at work making new apps and expanding the capability of the Palm handset.
http://www.dailytech.com/Palm+Warns+Pre+Dev+Wiki+About+Posting+Tethering+Hacks/article15415.htm
* BusinessInsider reports that one of the benefits that Microsoft employees have enjoyed over the years is being dropped.
http://www.insidetech.com/news/articles/5036-ms-stops-paying-for-employee-iphones-blackberries
Segment 4 :
Arin Interview
Segment 5:
Email from Listeners
Jennifer H. from Seattle asks “In your 2009 predictions Blog you mentioned that TVs would be able to go onto the internet. IS that happening yet?”
