TNRP 34 – The Make up Show

–Participants–

Ben Jarman
Twitter – benjar12
benjarman.com

Lizette Gagne
Twitter – lizettegagne
www.labslab.com
www.lizettegagne.com

Alex Luft
Twitter – sashok
www.alexluft.com

–Topics–

There were rumors last week that Apple was set to buy Twitter for $700m USD
http://www.techradar.com/news/computing/apple/apple-set-to-buy-twitter-for-460m–596494

iPod Twin
http://ipodtwin.com/index.php

Last week we discussed the rumor that Amazon is about to release a Kindle with a larger screen, and the next day after we talked about it, Amazon debuted the big-screen Kindle, called the Kindle DX
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124162110396691937.html#mod

Intel put out an ad about something we here at TNR have known all along: geeks are modern-day rockstars
http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/07/video-intel-we-are-rock-stars/

Rogers launching both the Android-based HTC Dream and HTC Magic
http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/07/rogers-nabs-htc-dream-and-htc-magic-for-canadas-first-look-at-a/

The S Carolina attornet general has threatened Craigslist with a criminal investigation
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/05/south-carolina-to-craigslist-close-erotic-services-or-else.ars

County to pay $70K for a Twitter/Facebook guru

Moving away from social media and to hardware, AMD has completely finished integrating ATI into the chip giant.

http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amd-reorganizes-ati-now-full-assimilated/

Twitter underwent schedule maintenance today and thus was down for a few hours throughout the 2-4pm timeframe EST, even though the service’s maintenace page stated that Twitter anticipated to be down for only an hour

Please let us know how we’re doing by writing to us – info at technestreport dot com or Skyping “technestreport

–Another Nest… is in the tree–

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