Welcome to another week of the daily edition of CobWEBs, the flagship podcast of The Cynical Bastards!

For those who don’t remember from the other episodes, this is a new format for the show as we are going to try giving you daily bite sized chunks of our patented brand of cynicism over everything in the tech universe. The show will have a rotating host schedule between Steven Hodson, Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins and myself. You’ll always get two of us, you just never know which two!

Steven Hodson and myself tackle an entirely speculative subject today as to why Microsoft isn’t manufacturing its own computers. This is an unusual departure for us, but it was an interesting subject to tackle.

Stories mentioned in this podcast:

Should Microsoft be thinking about making their own PCs? – The Inquisitr
Episode 190: Apple Takes On Windows 7 – John Dvorak
Microsoft’s next step – MarketWatch
7 Reasons Why Microsoft Should Make PCs – Datamation

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Scattercast is 67 … and it stay awake this week!.

- Um … could someone remind Google that they’re a search engine? Thanks!

- Seriously, shut up, Bobo.

- More thoughts on the passing of Chuck Biscuits.

- And a bit of music for the season.

Here’s a link to the MP3 for those who wish to download it, subscribe to Scattercast via iTunes.

Welcome to another week of the daily edition of CobWEBs, the flagship podcast of The Cynical Bastards!

For those who don’t remember from the other episodes, this is a new format for the show as we are going to try giving you daily bite sized chunks of our patented brand of cynicism over everything in the tech universe. The show will have a rotating host schedule between Steven Hodson, Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins and myself. You’ll always get two of us, you just never know which two!

Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins and myself do today’s show, and we take on Robert Scoble’s post today about why he has quite using Google Reader. Mark already wrote up a great rebuttal of why Scoble got it wrong, but we couldn’t leave well enough alone.

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Welcome to another week of the daily edition of CobWEBs, the flagship podcast of The Cynical Bastards!

For those who don’t remember from the other episodes, this is a new format for the show as we are going to try giving you daily bite sized chunks of our patented brand of cynicism over everything in the tech universe. The show will have a rotating host schedule between Steven Hodson, Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins and myself. You’ll always get two of us, you just never know which two!

Steven Hodson and Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins do today’s show … albeit just a wee bit late. (notice when I host, we do it on time!)  Today Google announced it was launching a real-time GPS for Android 2.0 today, and the GPS manufacturers Garmin and TomTom took massive hits to their stock values.  Mark and Steve hash out how Google has turned into a 1,000-lbs gorilla and what this means for the future of markets Google may target.

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Welcome to another week of the daily edition of CobWEBs, the flagship podcast of The Cynical Bastards!

For those who don’t remember from the other episodes, this is a new format for the show as we are going to try giving you daily bite sized chunks of our patented brand of cynicism over everything in the tech universe. The show will have a rotating host schedule between Steven Hodson, Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins and myself. You’ll always get two of us, you just never know which two!

Steven Hodson and myself discuss the fact that Google seems to be totally losing its brand identity.  Is it a communications company?  A video company?  A storage company?  Who knows!  They used to be the kings of search, and now they seem to have no clue what they are.

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Welcome to another week of the daily edition of CobWEBs, the flagship podcast of The Cynical Bastards!

For those who don’t remember from the other episodes, this is a new format for the show as we are going to try giving you daily bite sized chunks of our patented brand of cynicism over everything in the tech universe. The show will have a rotating host schedule between Steven Hodson, Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins and myself. You’ll always get two of us, you just never know which two!

Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins and myself discuss the “damned if they do, damned if they don’t” attitude everyone in the blogosphere is taking with Microsoft in light of the news that they had pulled sponsorship of an upcoming Seth MacFarlane comedy special.

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Welcome to another week of the daily edition of CobWEBs, the flagship podcast of The Cynical Bastards!

For those who don’t remember from the other episodes, this is a new format for the show as we are going to try giving you daily bite sized chunks of our patented brand of cynicism over everything in the tech universe. The show will have a rotating host schedule between Steven Hodson, Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins and myself. You’ll always get two of us, you just never know which two!

Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins and I once again go after Twitter, this time over the fact that it constantly forgets that it is a business, and businesses tend to, you know, make money.

Push the big green button and have a listen in!

Welcome to another week of the daily edition of CobWEBs, the flagship podcast of The Cynical Bastards!

For those who don’t remember from the other episodes, this is a new format for the show as we are going to try giving you daily bite sized chunks of our patented brand of cynicism over everything in the tech universe. The show will have a rotating host schedule between Steven Hodson, Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins and myself. You’ll always get two of us, you just never know which two!

Steven Hodson and Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins handle tonight’s duties, and tackle the future of Friendfeed seeing as how its popularity is plummeting like a rock since Facebook bought the site. They also discuss how bloggers can work on building their own communities.

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Scattercast is 66 … and it’s getting drowsy.

- It’s a short one this week as I couldn’t stop yawning for anything … and fell asleep for 2 & 1/2 hours as soon as I finished recording. Oops.

- What was the media thinking with the coverage of Balloon Boy?

- What is Google Audio? No one seems to know for sure.

- What is BookServer, and could it change the e-book landscape?

- The new Mac lineup had some interesting new entries, but they’re still too expensive.

Here’s a link to the MP3 for those who wish to download it, subscribe to Scattercast via iTunes.

Welcome to another week of the daily edition of CobWEBs, the flagship podcast of The Cynical Bastards!

For those who don’t remember from the other episodes, this is a new format for the show as we are going to try giving you daily bite sized chunks of our patented brand of cynicism over everything in the tech universe. The show will have a rotating host schedule between Steven Hodson, Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins and myself. You’ll always get two of us, you just never know which two!

Steven Hodson and I handle tonight’s duties, and tackle the big news of the day of Bing adding a search for Twitter, and how in the world did they get this far out ahead of Google?  This is going to be an interesting story to follow over the coming weeks, but for now it is just mainly a head scratcher.

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Welcome to another week of the daily edition of CobWEBs, the flagship podcast of The Cynical Bastards!

For those who don’t remember from the other episodes, this is a new format for the show as we are going to try giving you daily bite sized chunks of our patented brand of cynicism over everything in the tech universe. The show will have a rotating host schedule between Steven Hodson, Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins and myself. You’ll always get two of us, you just never know which two!

Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins and I handle tonight’s duties, and once again we take on that favorite subject of ours … e-readers.  With the announcement of the Barnes & Noble Nook today, as well as Internet Archive’s BookServer, it seems that all people are discussing today is ebooks.

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Welcome to another week of the daily edition of CobWEBs, the flagship podcast of The Cynical Bastards!

For those who don’t remember from the other episodes, this is a new format for the show as we are going to try giving you daily bite sized chunks of our patented brand of cynicism over everything in the tech universe. The show will have a rotating host schedule between Steven Hodson, Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins and myself. You’ll always get two of us, you just never know which two!

Steven Hodson and Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins handle tonight’s duties, and Mark is chomping at the bit to reply to the discussion Steven and I had Friday night in regards to sexism and how he feels it is more about politics.  They then follow this up with a discussion on the whole Mommy Blogger vs. the TSA story from this weekend that turned out to be a hoax and left the blogosphere with egg all over its face.

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