Show Notes for Sunday July 31, 2011

What’s on our radar?
Movie—Rise of the Planet of the Apes, The Change-Up
DVD—Rio
Music—Nothing
TV—Shark Week (DIS), American Ninja Warrior (G4), Ironman/Wolverine Anime (G4), Thundercats, Project Runway
Games—Bleach: Soul Resurrection (PS3)

New iPhone 5 Cases Suggest Longer and Wider Form Factor
White Samsung Galaxy S II spotted
Apple Redesigning iTunes 11 With New Layout, iCloud Support?
Apple TV Seeing Moderate Success, But No Hardware Update Imminent?
It’s official: Google TV flopped really hard
HTC posts stellar quarter; revenues up 104%, 12.1 million handsets shipped
Apple Passes Nokia and Holds Off Samsung to Become World’s Top Smartphone Vendor [Updated]
Apple now taking 2/3 share of mobile phone industry profits
Apple’s iPhone grows 141.8 percent year-over-year
Hackintosh repaired at Apple Genius Bar
AT&T Chokes Unlimited Data Dead. Dead Dead Dead. [At&t]
Verizon Wants 3G Facetime to Only Work With Tiered Data Plans [Apple]
Google hates smartphone patent wars, but buys 1,000 new patents to go to war
Redbox to adds video games to 5,000 more kiosks
‘Half of all Netflix users connect via a game console,’ Nintendo Wii used most
Amazon inks streaming deal with NBCUniversal

Show Notes for Wednesday July 27, 2011

35% of iPhone users say they’ll buy the next gen iPhone
Apple violates patents too.
Google fixing gestures on Lion
Mad Men comes to Netflix,
Dexter also back on Netflix but not in the US
Fox’s 8 day delay for online services
Report says iPad to kick Android tablet butt until 2015
EA says iPad is the fastest growing platform for
The New, Awesomer Xbox 360 Headset Doubles As a Legit Bluetooth Headset (But Please Don’t Wear It in Public) [Video]
ESPN on XBOX 2.0
Rocksteady and Paul Dini on the storytelling in Batman: Arkham City
Telltale elaborates on the story and choices of The Walking Dead
Subaru WRX… the official car of the Zombie Apocalypse?
That Electric Car Charging Business Thing Spreads to Massachusetts [Electric Cars]
Report: 2012 Honda CR-V previewed with new concept?
Official: Fiat confirms 500 Abarth to make U.S. debut in Los Angeles
MINI Traveller and The future of MINI
Top Gear USA Season 2

A Universal Flu Vaccine?
iPad 3 to be cheaper iPad?
Japan gets Windows Phone 7 finally
iOS 5 facial recognition
Space Station to Fall from Orbit in 2020

Show Notes for Tuesday July 26, 2011

Apple Finishing Up Work on an Ultra-Thin 15″ Mac Notebook
Intel Is Having Problems Making Ultrabook Manufacturers Stick to That Sub-$1,000 Price [Blip]
New Case Designs Revive Unlikely iPhone 5 Design
Mozilla Is Making an Android-Based Mobile OS [Video]
*Apple Still Using SSDs With Varying Speeds on New MacBook Air
Apple Lining Up iPad 3 Suppliers in Face of Increasing Number of Competitors
Apple Releases Revised Mac OS X 10.6.8 With Patch for Existing Users
Apple shares close above $400
Kindle, Nook now offering periodicals on iOS; where will you buy?
iPad competitors will need to be a lot cheaper to capture market share
Inside Apple’s iOS 5: AirPort, Time Capsule setup goes PC-free
Grand Central Apple Store revealed in renderings, may open by holidays
HTC willing to talk deal with Apple in patent fight
An Alarm Clock/Charger You’d Want to Slide Your iPhone Into [Alarm Clocks]

Show Notes for Monday July 25, 2011 

Amazon’s ‘Kindle’ App Updated to Remove Direct Kindle Store Links
Apple Releases iOS 4.3.5 to Address Security Issue With Certificate Validation
AT&T Reportedly Prepping for iPhone Launch in ‘Early to Mid-September’
Apple boosting retail staff from Aug. 15 to Sept. 15
Facebook’s Native iPad App Leaked
RIM slashes 2,000 jobs
New iPad ad: ‘We’ll Always’
Teardown of Apple’s new MacBook Air finds SSDs are replaceable and not equal
New MacBook Air seeing partial sellouts, heavy demand
Customers sue AT&T to block T-Mobile acquisition
Dish Network to shutter 200 more Blockbuster stores
This Week’s TV: ThunderCats slice your television set with glowing swords of awesome! July 29th 8pm
Tattoo Body Modification Gets Futuristically Functional [Tattoos]
Microsoft reports blow-out Q4, record year on Xbox sales
XBLA prices slowly rising, says Microsoft
GoldenEye 007: Reloaded preview: Bringing back Bond
Casual Mode returns in Gears of War 3, brings Casual Multiplayer along for the ride
Avatar Kinect Launched today
Dead Air Beta Released

Show Notes for Sunday July 24, 2011
What’s on our radar?

Movies – The Smurfs, Cowboys and Aliens, Crazy/Stupid/Love
DVDs – Source Code, Trust, Supernatural the Anime
TV – Entourage (Last Season)
Music – New Red Hot Chili Peppers, Joss Stone
Video Games – Catherine, Pacman and Galaga Dimensions for 3DS,

Lion
Apple says Mac OS X Lion downloads top 1 million in first day
Lion Reviews Are Out: ‘Great Value’, ‘Shakes Things Up’, ‘Very Few Bugs’
OS X Lion 10.7.2 seeded to developers
Upgrading to Lion at an Apple Store
AirDrop only works with certain Macs
Experts: OS X now much more secure than rivals

iOS 5
iOS 5 beta 4 adds Windows Wi-Fi sync, some iCloud now live
Over-The-Air iOS Software Update Saves 700MB of Downloading
Apple’s Voice-Powered Virtual “Assistant” Coming to iOS

White Apple iPod touch parts leak ahead of fall launch
Apple Tops Nokia to Become World’s Top Smartphone Vendor
Verizon Wireless activates 2.3 M iPhones, still trails AT&T
New MacBook Air shipments reach 400,000-500,000 in June
Netbook maker Acer accuses Apple of starting ‘patent war’
Angry customers respond to fake Apple Stores
Apple signs 10 year deal for massive Grand Central Terminal retail store
App Store expands to 33 additional countries
This official Star Wars Xbox 360 is geek catnip