This Week in Tech

Aug 19th 2007

This Week in Tech 110

It's All Downhill From Here

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Who's editing Wikipedia?, why MP3s don't move you, and the end of the world as we know it...

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Category: News

Who's editing Wikipedia?, why MP3s don't move you, and the end of the world as we know it...

  • Skype experienced a huge outage that put the entire TWiT.TV network on the line.
  • Leo was about to move everyone to Gizmo, but Patrick and Dvorak hate it.
  • AKG stands for "Akustische und Kino-Geraete Gesellschaft".
  • A customs computer outage was blamed on a network interface card outage.
  • A group of scientists has broken the speed of light.
  • I'M IN UR QUANTUM BOX...MAYBE.
  • Find anonymous Wikipedia edits depending on the editing organization.
  • Microsoft has hired 2 veteran lobbyists.
  • Calacanis thinks this is going to be a bad quarter for Web 2.0.
  • Apple and Dell have dropped in customer satisfaction rankings.
  • Reporters are suing HP over spying claims.
  • The CD is now 25 years old.
  • Music producers are howling over music compression.