Apple sends invites for October 2011 event: “Let’s talk iPhone”, What “One More Thing” Will Tim Cook Announce at the October 4th event and will Apple discontinue the iPod shuffle and classic?

Topics talked about today:

Topics talked about today:

• Apple starts to fine-cut Final Cut Pro X
• TalkTalk tops UK complaints list
• Amazon Media Event Set for September 28th, Tablet Announcement Expected
• Gears of War 3 is out! Here’s what you need to try today
• Battlefield 3 open beta begins on September 29, closed beta two days earlier
• OnLive cloud gaming comes to UK
• Google Wallet Has Arrived
• Mac OS X Lion passwords can be changed by hackers
• Netflix splits DVD and streaming service
• Complaints relating to spam text messages increase

Topics Talked about Today:

• Facebook Changes Again: Everything You Need To Know
• Google+ opens social network to everyone
• Updates improve Facebook and Twitter connections
• Twitter trouble for Netflix over Qwikster launch
• Google to add celebrity endorsements to results

Apple’s iPhone 5 Media event reportedly scheduled for October 4th, Apple starts to Fine-cut Final Cut Pro X and reports suggest the iPad 3 isn’t coming until 2012.

Topics talked about today:

Topics talked about today:

• VMWare Fusion 4 hits, touts improved speed and Lion features
• Microsoft drops Flash from IE on Windows 8 tablets
• Consumer Wrath Hits Netflix Hard
• Microsoft Has Sold 450 Million Copies of Windows 7
• Samsung’s $100,000 Challenge to Devs: Connect Our TVs to Other Screens
• Will iOS 5 GM be released at the end of September, in line for October iPhone 5 launch?
• Blackberry maker RIM profits fall sharply
• Sony asks gamers to sign new terms or face PSN ban
• Next-gen Intel CPUs to improve mobile graphics, battery life

Topics Talked about Today:

• Social Media is everywhere, but is print media still valuable?
• Skype for Mac gets Facebook integration and Ads
• How tablets are changing the way we search
• Twitter introducing Web Analytics

Will Apple release Late 2011 iMacs? A Code string indicates iMessage might eventually be integrated with iChat and did Case-Mate just leak the iPhone 5?

Topics talked about today:

Topics talked about today:

• Sony nabs former U.S. Department of Homeland Security official
• HTC sues Apple after Google sells tech patents
• Google Acquires Zagat
• German court bans Galaxy Tab 10.1: looks too much like iPad
• Microsoft online services hit by major failure
• Twitter Has 100 Million Active Users
• Yahoo boss Carol Bartz is fired by US internet company
• Amazon Tablet to Sell for $250
• Adobe’s Flash Media Server 4.5 that finally just streams Flash video to iOS devices

Thanks to Chris Pirillo for coming on today’s show!

Topics Talked about Today:

• GetGlue gets slick new dashboardfor TV marketers
• Twitter has 100 Million active users
• Back To School: Some privacy tips for the connected student
• A survey says Brits would prefer to live without a toilet than without Facebook

Are Apple looking to build a third campus, a picture that is thought to have been taken with a prototype iPhone 5 is posted on Flickr, then removed and Tim Cook announces a new charity matching program for Apple employees.

Topics talked about today:

Topics talked about today:

• Apple Relents, Puts Old Version of Final Cut Pro Back on Sale
• iPhone Prototype Missing Again?
• Steve Jobs Resigns as Apple CEO, Will Stay On As Chairman, Tim Cook New CEO
• Call of Duty Elite social network will be deeply integrated with Modern Warfare 3
• Financial Times App Pulled from iOS
• 7 Products Steve Jobs Got Wrong: The Biggest Apple Flops
• Eric Schmidt On Why Google Is Buying Motorola

Topics Talked about Today:

• Instagram CEO: ‘Android is a major priority for us’
• The 2011 VMAs break records online & off
• Sims on Facebook is worlds fastest social game
• NYC Crowdsources tropical storm Irene damage map
• Google+ growth & time on site peaked mid-July

Topics Talked about Today:

• How are people using Twitter?
• Twitter to join Facebook & RIM for riot talks with UK Government
• BBC Worldwide launches Top Gear VOD Facebook app
• Twitter adds user image galleries

Topics talked about today:

• Twitter Enhances User Profiles With Image Galleries
• Apple Planning Entirely New Mac Product Line?
• Skype to buy group-messaging company GroupMe
• Will Sony’s PlayStation 3 Price Cut Save It?
• HTC Unlocks Its Phones
• Nokia’s new Facebook countdown lets slip Symbian Belle announcement
• United Airlines to deploy 11,000 iPads to its pilots by the end of the year

Today’s episode was pre-recorded on Tuesday 23rd August and is for Saturday 27th August, thus the news is relevant up-to then (23rd August). We’ll be back to normal recording schedule on Saturday 3rd September!