The joke is on Apple for choosing such a silly name, I defer you to search the internet for a MadTV sketch titled iPad, because I am not going to make any jokes. Meanwhile, Spirit got stuck, and ok, thats really about it. Apple’s mind-share is way too big.

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Overheard: Steve Jobs says Apple Tablet “will be the most important thing I’ve ever done”
http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/24/steve-jobs-tablet-most-important/

iPhone coming to Verizon
http://hothardware.com/News/Will-ATT-Lose-Their-iPhone-Exclusivity-On-Wednesday/

Chinese human rights sites hit by DDoS attack
http://www.pcworld.com/article/187597/

Study shows why girls fear math: They learn it from their women teachers
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=9657816
http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2010/01/female-teachers-math-anxiety-influences-female-students.ars

Google Voice back on iPhone through Safari browser
http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/26/google-voice-iphones-browser/

Updated Zune software drivers hints at Zune “Phone”

http://www.istartedsomething.com/20100127/updated-zune-software-drivers-hints-at-zune-phone/

iPad launch day (my take)

The Case against the “iPad”

http://timothyblee.com/?p=2169

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31322_3-10443887-256.html

Fujitsu Readies Lawsuit Over “iPad” Name
http://slashdot.org/story/10/01/28/2055209/Fujitsu-Readies-Lawsuit-Over-iPad-Name

Why You Can’t Use Your Phone’s SIM in the iPad
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/01/ipad-mini-sim/

End of the road for Mars rover
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/deltav/24719/

Antarctica needs a network engineer
http://it.slashdot.org/story/10/01/27/1342220/Antarctica-Needs-a-Network-Engineer

Nexus One data Outage?

http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/29/nexus-one-experiencing-nationwide-data-outage/

This week is a short show as I talk about how to solve the world’s problems, no really, I do. And I talk about how Apple wants to solve all the world’s problem by having you buy their products… okay, that last one isn’t really true, but it sure seems like it.

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Apple officially announces January 27 event
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10436586-37.html

Expect to see iPhone 4, Tablet, and new iLife
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/01/18/apple-tablet-iphone-launch-confirmed-january/

SarcMarc is the new LOL, haha, JK, etc.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-10436071-71.html
http://02d9656.netsoljsp.com/SarcMark/modules/user/commonfiles/loadhome.do

The Times to Charge for Frequent Access to Its Web Site
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/21/business/media/21times.html

Bing to oust Google as default iPhone search?
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10437785-94.html
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2010/tc20100119_759795.htm

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lays out new Internet freedom policies
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/01/20/google.china.talk/index.html
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10438324-38.html
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/01/21/clinton.internet/index.html

Nokia puts free turn-by-turn navigation on all phones in 180 countries
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30686_3-10438524-266.html

The Apple Tablet Interface Must Be Like This
http://gizmodo.com/5452501/the-apple-tablet-interface-must-be-like-this

Sorry guys there is no episode this week. It was exam week for me, and right now I am in Aspen Colorado writing this tethered to my Nokia N96 via wi-fi. (Mad props go out to Joiku Spot for being free and letting me get online!)

I will return next Friday as regularly scheduled.

@mcafee15 is on the show today and we talk a lot about phones and predicting the future. Hopefully if we write the books that we say we will, and they get published, we’ll be millionares by the time we are however old we’ll be when our predictions come true. (It’s an exacting science, you can tell.) And Google really is becoming a scary cooperation, as Palm slowly dies. Its a partially morbid show.

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Google’s biggest announcement was not a phone, but a URL

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2010/01/googles-big-news-today-was-not-a-phone-but-a-url.ars

Google and HTC working on a Chrome OS tablet
http://gizmodo.com/5438716/htc-working-with-google-on-a-chrome-os-tablet

Social network suicide? Not if Facebook can help it
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2010/01/facebook-fights-back-disallows-the-suicide-machine.html

http://dashes.com/anil/2010/01/nobody-has-a-million-twitter-followers.html

Google Chrome displaces Safari as third in survey
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10423733-2.html

World’s tallest building opens in Dubai
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8438416.stm

At&t Finally gets Android
http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/atandt-finally-goes-android-confirms-dell-htc-and-motorola-on-bo/

Kama Sutra’ most pirated e-book of 2009
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-10424780-71.html

‘Google Energy’ subsidiary considers clean power
http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-10427993-54.html

New Touch Screen Technology for iPhone & MacBook Tablet
http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2010/01/apple-reveals-new-touch-screen-technology-for-iphone-macbook-tablet.html

Palm introduces Palm Pre Plus: 16GB, coming to Verizon on January 25
http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/07/palm-introduces-palm-pre-plus-16gb-coming-to-verizon-on-januar/…