258: The First Taste Is Free

This week, the UN meets to decide the fate of the Internet & the US pushes back, Will your cellphones cost full price in the future?, Twitter & Instagram fight for your photo data, Apple is ‘Made in the USA’ again, Tesla takes Motor Trend's Car of the Year, and Will ‘The Hobbit’ make you nauseous?

Headlines

• Internet Hangs in Balance as World Governments Meet in Secret
  • House approves resolution to keep Internet control out of UN hands
• News Corp. Stops Publication of The Daily iPad App
  • Why The Daily Failed
• T-Mobile CEO confirms the iPhone and the death of phone subsidies
• Twitter Loses Ability to Properly Display Instagram Photos
  • The social filter war is officially on: Twitter adds free photo filters

Audible Book of the Week

• A Christmas Carol: A Signature Performance by Tim Curry

Musical Interlude: Misty Mountains from "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" by Howard Shore (with Richard Armitage & the Dwarf Cast)

More Headlines

• WB denies 'Hobbit' HFR causing dizziness
• 2013 Motor Trend Car of the Year: Tesla Model S
• Google Apps No Longer Free For Businesses
• Apple Joins Google in $500 Million-Plus Bid for Kodak Patents
• Apple CEO Tim Cook announces plans to manufacture Mac computers in USA
  • Apple's "Made in USA" computer likely to be Mac Pro

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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 Box tech consultant Tosin Onafowokan.