Hosts: Leo Laporte, dl.tv's Patrick Norton, IT Conversations' Doug Kaye, Buzz Out Loud's Molly Wood, and Floss Weekly's Chris DiBona.

• We're at Yahoo! for Podcast Academy 3
• Bill Gates is stepping down from his position and handed his keys to Ray Ozzie.
• Google has launced a Shakespeare site
• Google Earth beta 4.0 has been released
• Google is building a GooglePlex
• The iPod city.
• Apple is going to investigate the iPod city.
• Apple may create a flash-based ultra-portable
• Microsoft is creating an audio/video device and service.
• Apple is in trouble with Scandanavia for its iTunes user license.
• ThePirateBay is moving back to Sweden
• Amazon is beginning to sell groceries.
• There's a ringtone that only kids can hear.
• In Washington, any site that talks about online gambling is committing a felony.
• Cablevision countersues Hollywood stating that their DVR system is similar to Betamax.
• Samsun is shipping the very first Blu-Ray player.
• A worm called BlackAngel.B spreads via MSN Messenger, en espaÃ�±ol.
• Netflix is suing Blockbuster over movie queues.
• And Blockbuster countersues saying that it is "like a fast-food restaurant trying to patent...the drive-through window."
• Flickr's taking down screenshots.
• Microsoft says there is a critical hole in Windows 98/Windows ME, and will not fix it.
• Netscape has a Digg ripoff on their hands.

Running time: 1:12:46

Hosts: Leo Laporte, dl.tv's Patrick Norton, Cranky Geeks' John C. Dvorak, Command-N's Amber MacArthur, Weblogs Inc.'s Jason McCabe Calacanis, Microsoft's Robert Scoble, Rocketboom's Andrew Baron, Ask A Ninja's Kent Nichols, and the father of RSS and podcasting Dave Winer.

• Dvorak talks cats and ceiling fans
• E-mail is dead?
• Debate about the definition of vlogging.
• The House of Representatives has approved a bill to allow telcos to offer subscription TV.
• Use Inboxer to search through Enron's e-mails.
• The House of Representatives voted against net neutrality
• Cox Interactive was blocking Craigslist
• Microsoft introduces pay-as-you-go computing
• Survey says: iPods are more popular than beer
• Windows Genuine Advantage phones home
• Office 2007 is incredibly slick
• "If you blog with authenticity, you have a better life." -Jason McCabe Calcanis
• Rocketboom is beginning a new kids show called Jet Set Show
• Ask a Ninja is starting a new show called Hope is Emo

Join us at Podcast Academy 3, June 16 on the Yahoo! Campus in Silicon Valley.

Running time: 1:08:37

Hosts: Leo Laporte , Patrick Norton, Kevin Rose, Roger Chang, Molly Wood, Roman Loyola, Steve Wozniak

Topics:

• Was it the press or Apple that overhyped this week's announcements?
• Macs can connect with XBox 360 consoles using Connect360
• Want to judge a stereo - don't crank it up (and don't listen to TWiT on it)
• Was Woz misquoted? Read the original article, Steve's rebuttal, and the response with transcript and you be the judge
• Have you seen the Origami "ad" on YouTube? Is it a hoax?
• It's certainly more than the cryptic Origami Project site reveals
• Here's one way to get out of a cell phone contract
• Vista will come in six slick flavors - with online upgrades
• The Pope has a nano
• RIM settles with NTP and saves the Blackberry
• Cosby is going after Waxy Links
• And the FCC is going after the call spoofing sites
• Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon has introduced a Senate bill to prevent a two tiered Internet
• Is AOL's plan for email certification the end of free email or just a way to help legitimate mass emailers? Discuss.
• HDCP will leave around 3 million HDTV owners in the lurch when HiDef DVD players become available
• Dan Sokol says there's a $300 device that will by-pass HDCP, but the movie companies are fighting back
• The US Justice Department is investigating collusion in online music pricing

Thanks to the San Francisco Apple Store for hosting this episode!

Running time: 1:09

It's TWiT 42, your answer to life, the universe, and everything. Now in dazzling TWiTnicolor. For audio versions visit TWiT.tv.

Hosts: Tom Merritt, John C. Dvorak, Leo Laporte, Robert Heron, and Roger Chang.

Topics:

• Thanks to Nitrozac and Snaggy for the cartoon
• Amazon is going head to head with Apple - opening its own music store
• The OS X Worm is nothing to worry about but it does herald the end of innocence for Mac users
• FON has found an interesting way to promote itself
• Is World of Warcraft the new golf?
• Funny how consumers and experts completely disagree on which LCOS display is best
• Want to know why Rep. Pete Sessions of Texas and Sen. John Ensign of Nevada are so hot to stop municipal wi-fi? Follow the money trail to ATT.
• The Firefox memory leak is a feature not a bug
• Is it illegal to play poker online? It's not clear but if two Congressmen have their way it will be, with a five year penalty to boot
• BitTorrent is proposing end-to-end encryption to foil ISPs who block the protocol
• Skype encryption prevents wiretapping. Or does it?
• And what's going on with Intel and Skype? Is it fair to artificially limit Skype's capabilities unless you use Intel?
• Careful watching "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" in Germany. Fox has planted a rootkit on the DVD.
• The ladies of the evening want families to boycott Grand Theft Auto
• Do two podcasts ending production make a trend? Some call it "podfading"
• Halo 2 will only ship on Vista, not XP
• And Vista will require a DirectX 9c capable video card
• More significantly, no video card has HDCP support yet, and Vista will require that for output to an HD display
• Careful playing solitaire around Mayor Bloomberg
• Microsoft antivirus uninstalls Norton. Oops.

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Running time: 1:07:40