Good morning! Welcome to the last episode of our "Today in IT" podcast. This is a great day for us because we celebrate 4 years since the podcasts replaced the radio stations.
The new videopodcasting format has also been devised by the experts, therefore soon we will also be able to broadcast images.
Our headline for today is the ruling in the AMD versus Intel lawsuit. Our elder listeners remember the debut of this lawsuit in 2005. It seems that today we will hear the final ruling, the score being until now 2 to 1 in favor of AMD. Intel might even the score today, so it's likely that this lawsuit will probably be brought before a higher court. In other processor-related news, for the third year in a row, IBM is dominating the processor market with The Cell 4, with a market share of 60%.

Tomorrow, Apple is expected to announce the finalizing of the acquisition of Intel's factories, the Mac using Pentium processors since 2006. The company, whose stocks have recorded moderate increases, after the spectacular decreases from the past few years, will transfer to Apple its entire processor line, after the success of The Cell 1, 2, and 3, Apple remaining Intel's main client.

For Apple this is not the only success recorded this week, and tomorrow everybody is expecting the announcement of the iMovie Tunes contest winner, who will receive 20 Video iPods with color display and two invitations to the premiere of the movie Star Wars: The Book of Yoda.

Yesterday we were announced that next month we will be able to finally test the pre-beta version of Windows Blackcomb, whose development started 4 years ago. Blackcomb comes to replace the last Microsoft operating system, Longhorn, which entered the market in 2006 and has already reached Service Pack number 20.

Unlike Longhorn which was designed for PCs and mobile equipments (Tablet PC and notebook), Blackcomb will run on every device fitted with processor and memories, ranging from Xbox 6, the new Microsoft console, to USHD-ATV (Ultra Super High Definition Angle TV) TV sets.

Microsoft has also announced that it's taking into consideration the option to introduce a new licensing system for the other operating system, MicroLynx, derived from an open source OS, known as Linux. Up until now, the fee for MicroLynx was 1 cent per core, but Microsoft has decided that since IBM's The Cell 4 processors have 30 cores, it's time the licensing fee per do drop to 0.5 cents per core.

Microsoft hopes that this decision will give its operating systems, Longhorn and MicroLynx, a chance against the fierce attack launched by Max OS X 15.0 The Big Bad Cat which works on both PCs and Macs.

Google founders, Page and Brin, intend to hold a press conference today, in which they will present the last version of the Google search engine (a project launched even before 2000). Google has gone through several transformations and in this moment, the search engine will launch the Google Moon service, which indexes the territories discovered on Moon by the NASA's space probes. Once RFID was introduced in all the supermarkets, Google launched last month a service that searches through stores' shelves. The service works in connection with the Google Fridge Search, a service that can help users find out what food they have in the fridge, directly from the cell phone or any other equipment connected to the Internet.

In response to that, Yahoo has announced its intention of launching a new searching service which will index the clothes in your wardrobe, obviously for those willing to take that chance. MSN, which has similar programs, is still searching for the best way to place ads in the results returned by the engine.

Google recorded a spectacular stock growth ($1000 per share), when it was announced that it will start introducing audio-video ads in the RSS feeds viewed in Longhorn.

RSS technology, together with podcasting, has become one of the most important distribution media for advertising and don't forget our show is also available in RSS format.

RSS feeds can be read directly with Longhorn or with the version 7 of the Firefox browser, which has now a market share of 90%. Firefox's main rival is Netdream, a browser derived from the once secret source code of a Microsoft product, Internet Explorer, which has become open source once Linux was integrated in Microsoft.

We hope that today, July 17 2012, will be a wonderful day for you all and we invite you to a next episode of our show where we will analyze the latest games and mobile phones of the moment.

*This article is purely fictional, it has nothing to do with reality, and it should be regarded as such.