Leo Laporte, Patrick Norton, Roger Chang, David Prager, and Alex Lindsay Are you ready to TWiT? Episide 29 is now online.

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Via our Broadcast Machine BitTorrent tracker Topics:

• Sony is putting rootkits on your PC when you play Sony/BMG audio CDs. (We covered it pretty thoroughly on Security Now #12)
• Microsoft goes after Google with Office Live and Windows Live
• The new Yahoo maps are online - and looking swell. The company is clearly targeting Google.
• Congress is holding hearings on Broadcast flag and the "analog hole." Some want to force analog recording devices to copy digitally and add protection. Copy protection for digital radio is on the table, too
• The Supreme Court has declined to hear Microsoft's appeal in the Eolas patent suit
• Sprint launches a music service for EDGE. $2.50/song!
• Google will pay for a programmer to work on Open Office says our old buddy Chris DiBona (come on the show, Chris!)

Catch us live this Saturday at 3pm in the KFI booth at the Portable Media Expo in the Ontario, California Convention Center. Special guests will include Steve Gibson, Alex Albrecht, and Martin Sargent. I expect many surprises, too! Thanks to Mark Blasco of Podcastthemes.com for our opening theme, and the awe inspiring Ashley TWitt for our closer. TWiT logo designed by Dorothy Yamamoto. <!--break-->