Clowntown gets a new mayor! The dual CEOs at RIM are out, only to be replaced by another guy mouthing the same tired platitudes. We also cover the SOPA blackout, the Megaupload shutdown, a kerfuffle over iBooks Author, some staggering tablet statistics, and Youtube hitting 4 billion views A DAY. That’s mental.
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!
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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
A packed proceeding at Platformer, with news from CES, Barnes and Noble possibly selling off the Nook, Cable cutters uniting, and an offensive PSA from ICE.
We also go off on a rant about Thunderbolt, wax poetic about iMessage, and hail the return…of Clowntown.
Yahoo gets a new CEO
Why Google should buy Nook
LG Super OLED is super sexy
Cord cutters on the rise
iMessage decimates text messaging
Asinine PSA from ICE about piracy
Belkin’s Thunderbolt dock won’t be out until September 2012
It’s our first annual year-end prognosticatin’ and predictin’ jamboree! We look back at 2011 and see RIM and HP in tatters, Apple on top but of the business world but without Steve Jobs, and protesters, hackers and the 1% all using the internet to further their goals.
We also turned our keen insight to 2012, where Warren boldly predicted several already heavily rumored things and Todd used reason and logic to extrapolate current events to the near future. Chip was, as always, our rock of serenity.
And if that’s not enough, how about our apps and games of the year? Including one we think you might find surprising…..
SOPA gets raked over the coals, Final Cut Pro X is apparently the best video app of the year (NOT according to Warren), the PS Vita is out….in Japan, and we introduce a very special segment named Clowntown. You’ll never guess who it’s about.
Not to beat a dead horse, but…c’mon RIM! Drunk execs shutting down flights AND half a billion in Playbook losses? The boys spend a good amount of time musing on Canada’s one Great Technological Hope, before moving onto the CarrierIQ controversy, Firefox’s descent, Apple TV rumours, and Gowalla’s purchase by Facebook, which sets Todd off on a sweet anti-Facebook rant. All this and EA charging money for Tetris on a special “corporate evil” edition of the Platformer Podcast.
Windows 8 bursts onto the scene and only our intrepid squad of tech analysts (by which we mean Warren, Todd and Chip) have the savvy to suss out what really matters with Metro, sandboxing and pissed of developers. The Boston Globe got one hell of an HTML5 redesign, Rogers is told to stop throttling games, and we all discuss what we’d do if we were in charge of RIM and/or Nintendo. One of us would wear a lot of costumes, apparently.
A surprisingly games-lite episode of Platformer, with our heroes studiously analyzing the latest Apple rumours, the broken state of broadcasting in this Space Year 2011, the even more broken patent system, and why RIM sucks even more than usual.
