Hosts: Leo Laporte, Patrick Norton, David Prager, Doug Kaye, Chris Pirillo, and Dr. Jerry E. Pournelle

Special Guest Plug: John C. Dvorak

E3 fades to black, or at least a shade of gray, who needs Core 2?, and Billy Bragg abandons My Space. Show notes to follow.

• Frank Barnako says podcasts could conceivably be earning $1 million
• Gigavox Media launches their first three channels today!
• Patrick is working from a Falcon Northwest Core 2 Duo machine.
• AMD is at its highest marketshare of all time (22%).
• AMD and ATI finalized their deal this week.
• A Microsoft demo of Windows Vista's voice recogniction technology went awry
• Microsoft is charging $1.50 for the Office 2007 beta.
• E3 is downsizing.
• A power outage in Los Angeles knocked out MySpace.
• Billy Bragg, a British protest singer, has started a protest against MySpace.
• The US House of Representatives has passed the DOPA (Deleting Online Predators Act) which basically says "kids can't chat."
• Leo and others are trying to set up a TechTV reunion.

Thanks to Mark Blasco for the opening TWiT Theme. Dorothy Yamamoto designed the TWiT Logo. Doin' the TWiT, our closing theme, was composed and performed by Ashley Witt.

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