This week on the show I talk at length about the comment from Google’s Chief Internet Evangelist about privacy. He claims that ‘privacy’ as we know it is an anomaly of society, and I say that is a bad argument for getting rid of it. I also rebuke Samsung’s idea of pre-installing anti-theft software on your smartphone, and we pour one out for WinAmp, which will be no more after December of 2013.

 

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Google’s Cerf, “Privacy may be an anomaly”

http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/20/googles-cerf-says-privacy-may-be-an-anomaly-historically-hes-right

 

Microsoft’s Xbox One Launch

http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/22/5132732/microsoft-takes-over-times-square-xbox-one-launch-photos

 

Jury give $290 million more to Apple in Samsung case

http://gigaom.com/2013/11/21/jury-awards-290-million-to-apple-in-retrial-over-samsung-patent-infringement/

 

Carriers reject Absolute Lojack

http://news.yahoo.com/carriers-reject-kill-switch-stolen-smartphones-225739166.html

 

FCC to consider allowing cell calls at 10,000 ft.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/21/5130812/fcc-to-consider-cellphone-calls-on-us-flights

 

Not getting charged for Spam Texts

http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/21/5131320/wireless-carriers-end-charges-for-spam-texts

 

Hydrobee to charge your phone off a river

http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/22/hydrobee/

 

Raspberry Pi now includes Mathematica

http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/21/5130394/raspberry-pi-includes-mathematica-wolfram-language-free

 

The end of WinAmp

http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/11/after-15-years-of-llama-whipping-aol-shuts-down-winamp-for-good/