This week on the show, we talk at length about new touch things. How Yahoo is updating its homepage once again to try to stay relevant in the new world of the touch interface, how RIM’s touch and security centered BB10 OS made it past government standards, and how you will be able to touch your credit card soon. Jam with some friends on Google’s ‘Jam with Chrome’ while you wait for your bank to call you about getting a new card, or tune in next week!

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Me.Ga Hits a new Snag
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57546132-93/megaupload-redo-is-shut-down-even-before-debut

Australia Stops Internet Filtering
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/11/australia-comes-to-its-senses-abandons-national-internet-filtering-regime/

Twitter Kills the “Fail Whale”
http://allthingsd.com/20121107/on-election-day-2012-twitter-kills-the-great-white-fail-whale/

Microsoft Turns Spoken English into Spoken Mandarin
http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2012/11/08/microsoft-demos-amazing-english-to-mandarin-translation-allowing-for-real-time-audible-translations/?fromcat=all

MS Office for your iPhone, and Android
http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/7/3612422/microsoft-office-mobile-ipad-iphone-android-screenshots

Yahoo to Redesign Homepage to be Touch Friendly
http://allthingsd.com/20121109/touch-a-touch-a-touch-me-yahoos-latest-new-homepage-redesign-tries-interactive-tile-look/?mod=atdtweet

Blackberry 10 gets US Gov Green Light
http://thenextweb.com/ca/2012/11/08/blackberry-10-gets-us-government-certification-first-time-rim-products-approved-ahead-of-launch/

Master Card Rolls Out Card with keypad
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57546761-1/mastercard-rolls-out-credit-card-with-display-and-keypad/

6-Bit Byte:
Google’s ‘Jam With Chrome’
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2012/11/08/google-jam-chrome/1691501/

Facebook Frackups
Romney Looses Facebook Friends after Tuesday Night
http://www.examiner.com/article/romney-loses-thousands-of-facebook-friends-post-election

Science News:
Earth Like Planet rediscovered from Old Data
http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/11/old-data-reveals-super-earth-lurking-in-a-nearby-stars-habitable-zone/

This week on The Digital Hazard, we talk a fair amount about smartphones and their future in society. Everything from how we hope there will no longer be a reason to steal them, to how Microsoft hopes to convert iPhone users with a good sync experience on their Macs. I talk lightly about my fear of policy makers regarding internet regulations, as motivated by Russia’s new Deep Packet Inspection laws.

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Hurricane Sandy and the Internet
http://gigaom.com/cloud/superstorm-sandy-wreaks-havoc-on-internet-infrastructure/

Cell Carriers Enable Stolen Phone Database
http://www.zdnet.com/all-four-major-us-wireless-carriers-enable-stolen-cellphone-database-7000006760/

iPad Mini Launch Draws Small Crowds
http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/02/apples-ipad-mini-launch-draws-smaller-crowds-than-previous-product-debuts/

iFixit teardown of iPad Mini
http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/1/3584888/ipad-mini-teardown-ifixit

Apple Loses Right to iFone Name in Mexico
http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/11/01/mexican.ifone.registered.trade.name.four.years.before.apple/

Microsoft ‘Testing’ Phone Hardware
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57544163-94/microsoft-testing-its-own-smartphone-with-suppliers-wsj/?part=rss&subj=news&tag=title

Windows Phone sync for OS X
http://www.wpcentral.com/microsoft-releases-30-windows-phone-sync-app-osx

Russia’s New Internet Filtering Laws
http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/2/3589354/russia-internet-filtering-law-surveillance

RMS: Limit Power of Copyrights in Software
http://www.wired.com/opinion/2012/11/richard-stallman-software-patents

Facebook Frackups:
Facebook’s Free Wi-Fi for Checkins Program
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57544135-93/facebook-tests-free-wi-fi-hot-spots-in-exchange-for-check-ins/

Science News:
Curiosity’s First Chemistry Test
http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/11/sands-of-mars-taste-a-lot-like-volcano/