Things are happening in the air around us: our tabazine is beaming its way to iPads around the globe, iThings are being shuffled to and from various parts of the stratosphere, and there was a frightening dearth of airborne activity in the BlackBerry-based community. Tangible inventions have also made their usual marks on the week in tech news: newly-minted iOS 5 guru Dante Cesa joins Tim and Brian this to bring it all down to earth and straight to your ears in this, the 260th episode of the Engadget Podcast. Hosts: Tim Stevens, Brian Heater Guest: Dante Cesa Producer: Trent Wolbe Music: I Can’t Go For That 00:01:30 – Engadget Distro is ready for download! 00:03:45 – Photoshop contest: send us your best / most terrifying Frankengadget 00:05:00 – iOS 5 review 00:13:30 – iCloud opens to the masses, iOS 5 lurks near 00:23:45 – BlackBerry services offline for some in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Again. (update: RIM confirms India, South America, too) 00:25:13 – BlackBerry outage spreads to US and Canada, continues in Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia, South America (update: RIM confirms) 00:26:00 – Mike Lazaridis apologizes for BlackBerry outage: ‘We’ve let many of you down’ (video) (Update: full services restored) 00:38:40 – Motorola Atrix 2 hands-on at CTIA E&A 2011 (video) 00:41:18 – Archos 80 G9 review 00:46:11 – T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II review 00:52:15 – HTC Sensation XE with Beats Audio review 00:56:51 – ASUS Zenbook UX21 and UX31 headed to the US October 12, starting at $999 00:59:02 – Samsung crashes iPhone 4S block party, lures Aussies with $2 Galaxy S IIs 00:59:29 – Dennis Ritchie, pioneer of C programming language and Unix, reported dead at age 70 01:00:12 – Listener questions Hear the podcast Subscribe to the podcast [ iTunes ] Subscribe to the Podcast directly in iTunes (enhanced AAC). [ RSS MP3 ] Add the Engadget Podcast feed (in MP3) to your RSS aggregator and have the show delivered automatically. [ RSS AAC ] Add the Engadget Podcast feed (in enhanced AAC) to your RSS aggregator. [ Zune ] Subscribe to the Podcast directly in the Zune Marketplace Download the podcast LISTEN (MP3) LISTEN (AAC) Contact the podcast Send your questions to @tim_stevens . Leave us a voicemail: (423) 438-3005 (GADGET-3005) E-mail us: podcast at engadget dot com Twitter: @bheater , @timstevens Filed under: Podcasts Engadget Podcast 260 – 10.14.2011 originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 14 Oct 2011 10:45:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink