RossCode Weekly #030

posted on 12/20/05 at 01:10:22 am by Joel Ross

RossCode Weekly #030 - Week of 12.18.2005

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Previously on RCW - 2:13
NBC to offer more shows via iTunes
Yahoo fighting naughty answers

News & Views - 3:23
Alexa opens up index
Yahoo using Movable Type for thier small business services
PubSub and CBS team up for affiliate's websites
MSNBC buying up ads online
MSN Spaces adds MetaWeblog API support
Technorati is cooking in the Kitchen
Google joins Nasdaq 100
Google advertising on PBS
Google launches music search service
Mobile-to-Mobile fund transfers
Gmail Mobile launched
DirecTV loses some cash
DVR recording to be reported in Neilsen ratings
Digital TV transition set for February of 2009

The Cold Wars - 13:41
Google gets piece of AOL
MTV and Microsoft feel the Urge
CBS and UPN will provide video to Amp'd
Amp'd launches
Sprint to show full-length movies, shows, and concerts on cell phones
Comcast to launch VoIP service
SIPPhone offers penny a minute calls
Microsoft teams with MCI for VoIP
Vonage launches WiFi VoIP phone
Vonage raises $250,000,000
Toshiba delays HD-DVD launch
HP goes dual format - supports HD-DVD
Google's interactive homepage gets an API
New OS is like WinXP
Windows Live Messenger hits beta 1
Yahoo launches podcast subscription center
Microsoft decides on feed icon: Firefox has it!
NTP Patents being thrown out left and right

The Grapevine -?27:42
Music Industry vs. Satellite Radio
Wireless iPods again!
Verizon to offer?in-flight WiFi by 2007
HD-DVD XBox in the works?
Simul-release in movie industry's future?
Yahoo to buy TiVo?
Digg to be bought by Yahoo
Google to buy Opera?

Odds & Ends?- 34:15
Video gamers make better drivers
AFL Draft goes online
Diggnation is a default podcast for TiVo
Saddam trial to be webcast
Michigan highschoolers may be required to take online class to graduate

Bonehead of the Week - 36:56
Robbing a bank by phone

Next Time - 38:21
No show for Christmas or New Years - See you next year!
CES coming up - should see lots of stuff coming out of that

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