Hello fans of the Plan8 Podcast, I apologize for being a little late, currently at South-By-SouthWest and will have tons of episodes to post this week. So without further wait here is the latest for the 2nd week of march, 2010.

Plan8 Host: Patrick Roanhouse

Tech Journalist: Mark Milian

Today on the Plan8 we talk about:

1.) Apple sues HTC on 20 patents, hopes to kill the hydra that is Android dead [Link]
1a.) Ex-Sun honcho calls Apple’s HTC suit an “act of desperation” [Link]

2.) Telecoms continue move to metered Internet, AT&T CEO says [Link]

3.) Internet access is ‘a fundamental right’ says over 75% in a new pole [Link]

4.) BmoreFiber project to get Google Fiber to Baltimore [Link]

5.) Chromium OS on a $199 Tablet powered by Freescale [Link]

6.) Google buys DocVerse, look at this spending spree [Link]

7.) Newegg selling ASUS Eee Box with Red Flag Linux pre-installed [Link]

8.) Facebook Will Allow Users to Share Location [Link]

9.) Energizer Bunny’s software infects PCs – USB battery recharger status software contains Trojan, says US-CERT [Link]

10.) More Microsoft Courier details (and iPad April 3) [Link]

11.) The phone of choice by terrorists leaders? iPhone! [Link]

Today’s music is:

“Weatherbee” by J. Arthur Keenes of the 8bit Collective

This podcast is released by its owner, Patrick Roanhouse (twitter), under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA License.

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The Plan8 Podcast’s (Twitter) host Patrick Roanhouse (Twitter) got to inverview Boxee CEO Avner Ronen (Twitter), Boxee Head UI Designer Whitney Hess (Twitter), and Boxee Communications & PR officer Andrew Kippen (Twitter)

Today on the podcast we talk about:

• Boxee the social networked Media Center Application
• Boxee’s User interface design
• Mark Cuban Vs Boxee Debate
• Hulu Vs Boxee, the game of cat and mouse
• Future of Boxee in the home theater arena
• Boxee user made apps

The Plan8 Podcast host Patrick Roanhouse (Twitter) also has a special annoucement to make:

“…

Last week I got word that the Plan8 Podcast now has press passes for two of the largest geek events on the internet.

First is the E3 Electronic Gaming expo, in Los Angeles, California. Once the Largest and Grandest of Industry Expos, the last few years it had tried to sit back and cool down a bit. But now, by popular demand, it is back and bigger than ever. This will be my first time going and being able to cover it.

The Second event is the 13th Annual Webby Awards in New York City. The Webbys have been going on since 1996 celebrating the wonders of the web. Web Media covering in blogs, podcasts, and graphics in a wide range of topics are celebrated and awarded in this red carpet event. The likes of Al Gore, Steven Colbert, David Bowie and many more have either hosted or been there to receive awards for their contributions to Internet and Digital Media Culture.

I have lined up a Film crew as well this time to help me cover these events and I really am hoping to raise the bar of my podcast for you, my viewers and listeners.

But there is a small problem and I need your help,

I need to get sponsors to help cover the cost for these shows to cover the travel costs for these events which would cost about just shy of three thousand dollars. If anyone of my followers can help in getting any corporate sponsorship to help cover the costs I will be in your debt.

Also you can donate personally via the paypal donate button on the the Plan8 Home page. If you donate $15 Dollars or more you can be entered in to win one of  five Cradlepoint Mobile Routers I will be giving away monthly.

Thanks again for listening to the show and thanks for your help. For any suggestions feel free to email me at Podcast@Plan8ts.com or leave a voice mail message on our skype line at +1.443.483.4350. Thanks for listening to the show”

The Music in today’s podcast was:

Symphony Kids (Microchip REMIX) by Hurrigame Boy (Myspace)

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