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TwitterFAIL! Also, Apple podcast fail, Amazon keynote on September 6th, possibly two Apple events, a new Facebook iOS app, and Dave McClure says VCs are A-Holes! But wait, there’s more! Microsoft has a new logo! SQUARES! All this and meandering talk about old MMOs, courtesy of Warren and Chip. Tweet This Post

Chelsea returns to the Vancouver Mini Maker Faire to interview David Repa from the Hackery, a unique computer repair and recycling shop that takes in your old computer hardware and lovingly restores it back to health. The Hackery is also something of a computer museum, with vintage Macs, Tandy 100s, Commodores, and even a...

Microsoft buys Yammer for more than $1 billion, Google has a new tablet, iPhones might have NFC chips, and Facebook is, as usual, up to something. We also sit back and cogitate on the significance of Microsoft Surface, and on the tragedy that is Winamp. Microsoft buys Yammer! Google tablet or something! iPhones and...

Apple finally does something with its mountain of cash, Mashable might be sold for 200 million (though we can’t quite figure out why), and the saga of Mike Daisey and This American Life just bums us out. Plus iPad sales go through the roof, Warren buys a Kindle Touch, and Kevin Rose may or...

Andy Ihnatko: Macworld columnist, MacBreak Weekly co-host — and Windows 8 fan? Skype provides the confessional, as Ihnatko explains to Chip what makes Win8 a compelling competitor for his affections. But first, the news! Twitter buys Posterus Walmart happy to convert your DVD to UltraViolet for $4 bucks Apple sells out of iPad pre-order...

Apple stock hits $500, Zynga turns out to be the dump you’d think it is, ZFS rises from the dead, VLC is gonna 2.0, and the Vita is both shiny and not relevant. All this and no Chip! Apple stock hits $500 The Zynga AMA Kinect for Windows Maybe ZFS after all? VLC 2.0...

The HP saga continues, Xbox 720(?) may be out in the fall, Google pseudonyms require proof of identity (huh?), and Everquest is going free to play. Must be a Platformer episode! HP sinks further Xbox in October? Google pseudonym approval requires proof of online identity Everquest goes free-to-play Kindle Fire sells 5-6 million Tweet...

Jerry Yang is out at Yahoo, RIM is trying to sell itself, Sarah Lacy gets $2.5 million (!) to make a promotional…uh, I mean, informative new blog about startups, Rupert Murdoch is old and insane, and Google can’t stop screwing around with your search. Throw in cloud gaming with Onlive, pro video people moving...

A packed proceeding at Platformer, with news from CES, Barnes and Noble possibly selling off the Nook, Cable cutters uniting, and an offensive PSA from ICE. We also go off on a rant about Thunderbolt, wax poetic about iMessage, and hail the return…of Clowntown. Yahoo gets a new CEO Why Google should buy Nook...

It’s our first annual year-end prognosticatin’ and predictin’ jamboree! We look back at 2011 and see RIM and HP in tatters, Apple on top but of the business world but without Steve Jobs, and protesters, hackers and the 1% all using the internet to further their goals. We also turned our keen insight to...