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Jerry Yang is out at Yahoo, RIM is trying to sell itself, Sarah Lacy gets $2.5 million (!) to make a promotional…uh, I mean, informative new blog about startups, Rupert Murdoch is old and insane, and Google can’t stop screwing around with your search. Throw in cloud gaming with Onlive, pro video people moving away from Apple, and the Pirate Bay starting up a new promotional program for indies, and you’ve got yourself a podcast!

By the way, please note that we’ve switched feeds, so you can now get the Platformer Podcast by either searching for it on iTunes, listening to it at Platformer.ca or by using this feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/platformer/OnDA

Breaking: Jerry Yang out at Yahoo

Clowntown: RIM trying to sell itself

Playbook update with email still doesn’t quite cut it

Sarah Lacy getting $2.5 million for Techcrunch clone PandoDaily

Murdoch wants to preserve media scarcity

OnLive expansion: live streaming gaming (currently on the Mac) will come to smart TVs, now Windows services over an iPad, iPad gaming app coming.

“Star Wars: The Dead Republic”

">Why pros are moving away from Apple

Pirate Bay launches promo program for artists

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The Mac Pro may be dead, iOS 5 battery life is running out, and Google TV is resurrected. With all this spookiness, it’s a shame we didn’t release this episode on Halloween.

Besides that, Todd’s playing Arkham City and reading about Steve Jobs, and Chip is playing with the Doctor Who Encyclopedia on his iPad. Warren couldn’t make this episode, but has regardless pronounced the new GTA trailer to be “rad.”

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Once again Steve Jobs dominates this week’s headlines, this time for revelations in his autobiography of an honest-to-goodness Apple TV. Besides that, it’s been a weird week, with Google maybe mulling buying Yahoo possibly, Microsoft gaining tons of cash off of Android (!) patents and Netflix hemming and hawing and not really knowing what it’s doing.

On the plus side, Todd is playing Arkham Asylum, Chip is reading Ready Player One and Warren has backed off from the flu-laden precipice of death he was wobbling on last week, though a lingering cough still stalks him.

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Patent madness this week, and a deep dive by Todd into the machinations and tribulations surrounding high tech and patent law. Here’s a pile of links for you on that subject…

- Samsung and Apple’s battle means worldwide grief for the Korean tablet maker

- more grief for Samsung in the EU

- Google’s Andy Rubin plays fast and loose with violating patents

throw Apple cops, Cory Doctorow on online identity, Amazon tablets, and Michael Arrington being a dink into the mix and you’ve got our first one hour show!

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Like every other podcast on the internet, we led off with discussion on Steve Jobs resignation from Apple, then branched off into whether Apple can stay “Apple,” as well as discussing the oft-rumoured Apple television set that may or may not happen. Speaking of TV, Google told the television industry to go to hell (except it didn’t). We also looked at the new Mozilla WebAPI, an awesome gaming laptop from Razer, and much, much more.

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Chip gets a TouchPad, HP gives up on PCs (and TouchPads), Robert Scoble doesn’t love Twitter anymore, Chrome extensions can be riddled with malware, and Apple might be making its own chipsets for Macbooks after all.

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Google buys Motorola Mobile, SETI gets Kickstartered, EA throws its weight around, and Cinemaware is going iOS. Whee!

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Nintendo’s woes, Apple’s secret and subtle plans for social, GTA is the root cause of the London riots (or possibly not) iOS 5′s hidden voice controls, and high praise for the under appreciated Bioshock 2.

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Lion! New Apple gear! Nintendo on the way down, Lego as the perfect animation medium, and trouble with Google’s G+. All that and a whole lot more on the newest episode of Platformer!

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Wired Magazine has an interesting profile of the developers who created Google’s Chrome browser, an attempt by the search megalith to crush IE and revamp the way we access the web. Do we need another browser? I’d say no, since Firefox does pretty much anything I need but what the hell do I know? Here’s some thoughts about Chrome from the rest of the web, and it looks like Chrome is the next step towards a Google OS.