Episode 153 - In Arabic it means "Two Asses"

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Stop The Presses!

• New Kindles -- WHAT THE FUCK DOES THIS MEAN?!!1!
• Today was also a bad day for Android.

Cana-duh

• Harper to Von Finckenstein: "Buh-bye."
• This may or may not have to do with the CRTC's incredibly vague decision that may or may not help domestic TV.
• More on the Qwikster debacle, which someone is going to have to explain to me.

Mobile Madness

• MeeGo is dead. All hail... Tizen?
• Rogers craptacular $50/10GB LTE plan.
• Speaking of Rogers, wonder who commissioned this so-called "report"?

AppleAppleApple

• No iPhone for T-Mobile after all -- and the obvious point for Canada that blew by the hosts last week.
• Facebook, iPad & Mashable -- all covered in a story on a shit Apple blog.
• Seriously Mike, how does this qualify as news...?

Pew Pew

• Canada has a great rep -- wait, it's a tax haven for the rich -- wait, nobody cares.
• Spotify users swarm Get Satisfaction over Facebook. In other news, 'S'.
• Yes, Zuckerberg is batshit insane.
• Meanwhile, Anybeat doesn’t want to replace Facebook or Twitter, it just wants to be a place for you to hang out, be yourself, and communicate with interesting people.
• First the ramen noodle guy, now this?

Shout-Outs

• A special Ontario Election solidarity-type shout-out to Mr. Ian Tang.

Music

• From Mother Africa Currie brings us Mandoza with his track, Angifuni Niks.

Dyscuss

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Up Next

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• Episode 154 will record live next Wednesday, October 5th from 10pm ET / 7pm PT, right here.