MacBreak Weekly with Leo Laporte

Nov 22nd 2006

MacBreak Weekly 16

Trick of a Tail

More Apple Cel Phone, Why Apple Doesn't License OSX to PCs, Zune is tired but Subscriptions are cool, Super HD Streaming

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Category: News

More Apple Cel Phone, Why Apple Doesn't License OSX to PCs, Zune is tired but Subscriptions are cool, Super HD Streaming

  • It seems like Odeo does not have a direction.
  • Apple is rumored to release two iPhone models, one centered around iChat and messaging.
  • Bill O' Reilly says that iPods are endangering America.
  • The English 24-hour Al-Jazeera is using Apple technology everywhere.
  • Watch the video of the English Al-Jazeera launch
  • There are already numerous videos of english Al-Jazeera news broadcasts.
  • Britney Spears has taken K-Fed off her MySpace top friends.
  • Apple shares have reached an all-time high.
  • Apparently, OSX Leopard has been hacked to run on non-Macintosh PCs.
  • The Microsoft Zune Pass is a great system to get all the music you want.
  • eMusic Live distributes legal, bootleg USB keychains with recordings of a concert minutes after the concert is over.
  • Apple is working with Purdue University to test transmission of a 2-minute movie streamed at 7.5 gigabits/second at a size of 4096x3072.
  • Fiber technology is being spread all around Rwanda.
  • We are waiting for the next VMWare beta.
  • Windows Vista will be released on January 30, 2007.
  • Merlin likes ChronoSync for synchronization purposes.

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