TWiT.TV — with Leo Laporte & Friends

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Leo Laporte, Kevin Rose, Patrick Norton, David Prager, Doug Kaye, and John C. Dvorak

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This week was on Skype, so there's no video, but there will be next week when we're live at the Apple Store. Subscribe to the video version (suitable for iPod):

Topics:

• Dvorak's off to Orlando for the PMA then Hannover for CeBIT
• He's looking for a tour of Berlin - email him if you live there
• Doug, Leo, Patrick, and Bill Gates all have a piece of the Berlin Wall
• The point by point refutation of Dvorak's column on Apple switching to Windows
• Apple's big announcement is February 28 - what does "fun new products" mean? We'll have same-day coverage on MacBreak
• Check out the Engadget pictures of the "new iPod"
• Leo predicts it's an iPod media center
• Skype runs on the T-Mobile MDA but only if you overclock it
• Google Base is taking credit cards
• UserFriendly's send up of Google privacy is here
• The TWiT.tv redesign is almost done - look for a beta test soon
• The most popular IT Conversations show of all time: the Woz interview
• AOL has raised the price of dialup to $25.90 a month, the same as the broadband price
• Dvorak uses Google's Page Creator to make a web page while we talk
• RIM is losing in court, but winning in the US Patent Office- is it because of political pressure to save Blackberry?
• The Onion's take on what Blackberry users will do if service is disrupted
• NBC is trying to stop YouTube and others from playing the Lazy Sunday clip - and they're trying to sell it for $1.99 on iTunes Music Store
• Alexa rankings are meaningless
• Lakehead University in Thunder Bay bans wireless due to "health concerns"
• Fans set up Church of Sponge Bob, and John's joining
• Digg.de changes its name to Yigg.de, but Kevin says he never even contacted them
• MPAA is now going after Usenet binaries by attacking the indexing sites
• Dvorak uses "the IRC" to trade files so he's ok with it
• Lloyd Braun proposes a news show on Yahoo with puppets as anchors
• Ananova is a news site with a virtual anchor
• Doug and John still have their pets.com sock puppets
• They're cheap on Ebay
• Watch for our Ebay auction to benefit EFF - coming soon
• John and Leo wax nostalgic over Lotus Improv and Adobe ImageStyler
• EFF decodes the Xerox hidden dot-code
• Scanners can't copy US money
• iTunes hits 1 billion songs sold, and a kid in Michigan wins 10 ipods, an iMac, and $10,000 in songs
• According to NPR, record labels are holding back singles to preserve CD sales
• Tuesday Patrick demos the Democracy Player from the Participatory Culture Foundation
• Fireant is also good
• iPodderX is now Thunderstone Media and the new program is Transistr - com
• Dvorak is working on a new IPTV show for Z-D - stay tuned to details
• Leo's LTS Podcast interview is here
• Ricky Gervais goes for the gold by moving his free podcast to Audible.com
• Cat's expecting - congratulations
• Microsoft is looking for an Apple-style buzz for next week's "Origami" announcement
• Look for Alex Albrecht's cooking show, Control-Alt-Chicken, and much more from Revision 3 soon.

Next Friday, March 3, we'll be live from the San Francisco Apple Store. Tape rolls at 7:00pm - get there by 6 if you want to get in (note new time). We'll have pocket protectors, buttons, and TWiT toothbrushes to hand out.