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LR Extra: Halloween hijinks and gadget ghosts

Season 1

It's the Halloween edition of the Light Reading extra podcast, where our editors and an esteemed guest walk through the digital cemetery looking for gadget zombies and technologies that still haunt us. Palm Pilots, Secret Senders, weird Wi-Fi phones and Slacker music are some things that creep up in this freewheeling conversation.  

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