News
Microsoft sued on 'patent breach'
Libel ruling boosts net providers
Virus Writers suffering from 'writer's block'
Study blasts failing phishing toolbars
Microsoft brings 129 lawsuits against phishers

The Kiss My Butt award of the week.
This week it goes to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.

This weeks Interview
This week's guest is Jean Cyr. Jean's company is Dillobits Software.

This interview was held in Denver at SIC 2006.

SharewareRadio.com Broadcast - 23 Nov 2006

News
Vista, Office 2007 already cracked
Sun Open Sources Java Under GPL
Intel launches new chips
Physics promises wireless power
AIM Gets A Major Makeover
Game glitches for PlayStation 3

The Kiss My Butt award of the week.
This week it goes to Google CEO Eric Schmidt for the purchase of YouTube.

This weeks Interview
This weeks guest is Peter Van Hove. Peter produces IsoBuster a highly specialized and easy to use CD and DVD data recovery tool.
http://www.isobuster.com/

This interview was held in Cambridge in the UK at ESWC 2006.

News
6th annual European Shareware Conference in Cambridge report.
Adware Vendor In Fake YouTube Scam
Online banking fraud rises fast
UK supercomputer sets faster pace
Blogosphere still seeing tremendous growth

The Kiss My Butt award of the week.
This week it goes to the Diebold company for hiding software errors.

This weeks Interview
This weeks guest is Marcus Tettmar of MJT Net Ltd.

This interview was held in Cambridge in the UK at ESWC 2006.

News
Vista and Office launch Nov. 30 for business customers.
6th annual European ShareWare Conference opens Saturday
Dell launches laptop with AMD chips
Apple to ship tiny iPod Friday
Nintendo gearing up to ship 4 million Wii consoles
Microsoft Releases New Version Of Windows Embedded CE Kernel Under Shared Source

The Kiss My Butt award of the week.
This week it goes to Yang Xiaokun a Chinese diplomat for lying about China's internet restrictions.

This weeks Interview
This weeks guest is Sharon Housley of NotePage and FeedFor All.

 

News
Microsoft pushes Vista Release to Manufacturers to Nov. 8 following critical bug find.
Google offers personal searches
Hacker's sidestep lets iPod play tracks not bought from iTunes
Oracle to support Red Hat Linux
Mozilla Firefox 2.0 now available
Microsoft to Offer Upgrade Coupons
MacBook Pros get Core 2 Duo bump

The Kiss My Butt award of the week.
This week it goes to Sony for aggressively denying European customers their PlayStation 3s.

This weeks Interview
This weeks guest is Greg Weir of TUCOWS. Greg is director of TUCOWS content division.

This interview was held in Denver at SIC.

News
Google Launches Experimental Search Engine
Microsoft takes step to carry out EU bargain
Study: U.S. Loaded with Internet Addicts
Virtual Hard Disk Opens Up

The Kiss My Butt award of the week.
This week it goes to Apple gets it for it's handling of the situation when it was discovered that it had shipped some it's latest video iPods with a Windows Virus on them.

This weeks Interview
This weeks guests is are Andrei and Nida Belogortseff of Winability Software.

This interview was held in Denver at SIC.

News
Google combines word processing, spreadsheets
Eudora to become open source
Microsoft Tests OneCare Beta for Vista
Google + YouTube: Really smart or truly insane?
Transmeta sues Intel for patent infringement
ReiserFS programmer arrested as murder suspect

The Kiss My Butt award of the week.
This week it goes to Spamhaus for thinking that it can ignore the US courts and not defend itself.

This weeks Interview
This weeks guest is Gary Elfring of Elfring Fonts. Besides fonts Gary's company also does CD and DVD duplication and fulfillment.

This interview was held in Denver at SIC.

News
Arrest Warrants Sought For Former HP Chair, Ethics Officer, Others
Hey Mista Pirate Watch out for Vista!
AOL wants You!
Security Software Makers support EU inquiry into Vista
Google launches literacy portal
Yahoo opens up its e-mail program

The Kiss My Butt award of the week.
This week it goes to Mischa Spiegelmock and Andrew Wbeelsoi for their hoax claiming that Firefox was a complete security mess.

This weeks Interview
This weeks guest is Chris Thornton of Thornsoft Development. Chris is the deveoper of Clipmate.

This interview was held in Denver at SIC.

News
Eighty cores and nothing to do, yet
Antivirus vendors raise threats over Vista in Europe
Intel offers prize for sexiest PC
Film Director Jackson signs Xbox deal
Mobile web shake-up gets started
IBM, Intel propose to enhance PCI Express

The Kiss My Butt award of the week.
This week it goes to Apple for suing companies for using the word "pod"

This weeks Interview
This weeks guest is Joe Burke of Rose City Software

This interview was held in Denver at SIC.

News
Alberto Gonzales calls for ISP data retention laws
Microsoft Launches YouTube Challenger
Intel chip could enable terabit data transfer
Double disc might end hi-def war

The Kiss My Butt award of the week.
This week it goes to Verizon and their stooges in the US Senate Commerce Committee.

This weeks Interview
This weeks guest is Becky Lash owner of Epic Trends. She does Online Help, Technical Documentation and more.

This interview was held in Denver at SIC.

News
Major Software Pirate Receives Record Prison Sentence
Microsoft wins record amount from spammer in Europe
Microsoft's Live Search Goes Live
Google tanking in China
Apple reveals plans for digital home market

The Kiss My Butt award of the week.
This week it goes to the unknown Aussie and his Viagra Spam

This weeks Interview
This weeks guest is Rich Holler Executive Director of the Association of Shareware Professionals

This interview was held in Denver at SIC.

News Reports
Virginia court upholds antispam law

Finals of the 2006 TopCoder Open started Wednesday

AOL Contributes Code to Dojo Ajax Project

FireFox moves into the Mainstream

New BlackBerry rival by end of year

Will Vista stall Net traffic?

The Kiss My Butt award of the week.
McAfee SiteAdvisor gets a well deserved award.

This weeks Interview
This weeks guest is Edwin Siebesma President of WinZip Computing.

This interview was held in Denver at SIC.

News Reports
The public domain books that Google has scanned as part of its Book Search project are now available for free download with the click of just one button.
http://books.google.com/

Amazon is pre-selling Vista.  They say it will be released on January 30, 2007. Prices range fro $99.95 for a Home Basic upgrade to $399 for Vista Ultimate.

Plus a report on SIC 2006.

The Kiss My Butt award of the week.
The FBI gets the award for refusing to allow two US citizens to return to the US from abroad.

This weeks Interview
This weeks guest is Alastair Rampell of Rampell Software. He also has a new company TrialPay that puts a whole new spin on affiliate marketing.
This interview was held in Denver at SIC.

News
Michael Callahan aka Dr. File Finder has sent out the email notices that The voting for the Shareware Industry Awards has begun.
CoffeeeCup quits the ASP
Microsoft Releases Windows Vista Beta 2
Microsoft has named both a desktop application and its Web search service--you guessed it--Windows Live Search.
European Commission: Software is not patentable
eBay Being Sued Over Internet Telephone Technology
Battle over .xxx domain not over yet

The Kiss My B**t award of the week.  This week Microsoft gets the award for telling Word users to operate in Safe Mode.

News from Dave Collins of SharewarePromotions.com
A reminder that Dave is putting out a new monthly newsletter: Competitive Edge
DMOZ descriptions and MSN
Piracy percentages in the UK
Google moves towards video ads
Symantec puts spanners in Vista works
Vista, the official list
A Belgian company has sued Google

This weeks Interview
This weeks guest is Brant Pallazza of Digital River. Brant is Vice-President in charge of Shareware. Brant joined Digital River in 1999.

Mike interviews Brant Pallazza of Digital River.

Mike interviews Michael Lehman of Microsoft.

Mike Dulin reads the shareware industry news. Plus interviews Michael Lehman of Microsoft.

Mike Dulin reads the shareware industry news. Plus interviews Öncül Kaya and Tatiana Zoller of WinRAR

Mike Dulin reads the shareware industry news. Plus interviews Dave Gjessing of WaverlyStreet Software.

Mike Dulin reads the shareware industry news. Plus interviews Nikos Bozinis of [xplorer²].

Mike Dulin reads the shareware industry news. Plus interviews Don Robinson of Robinmatch Limited.

Mike Dulin reads the shareware industry news. Plus interviews Thomas Wetzal of Wisco.

Mike Dulin reads the shareware industry news. Plus interviews Danny Weidig of AcroVista.

Mike Dulin reads the shareware industry news. Plus interviews Nick Michaelson of Silver Fox .

Mike Dulin reads the shareware industry news. Plus interviews Henk Devos of Whirling Dervishes Software developer of Alpha ZIP.

Mike Dulin reads the shareware industry news. Plus interviews Yutaka Emura of Emurasoft Inc developer of EmEditor and EmFTP.

Mike Dulin reads the shareware industry news. Plus interviews Mathilde Rufenacht and Robert Martin.

Another security hole in Internet Explorer. Murder suspect's Google searches spotlighted in trial. Digital River is in the process of acquiring Commerce5. This weeks interview is with Marck Pearlstone Director of BrainStorm and Board of Directors member of the ESWC. This interview was held in Brussels at ESWC.

This week we have news about Microsoft is going Live with OneCare Security Software You can get it by going to www.ideas.live.com Firefox has been updated go to www.Mozilla.com FTC Study Shows Technology Gaining in the Battle Against Spam. TechSoup Stock is the technology product philanthropy service just for nonprofits. Go to techsoup.org Then click on the TechSoup Stock tab on the right hand side The Kiss My Butt award of the week goes to to The U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has suggested that the federal government put a tax on hybrids. News from Henk Devos of SharewareBlogs.com This coming weekend, CNSW, the Chinese Shareware Alliance, is holding their conference. A new version of the eSellerate shopping cart. Digital River shares took a new 13% dive Monday News from Dave Collins of SharewarePromotions about Who's afraid of the big bad Google? Search engine blind test and Words to live by.. Our first guest is Luca Giannone the Director of ShareIt. This interview was held at ISDEF in Moscow. Our other guest is William Gross Manager of Enternetica. This interview was also held at ISDEF in Moscow.