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<description><![CDATA[Molly Wood, Tom Merritt and producer Jason Howell give you their daily take on what's happening in tech news throughout the week. Listeners can email us at buzz@cnet.com or call 1-800-616-CNET to leave a message, and be a part of the show. Visit the blog at http://bol.cnet.com.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Buzz Out Loud 858: Opportunistic Net-connecting Deer]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[ So we talked about a lot of serious news today including the Justin.tv suicide, the new Google wiki search, and the unauthorized access of Barack Obama's Verizon calling records. But really, Rafe's description of Net-connected Deer is what I'll remember about this episode. How about you? Listen now: Download today's podcast EPISODE 858 19-year-old Commits Suicide on Justin.tv http://newteevee.com/2008/11/20/19-year-old-commits-suicide-on-justintv/ http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10104716-93.html SearchWiki: Make search your own http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/searchwiki-make-search-your-own.html http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_to_turn_search_into_wik.php http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081120-roll-your-own-search-results-with-googles-new-searchwiki.html Report: Obama&#8217;s cell records improperly accessed http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10104997-83.html Apple releases the iPhone 2.2 update. It's a big one http://venturebeat.com/2008/11/20/apple-releases-iphone-22-update-its-a-big-one/ http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10105145-37.html Astronauts &#8216;drop&#8217; space tool bag http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7737250.stm Water ice glaciers spotted on Mars http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-10104926-76.html New Internet goes to space, comes back to Earth http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10102081-2.html DVD sales down; Blu-ray's missing its mark: What's Hollywood to do? http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-dvd-sales-down-blu-rays-missing-its-mark-whats-hollywood-to-do/ Economy takes bite out of CES http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10104399-1.html Online quiz tests phishing knowledge http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10105144-83.html YouTube tests out high quality, stereo surround videos http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/11/youtube-tests-o.html How to do it: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10104549-2.html?tag=mncol Guitar Hero fake awesome video http://kotaku.com/5095091/yes-bike-hero-was-viral-marketing VOICE MAIL Chace from Maryland - On the suicide story. Steve from Cupertino - GSM BlackBerry E-MAIL Loved the Star Trek TNG / Data references in yesterday&#8217;s podcast. I just had to tell you, since you seem to enjoy about your listeners jobs so much, that I am a Data Production Specialist, which means my boss calls me Dr. Soongh. (Actually, the company I work for does some pretty cool stuff with robotics, but not quite to the android level yet&#8211;check out the website.) Love the show, Renee I reply about you commenting on MMS yesterday. I am getting an iPhone around Christmas this year and I did know about the lack of MMS but you just reminded me. Many of my friends are on a no data, or pre-paid plan for their phone. Now if I have an iPhone and want to send a picture to them they are kinda stuck! How can they check e-mail from their phone to see my picture? Is there some kind of redirecting service maybe? So it is pretty bad both ways. If someone sends me an MMS I have to go to weird page thing. And if I send them a picture over e-mail they have to find an internet connection somewhere. Also, just to let you know that I created some icons for CNET and BOL users (like me) that I have uploaded here: http://tinyurl.com/6b4ubd Love the show. Jono from Australia (or skitterrusty in the forums) I think you may have talked about this in the past. Baen books has several complete books available on-line for free at http://www.baen.com/library/. You can read them on line, or download a copy or load it on an e-book reader. The idea here is that you can read a book by an author you do not know, and will then be happy to pay for more books by This is the same benefit game companies get from used games. I think the software companies should learn from this and stop worrying about used games. Used book stores have not put book publishers out of business, and they have been around a lot longer then video games. LTS Darren Columbus Oh Hey jamoto + probably cooley, I am in Nashville for a ]]></description>
<pubDate>11/21/2008 2:53:00 PM</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Buzz Out Loud 857: Dumber than a robot donkey]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[ In today's show, we find out that the demise of humanity is imminent (or that all of our robot mythology is fundamentally rooted in self-hatred), the RIM BlackBerry Storm takes the world by drizzle, and Microsoft hopes that actually giving you songs will convince you to buy a Zune. Oh, and we don't care about Yahoo Glue. In case you were wondering. Listen now: Download today's podcast EPISODE 857 RIM BlackBerry Storm arrives http://reviews.cnet.com/smartphones/rim-blackberry-storm-verizon/4505-6452_7-33311850.html Meet the first multitouch consumer laptop: HP&#8217;s TouchSmart tx2 http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10102285-1.html Mozilla revenue $75 million in 2007, up 12 percent http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081119-mozilla-revenue-75-million-in-2007-up-12-percent.html http://www.download.com/8301-2007_4-10102627-12.html Microsoft, labels try to revive subscriptions http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10102846-56.html http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-12519_7-10103777-49.html Sources: Apple, music labels talk DRM-free songs http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10102414-93.html Web debut for Guns N&#8217; Roses album http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7739133.stm Yahoo brings its Glue to the U.S. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10103776-93.html Hey, remember Lively, Google&#8217;s Second Life, yeah, me neither. It&#8217;s gone. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/lively-no-more.html Samsung launches 256GB solid-state drive http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-10103645-64.html IBM gets DARPA cognitive computing contract http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-10103355-52.html VOICEMAIL Lee the exhaust guy: swarming with e-books Daniel: MMS on the iPhone http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/20/mobispines-iphone-mms-application-for-the-entire-universe/ Mobispine press release: http://www2.mobispine.com/press/readpress.dot?inode=4568 E-MAIL Hello Buzz crew. Like many others, I downloaded the Xbox New Experience update last night, wasted about 20 minutes tweaking my avatar so I don&#8217;t look like a punk kid, upgraded to LIVE Gold, and made a beeline for the Netflix player. Microsoft and Neflix have provided an amazing service to Netflix subscribers. It&#8217;s a little disappointing that you can only browse titles in your Instant Queue, but the interface is slick and easy to use. I selected an episode from the (otherwise disappointing) current season of Heroes. Within seconds, I was watching the smooth playback in high definition. You can scan forward and backward through the video using a coverflow-like view that shows thumbnails from the show. The only downside was that I had to switch to my TiVo to order pizza. If the Xbox Netflix viewer is anything like what we can expect to see from TiVo, then bring it on. Can you imagine Pizza AND Netflix in one UI? Now THAT&#8217;s a great user experience. - Richard Washington, D.C. ********** Hey JaMoTo and the extra crew member! Looks like we&#8217;re not immune from the big media companies as much as you are in the States. According to The Age&#8230; The Australian film and television industry has launched a major legal action against one of Australia&#8217;s largest Internet service providers for allegedly allowing its users to download pirated movies and TV shows. The action against iiNet was filed in the Federal Court today by Village Roadshow, Universal Pictures, Warner Bros, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, 20th Century Fox, Disney and the Seven Network. (Source: http://www.theage.com.au/news/technology/biztech/film-pirates-put-iinet-in-the-dock/2008/11/20/1226770617457.html) The interesting thing is, the Seven Network is in this suite. For those who don&#8217;t know, we have 3 major commercial television networks, namely the Seven Network, Nine Network and Network Ten. The last 2, offer Australians on-demand downloading of their shows on their website, and the Nine Network themselves have locally produced shows on the iTunes store. So why is the Seven Network resorti]]></description>
<pubDate>11/20/2008 2:41:00 PM</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Buzz Out Loud 856: Competition FTW]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[ We discover a fun new tautology on today's show (you know, competition...for the win?), have a fun time goofing off with Brian Tong, rail against Apple's decision to include HDCP restrictions in its new MacBooks, and rejoice at the arrival of Netflix streaming on the Xbox 360 (minus a few select Sony movies, ahem). Also: India takes on Google in the Earth-spying department. Yeah, India! Go, India! Listen now: Download today's podcast EPISODE 856 Apple&#8217;s new MacBooks have built-in copy protection measures (thanks Mager!) http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/11/18/apples_new_macbooks_have_built_in_copy_protection_measures.html http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2008/11/17/apple-brings-hdcp-to-a-new-aluminum-macbook-near-you Psystar antitrust claim against Apple dismissed http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10101581-37.html Microsoft&#8217;s new Xbox experience launches, Netflix users go wild http://www.pcworld.com/article/154163/microsofts_new_xbox_experience_launches_netflix_users_go_wild.html http://venturebeat.com/2008/11/19/new-xbox-experience-launches-looks-great-netflix-integration-fails/ Netflix streaming on Xbox doesn&#8217;t include Sony Columbia Pictures movies (thanks, Anu!) http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/18/nxe-netflix-streaming-queues-suddenly-gimped/ Quality pays: Hulu trumping YouTube http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10102220-16.html http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20081117/when-will-hulu-catch-youtube-it-already-has/ Microsoft to offer free consumer security suite http://www.download.com/8301-2007_4-10101582-12.html A drink backed by a sports (gaming) hero http://news.cnet.com/A-drink-backed-by-a-sports-gaming-hero/2100-1043_3-6247818.html PC Magazine goes out of print http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/11/pc-magazine-goes-out-of-print http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-ziff-davis-to-close-print-pcmag-focus-on-online-still-looking-for-optio/ Indian space agency, Isro, to roll out a rival to Google Earth (thanks, Phil!) http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article5182639.ece Woman wants a cyborg eye! - BTONG contribution http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/article/267901/artist_wants_cyborg_webcam_eye VOICE MAIL Dwight the T-Grip: true Hollywood battery stories Paul from Verizon: why the BlackBerry rocks! E-MAIL Hey Buzz Crew, I&#8217;ve been traveling so I missed a couple podcasts, but I don&#8217;t think there has been a mention of the re-start of the One Laptop Per Child Give One Get One program this past Monday (11/17). I&#8217;ve been wanting to get one of these laptops for a while mostly because I think they&#8217;re interesting and I want to help out the program. I know the OLPC folks got a lot of grief last time they offered this program because they didn&#8217;t really have the logistical infrastructure to handle the delivery of laptops to people who bought them quickly and some people had to wait months to get theirs. This time however, they&#8217;ve teamed up with Amazon.com and things look like they should work much more smoothly. I placed my order with Amazon and I should get mine by Friday. I&#8217;m sure there are listeners that would like to get a new NetBook/E-reader. And I think the keyboard is waterproof so in can be a great conversation opener for chatting by the pool (Chris from Austin). So deploy the Buzz Brigades to help kids in developing countries get a great tool for education. Julian (San Diego) http://www.laptop.org http://www.amazon.com/xo Hey JaMoTo I was listening to episode 853 and 854 Re: The Wii speak application and then again on to the subject of the software companies not liking pre-loved games. If the companies don&#8217;t like the idea of pre-loved games why don&#8217;t they have their own way of buying back sold games. This would allow people to get the same value from their games as trading their old games to EB etc&#8230; But allow credits to the new games. This would kill 2 birds with one stone so to speak. Plus with the idea of savi]]></description>
<pubDate>11/19/2008 2:52:00 PM</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Buzz Out Loud 855: The iPhone changes everything]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[ On today's show, Brian Cooley announces that he's made the switch...I mean, the big switch. He bought an iPhone. The world briefly stopped rotating, and when it resumed, we laid down the smack on poor Jerry Yang, the Justice Department, the XM-Sirius merger, and subsequent channel flipping, and some poor guy who thought it was a good idea to call our show. Good times! Listen now: Download today's podcast EPISODE 855 Yahoo's Jerry Yang to step down, as a search for new CEO commences http://kara.allthingsd.com/20081117/yahoos-jerry-yang-to-step-down-as-a-search-for-new-ceo-commences/ Jerry Yang's entire memo to his employees on stepping down as CEO http://kara.allthingsd.com/20081117/jerry-yangs-entire-memo-to-his-employees-on-stepping-down-as-ceo/ Yahoo&#8217;s ultimate search: A new CEO http://tech.yahoo.com/news/cnet/20081118/tc_cnet/8301102331010077393 Intel&#8217;s 3.2GHz monster Nehalem roars onto the scene http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081118-intels-3-2ghz-monster-nehalem-roars-onto-the-scene.html http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10098484-1.html Feds can locate cell phones without telcos http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/17/2218209 Expanding the cloud: Amazon CloudFront http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2008/11/amazon_cloudfront.html http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10100883-2.html Sirius, XM subscribers revolt over merger-induced changes http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081118-sirius-xm-subscribers-revolt-over-merger-induced-changes.html Magnatune &#8212; sharing-friendly, artist-friendly label &#8212; goes all-you-can-eat, no-strings-attached http://www.boingboing.net/2008/11/18/magnatune-sharingfri.html More &#8220;Vista Capable&#8221; e-mails unsealed, revealing sassy civil war http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/more-vista-capable-e-mails-unsealed-revealing-sassy-civil-war/ http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-10097511-75.html Google &#8216;Voice Search&#8217; hands-on verdict: Awesome http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10100719-2.html District Court halts keylogger sales http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10099123-83.html Facebook app verification fee draws criticism http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/154099/facebook_app_verification_fee_draws_criticism.html VOICEMAIL Ned from Missouri: I call collusion! E-MAIL JaMoToNaCooTonRa...oh forget it. I think it's funny when everyone laughs at President Bush's old e-mail address. In 2000, wasn't AOL the myspace/facebook of it's time? We've come a long way, to be sure, but that was then. Cent me, 2 times! Jason the curator. ********** I&#8217;m surprised that Domino&#8217;s Pizza in the U.S. is only now catching up with Domino&#8217;s Pizza in the U.K. when it comes to couch potato ordering - Domino&#8217;s Pizza has been on Sky&#8217;s digital TV platform for the last several years (IIRC, since the beginning 7 years ago). And if you&#8217;d rather order your Domino&#8217;s Pizza from your laptop instead of your TV then just go to the Dominos Pizza website (http://www.dominos.co.uk/) which has also been running for years. cheers Scot in London ********** On the topic of pollies and tech, and Web 2.0. The Australian Prime Minister had joined Twitter. http://twitter.com/KevinRuddPM It would even appear that Kevin himself is putting up some post (I am skeptical as ever), but some posts are signed off by what would appear to be his media department. What is even crazier, they have been replying to questions and comments. I would NEVER have expected to see this used as a two way communications method. LTS. Cheers, Tim. ********** I talk to one of the Phoenix mission managers today. I asked, &#8220;If by some mirical Phoenix powers back up after the winter would the mission continue?&#8221; Apparently Phoenix cannot analyze any more soil. The equipment they use to test soil samples has exhausted. The camera and weather station may still work, but they would have to request more money from NASA to continue the mission. Then he told me they r]]></description>
<pubDate>11/18/2008 2:40:00 PM</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Buzz Out Loud 854: Death to the Moon]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[ We thought about calling this podcast graves in space, or delicious Yak, or Jason makes the earth move. But soup_n_salad in the chat room nailed it. A new company wants to send 5,000 capsules full of cremated remains to the moon for burial. Natali and Jason think this is littering, essentially. I think they gotta go somewhere and the Moon has space. We also talk about the new Asus phone, Flash on Windows mobile, and more. Listen now: Download today's podcast EPISODE 854 Obama can&#8217;t use his BlackBerry http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/16/us/politics/16blackberry.html Asus phone http://gizmodo.com/5090348/asus-announces-800mhz-worlds-fastest-smartphone http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/11/17/asus_p565/ Google speech application supposed to really launch today http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/16/update-on-google-iphone-voice-recognition-app-look-for-it-on-monday/ Flash on Windows Mobile http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2008/11/16/adobe-to-demo-flash-on-mobile-but-only-windows-still-working-on-the-iphone/ AOL video uploads shutting down http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/15/aol-gets-out-of-user-generated-video-business/ Most users don&#8217;t office in the cloud: 1% use Google Docs http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081117-report-users-continue-to-prefer-office-over-google-docs.html Old people are scared of technology http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/scared_of_technology_youre_old.php http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10097839-1.html UK couple in real-life divorce over virtual affair http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27718230/?gt1=43001 Order pizza from your TiVo http://www.gearlog.com/2008/11/ordering_dominos_pizza_from_yo.php http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10098333-93.html Lost Beatles song may bring Fab Four to Net sales http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10098215-93.html Quantum cloaking makes molecules invisible http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/16/2137230 US space-funeral company plans lunar cemetery http://news.sg.msn.com/oddities/article.aspx?cp-documentid=1786876 VOICEMAIL Jason in Georgia - What happened to exploding batteries Andy Novosibirsk, Siberia - Netbooks galore here! CT baggage handler - But how did they get there? EMAIL Hey guys, Looks like MS has decided what to do with all the cash they were going to spend on Yahoo. I work for one of the Microsoft managed partner ISV's. MS was just on our weekly internal sales call and our MS partner manager was on talking about how we can offer up Microsoft financing through the end of the MS fiscal year (June). This financing is not just for MS products but anything that is involved in the entire enterprise solution including hardware and other software. The internal MS guys are touting that 2-5 business days turn around and touting that it will be easier and cheaper than going with traditional financing . They are willing to finance anything from small 10k deals and up, and depending on customers credit rating with D&amp;B will determine the % rate. He was saying that it was going to be in the range of 5-8%. https://www.microsoftfinancing.com/ Rob ********** $139 blu-ray players on Woot.com today. Just sayin... Ryan the Biologist ********** In trying to catch up with BOL, I was listening to #845 and I want to pose a question related to the AT&amp;T experiment with bandwidth caps. Has anyone thought about the licensing contracts that AT&amp;T might be looking to sign with media companies? Think about it, AT&amp;T or Comcast could sign usage contracts with sites like Netflix, YouTube or Hulu so that their site usage does not apply to their customers&#8217; bandwidth caps. This would allow ISP&#8217;s to make more $$$ and control traffic. Coming soon to a legal agreement near you&#8230; AT&amp;T merges with YouTube. So far I have not heard anyone bring up this point via CNET or that TWiT guy. If ISP&#8217;s can stop Bit Torrent, then they can probably allow certain, preferred content to flow freely. No charge for this two cents opinion. LTS. Thanks, Rodney *]]></description>
<pubDate>11/17/2008 2:53:00 PM</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Buzz Out Loud 853: The Netbook and the girl]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[ On today's Buzz Out Loud, sage dating tips from a bunch of old married people. Meanwhile, Microsoft launches an online store where you can go buy things if you like to pay more than you have to; a girl offers to pimp your start-up for a mere $75 a day and we give her about a million dollars worth of grief; and Google loves the iPhone more than Android--at least for now! Listen now: Download today's podcast EPISODE 853 Microsoft launches online store: Is there deeper meaning here? http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=10849 http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-10097239-75.html http://www.pcworld.com/article/153874/microsoft_opens_online_store_im_not_impressed.html PSP outsells PS3 and Nintendo (Wii and DS) outsell anything you can think of http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081114-october-npd-sales-the-console-market-is-all-about-pricing.html Nintendo&#8217;s Wii Speak a new front in war against used games http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081113-nintendos-wii-speak-a-new-front-in-war-against-used-games.html Google brings speech recognition to phones http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/14/technology/internet/14voice.html http://www.iphoneatlas.com/2008/11/14/google-iphone-app-already-lists-voice-function-but-its-not-there/ http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10092525-2.html?tag=mncol;title Universal Music Group: We're still selling tunes, amazingly http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20081114/universal-music-group-were-still-selling-tunes-amazingly/ Obama to deliver weekly address via YouTube http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10097321-38.html Lawmaker plans bill on Web neutrality http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE4AC7SU20081114 http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081114-is-government-regulation-needed-to-ensure-net-neutrality.html GirlInYourShirt: $75 buys your start-up marketing for a day http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/13/girlinyourshirt-75-buys-your-startup-marketing-for-a-day/ DNA strands modified into tiny fiber-optic cables http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/14/135213 Purified urine to be astronauts&#8217; drinking water http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE4AD3MB20081114# Voice mail Eric from Michigan: Wii Fit! Chris from Austin: the girl and the netbook E-mail This is Kevin Yeaux from openSUSE again. We&#8217;re on our way to our first release candidate for openSUSE 11.1 on November 27th, but there was some other big news today: Banshee, the open-source music player sponsored by openSUSE/Novell, just released it&#8217;s 1.4 version. The biggest news in here is for owners of the T-Mobile G1 Android phone: full support for the phone&#8217;s music playing capabilities. Full automatic or manual synchronization, cover art, and the ability to import music purchased on the Amazon MP3 store into your computer. The other major news is that there is a beta release of Banshee 1.4 for Mac OS X. Also included are many areas of UI polish and bugfixes. Banshee is a Mono-based open-source media player that supports music, movies, podcasts, features Last.fm integration, and more. Banshee is the default music player for openSUSE. For more info, see http://www.Banshee-Project.org and http://abock.org/2008/11/13/banshee-14-hits-the-streets-packed-with-awesome/ Thanks, and *love* the show, ya&#8217;ll. &#8211; Kevin ********** I think I can explain why RIM went with the suretype keyboard on the new BlackBerry Storm. I have the Pearl, which has the same double lettered keyboard. I can type so much faster on this phone than I can on any other; even my friends with full QWERTY phones can&#8217;t nearly keep up with me. And I think I know why: You can just hit the general direction of the key you want, the area you are aiming for is twice the size of a normal key. The phone software does an excellent job of guessing what you mean, and it learns new words as you type. It also has the added bonus of doing punctuation for you! On a touchscreen, that would be even more usefful. Good job! Ryan from Fresno **]]></description>
<pubDate>11/14/2008 2:40:00 PM</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Buzz Out Loud 852: Tempest in a Twitter teapot]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[ Turns out a lot of people are all too happy to hand over their password to some unknown Web site just to find out if they're popular. Oh, people. When will you learn? Also, Microsoft Live gets a purpose, Valleywag loses its teeth, the BlackBerry Storm gets a release date, and we're all going to become (a) elves in the Wrath of the Lich King or (b) total buffsters on the new EA Sports Active Wii game. Listen now: Download today's podcast Episode 852 BlackBerry Storm gets release date http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2008/11/13/verizon-announces-blackberry-storm-release-date-november-21st-199/ Microsoft Live becomes social network http://home.live.com/ http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-and-now-windows-live-is-a-social-network/ The flap over Twitterrank and the social echo chamber http://blogs.zdnet.com/collaboration/?p=164 http://blogs.zdnet.com/collaboration/?p=163 End of a snarky era: Gawker shuts down Valleywag http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10095984-36.html http://valleywag.com/5085562/valleywag-clusterfuck-faq Spam sees big nosedive as rogue ISP McColo knocked offline http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081112-spam-sees-big-nosedive-as-rogue-isp-mccolo-knocked-offline.html http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10095730-83.html EU court rejects Lego trade-mark http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7726700.stm Worldwide Wrath of the Lich King launch nerfs credit card systems http://www.gamepro.com/article/news/207893/worldwide-wrath-of-the-lich-king-launch-nerfs-credit-card-systems/ Move over Wii Fit, EA announces EA Sports Active http://arstechnica.com/journals/thumbs.ars/2008/11/13/move-over-wii-fit-ea-announces-ea-sports-active Korean geniuses invent lithium batteries with eight times the juice http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/korean-geniuses-invent-lithium-batteries-with-eight-times-the-ju/ Boot Windows Vista In Four Seconds http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/12/2249253 Voice Mail &#8220;Anonymous&#8221;: Google terrifies me! Rafa: On the flu Dan: Hobobook E-mail Hey buzzards! First off love the show! This email is in response to the voice mail about online video. I wanted to point out that you shouldn&#8217;t be mad at cbs as all the shows they produce are online. If you will notice all the shows that warner brothers produces, ie &#8220;the mentalist&#8221; &#8220;cold case&#8221; and &#8220;without a trace&#8221; are not online anywhere. Same goes for the shows produced by abc studios for cbs- &#8220;criminal minds&#8221; and &#8220;ghost whisperer&#8221;. Instead of cbs you should be mad at the company that produces the show . Just my two cents. Stephen Charlotte, nc ********** Maybe this explains why Apple&#8217;s Cinema Displays are so expensive: http://www.macobserver.com/article/2008/11/13.4.shtml Steve Jobs was just waiting for the verdict to come in before he released new models at a lower price. -Andres (Austin, TX) ********** Hey JaMoTo This was regarding what Ken said in 851 I live downtown Chicago and I see net books every day around the Merchandise Mart and I actually saw one when I was Noodle Company this past weekend. So they&#8217;re out there I actually don&#8217;t have one but my laptop is close VGNS-360 Sony Vaio running Ubuntu 8.10 Thanks I love the show! Zach in Chicago ********** Lee from Boston writes: Regarding Episode 851 and the discussion of the many press releases, pitches and the like that use the phrase &#8220;in these troubled times&#8221;. I&#8217;ve decided to put together a new economic metric, the Buzz Phrase Index (BPI) &#8212; I&#8217;ll be tracking the number of hits that a Google search for the phrase &#8220;in these troubled times&#8221; yields. We&#8217;ll see how this curve compares to the national and international economic situation over the next year or so. Details will be on my blog at http://www.tlex.com/wordpress A search on November 13, 2008 yielded 334,000 hits. ********** I&#8217;ve come across a few Netbooks (Asus EeePC&#8217;s) out here in the wilds of Dubl]]></description>
<pubDate>11/13/2008 2:42:00 PM</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Buzz Out Loud 851: Boxcar Jack is looking for you at HoboBook.com!]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[ Social networking finally reaches its most underserved niche: the hobos. Look for Tom to officially join the Hobo Nation any day now. In other news of the day, Caroline McCarthy joins us for a rollicking discussion of The Washington Post's war on spam, and Molly most likely gets herself fired from CBS and kicked off TWiT in one fell swoop. So, learn to love Caroline. She might be sticking around. Listen now: Download today's podcast Episode 851 Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 makes date with U.S.: Black Friday for $799.99 http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/12/sony-ericsson-xperia-x1-makes-date-with-us-black-friday-for-79/ Qualcomm floats 'PC alternative' 3G device http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=10805 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122646599469620261.html Microsoft close to blowing another $1 billion on Verizon search And mobile deal http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/11/microsoft-close-to-blowing-another-1-billion-on-verizon-search-and-mobile-deal http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10094749-94.html 'Washington Post' blog shuts down 75% of online spam http://it.slashdot.org/it/08/11/12/1253230.shtml More Google catch-up: Gmail Adds video IM http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/11/more-google-catch-up-gmail-adds-video-im-goog- http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10093175-2.html Google meets the CDC: Flu tracking by search trends http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081111-google-meets-the-cdc-flu-tracking-by-search-trends.html http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-10094798-71.html First Trek film footage unveiled http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7722407.stm Contact with extraterrestrial life by 2025? http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-10094740-52.html Identifying people by odor as effective as fingerprinting http://idle.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/11/2223205 Classmates.com user sues; schoolmates weren&#8217;t really looking for him http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2008/11/classmates Voice mail Shalin loves space http://www.nasa.gov/missions/science/f_analyzer.html Karen hates space Ken: a Netbook in the wild? E-mail Hi JaMoTo, I am a little peeved today. Tuesday nights are a great night for TV so I decided to skip some shows and watch them online. But nooooo, CBS decided pull the rug out from under the viewing public and not post any full episodes of &#8220;The Mentalist&#8221; on their site. So I decided to go to Hulu and watch &#8220;Law &amp; Order SVU.&#8221; Again another network decided to pull the full episodes. I thought this was their idea. Fox and NBC, didn&#8217;t they start Hulu? I&#8217;m convinced only ABC and to some degree Fox wants people to see their shows. I guess I could buy episodes on iTunes or Amazon. I just wish there was some consistency. Thanks, I needed to vent. Love the show! Tina in Omaha. ********** Hey Super Cool Buzz Crew, The reason for the gimmicky gift card is profit. The speaker gift card at BestBuy can only be acquired in $50 intervals. Studies have shown that people spend between 15 and 25% more than the gift card is worth when they take it redeem it at the store. Offering a cool, (any of my 6 kids would love a speaker the size of a credit card) yet gimmicky item starting at $50 may encourage the gift card buyer to increase the gift from $30 or $40 to get the gimmick will, in the end be more money at the store. This is because the extra money spent with a gift card is not a hard dollar amount, it is a percentage of the card value. BTW, I won a Zune through the PepsiStuff promotion and have subscribed to your podcast, along with 4 others from CNET. I love the way the Zune software deletes my listened to podcasts off of the device and replaces it with fresh ones automatically. Do iPods do that ? I have never used one, I'm kind of against apple as I explain here: http://tsabonis.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!C4372C2C55C1E241!142.entry Always, love the show. Anthony ********** I was very surprise to here your report about the windows 7 article on infoworld.com . Not surprise that you reported it but t]]></description>
<pubDate>11/12/2008 2:53:00 PM</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Buzz Out Loud 850: Cooley hates space]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[ We try to get all sentimental about the demise of the Mars Phoenix lander, but Brian Cooley ruins it with his outlandish assertions about the uselessness of space. Plus, he loses his mind about the crappiness of the BlackBerry Curve. In sum, a good time is had by all. Listen now: Download today's podcast EPISODE 850 Mars Phoenix Lander completes its mission http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-10092897-52.html http://www.urbanhonking.com/universe/2008/11/interview_marsphoenix.html http://gizmodo.com/5082385/this-is-my-farewell-transmission-from-mars Flat-panel TV shipments begin their decline http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10093153-1.html FCC OKs digital workaround for DTV signal range problems http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081111-fcc-oks-digital-workaround-for-dtv-signal-range-problems.html AVG virus scanner removes critical Windows file http://securityandthe.net/2008/11/10/avg-virus-scanner-removes-critical-windows-file/ Cooley Rant: How did RIM fool so many for so long with BlackBerry? It&#8217;s CRAP. Gimme&#8217; that GD iPhone!!! http://www.pcworld.com/article/153666/apples_iphone_so_far_the_best_phone_ever.html Mininuclear plant is safe, affordable, and purifies water (but doesn&#8217;t turn lead into gold) http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/11/mini-nuclear-plant-is-safe-affordable-and-purifies-water-but-d/ Best Buy&#8217;s holiday gift cards now double as speakers, still a lazy present http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/11/best-buys-holiday-gift-cards-now-double-as-speakers-still-a-la/ Largest Aussie ISP agrees to &#8220;ridiculous&#8221; Net-filter trial http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/11/1329222 Windows 7 benchmarks show little improvement on Vista http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/11/0110251 Texting bug hits the Google phone http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7722367.stm VOICEMAIL John the Bomb Builder: cheap Blu-Ray! Anonymous Ad-hater E-MAIL Hey Buzz crew- Did you know most states have a public utility service commission? A friend of mine was told by Bellsouth that it was too expensive to fix the phone lines to her house and she could live with bad service or find someone else to help. She called the Georgia Public Service Commission and filed a complaint. The GPSC called Bellsouth and said you fix it or you get fined. So they fixed it within two weeks. Buzz Brigade you are having problems with your utilities Google public service commission in your state and get some help sticking up for yourself. And yes there is one in Oregon, so yesterday&#8217;s DSL caller should look into it! Sheala, GA Ps- if I pay $3400 for a graphics card, it better be showing me the future or something! ********** From the Consumerist. http://consumerist.com/5082090/timeline-how-circuit-city-came-undone According to the chart it all starts in 2007 when they fired all employee&#8217;s that knew anything so that they could replace them with a team of monkey&#8217;s at a lower cost. In the comments it is traced further back to 2003 when they converted all commissioned sales persons to hourly to lower costs (and pay) and the &#8220;good&#8221; people left. Of and they fired 4100 people at that time. http://www.allbusiness.com/company-activities-management/sales-selling/6363203-1.html The best comment is &#8220;Maybe Circuit City should fire all of their executives and hire lower-paid replacements.&#8221; LTS Brent ********** The average life cycle of a game console, not including the ones that were colossal failures (I&#8217;m looking at you N-Gage), is five to six years. It is way too early for any of the big three to be releasing a new console. Updated versions of the current machines not included (Wii-HD anyone?). Love the show, Jonah Gregory (Certainly not e-mailing from work) ]]></description>
<pubDate>11/11/2008 2:52:00 PM</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Buzz Out Loud 849: Who you callin' 'barmaid,' larper?]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[ A friendly member of Buzztown calls up to tell us how he named his Dungeons and Dragons characters after the core Buzz team. It all seems fine and dandy until he gets to Molly. Ahem. Not cool, guy. In actual news today, earbuds can be dangerous to your health (if you use a pacemaker), Circuit City files for Chapter 11, and the iPhone tops the RAZR as the most purchased U.S. consumer handset. Take that, RAZR! Listen now: Download today's podcast EPISODE 849 Your earbuds could stop your pacemaker http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2008/11/09/2091277-music-headphones-can-interfere-with-heart-devices Intel&#8217;s health care system http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE4A83I120081109 Circuit City files for bankruptcy http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10092366-92.html iPhone trumps RAZR as most purchased U.S. consumer handset http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/11/10/iphone_trumps_razr_as_most_purchased_us_consumer_handset.html iPhone trounces BlackBerry, Treo in reliability http://www.intomobile.com/2008/11/10/iphone-trounces-blackberry-treo-in-reliability.html MGM movies coming to YouTube http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10092283-93.html Xbox 360 bests rivals on games sold per console metric http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081107-xbox-360-bests-rivals-on-games-sold-per-console-metric.html AT&amp;T video search site http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10092387-2.html Dell MP3 player scratched http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/11/10/dell-mp3-player-plans-getting-canned-hopefully/ Nvidia makes first 4GB graphics card http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/10/1434257 Study shows how spammers cash in http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7719281.stm VOICE MAIL Brandon the D&amp;D guy &#8230; is so sorry he called E-MAIL Hey there Buzz Out Loud crew, I don&#8217;t want to come off sounding grouchy, but I would like to point out there are people out there that can only get dial-up Internet service (like me for example). In my case, Verizon (my local phone company) has told me that they no longer install DSL in communities because they want to focus on rolling out their FiOS service. When I asked when they would get around to installing it in our little town, the rep said &#8220;Well, the schedule goes to 2012 but I don&#8217;t see your town on the list.&#8221; To add insult to injury, AT&amp;T is running a fiber optic line that goes right though the center of town, yet they refused to hook up our city. Apparently, because we won&#8217;t make the providers enough money, they have no problem telling us &#8220;no internet for you.&#8221; So, when you talk about people not switching over because they &#8220;don&#8217;t know any better,&#8221; just remember there are some people out there that have to wait a couple of hours for your podcast to finish downloading so they can listen to it. Love the show, --Joel Getz Powers, Ore. P.S. It only takes me four minuets to check my gmail on dial up. Hey Buzz Crew. Upon listening to Episode 848 this evening, I downloaded the songbird beta to test it out. It&#8217;s much like iTunes. The only thing that made me sad about this was that I recently started using Lala.com&#8217;s wonderful service, and then got sad, because even though this program is great, it&#8217;s not Lala. Then I had a revelation! What if someone integrated Lala into songbird? This would be amazing! All of my online cloud media in my media player at home too! I think some developer listening should do this. It would just be Nifty. Well anyway. Love the show. Oh, and if you read this on the show, it should be read by Molly. She has an excellent reading voice. --Chase Niall from Dublin, Ireland here, I know that your feelings on Blu-ray is that it&#8217;s dead in the water but I think it may be given a life line. Recently, while talking to a friend I found out something interesting, my friend works for SR Technics, A large aircraft mantainance and repair company. He was helping to install the new Blu-ray syste]]></description>
<pubDate>11/10/2008 2:29:00 PM</pubDate>
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