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The Drill Down 196 – Enter the Cyber-Dragon

Posted on August 5, 2011, 5:30 am, by andy, under Show Notes, The Drill Down.

This week Andy and Devindra are joined by Dwayne De Freitas, Devindra’s co-host on the Symbiotek podcast. We discuss Spotify’s patent infringement woes, Google’s stance on ‘bogus patents”, Logitech cuts the price on their GoogleTV device (and loses a CEO), a bogus study claiming IE users are dumb, Apple has more cash than the US [...]

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Tags: 3DS, adobe, Apple, AT&T, Barack Obama, China, Console gaming, cyber-espionage, cyberhacking, data throttling, espionage, Flash, Foxconn, games, gaming, Google, Google TV, GoogleTV, HTML5, iCloud, Intelectual Property, internet explorer, IP, Logitech, Newt Gingrich, Nintendo, Operation ShadyRAT, patent litigation, patent trolls, Playstation, President Obama, PS Vita, robots, ShadyRAT, Smartphones, software patents, Sony, Spotify, Symbiotek podcast, The Drill Down, Twitter
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The Drill Down 195 – Feeding the Patent Trolls

Posted on July 29, 2011, 5:30 am, by andy, under Show Notes, The Drill Down.

The Drill Down team is back from ComicCon, and we’re wrapping up our discussion about what we’ve seen there, including a groundbreaking breakthrough from director Francis Ford Coppola. RIM cuts 10% of their work staff, China clones Apple stores, Google+ struggles with pseudonyms, LulzSec boycotts PayPal, and the White House RickRolls a Twitterer. Later we [...]

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Tags: Anonymous, Apple, Apple Store, Blackberry, Catarina Fake, China, ComicCon, francis ford coppola, Google, HTC, intellectual ventures, LulzSec, Mac, MacBook Air, patent litigation, patents, paypal, Research In Motion, RickRoll, RickRolls, RIM, SDCC, software patents, The Drill Down, The White House, this american life, Twitter
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