Episode 97 of The pause.com Entertainment Podcast is live!

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We start out this episode with some listener mail, general pleasantries and the like.

In video games, the guys talk about  Uncharted 3 and Skyrim. Tony also talks about Pixeljunk Sidescroller. Miscellaneous video game news follows.

In TV (~30:45), the segment starts with the guys talking about The Walking Dead, The New Girl, Top Chef and Liam Neeson’s appearance on Life’s Too Short. Tony talks about X-Factor and Revenge, and Lou talks about Smallville season 8, Ringer, Terra Nova and Chopped. Random TV news tidbits after that.

In Movies (~1:04:30), Tony watched the Horrible Bosses Blu-ray and Candy Man, as well as half of Love and Other Drugs. Miscellaneous movie news follows.

In the Mash-Up segment (~1:24:45) the news this week includes:

  • There’s a rumor out of Taiwan that Amazon will be building a Kindle smartphone
  • Microsoft is building a social network to let you search other social networks
  • Mongolia’s capitol city Ulan Bator wants to build an artificial glacier to help keep the city cool
  • Alaska Airlines has just done a bunch of passenger flights using a 20% biofuel blend
  • IOS 5.0.1 was released to fix iPhone 4s battery issues. Did it work? Hmm…
  • Intel’s Knights Corner processor has 50 processing cores
  • There’s a rumor that HTC will release a smartphone with a 2.5GHz quad-core processor
  • The IAA wants to put giant solar arrays in space to beam energy down to earth
  • A new drug called Adipotide might actually cause fat in an obese person to be destroyed
  • Mobile developer Applidium claims to have cracked Siri’s code and says they can make it usable on any mobile device
  • Swivl is a mobile accessory that tracks you so that you can walk around while video recording yourself
  • Rumors also have surfaced showing a new Blackberry device running the next-gen BBX software
  • A USB device called iTwin lets you use your own computer as a cloud storage device for any other computer with a USB port
  • For $25 / year, iTunes Match will cloud sync even music that you didn’t buy from iTunes

And of course keep listening after the Mash-Up to hear Tony & Lou’s votes for the Best & Worst Entertainment Moments of the Week!

The pause.com Entertainment Podcast is hosted by long-time friends Tony Incopero and Lou Zucaro. Join them as they discuss all sorts of fun things in the world of entertainment, gaming, gadgets, cars and more with a healthy dose of their sense of humor.

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