The first TWIT of the new year! This week’s hosts are Robert Heron, John C. Dvorak, Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, and Kenji Kato, and the discussion is off to a glorious start.
Everyone is getting geared up for CES (the Consumer Electronics Show), and the crew chat a little about science fiction becoming science fact. The crew wonders if Apple will use Intel branding on its systems, and Intel drops the “Intel Inside” marketing slogan and is replacing the term “pentium” with “core.” Interesting. The crew talk about how both the White House and the NSA public websites violate federal guidelines and use tracking cookies.
Also in the bad news department, Symantec has flaws in 62 of their products, and the fact that the Windows Metafile Flaw still goes unpatched by Microsoft is no consolation. The group discuss the pending Intel Macintoshes, and wonder whether or not those systems will run windows seamlessly, and what that means for the business of porting software from Windows to Mac (and whether anyone will continue doing it at all). Seagate buys Maxtor, Sony settles it’s class-action suit over the rootkit DRM, and much much more! Enjoy!
This Week In Tech [TWIT] Episode 36 // January 1, 2006
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