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Podcast: Apple iPhone, Microsoft's syncromesh, and Facebook's new hire

My former teammate and now editor in chief of ZDNet, Larry Dignan, and I continue our weekly podcast (formerly called "Between the Lines") covering the top headlines of the week. This week on "EIC Squared," we two square editor in chiefs discuss the iPhone's quest to seduce business users, some of the highlights from Microsoft's Mix '08 conference, and Facebook's new chief operating officer.

Where just like the Bush administration, you won't believe the crap coming from our mouths

EPISODE 51

Bennett Nasty, Bakalicious, and WillyT talk to Ari Rabban from Phone.com about his company. Also in the mix, they hit up the iPhone SDK, Randall's wife's grandma's issues with MySpace and friendship, plus we think 10,000 B.C. is going to be a pile of prehistoric dung and eight movie adaptations that shouldn't be made. Finally, firefighters make cars fly! I canbelievable!

Don't forget! Super Smash Brothers Brawl Give Away!

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Where you'll want to chase today's show with a dose of penicillin

EPISODE 50

We're giving away a copy of Super Smash Brothers Brawl, one of the most hotly anticipated titles for the Wii. Listen up so you can win! Click here for more pictures and instructions and how you can win an autographed copy of Super Smash Brothers Brawl!

In the meanwhile, the hosts of the 404 talk about: Tina Fey being cute, but not so funny; Sarah Silverman and Amy Winehouse looking exactly alike; Ben Stiller's new movie featuring Robert Downey Jr. in blackface (?Qu??); terrible airplane movies; and the return of 30 Rock with Will Arnett and … Read more

The Digital Home 5: Video game endings stink!

Don talks with Andy Ihnatko of the Celestial Waste of Bandwidth to discuss Microsoft, Google and why video game endings just aren't worth your time. After that, he sits down with James McQuivey of Forrester Research to find out why Blu-ray may not ever be as popular as DVD. Listen now: Download today's podcast EPISODE 5 Read more

Where we're so awesome, we can electrocute Blanka

EPISODE 49

Caroline McCarthy joins us to summarily rick roll the living crap out of us. We talk ghosts and social networks, SXSW, Major League Baseball 2K8. And we even get a little personal...What? Caroline McCarthy + Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales? What? We didn't say that...see the question marks?

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Cross-blogging link: Ace Reporter Caroline McCarthy's cool, hip, in-the-know, up-to-date, above-average, exceptional, adept, and witty blog, the Social.

What Guantanamo Bay prisoners are forced to listen to until they confess

EPISODE 47

Back from the weekend, Randall's parents get rid of their home phone...so that Randall can't call anymore. Nine Inch Nails is another band releasing their album free online. Seth MacFarlane is back in business with Fox and may release a new Family Guy spinoff, Cleveland. Semi-Pro was semi-awful, and if you want to meet men, go to the Apple Store.

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Where we didn't start the fire

EPISODE 46

After a contentious morning with an almost late Wilson Tang and a false office fire, the 404 hosts kick off the show with a look at billboard defacing, MyVu already showing up on Woot, prizes given away, and not so fantastic movies coming out this weekend!

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CNET Live - Episode 43

It's the first aual iPhone nose-typing challenge and it comes to a hilarious conclusion.

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Things we Crave

Han Solo Table

Flexible cell phones

First Look

Chumby

Download of the Week

TrueCrypt.

Best of the Web

Roten neighbor.

Insider Secrets Two ways to encrypt a thumb drive with Your calls

All the lovely ways to delete cokies.

Alternatives to Thunderbird? How about Eudora?

How do I get Windows Ultimate extras?

Undelete deleted files with WinUndelete

Wipe a hard drive with Darik's Boot and nuke

The Digital Home podcast Episode 4: Mobile and Scoble

Should eBay be scared? Is Apple boring? Is Yahoo a copycat? Was Toshiba paid-off to dump HD DVD? Find out that and more as Don Reisinger sits down with Robert Scoble. After that, join Don as he discusses the mobile industry with Joe Tassone of HPC Development and finds out what kind of impact Google could have if it wins the 700MHz spectrum auction. Listen now: Download today's podcast EPISODE 4 Read more

Where if you listen to this, you've played Mortal Kombat in a bowling alley

EPISODE 41

Friday, the end of the work week, the denouement, if you will, which means it's the perfect time to get Hepatitis A! Or at least that's what happened to some A-list celebrities at Ashton Kutcher's birthday party. D'oh! Also, Portal 2 might be in the works (we hope) and Jonathan Coulton's "Still Alive" will be included in a Rock Band downloadable content pack.

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