Our last show before summer, Erik rejoined me. This week we run down all the shenanigans that have occurred in the corporate space in the last week. Its quite an impressive (or depressive) list. Also, Apple and Sony get disdainful publicity, and the Royal Wedding happened, at the expense of science.
Mac vs PC: the stereotypes may be true
http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/web/04/22/mac.pc.users/index.html?hpt=C2
http://blog.hunch.com/?p=45344
Microsoft collects locations of Windows phone users
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20057329-281.html
Microsoft: Windows Phones Do Not Store Location History
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2384239,00.asp
Apple is sued over location tracking
http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2011/04/26/apple_is_sued_over_location_tracking/
Apple Q&A on Location Data
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2011/04/27location_qa.html
Apple: We’ll fix iPhone tracking ‘bug’
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30686_3-20057815-266.html
PlayStation data breach in ‘top 5 ever’: researcher
http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/story/2011/04/27/technology-playstation-data-breach.html
PlayStation Network Breach Could Cost Sony $24 Billion
http://www.businessinsider.com/playstation-network-breach-could-cost-sony-24-billion-2011-4
PSN hackers Attempt To Sell 2.2 Million Credit Card Numbers Back To Sony
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/28/hackers-claim-to-have-playstation-users-card-data/?ref=technology
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/139672/20110429/psn-attempt-to-sell-2-2-million-credit-card-numbers-back-to-sony.htm
List of Companies that have had Security Breaches This Week
Apple (iPhone Location)
Sony (PlayStation)
NY Yankees
DSL Reports
http://www.tgdaily.com/security-features/55646-fbi-cybercrime-agents-say-they-arent-up-to-the-job
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/24/unsecured-wifi-child-pornography-innocent_n_852996.htm
T-Mobile Takes a Dig at Verizon for LTE Outage
http://www.tmonews.com/2011/04/t-mobile-pokes-fun-at-verizon-wireless-after-lte-outage/
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20056488-1.html
Sony’s father of CD, PlayStation dies
http://www.digitalspy.com/digitaltv/news/a316272/sonys-father-of-cd-playstation-dies.html
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/04/26/2312213/The-iPads-Progenitor-mdash-123-Years-Ago
http://techland.time.com/2011/04/29/devastation-white-iphone-0-2mm-thicker-than-black-one/
http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=10150158394647131
Science and Kickers
SETI silences alien-seeking telescope array
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-20057533-71.html
New laser will be powerful enough to rip apart space itself
http://dvice.com/archives/2011/04/new-laser-will.php
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/04/26/scitech/main20057449.shtml
the digital hazard 