A fair amount of trading and money changing hands this week as the iPhone 4S came out, and Skype is bought by Microsoft and Hulu isn’t good enough to sell. Averill was in town this week, so she sat in on the show. Congress pulls some interesting moves, and the designer of C has passed away. Our condolences go out to the Ritchie family. There will not be a show next week, since I will be in Philadelphia, but check back for our annual Halloween show!

Microsoft Closes $8.5 Billion Skype Deal
http://allthingsd.com/20111013/microsoft-closes-8-5-billion-skype-deal/

Its iOS5 and iPhone4s Week
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/10/week-in-apple-ios-5-released-icloud-transition-begins.ars

What is Sprint doing about it?
http://www.macworld.com/article/163003/2011/10/sprint_clarifies_iphone_4s_unlocking_policy.html

Hulu: Not valuable enough to be sold
http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/13/why-hulus-owners-couldnt-find-a-buyer/

Google cutbacks
http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/14/google-axes-more-services-jaiku-code-search-more/

Google Music Store:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-20120072-261/google-music-wants-to-open-mp3-store-report/?

Congress doesn’t want to soften up to Sillk
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/10/congress-wary-of-amazons-silk-browser-demands-answers-on-privacy.ars

Senators need 4G too
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-20119627-94/senators-aim-to-cut-through-4g-baloney/

Ice Cream Sandwich and Nexus Prime
http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/13/samsung-confirms-ice-cream-sandwich-event-on-october-19/

Dennis Ritchie Dies at age 70
http://boingboing.net/2011/10/12/dennis-ritchie-1941-2011-computer-scientist-unix-co-creator-c-co-inventor.html

6-Bit Byte:
Kudos to LibreOffice:
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2011/10/libreoffice-gaining-momentum-heading-to-android-ios-and-the-web.ars

Siri Says some odd things:
http://thisismynext.com/2011/10/12/siri-weird-things-iphone-4s/

FBI vs. Germany a Trojan war
http://arstechnica.com/security/news/2011/10/impressed-by-fbi-trojan-germans-write-their-ownand-national-scandal-ensues.ars

Science News
Physical Storage limits: it just needs some salt
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2011/10/researchers-increase-hard-drive-density-sixfold-with-salt.ars

Your Pencil Lead could be in your next smartphone camera
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/10/atom-thick-graphene-sheets-could-make-great-camera-sensors/