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ASCAP Sez: Pay Royalty Each Time Phone Rings!

Apple iPhone has flaw in SMS system. Fix is coming. MSFT Bing does crappy job with news. I am sure it is because of a lack of bots. The company pulls a sickening ad off the net. I have it posted on Dvorak.org. Sheep are shrinking due to climate change says scientist. Mozilla Firefox already has a bug. Motorola going into the femtocell business. The Register says Seagate needs to catch up with SSD business. New Symbian coming out. CIO magazine reports on Ritzy homes. ASCAP contends royalties are due for each ring rung. Huh?

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New Firefox Supposedly 251-percent Faster.

Bing can search Tweets. Go, why would you want to? Ballmer re-announced Bing at the D7 conference. Ha. The geneticists cannot predict mental illness. Satellite phonecos want to make hybrid phones. Will still be too pricey. iPhones are overheating. RIAA beats Usenet in court. More Steve Jobs back at work stories. HP doing a 12-core workstation. Firefox 3.5 very fast they say. We’ll see.

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China Hates Garfield the Cat

Firefox 3.5 rolls out. Get it now. China is filtering out Garfield the Cat. Pirate Bay sale worries some. Dell going into the Android too? Where is the picture of Steve Jobs who is supposedly back at work. Confusion over Comcast 4G, WiMax. Forrester says tech biz bottoms in Q3. Palm Pre beating sales expectations says PR company. NYT sez few oldsters see themselves as old. Did someone pay money for this survey? Anti-Google stories surfacing. Yahoo shuts down another company I never heard of. Will this ever end? Maine making sure all kids get a computer. Flash headed to Android phone. Robot navigates like a person. Toshiba last man standing regarding the 1.8-inch HD. Look for a sale on Netbooks.

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Palm Screws Sideloaders

Standardized mobile phone charger now a worldwide phenomenon. Nokia leads the way. Palm kills homemade apps. Why? Sony thinking about PSP phone. Sounds like nGage to me. MSFT fiddling around with Win 7 marketing. Will they ever learn? Kid humiliated by Walkman. Germans not interested in the Kindle. Google voice getting a lot of ink Adam Savage gets free phone service. Intel working seriously on SSD. HD-DVD still beating Blu-ray according to e the NYT. Wikipedia in on blackout of certain news.

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Palm Sparks Rally

Apple pulls plug on selling porn or girlie pics off of the app store. Palm shares rally and takes tech sector with it? Geez. Biggest problem facing Bing? Google. Duh. Long awaited PC cycle upgrade coming say the experts. DiskShred will grind up your hard disks. Dyson develops world’s faster motor. Sponsor: Squarespace.com code word: tech.  

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What is a Plug Computer?

Tear down says new iPhone costs $179 to build. MSFT Hohm in the news. Seems silly to me. Palm says Pre is selling well. Stock goes up. Windows 7 on sale. Red Hat profits are up. Linux now has an anti-virus product. Weird UK stories. Xmos $4.50 CPU? Also the plug computer is headed your way. Look for phase-change memory to flop along with the flying saucer car. Show sponsored by Squarespace.com, code word TECH. Check it out.

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How Government Accounting Works

It is the month of August, a resort town sits next to the shores of a lake. It is raining, and the little town looks totally deserted. It is tough times, everybody is in debt, and everybody lives on credit.

Suddenly, a rich tourist comes to town. He enters the only hotel, lays a 100 dollar bill on the reception counter, and goes to inspect the rooms upstairs in order to pick one.

The hotel proprietor takes the 100 dollar bill and runs to pay his debt to the butcher.

The Butcher takes the 100 dollar bill, and runs to pay his debt to the pig raiser.

The pig raiser takes the 100 dollar bill, and runs to pay his debt to the supplier of his feed and fuel.

The supplier of feed and fuel takes the 100 dollar bill and runs to pay his debt to the town’s prostitute that in these hard times, gave her “services” on credit..

The hooker runs to the hotel, and pays off her debt with the 100 dollar bill to the hotel proprietor to pay for the rooms that she rented when she brought her clients there.

The hotel proprietor then lays the 100 dollar bill back on the counter so that the rich tourist will not suspect anything.

At that moment, the rich tourist comes down after inspecting the rooms, and takes his 100 dollar bill, after saying that he did not like any of the rooms, and leaves town.

No one earned anything. However, the whole town is now without debt, and looks to the future with a lot of optimism .

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how the United States Government is doing business today.

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Unlimited International Calling for $5 a month

Palm Pre hits one million app downloads. HTC Hero has new slick interface. You are too late to get MSFT security software. Company also wants everyone to switch off of Windows 7 Beta and get RC1. Metro PCS says $5 a month for International calls. Sharp TV busted. Boxee now has Windows version. Also they do a deal with MLB. Microsoft sees mobile advertising increasing. Meanwhile Ballmer says ALL old media will be dead in 10 years. HP brags about 5101 Netbook. Larry Ellison looking good. IBM getting involved with food safety? Why?

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The Nerd Bird Flies at Night

Intel in bed with Nokia. Why now? Steve Jobs seen on Apple Campus. Stock pickers are liking Motorola because of Android. Bogus HP PR. The company goes gah-gah over social networking too. Bing could ruin Microsoft. IBM in the battery business? Since when? Microsoft caps downloads for its security software. 3DV bought by Microsoft. Paul Allen offers a MSFT patch himself! The Nerd Bird flies again! Five reasons Blu-ray is hurting. Show sponsored by Squarespace.com codeword Tech.

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FTC to Attack Bloggers

Apple promoting it’s current executive over Steve Jobs. This is fishy. HP’s new printer does not need a PC. Why? FTC going after the bloggers and Twitterers. Microsoft poaching people left and right. Never works out. The Buick is being re-positioned. It is ridiculous. Apple bans Commodore 64 from iPhone. Why? Who cares? Microsoft will put 10-percent of its income into search. Why? Kodachrome is officially dead. Sony Blu-ray a dud!

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CopCAST Episode 128 – Tampon Thief

Did someone waive a magic wand and make it go from spring to the dog days of summer in one day? It is hot but the CopCAST crew has persevered and made it through another week. Morgan has only run over two of the mall rats that are ruining his Starbucks experience and Mack has replaced Tom Cruise as the Top Gun of the OPP. Rich is working feverishly to finish the 2009 online legal updates course before the July 1 deadline. But we all took a break to turn out another fantastic show.

The Two Girls From Utah graced us with their presence again this week but you may be a little surprised at their comments. They compared us to Suz’s plow horse. So much for the “badge bunny groupie” label with which we have stuck them.

The news machine was working overtime this week. A Rambo police volunteer speaks out on Facebook – dumb idea. It must have been a Rocky Mountain high that caused a Colorado burglar to ply his trade in the buff. Hannah Montana did this pirate in. Spiderman gets squashed. A Japanese attorney show her ass – literally. Our keynote story this week is just plain funny – period. Is this going to take long? I am late for my AA meeting. No more French kissing for you. Nice set of choppers you have there.

We are pleased to present another installment of the Tales From George’s Pocketbook, our audio segment from our brother officers Great Britain. This week George finally gets a long awaited literary masterpiece and he also points out the obvious to an irate citizen.

It is hot and humid outside but this week’s episode of CopCAST is as cool as ever. So download the show, fire up the iPod, pop the top on a cool beverage and enjoy. Remember to stay safe, always wear your vest and have a great week.

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Today In History – 6/20/09

	1877 – Alexander Graham Bell installs the world’s first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
	1893 – Lizzie Borden is acquitted for the murders of her father and stepmother.
	1963 – The so-called “red telephone” is established between the Soviet Union and the United States following the Cuban Missile Crisis.
	Visit Wikipedia, the free on-line encyclopedia where you will find more historic events and over two million other articles.

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Facebook Postings Cost Indiana Trooper

An Indiana state trooper has resigned following an investigation into postings on a social networking Web site in which he referred to himself as a “garbage man,” called those he arrests “trash” and bragged about heavy drinking.

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No New Xbox360 Anytime Soon

Google trying to filter porn for the Chinese. Poor woman nailed by RIAA for $2 million. Bozeman wants workers to fork over their Facebook passwords. No Xbox360 anytime soon. Natal controller seems to be dead in the water. Win7 wallpaper on Netbooks may not be changeable. Why? Zune using new nVidia chip. New Sony laptops to have Blu-ray inside. Canada giving up on warrants when it comes to the Internet. This show brought to you by Squarespace.com code word TECH.

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