Get your weekly roundup of technology news with The Two Techies. Released every Saturday, the show goes over some of the most notable and interesting technology stories of the week. Occasionally joined by guests, well known to the technology world!

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The Social Show 5: Farmville Dummies
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Topics Talked About Today:

  • What’s Hot This Week in Social Media
  • Twitter Acquires Talent behind Slick Q&A Site
  • Facebook Rolling out Redesigned News Feed Filtering Options
  • FarmVille for Dummies, the book is real and available for Pre Order!


Remember to check out The Two Techies Christmas Special Edition. We discuss what gadgets and gizmos to buy for your friends & family this holiday season.

The Two Techies 49: I Sue You, You Sue Me!
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Topics talked about today:

  • Microsoft’s Paul Allen sees lawsuit thrown out
  • New iMac and MacBook Pros coming in 2011?
  • Apple Mac App Store: open for business starting January 6th
  • Illegal music downloads are ‘on the rise’
  • Mobile firm Three backs all-you-can-eat data tariff
  • Man admits role in iTunes and Amazon fraud
  • Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook named Time’s person of 2010
  • Nokia Apple patent row escalates
  • Twitter raises $200m in new finance
  • EU could turn to ‘crowd sourcing’ in cyber crime fight
  • Google, Chrome OS and the Big Picture
  • Multiple Gmail Accounts Just Got a Lot Easier to Manage
  • Yahoo cutting its workforce by 4%
  • Cuba launches online encyclopaedia similar to Wikipedia

Make sure to check out our Christmas Special show which premiered on Wednesday, December 1st.

The Two Techies 48: Heads in the Cloud
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Topics talked about today:

  • Google unveils Chrome OS notebook for test scheme
  • Call of Duty cyber attack prompts arrest of boy, 17
  • Facebook Announces First Hacker Cup
  • Kinect meets its maker with new air guitar hack
  • Kinect gets own set of wheels, drives a car, nothing can stop it now
  • Full version of Google Docs now works on iPad, but you can still go mobile if you want
  • iPad 2 will have rear and front-facing cameras, say multiple sources

Make sure to check out our Christmas Special show which premiered on Wednesday, December 1st. Also, a huge thanks to Erik Lanigan, Associate producer at TWiT, host of NNTake and Tech Talkback for coming on today’s show.

The Two Techies 47: We Wish You a Merry Patent
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Topics talked about today:

  • iPhone app helps save high school b-ball star’s life | Health Tech
  • Groupon rejects Google’s offers
  • Apple adds 12 more patents to lawsuit against Motorola
  • Droid 2 Phone Explodes, Bloodies Texas Man
  • The Galaxy Tab: Samsung Has a Hit on Its Hands
  • Development of a Great App: Angry Birds
  • BT to trial one gigabit broadband
  • Chrome event confirmed by Google for December 7th
  • iPhone accounts for 23% of business phones
  • YouTube Launching New “TrueView” Ad Format Today

Make sure to check out our Christmas Special show which premiered on Wednesday, December 1st.

MunchTech Discussions 1: Privacy, or not!
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Topics talked about today:

  • Have we lost our privacy?
  • Do we need to re-instate Privacy online?

Make sure to check out our Christmas Special show which premiered on Wednesday, December 1st.

The Social Show 2: Merging all the Way!
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Topics talked about today:

  • Gowalla Turns the Tables, Integrates With Foursquare
  • What’s Hot in Social Media This Week
  • Fake Tsunami Warning Sent from Hacked Twitter Account
  • HootSuite Reaches 1 Million Users [INFOGRAPHIC]

The Two Techies 46: Gadgets Galore (Christmas Special Edition)
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Join us for one of our Christmas spectacular shows as we go over this years greatest gadgets, and advise you on what gadgets to get your friends, family or of course the geek in your life. Christmas TreeA huge thanks to Cliff Ravenscraft of GSPN.TV for joining us on todays show, at such short notice!

Please note this show has been released as an extra show and is not our weekly technology news based show.

Please also join us on December 24th as we discuss some of the ‘revelutions’ of 2010 in the Technology community, we’ll be talking about what gadgets we think have really taken off this year.


The Two Techies 45: We Have Lift Off!
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Topics talked about today:

  • Twitter airport ‘joke’ trial heads to the High Court
  • Microsoft Now “Excited” by Kinect Hacks
  • iOS 4.3 To Be Released Mid-December
  • iOS 4.2 Now Available
  • Hylas-1 net-dedicated satellite ready for launch
  • Pirate Bay founders lose appeal
  • Christmas Tree Virus Hoax Spreads on Facebook
  • Facebook Could Soon Own the Trademark for the Word “Face”

Remember to look out for The Two Techies Christmas Special which will be released on Wed, Dec 1st.

Podcast Assist 1: Mic’s, RSS, Action!
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Topics talked about today:

  • What Microphone to Get
  • Why Success doesn’t come instantly, or overnight
  • The Show Schedule
  • Ways of Setting up an RSS Code

Remember to look out for The Two Techies Christmas Special which will be released on Wed, Dec 1st.

The Social Show 1: FaceTrojan
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Topics talked about today:

  • Whats hot in the social media news this week
  • 4 Social web apps for making and sharing your travel problems
  • Christmas tree virus hoax spreads on Facebook
  • Facebook could soon own the Trademark for the word “Face”

The Two Techies 44: Apple, Cry Wolf!
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Topics Talked About Today:

  • The Beatles Appear in iTunes Store
  • Google’s wi-fi data to be deleted
  • Apple Announces December Launch for iAd in Europe
  • Mac App Store opening soon, Apple implores developers to submit their apps
  • Apple to Offer Free MobileMe Service to Some iOS Users?
  • Minister Ed Vaizey ‘backs two speed internet’
  • Social gets personal as new network limits friends
  • MySpace deal looks to Facebook to gain and retain users
  • Date set for 4G airwaves auction
  • US Air Force warns Facebook ‘may reveal location’

Remember to look out for The Two Techies Christmas Special which will be released on Wed, Dec 1st.

And remember to check out todays affiliate, ScreenCasts Online.


Released every Saturday, 'The Two Techies' goes over the most notable and interesting tech stories of the week.

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