Episode 175 - Domo Arigato Mister Robocall

(direct link to mp3)

Preamble

• A low-fi recording of an actual robo-call, courtesy of The Tronno Star.

Cana-duh

• Election fraud? Call Robocop! I mean, cop robo-calls?
• Vikileaks linked to Liberal staffer.
• But the good news about C-30: The other guy blinked.

Priva-see

• Last day to skirt Google’s new data -collection policy. kinda.
• Facebook likes your SMS.
• Your tweets to be fondled by marketing firms.

Copyfight

• CIMA takes on the internets.
• isoHunt takes on the labels.
• HTML5 can has DRM?

Goin’ Mobile

• Slideshow: Notable handsets from this year’s Mobile World Congress.
• Missing from that gallery: Nokia’s swan song.
• The best stats from Tomi Ahonen’s new eBook.

AppleAppleApple

• Just don’t call it a 3-peat. Srsly, that shit’s trademarked.
• PR disaster relief efforts to begin at Foxconn.

Tired Old Media

• Kickstarter to provide more funding than National Endowment of the Arts this year.
• Some Mac fag gets eBooks half-right.

It’s Not News, It’s Pew-Pews!

• PayPal polices putrid porn e-publishers.
• China occupies Obama’s G+ (direct link here).
• Firefox add-on (and demo) shows how 3rd party sites track you across the web.
• Raspberry Pi sells out in minutes.

Shout-outs

• Everyone say hai to Jeremy Netwon.
• Thanks to our retweeters, as well!

Music

• A producineer pick this week from Owen Sound’s Lupercalia festival… Here’s The Electronic Environment with their free (!) track,” Soon Enough”.

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