Episode 667
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Electronic Arts isn't taking no for an answer from Take-Two, and Pakistan gives us an object lesson in why censorship is bad: in an effort to block YouTube in that country, they took out YouTube for the entire world (for about two hours) and then got themselves taken offline altogether. Wow. That's a day's work, right there.
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[edit] Stories Covered
Pakistan removed from the Internet
Google argues against calling IP addresses "personal data"
Electronic Arts offers $2B for Take-Two
New MacBook Pros are imminent. Yep, still.
iPhone SDK may be one to three weeks late
Sony paid Warner Bros. $400 million to go Blu-ray?
Toshiba paid off to drop HD DVD?
Microsoft discontinues HD DVD drives
Microsoft launches private beta of Internet Explorer 8
Torvalds gives props to Microsoft for sharing
Adobe blurs line between PC and Web
Plants that Twitter when they need to be watered
[edit] From The Phones
James from Alaska Hungry for burgers.
Shalin What's with the huh?
[edit] In the Forums
There might be something to Molly's magnetic field!
[edit] Emails
iTunes refund Ray from Alameda
Digital TV and some hate to Apple Roque (aka Rocky) from Guadalajara, Mexico
A senator and the digital transition Zack
Xbox 360 Blu-ray player D in Seattle
The LOI movement Ron Landreth
Grandma Mary listens! Grandma Mary
New features on the Zune? Oliver
Another turtle-y update! Michael
Google balloons already over Sao Paulo Alex, from Rio.
It's Rick, the "balloon scientist" and amateur radio operator from Colorado.
Rick von Glahn Parker, Colorado
