Buzz Out Loud 707: Space is cancelled
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EPISODE 707 |
Skype offers unlimited long-distance plan
http://www.reuters.com/article/companyNewsAndPR/idUSN2141013920080421
Google tops Microsoft, Apple in brand power
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9924273-7.html
Britannica makes content free with widgets, publisher registration
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9923867-7.html
Hackers cancel attack on CNN
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/144850/hackers_cancel_attack_on_cnn.html
Prediction: Microsoft will leapfrog Vista, release Windows 7 early, and change its OS business
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/hiner/?p=664
Microsoft: Finding flaws on our Web site is OK
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/21/microsoft_oks_online_flaw_finding/
Xbox 360 burns house down
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/04/21/arkansas_xbox_360_fire/
Zune getting Audible
http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/21/zune-getting-audible/
Twitter FAIL Day 3: Communications Breakdown
http://www.parislemon.com/2008/04/twitter-fail-day-3-communications.html
PayPal denies plan to block Safari
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/144880/paypal_denies_plan_to_block_safari.html
Russia announces end to space tourism in 2010
http://news.slashdot.org/news/08/04/20/218214.shtml
VOICE MAIL
Ryan Colorado
How to get notifications about Twitter.
Barry Georgia
Why you can’t let the transmitters run after the cutoff date.
Exactly how does Microsoft count their OSes?
Hi guys!
All this “Windows 7″ talk got me thinking: how was the number 7 arrived at? If Vista is “6″, then XP would be “5″. But wouldn’t that mean that 95, 98, ME, and 2000 were all “4″ since before 95 there was 3.1? Right? Or is it just that Bill Gates, like George Costanza, is a big Mickey Mantle fan? I’m confused so any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
--Roy (Bethesda, Md.)
P.S. I’ve been listening since around November 2006, through all the downs and ups, and I can say that I truly do love your show. You guys really do need a big ol’ Webby Award. Is there a “For Your Consideration” campaign we can start for next year?
Old episodes
I just noticed that you changed your XML feed. Now I see that many of the older shows on the list, including all of those older than episode 586 (the first episode I listened to, we hate flash drives) are no longer available for regular download. Where can I find an archive of past shows?
--Tony
Cablevision lies to customers to get them to switch to digital service
Hey Buzz Crew,
Thought this would be worth a molly rant …
Cablevision has decided to send notice out to customers about them moving channels off of analog and moving them to digital and not informing the customer service so...they make random facts up from what they have heard is happening.
Patrick
Molly Wood engages in
ruthless industry analysis in the form of the Daily Buzz, the Buzz
Report video, and, of course, Buzz Out Loud. 
Tom Merritt appears on
CNET TV, specializing in help and how-to and the ever popular Top 5
lists. He also co-hosts CNET's The Real Deal podcast. 
Jason Howell can
often be found producing Buzz Out Loud from the audio studios at CNET,
updating XML feeds from the comfort of his cubicle, and saying "uh-oh"
from time to time. 
Knowing a few broadcast engineers, most of this work is done off-prime time. In the past this work has been done in the 02:00 - 04:00 local time. Two to Four am on Monday, Feb. 17, 2009 I most like will be sleeping.
Peace!
Windows 9x/ME was indeed Version 4.x HOWEVER it has nothing at all to do with Windows NT 3.1, NT4, Windows 2000 (NT5), Windows XP (NT5.1) and now Windows Vista (NT6) and so on and so on. Windows 9x code died with Windows ME as the last 16-bit OS where as Windows 2000 (NT5) was 32-bit native as it grew from the NT4 codebase.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q158238
This is worth clearly defining that Windows Vista is not an extension in code from Windows 9x but there was a clear end to the Windows 9x (Version 4) line of product and code and there is not Version 1-7 path from Windows 1 to Vista.