Ahoy! This week The Drill Down crew discusses Google’s doodles, Google’s answer to SMS, Google voice search on desktop, image search via your own photos & pre-caching of predicted search results. Also, a massive Bitcoin theft, an interview with Bill Gates, Facebook’s impending IPO and Pandora’s recent IPO success, Steve Jobs’ Apple ‘spaceship’ campus, Apple now selling unlocked GSM phones, Apple settles a patent dispute with Nokia, rumors of an iPad 3 later this year, XBOX Live on Windows 8, Duke Nukem Forever is finally released (to terrible reviews), and the IMF is hit by a sophisticated cyberattack.
Later, we discuss bold (and reckless) cyberattacks by merry pranksters Lulz Security, and the exodus of major movie studio presence from Comic-Con.
Headlines
- Google doodle lets you play a recordable guitar ditty in honor of Les Paul
- Google may have developed Android rival to BBM, iMessage Rival
- Google Search: Voice search on desktop, image search using your own pictures, preloading of predicted pages on Chrome
- Judge furious at “inexcusable” P2P lawyering, nukes subpoenas
- Thief steals $500K worth of Bitcoin
- Microsoft’s Bill Gates: A rare and remarkable interview with the world’s second richest man
- Facebook Expected To File For $100 Billion IPO This Year
- Pandora Opens At $20 Per Share With A Market Cap Of $3.2 Billion
- Steve Jobs pitches new Apple ‘spaceship’ campus to Cupertino City Council
- Apple now selling unlocked GSM iPhone 4 in US, starting at $649
- iPhone liquidity: Why an unlocked Phone in the US matters
- Nokia and Apple settle patent disputes; Apple to pay one-time fee and ongoing license fees
- Taiwan Newspaper Pre-Announces 7-Inch iPad 3
- More Evidence for 2048×1536 iPad Retina Display
- Microsoft reveals Xbox LIVE will be built into Windows 8
- After 15 years of development, Duke Nukem Forever sucks
- Duke Nukem’s PR threatens to punish sites that run negative reviews
- Sophisticated Cyberattack Is Reported by the I.M.F.
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- Book: A Game of Thrones: A Song of Ice and Fire, Book I by George R. R. Martin
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Musical Interlude #1
Hot Topic
- Spain Detains 3 in Hacking of Sony PlayStation
- Spanish police website hit by Anonymous hackers
- Titanic Takeover Tuesday: LulzSec’s busy day of hacking escapades
- LulzSec opens hack request line
- Lulzsec Hackers Go to War with 4chan
- Woah: Lulz Security Just Took Down the CIA
Musical Interlude #2
Final Word