The competition is heating up between the 3 consumer giants in the likes of Microsoft, Google and Apple. With Apple having an arsenal of gadgets that wows us, Microsoft and Google is trailing not too far away in terms of the mobile gadgets race to gain market share but apple’s ancillary army of developers and apps is definitely something no other company can rival at the moment. How long will the dominance last?

With the underdog JooJoo delaying their launch date, one wonders if the company can survive the tsunami that is inevitable and this time from top 3 IT fault lines.

We lightly touch on politician’s gripe on Open Source being the Enemy of the State. Wonder who paid them to do this…

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Mobile Phone Updates:
1. Nokia N900 Update by Michael and Sherwin

2. Nokia N900 will be getting MeeGo

http://mytechnews.info/b/2010/03/ooooo-nokia-n900-to-get-meego.html

Microsoft – Apple Competition Heats Up
3. Windows Phone 7 vs iPhone

http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/windows-phone-7-series-demo-video-reveals-new-apps-screens/

4.Microsoft Courier vs iPad

http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/microsofts-courier-digital-journal-exclusive-pictures-and-de/

5. and JooJoo misses the boat and the gap is drawing closer

http://www.inquisitr.com/64205/joojoo-misses-promised-delivery-date-company-delivers-a-no-comment/

Google keeps expanding it’s Web Dominance
6. http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/breaking-news/google-buys-photo-editing-site-picnik/story-e6freuyi-1225835960257

Open Source is now Enemy of the State
7. http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/58042

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You will hear a slew of new product announcements from Nokia, HTC, Sony Ericsson, Samsung, Intel, Microsoft Windows Phone 7 and new partnerships. Some of the biggest news like Nokia Maemo and Intel Moblin to merge to a new product called MeeGo, HTC Desire – the Nexus one with Sense UI,  Mobile Windows Phone 7′s impressive new concept and other product announcement that Sherwin will share with us.

Related to the mobile world, Adobe Air announced that they will develop Air for mobile devices. I think this gave us the biggest “Sigh” in the podcast.

We dissected Google Buzz and what is really mean to us after 2 weeks of usage. Is this going to be a useful tool for gmail users or a lead in to something bigger from Google?

Somehow with all the Mobile World Congress and Google Buzz hype, the Google Speech-To-Speech translator slipped in unnoticed by most of us. So hear what we thing about another game changer that Google is developing.

We then diverted to talk about translation as a whole while expanding on the google’s speech-to-speech translator and ended up having lots of time wasting fun with Translation Party (http://translationparty.com). So if you want to know what the title of the podcast means go here – http://www.translationparty.com/#6616031 and find out what we were laughing about.

We ended with the most crucial technology contribution that Mimos (Malaysia) will bring to the community. The Aunty PC (Jen-ii, formerly known as the Mak-cik PC) A hilarious tickling of the funny bone ensues…

Enjoy!

This Week’s theITChannel Podcast is brought to you by:

Michael Foong
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