Tech News Weekly Ep. 56 – PlaguedBook 12-2-11

Tech News Weekly

This week on Tech News Weekly: Andrew, Erik, and Sunkast discuss what the deal is with Carrier IQ. What is it, and should people be concerned about it? AT&T lashes out at the FCC after they released a report calling out AT&T's claims regarding the T-Mobile merger. Is the merger done for? RIM loses big in the third quarter with the BlackBerry PlayBook. So why are they launching a new generation? Verizon's Galaxy Nexus is rumored to be launching this month. But when will the official announcement come? Speaking of rumors, Windows 8 public beta may now be out in February. Google is rumored to be getting into the package delivery business to compete against Amazon. Is Google becoming too much like Microsoft? And our Picks of the Week.

For all this Erik Lanigan, check out his web site, ErikLanigan.com.

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