The Laporte Report (Audio)
Miscellaneous audio from TV and radio technology guru Leo Laporte's travels, including his regular segments on KFI and CFRB, other radio and podcast interviews, speeches, and whatnot. You never know what you'll get or when you'll get it but we guarantee it will be interesting. Although the feed is no longer being updated, you can enjoy episodes from the TWiT Archives.
Episodes
My weekly tech news wrap up with John Donabie on 1010 CFRB in Toronto including:
- Blackberry outage is due to a "system upgrade"
- Yahoo looks to Murdoch for help
- Vista service pack 1 gets closer
- According to the Hollywood Reporter, even Toshiba will drop HD DVD
Hosts: Leo Laporte and John Donabie
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July 1, Californians will join many other states and countries in requiring drivers to use handsfree devices when talking on their cell phones. I called Bill using the Jawbone today.
I currently use the BlueAnt Supertooth Light in my car. It has its own speaker and mic and attaches to the visor. It works pretty well, although I can't vouch for what it sounds like to my callers.
Leo's gives his thumbnail review of the iPhone while Bill mocks him...
Hosts: Leo Laporte and Bill Handel
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My regular Friday appearance with Bill Handel on KFI Los Angeles.
Today is Christmas Day for geeks, D-Day for the other cellular carriers: the iPhone ships today. We talk about the pros and cons and linesitters.
Hosts: Leo Laporte and Bill Handel
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My weekly tech news wrap up with John Donabie on 1010 CFRB in Toronto including the green Apple, Spidey 3 hits the torrents, and the enervating Windows Vista.
Hosts: Leo Laporte and John Donabie
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My regular Friday appearance with Bill Handel on KFI Los Angeles. Today we talk about the face recognition system in the 2008 Lexus 600hL designed to keep drivers paying attention to the road.
Hosts: Leo Laporte and Bill Handel
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My regular Friday appearance with Bill Handel on KFI Los Angeles.
Today we talk about Steve Jobs's surprising call for the record companies to drop copy protection on digital music.
Hosts: Leo Laporte and Bill Handel
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My weekly tech news wrap up with John Donabie on 1010 CFRB in Toronto. The Zune launch is coming and more...
Hosts: Leo Laporte and John Donabie
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My regular Friday appearance with Bill Handel on KFI Los Angeles.
Today we talk about Microsoft's iPod killer: the Zune.
Hosts: Leo Laporte and Bill Handel
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My weekly tech news wrap up with John Donabie on 1010 CFRB in Toronto.
We cover the Google/YouTube merger, Windows Vista license limitations, and Oprah's red Nano.
Hosts: Leo Laporte and John Donabie
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My regular Friday appearance with Bill Handel on KFI Los Angeles.
Today we talk about the Google acquisition of YouTube.
Hosts: Leo Laporte and Bill Handel
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My quarterly appearance with Ronn Owens on San Francisco's KGO AM 810.
Hosts: Leo Laporte and Ronn Owens
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My weekly tech news wrap up with John Donabie on 1010 CFRB in Toronto.
We cover the HP scandal, a major Windows security flaw, and teens staging fights online.
Hosts: Leo Laporte and John Donabie
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It's the return of The Laporte Report!
My weekly tech news wrap up with John Donabie on 1010 CFRB in Toronto. As usual, I've left in the pre and post-show chatter.
Topics include airlines that are banning Mac and Dell laptops over battery fears and the new iTunes Store.
Hosts: Leo Laporte and John Donabie
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I appear every few months on the Bill Good Show on CKNW in Vancouver for a half-an-hour to talk about current tech stories.
Topics include the new iTunes Movie Store, the difficulties content companies are facing, buying an HDTV, and more.
Host: Leo Laporte
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It's the return of The Laporte Report!
On my weekly gadget news with Bill I discuss Apple's new iPods and Microsoft's Zune player.
Hosts: Leo Laporte and Bill Handel
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I talked with John about the following stories:
Colin Farrell's The New World will be presented in smell-o-vision in Japan.
The Beatles have finally agreed to online music downloads.
And domain name squatting is back baby. Sex.com sold for $12 million US!
Hosts: Leo Laporte and John Donabie
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Leo Laporte on the Bill Handel Show, KFI AM 640, Los Angeles, 7:50am, April 14, 2006
TiVo gets a second life at the ninth hour. A jury has awarded TiVo $74 million in its lawsuit against the DISH Network (Echostar). That means TiVo effectively owns the patents to the key technologies for DVRs (digital video recorders) including the ability to pause, rewind, and fast forward live programming.
TiVo probably wouldn't have survived ...
Tech News for March 25, 2006
Microsoft says the consumer version of Vista (the next Windows) won't be out until 2007. Another major setback for this troubled release. Analysts say this could be good for Apple.
France legalizes music piracy... sort of. Will Apple pull out?
Amazon is taking heat for suggesting "adoption" books when searched for "abortion".
Hosts: Leo Laporte and John Donabie
I talked with John about the following stories:
Top story is the Apple Announcement, of course. Apple also patched some serious flaws this week.
Also of interest, AOL is proposing a system where mass mailers pay a fraction of a cent per email - and the Internet community is up in arms.
And speculation about Microsoft's Origami device is building.
Hosts: Leo Laporte and John Donabie
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