Show Notes - EverythingDigital Podcast 2006-3-25 - Welcome - Saturday, March 25, 2006 - Alan Joyce (alan@everythingdigital.org) - EverythingDigital Podcast (http://everythingdigital.org) - *Play: Podcasting Sweep.mp3 - *Play: EverythingDigitalVoiceover.mp3 (ol_dave from RadioDaddy.com) - *Music: Federico Fasce - Spaceships - Thanks BlueHost for increasing my storage and bandwidth - http://bluehost.com - Five Five-Second Technology Headlines - *Music: News Theme.mp3 - Sony plans to increase its HDTV advertising budget by hundreds of millions of dollars this year in a push to make consumers more aware of its offerings - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/ 03/24/AR2006032401733.html - Sling Media, the maker of Slingbox, has released an application dubbed SlingPlayer Mobile that allows Slingbox owners to watch content from their Slingbox on their PocketPCs or Treos - http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1941762,00.asp - Sony says it will introduce, with its PlayStation 3 console, the PlayStation Network Platform, an online gaming service intended to compete with Microsoft's Xbox Live - http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2 002883180_gamedev23.html - Universal Pictures will launch a new service next month in the U.K. that allows users to download full-length movies to their computers, kicking off with "King Kong" on April 10 - http://edition.cnn.com/2006/TECH/03/23/movie.download/ - PayPal is launching a service for mobile phones that allows users to make payments to other PayPal accounts simply by sending an SMS message or dialing a number - http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/85464/paypal-texts-itself-to-m obile-phones.html - Links to full stories in show notes at everythingdigital.org - Apple News - Delayed thoughts on the iPod HiFi - Looks good, probably sounds good, but it's just a boombox - $349 is a bit steep, especially considering it requires an iPod for full functionality - Nevertheless, elegantly simplistic and true to its function - http://www.apple.com/ipodhifi/ - iTunes Music Store Offering New Comedy Central Programming - New Titles Include: - The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Sourth Park, The Showbiz Show, Mind of Mencia, Best of Comedy Central Stand-Up, and Drawn Together - Both The Daily Show and The Colbert Report offer new "Multi-Pass" subscription options - For $9.99, the Multi-Pass offers the most recent episode as well as the next 15 new episodes, downloaded as they become available - Microsoft Gives Apple Security Advice - Microsoft security response team manager Stephen Toulouse: - Apple's security mailing list fails to "cover when there are new versions available when a bug is introduced by the update" - Toulouse also criticized Apple for not using RSS to announce security updates - Also said "We've learned the lesson of getting out there fast and providing clear prescriptive guidance." - Apple "will have to seek outside expertise in the form of a head of security communications in the next 12 months. Apple needs a person steeped in security issues." - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/23/microsoft_apple_se curity/ - Podsafe Music - *Music: Prydein - Farewell to Eirann - General News - Encyclopedia Britannica Refutes Comparison to Wikipedia - Last December the journal Nature conducted a comparative study of the accuracy of Wikipedia and Encyclopedia Britannica - Nature found 123 errors in a selection of Britannica entries, and 162 errors in the same entries on Wikipedia - Britannica's publisher released this week a 20-page response to the Nature article - The response challenged many of the cited errors, and demanded a full retraction of the article - Recently, Britannica's monthly fee business model has been suffering with the popularity of Wikipedia and other free internet sources - Britannica's remaining advantage was its renowned accuracy, an image this rebuttal seeks to maintain - http://news.com.com/Belatedly,+Britannica+lambastes+Wikipe dia+findings/2100-1025_3-6053754.html - Yahoo! Launches VoIP Service - Implemented through the Yahoo! Messenger service already in existence - Free audio chatting was already a feature of Yahoo! Messenger - Now Yahoo! is offering rates of about 2 cents / minute to call landline or cell phones - Similar to SkypeOut which has a global rate of 2.1 cents / minute - Also offering a $25/year service similar to SkypeIn, where the user is assigned a phone number that any conventional phone can call - SkypeIn charges about $36/year - Currently about 75 million people worldwide use Skype, and 60 million use some aspect of Yahoo! Messenger - http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/14163343.htm - Delays for Windows Vista and Office 2007 Continue - Has been almost 5 years since Windows XP arrived - Microsoft has begun to cut back on the amount and scope of Vista's features to get it to market sooner - Microsoft now says it will finish work on Office and Vista by the end of this year - Will ship Office 2007 to business customers under the volume-licensing program as early as October - For general consumers, both products are planned to ship in January of 2007 - http://news.com.com/Clouds+over+Redmond/2100-1016_3-605292 8.html?tag=nefd.pop - Project: LED "Throwies" - http://www.flickr.com/photos/everythingdigital/sets/720575 94069888500/ - Wrap-Up - *Music: Shabgoidmqwaid - Bamboo Nightstick - Post comments at http://everythingdigital.org - Subscribe (Podcast Only) at http://everythingdigital.org/rss.xml - Subscribe (Podcast and Text News) at http://everythingdigital.org/weblog/index.xml - Email: alan@everythingdigital.org - Skype: everythingdigital - AIM: podcaster - Call (206) 9-THE-EDP or (206) 984-3337 and leave an audio comment - Thanks For Listening, Stay Subscribed