MWAHAHAHA! It was Halloween today on The Digital Hazard. I mean it was Halloween everywhere, but it permeated the show too. The only evil things we talked about were Firesheep and Facebook’s ad model. James Cameron is still monetarily focused, and we are going to podcast from Everest. If you’d like to support us, please send a paypal payment to digitalhazardpodcast[at]gmail.com.

This week on the show, we start a new weekly segment, that won’t be hard to continue, Facebook Frackups! We talk about the Jobs hissyfit, and the RIM, Jobs back and forth, and how the internet is being used up, but Google will give you a birthday present!

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Facebook app breach gets the attention of Congress
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/10/facebook-app-breach-gets-the-attention-of-congress.ars

Is Facebook Outing Gay Users to Advertisers?
http://valleywag.gawker.com/5669316/is-facebook-outing-gay-users-to-advertisers

Networks Block Web Programs From Being Viewed on Google TV
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303339504575566572021412854.html
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-20020394-265.html

Sprint promises WiMAX in NYC on November 1, LA on December 1, and San Francisco a few weeks later
http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/18/sprint-promises-wimax-in-nyc-on-november-1-la-on-december-1-an/

Angry Birds for Android gets over 1 million downloads in 1 day
http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2010/10/17/angry-birds-for-android-gets-over-1-million-downloads-in-1-day/
Over 2M http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-20019862-17.html

Google’s First Personalized Doodle

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2010/10/googles-first-personalized-doodle.html

Sales and Profit Surge for Apple, but Its Margins Slip

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/19/technology/19apple.html

Jobs comes out swinging against Android, tablets

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31021_3-20019957-260.html

http://www.businessinsider.com/steve-jobs-epic-5-minute-anti-google-rant-2010-10

The complete transcript http://www.macworld.com/article/154980/2010/10/jobs_transcript.html

RIM hits back at Jobs rant

http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/19/rims-jim-balsillie-hits-back-at-the-steve-jobs-rant-apples-d/

http://blogs.blackberry.com/2010/10/rim-responds-to-apples-distortion-field/

Apple Ginsu-book

http://www.apple.com/macbookair/

Kickers & Science:

Worse: IPv4 Net addresses now 95 percent used up
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20019836-264.html

World’s Most Considerate Computer Thief Backs Up Victim’s Data, Mails It to Him
http://www.thelocal.se/29636/20101015/

CMU involved in Google’s self driving cars:

http://www.cmu.edu/homepage/computing/2010/fall/driven-to-innovate.shtml

This was the first episode to air on WRCT, and I had to do it on my own. Thankfully my producer Chris stepped to help me after the music break. The show was predominately about mobile phones, but we talked about the web, and other intersting developments of the week.

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Facebook announces groups, data download
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-20018796-36.html

Verizon to launch 4G in 38 markets
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30686_3-20018768-266.html

Sony’s 16.41MP Sensor Shoots 1080p Video and Will Be in Phones Next Year
http://gizmodo.com/5657866/

With Antennagate over, is Glassgate next for the iPhone 4?
http://gdgt.com/discuss/with-antennagate-over-is-glassgate-next-iphone-ani/

Firefox 4 Beta for Android and Maemo is Now Available
http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2010/10/07/firefox-4-beta-for-android-and-maemo/
“A good first effort”
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20019002-264.html

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser falls below 50% of worldwide market for first time
http://gs.statcounter.com/press/microsoft-internet-explorer-browser-falls-below-50-perc-of-worldwide-market-for-first-time

W3C: Hold off on deploying HTML5 in websites
http://www.infoworld.com/d/developer-world/w3c-hold-html5-in-websites-041

Trouble In Clever Domain Land: Bit.ly And Others Risk Losing Theirs Swift.ly
http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/06/trouble-in-clever-domain-land-bit-ly-and-others-risk-losing-theirs-swift-ly/
http://techyum.com/2010/10/official-vb-ly-link-shortener-seized-by-libyan-government/

Google Gets a C- From the Better Business Bureau
http://www.readwriteweb.com/biz/2010/10/google-gets-a-c–from-better-business-bureau.php

Google starts showing full page previews in search results
http://www.blogstorm.co.uk/google-starts-showing-full-page-previews-in-search-results/

Shocking: Steve Jobs approves Bittorrent app for iOS
http://torrentfreak.com/shocking-apple-approves-bittorrent-app-for-iphone-app-store-101002/

Nobel for Physics awarded to Graphene duo
http://journals.aip.org/Nobel2010.html

Pilot number two on WRCT, I think this one went better, we should be up on the air next week! This week I was Joined by Erik Boyer, and we talked about everything from alien ambassadors to unfortunately hilarious Segway incidents… you’ll find out if you listen to the show.

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