Good evening, everyone! Got a great show on Techmeme tonight. Got Michael Arrington, Jason Calacanis, and Leo Laporte. We’re taking bets who walks off the set first.
Yet another Twitter attack this week, this time from a hacker who built custom torrent site and forum templates, inserted an exploit, harvested people’s user names and passwords, very Matrix… Yeah, he used this access to steal people’s Twitter passwords. That was the end game!
He then hacked the Federal Reserve to read Ben Bernanke’s LiveJournal.
Big news today for Verizon today, announcing the latest Google Android phone. Yeah, they didn’t give it a “Droid” name, decided that was too unfriendly. So they called it “Devour.” That’s gonna look a lot more appropriate on the $22,000 bill.
Textbook makers are cutting deals with Apple, so students can buy their books on the iPad. Yeah, now your physics textbook will only cost $500 instead of $500.
The textbook makers said they’d been waiting for a partner to work with, but only Apple demonstrated the same devotion to their core ideals: Keeping people locked into an expensive monopoly.
Mark Cuban – the loud guy who likes to be held by tall men – called Google a vampire that wants to suck everyone dry. It was surprising, since last I checked, he and Google were on the same team.
You know, the team that tries to put Yahoo out of business.
Speaking of going out of business, AOL’s revenue dropped 17% last year, according to the quarterly report. The CEO Tim Armstrong said AOL is “incredibly focused on day-to-day execution.” So they’re really getting into the layoffs, that’s good. Good to be excited about something.
And finally, Nexus One phones are getting multitouch, meaning now there’s another gadget that’s like the iPhone but better. So you know, the opposite of the iPad.
We’ll take you out with a little clip from the new Daring Fireball With Comments – you know, the site that shows John Gruber’s Mac blog would be much better with reader input:
