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CobWEBs Daily Edition podcast: Get a grip, Google smack talk isn’t about China’s censorship

Posted on January 13, 2010 by Steven Hodson
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cbn1-podpost In tonight’s show Sean and I go after the easy target of the day’s happenings because that’s just how we roll. First though Sean gets the fact that he was wrong (and I was right <snicker>) in yesterday’s show when it came to Google’s learning how to screw its customers.

Anyway once that was dealt with we got on with the meat of today’s show which of course had to do with the late breaking news that Google is threatening to pull up stakes in China because of the whole censorship thing. Except its not and it had nothing to do with censorship.

Post referenced in the show:

Corporate Bravery from Google – Robert Scoble
Google’s “we’ll leave China” has nothing to do with censorship – The Inquisitr
Google Is Just Saber Rattling And Won’t Pull Out Of China – Paul O’Flaherty

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Categories: Podcasts | Tags: China, Daily Edition, Google

CobWEBs Daily Edition podcast: Please Microsoft save us from a Facebook-Google world

Posted on January 12, 2010 by Steven Hodson
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cbn1-podpost Tonight’s show see Sean and myself going from one extreme of reality to another.

We start off in a totally non-tech related discussion of what the hell is Sony doing with Spiderman. Like didn’t having a billion dollar franchise give them enough wet-dream they have to now go and reboot it. How many times do we need to see the angst of Parker getting bitten by a spider?

Speaking of angst there was plenty of it to go around in our discussion regarding my fervent wish that Microsoft get a clue when it comes to the social media world before it is too late and we are stuck in one controlled by Google and Facebook. Regardless of how much people love Google there are a lot of things it is doing that have cause some concern and then we have Facebook who will sell our privacy to the highest bidder.

Posts referred to in the show.

Spider-Man 4 Canceled; Franchise Reboot Planned – Sean P. Aune
Google sure has picked of the tricks of screwing their customers pretty quick – The Inquisitr

Enjoy the show

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Categories: Podcasts | Tags: Daily Edition, Facebook, Google, Microsoft

Real mobile innovation has nothing to do with smartphones

Posted on January 5, 2010 by Steven Hodson
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vaseline So Google officially announced their Nexus One today.

Does this mean that now everyone is going to be going gaga over the brand new world where everything is mobile and beautiful?

Will the sun be all rosy colored when we get up in the morning?

Not likely.

There is no brave new world of mobile computing for all that will come raining down on us. No smartphone, or superphone is going to bring real mobile innovation to the masses no matter how much we might want to wish it so.

The reason: wireless broadband providers.

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Categories: Technology | Tags: Apple, Google, smartphones, superphones

Google’s Nexus One delivery announced – and I get to pat myself on the back

Posted on December 29, 2009 by Steven Hodson
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FTW-Kid So all the news that is currently flooding the Web is about the big Android announcement that Google will be making on January 5, 2010 – just before CES. Of course the tech pundits are calling for this to be the official unveiling of the Google Nexus One smartphone.

I can just hear all the deep breaths being taken in the US because we all know this will mean squat for the rest of the world.

All that aside I would like to point out that I called this date in our Cynical Bastards Roundtable podcast when the news about the Nexus One first broke. Well okay not January 5 exactly but I did state in the podcast that it would be on or just before CES. My partners in crime for the podcast, Sean P. Aune and Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins weren’t as willing to go out on the same limb but I think we can agree I called this one right.

Gee between this and my recent post about television being a centerpiece of an major Canadian industry blog post I might have to jack up my consulting fees – well maybe not, since people aren’t all that interested in what un-experts have to say.

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Categories: Technology | Tags: Google, Nexus One
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