This week we try to come up with ways to become a monopolistic utility so that, just like Comcast, we can charge ridiculous prices for horrible service.
We also talk about the genius of John Lasseter and visionary leaders, Crunchie winners: Oculus Rift and Kickstarter, VISA and MasterCard’s smart card, the Comcast and Time Warner deal, the new A4WP alliance to bring us wireless charging, and Google’s takeover of Moffett Fields Hangar One.
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- Oculus Rift Takes Home Chrunchie for best Hardware Startup
- Kickstarter wins Chrunchie for best overall Startup
- Google to Lease Moffett Field, Restore Hangers
- Wireless Power Partnerships Are Forming, Standards Are Developing
- What Are “Smart” Credit Cards, and Why Are They Coming to America?
- Comcast To Buy Time Warner Cable Tomorrow
- $45 billion deal brings 30 million customers under one roof
- Netflix and Apple Users Should Hate This
- Comcast and Time Warner Cable: Forget TV, it is all about broadband
- Here’s Why the Biggest Cable Company in the Country Thinks It Can Get Bigger
- The Broadband Market’s Problem, Summed Up In One Quote
- Silk Road 2 “Hacked” 4,000 Bitcoins Stolen
- iWatch Will Use Optoelectronics to Monitor Vitals
- IBM Labs Break A Speed Record for Data Transmission
- Google Promises 10 GPS fiber Network
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Minor correction to the start of the show. The Little Mermaid (1989) was 6 years before Toy Story (1995). Between The Little Mermaid and Toy Story Disney released, Beauty and the Beast (1991), Aladdin (1992), and the Lion King (1994).