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July 22nd, 2007
TWiT 106: Googleverse
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Wil Harris, John C. Dvorak, and Brett Larsen
Google challenges the cell companies, Sun Rocket dies and Ooma is born, and the game of checkers is solved...
- Motorola has lost money as well as market share.
- Sunrocket is now dead.
- Ooma is an up and coming P2P VoIP company that will provide you with free national landline calls for a lifetime.
- A UC Berkeley ac-cappella group named DeCadence circled some men sparring in Central Park and sang the Mortal Kombat theme.
- Peter Moore has resigned from Microsoft's Xbox division.
- Google is ready to bid for the 700MHz frequency to open it up.
- A New york lawmaker has made a move to make text messaging behind the wheel a crime.
- Facebook has purchased Parakey, which is basically a web based operating system.
- Kids are saying e-mail is "soooo" dead. Shooby agrees: IM > email.
- Researchers have solved checkers. The program that they have developed is unbeatable!
- Jim Louderback has left PC magazine and is now CEO of Revision3.
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