237: WWDC 2012 & Mom-Bear Loving

This week, Dwayne DeFreitas & Andrew Sorcini analyze the latest hardware and operating system updates from Apple’s 2012 World Wide Developer Conference, held this week in San Francisco, and then we take a look at the complex, ambiguous (and sometimes embarrassingly funny) minefield of policing copyright infringement.

But first, the headlines...more leaked password woes at Last.fm, Twitter introduces branded pages for hashtags via their first television ad, and ICANN launches the 'great internet landgrab’!

Headlines

• Verizon Intros Share Everything Plans: Unlimited Talk/Text And Shared Data For Up to 10 devices
• Last.fm Advises Password Change in Latest Security Breach
• Twitter airs first ever TV ad promoting its brand new hashtag pages
• ICANN criticised over 'commercial landgrab' of internet

Audible Book of the Week

• Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas by John Scalzi

Musical Interlude #1

Hot Topic: WWDC 2012

• Apple Introduces iOS 6, Coming This Fall
• Apple - iOS 6 Preview
• Maps in iOS 6 will require A5 processor for 3D “flyover,” navigation
• New OS X Mountain Lion details announced
• Apple announces next-generation MacBook Pro: Retina display, 0.71-inches thin, shipping today for $2199
• Apple announces refreshed MacBook Air: Ivy Bridge processor, USB 3.0, shipping today
• Apple Spokesperson Confirms New Mac Pro and iMac Designs Likely Coming in 2013
• Apple just declared war on these products

Musical Interlude #2

Final Word: Policing Copyright Infringement

• Pinterest Just Hired A Big Name Lawyer From Google To Deal With One Of Its Biggest Threats
• Lawyer demands $20,000, so webcomic raises $100,000 from the Internet

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Geeks Of Doom’s The Drill Down is a roundtable-style audio podcast where we discuss the most important issues of the week, in tech and on the web and how they affect us all.

Hosts are Geeks of Doom contributor Andrew Sorcini (Mr. BabyMan), VentureBeat editor Devindra Hardawar, marketing research analyst Dwayne De Freitas, and Startup Digest CTO Christopher Burnor. Occasionally joining them is Techmeme editor Lidija Davis.