What does today’s announcement about “IPv4 address exhaustion” mean? Will the Internet still work? What is all the hype and buzz about? What does this have to do with IPv6? In this episode host Dan York explains what the “IPv4 address exhaustion” news is all about and what it means to you. More articles and info about IPv6 and IPv4 address exhaustion can be found at: blogs.voxeo.com More info about Emerging Tech Talk can be found at blogs.voxeo.com
In this week’s show: The European Commission fines DRAM makers, Europe launches its IT action plan, Google is in trouble for collecting WiFi data with StreetView cars, GM shows off new urban mobility vehicles and Unicef offers free text messaging to kids in Nepal.
Dr. Kevin Ham, legendary Vancouver domainer on the 99′ 2000 tech industry downturn and how he profited from it. Recorded on September 15, 2009 using a Flip Video camcorder.
Matt Harris hosts Sean Carruthers On Deck as the pair discuss what’s in store for CES 2011. Sean talks about the logistics of getting the biggest butterscotch.com crew ever into Vegas for the show and a few predictions about what CES will bring @ butterscotch.com: bit.ly
http://live.pirillo.com – Clint asks “Is it a good investment to block personal info from a whois lookup to see that I own the site. We tell our kids how dangerous it is to put personal info out there; does it apply to adults? My name, phone number and home address is out there for the world to see. What is safe to put out there? I just dont know what content to include, and what to omit.”
Amazon.com Delivers HD On Demand is upping their quality to HD. HD movies will rent for $3.99-$4.99 and TV Shows will be $2.99. AT&T and Apple sold 1.6 million iPhones the first quarter of 2009, giving AT&T a 38.6% increase in data revenue. There are rumors that they don’t want to the SlingPlayer for iPhone app to be approved because they’re worried about not being able to support that kind of load. Here’s hoping they use the increase in revenue to build out their infrastructure. Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 from EA Sports will be released June 15th. It will include WiiMotionPlus, as will Grand Slam Tennis in Europe. Dave Ramsey is hosting what might be the largest streaming event ever attempted. It’s called Town Hall for Hope. It’s all about how NOT to participate in the recession. You can get more information at TownHallForHope.com. I talked about Tweetie being one of my Top 5 iPhone Apps. They just released a desktop version for the Mac. It has multiple account support and is a great tool for casual users. You can download it at atebits.com/tweetie-mac. You can save money on domain name registrations and renewals from GoDaddy.com with discount codes GB1, GB2 and GB3. For an explanation of each code, click here.
http://live.pirillo.com – GoDaddy is one sponsor for the live and recorded videos I do. By entering coupon code ‘Chris1′ at checkout, you can save 10%. Yes, I bring this up for a reason. Jeremy wrote in and wondered if when you buy a domain name, is it really yours? Do you really own it, and what can you do with it?
Francis Gulotta from Brookyln, New York started a tech support site for Mac computers called macsupport.com. Even with a great domain name, Francis is having problems getting the customers so he asks Jason how to remedy the situation.