All alone today, and it was a little short of a show, but there were some interesting topics, and I pontificated about Mark Zuckerberg, the Government and “security through obscurity.” I’m looking forward to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, even though my Nexus One will never officially run it. In other news you might vote with your iPad, we are trusting fewer people, but Bert and Ernie can tell you how to get to Sesame Street.

Apple kicks researcher out of iOS Microsoft Hires
http://www.theverge.com/2011/11/8/2546435/researcher-who-exposed-an-ios-app-vulnerability-loses-his-developer

iOS5 battery fix
http://allthingsd.com/20111110/apple-releases-software-updated-designed-to-fix-ios5-battery-issues/

iPad as a voting machine
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-57320461-17/apples-ipad-seeding-a-next-gen-voting-machine/

US dismantles cyber crime syndicate
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15668377

The Feds can get your Twitter data
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/11/wikileaks-twitter-ruling/

HTC Promises ICS on 8 devices
http://blogs.computerworld.com/19224/htc_ice_cream_sandwich_devices

ARM’s new GPU amidst their president stepping down
http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/10/arms-mali-t658-gpu-aims-to-beat-the-world-in-2013-president-tu/

HTC Adopts NVIDIA’s Tegra 3 chips
http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20111109PD214.html

Adobe Kills Flash for Mobile
http://www.theverge.com/2011/11/9/2549196/adobe-flash-android-blackberry

Firefox 8 This Week
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-57320339-264/firefox-8-cracks-down-on-add-ons/

Facebook Frackups:
Ubiquitous Privacy Story
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052970204224604577030383745515166-lMyQjAxMTAxMDEwMDExNDAyWj.html

250 Friends, and you only know 2
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/the-hot-button/so-you-have-250-facebook-friends-its-likely-only-two-are-your-close-pals/article2230818/?utm_medium=Feeds%3A%20RSS%2FAtom&utm_source=Life&utm_content=2230818

6-bit Byte:
Bert & Ernie
http://gizmodo.com/5858304/bert-and-ernie-now-available-for-your-tomtom-turn-right-onto-sesame-street

Honda’s Asimo, remember?
http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/42937/honda-asimo-slims-down-grows

This week Erik joined me and we had a wonderful time. The comment that was shared in pre-show was that we both really enjoyed the stories that we talked about, and that there was no direct Apple stories. That, I promise you was not a conscious decision.  Other than that, both of us really enjoyed the metaphors that I came up with to describe things in the show. You should listen if only for my creative prowess.

HTC Becomes Highest Shipping Smartphone Vendor In the US
http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/10/31/2253201/htc-becomes-highest-shipping-smartphone-vendor-in-the-us

Google: ICS to be Open Sourced Soon
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/google-android-40-to-be-open-sourced-in-coming-weeks/9852

Google TV, now a subscription package
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2011/11/google-ponders-cable-tv-offering.ars

Amazon, Now a Book Lender
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204621904577014273003626952.html
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/11/kindle-lending-library/

Continuing Sprint Suit against AT&T&T
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/02/att-sprint-idUSN1E7A11UQ20111102

IE falls below 50%
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2011/11/the-end-of-an-era-internet-explorer-drops-below-50-percent-of-web-usage.ars

Linux and Windows 8
http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/10/the-right-to-dual-boot-linux-groups-plead-case-prior-to-windows-8-launch.ars

Spanish Judge Understands Piracy
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111101/04460416581/spanish-judge-gets-it-pirated-copies-not-necessarily-lost-sales-may-boost-purchases-later.shtml

Facebook Frackups
Survey: parents lie to help preteens get on Facebook
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/11/survey-parents-lie-to-help-preteens-get-on-facebook.html

Typical Stolen Info
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-20128808-83/socialbots-steal-250gb-of-user-data-in-facebook-invasion/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15553192

How well do you know your “Friends”
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/11/one-in-five-willing-to-make-facebook-friends-with-complete-strangers.ars

Science News:
NASA wants to make tractor beams a reality
http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/11/01/2022243/nasa-wants-to-make-tractor-beams-a-reality

Hubble Sees Birth of a Black Hole
http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/11/gravitational-lens-lets-hubble-zoom-in-on-matter-swirling-into-black-hole.ars