Thanks for listening live if you were, and thanks for downloading if you weren’t. We had a long show to make it easy on Chris with basketball transitions. This was a pretty good show today, we had some personnel problems, as our brains went on tangents for things, and then we didn’t know where we had ended up. Finally Nokia may adopt another OS for their smartphones, some Google stories, and our first email response to a story, please keep them coming!
Egypt Restores Internet Service
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703960804576119690514692446.html
Google’s Wael Ghonim is missing in Egypt; company asks public for help finding him
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/02/google-exec-missing-in-egypt
TSA to test privacy-enhancing software on whole body scanners
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9207679/TSA_to_test_privacy_enhancing_software_on_whole_body_scanners?taxonomyId=84
Wikileaks nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
http://www.switched.com/2011/02/02/wikileaks-nominated-nobel-peace-prize/
Verizon breaks first day sales record with iPhone 4 pre-orders — in only two hours
http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/04/verizon-breaks-first-day-sales-record-with-iphone-4-pre-orders
AT&T to some iPhone users: stay with us and get a free microcell
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/02/att-to-some-iphone-users-stay-with-us-and-get-a-free-microcell.ars
Survey: 32% admit mooching neighbor’s Wi-Fi
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2011/02/wifi-users-guard-their-own-networks-happy-to-use-others.ars
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2011-02-04-wifimoochers04_ST_N.htm
Nokia Considering Windows Phone 7 Adoption: Rumors
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and-Wireless/Nokia-Considering-Windows-Phone-7-Adoption-Rumors-669936/
200GB to 25GB: Canada gets first, bitter dose of metered Internet
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/01/canada-gets-first-bitter-dose-of-metered-internet-billing.ars
Google: Bing is cheating, copying our search results
http://searchengineland.com/google-bing-is-cheating-copying-our-search-results-62914
Microsoft: ‘We do not copy Google’s results’
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-we-do-not-copy-googles-results/8557
Google Gets 75,000 Job Applications in One Week, Topping Record Set in ’07
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-03/google-gets-75-000-job-applications-in-one-week-topping-record-set-in-07.html
Google will not bring Honeycomb to smart phones
http://www.bgr.com/2011/02/03/google-will-not-bring-honeycomb-to-smartphones/ Microsoft Brings H.264 support back to Chrome
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/interoperability/archive/2011/02/01/greater-interoperability-for-windows-customers-with-html5-video.aspx
Facebook Frackups!
Airlines offer free in-flight Facebook
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2011-02-01-facebook-inflight-wifi_N.htm
“Dating Site” steals Facebook data
Science News
Kepler space telescope spots five Earth-sized planets in our galaxy
http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/02/02/nasa.kepler.planets/index.html?hpt=C2
http://news.discovery.com/space/kepler-exoplanet-count-increase-110202.html
National Treasures: Google Art Project unlocks riches of world’s galleries
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/01/AR2011020106442.html
Scientists working to grow meat in a lab
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110130/sc_nm/us_food_meat_laboratory_feature
Email!
A friend showed me this article,River of IPv4 addresses officially runs dry, and I thought it fit well following up what you talked about last week.
Basically they’ve given away the last IPv4 address blocks. We still haven’t run out of IP addresses yet, but once the internet registries won’t have any new addresses to give out after this batch. That is at least until IPv6 is introduced with IP addresses that are 39 digits instead of 12. I did have a few questions though. The article said that of the 4.3 billion addresses available with IPv4 3.7 billion of them were unusable. Can you explain why that is? The last five blocks were also split between five different internet registries, but yet with projected use some of these registries will run out of addresses almost a year before others. Why wasn’t there some priority given to, for example, the Asia-Pacific RIR, APNIC, who is, according to the article going to run out of addresses within months. It also mentions that things like video chatting will be made more difficult if you end up having to share your IP address. What does that really mean for the average Joe, and how would we know if we were using a shared IP?
Thanks!
the digital hazard 