The Laporte Report (Audio)

July 1, Californians will join many other states and countries in requiring drivers to use handsfree devices when talking on their cell phones. I called Bill using the Jawbone today.

I currently use the BlueAnt Supertooth Light in my car. It has its own speaker and mic and attaches to the visor. It works pretty well, although I can't vouch for what it sounds like to my callers.

Another system that requires no installation but uses your car speakers is The Tooth Pik.

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Leo's gives his thumbnail review of the iPhone while Bill mocks him...

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My regular Friday appearance with Bill Handel on KFI Los Angeles.

Today is Christmas Day for geeks, D-Day for the other cellular carriers: the iPhone ships today. We talk about the pros and cons and linesitters.

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My weekly tech news wrap up with John Donabie on 1010 CFRB in Toronto including the green Apple, Spidey 3 hits the torrents, and the enervating Windows Vista.

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My regular Friday appearance with Bill Handel on KFI Los Angeles. Today we talk about the face recognition system in the 2008 Lexus 600hL designed to keep drivers paying attention to the road.

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My regular Friday appearance with Bill Handel on KFI Los Angeles.

Today we talk about Steve Jobs's surprising call for the record companies to drop copy protection on digital music.

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My weekly tech news wrap up with John Donabie on 1010 CFRB in Toronto. The Zune launch is coming and more...

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My regular Friday appearance with Bill Handel on KFI Los Angeles.

Today we talk about Microsoft's iPod killer: the Zune.

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My weekly tech news wrap up with John Donabie on 1010 CFRB in Toronto.

We cover the Google/YouTube merger, Windows Vista license limitations, and Oprah's red Nano.

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My regular Friday appearance with Bill Handel on KFI Los Angeles.

Today we talk about the Google acquisition of YouTube.

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My quarterly appearance with Ronn Owens on San Francisco's KGO AM 810.

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My weekly tech news wrap up with John Donabie on 1010 CFRB in Toronto.

We cover the HP scandal, a major Windows security flaw, and teens staging fights online.

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I appear every few months on the Bill Good Show on CKNW in Vancouver for a half-an-hour to talk about current tech stories.

Topics include the new iTunes Movie Store, the difficulties content companies are facing, buying an HDTV, and more.

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My weekly tech news wrap up with John Donabie on 1010 CFRB in Toronto. As usual, I've left in the pre and post-show chatter.

Topics include airlines that are banning Mac and Dell laptops over battery fears and the new iTunes Store.

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It's the return of The Laporte Report!

On my weekly gadget news with Bill I discuss Apple's new iPods and Microsoft's Zune player.

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I talked with John about the following stories:

Colin Farrell's The New World will be presented in smell-o-vision in Japan.

The Beatles have finally agreed to online music downloads.

And domain name squatting is back baby. Sex.com sold for $12 million US!

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Leo Laporte on the Bill Handel Show, KFI AM 640, Los Angeles, 7:50am, April 14, 2006

TiVo gets a second life at the ninth hour. A jury has awarded TiVo $74 million in its lawsuit against the DISH Network (Echostar). That means TiVo effectively owns the patents to the key technologies for DVRs (digital video recorders) including the ability to pause, rewind, and fast forward live programming.

TiVo probably wouldn't have survived losing this lawsuit. Now all DVR manufacturers will have to license their technology from TiVo.

Echostar plans to appeal.

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Tech News for March 25, 2006

Microsoft says the consumer version of Vista (the next Windows) won't be out until 2007. Another major setback for this troubled release. Analysts say this could be good for Apple.

France legalizes music piracy... sort of. Will Apple pull out?

Amazon is taking heat for suggesting "adoption" books when searched for "abortion".

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I talked with John about the following stories:

Top story is the Apple Announcement, of course. Apple also patched some serious flaws this week.

Also of interest, AOL is proposing a system where mass mailers pay a fraction of a cent per email - and the Internet community is up in arms.

And speculation about Microsoft's Origami device is building.

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