Behold II Smartphone with AndroidBuzz Out Loud 727: Microsoft to Yahoo: Let's take it slow
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EPISODE 727 |
Microsoft, Yahoo forced into each others’ arms
http://www.news.com/8301-13860_3-9947185-56.html
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Microsoft-Yahoo.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7407585.stm
Silicon Valley Rumor: Microsoft to buy Yahoo Search and then Facebook
http://furrier.org/2008/05/19/
silicon-valley-rumor-microsoft-to-buy-yahoo-search-and-then-facebook/
One-fifth of Americans have never used e-mail
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9946706-7.html
Nintendo
Wii outsells 360, PS3, PS2, PSP combined in April
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080516-npd.html
Best Buy: FCC has no power to fine us over analog TVs
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/
20080519-best-buy-fcc-has-no-power-to-fine-us-over-analog-tvs.html
Shops track customers via mobile phone
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/
article3945496.ece
Microsoft confirms Windows adheres to broadcast flag
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9946780-7.html
Ars Technica acquired by Conde Nast: The lowdown
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/
20080519-ars-technica-acquired-by-conde-nast-the-low-down.html
First public Firefox 3 candidate shoots out the door
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/19/
firefox_3_candidate_release/
Apple wants more mobile music from labels
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/19/
apple-wants-more-mobile-music-from-labels/?hp
Zoho Writer search bug exposes private docs
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9947158-7.html
Using magnets to turn off the brain’s speech center
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/18/1253258
Voice mail
Ben Washington
Special delivery.
Anonymous Turk
We got some Powerset search results.
Dan Ohio
More NBC vengeance?
BSG and Hulu
Starting with Friday’s episode, new Battlestar Galactica will not appear on hulu.com until over a week after their cable premier. It was particularly nice that they only told us this late Saturday Afternoon, after people had been waiting all day refreshing hulu to see it.
This has caused many people to write into hulu’s forums with pretty angry reactions. Here is mine:
“This seems like a crack dealer approach to dealing with your customers.
Give them a great service for 8 episodes to get them hooked… and then remove it in an attempt to get them to pay a higher cost for your cable channel.
If people do actually watch it on the cable channel, then they probably don’t need come here; so what exactly is the new point of hulu?
Apparently it has none. I thought it was supposed to be an ad supported alternative to watching shows on your tv. Apparently, though, it is just meant to draw new viewers into watching the shows by ordinary means, by trickery. This will of course not work, as most people will probably just get the show by means that are not in SciFi/hulu’s control, and other people, like myself, will just wait the extra week for it to come on hulu but will have a much lower opinion of the service and the SciFi channel.
I will personally wait the extra week and watch the show here; but, as Colbert would say, consider yourself “On Notice” hulu.”
-Jack (Berkeley)
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Violent videogames
Hey guys,
Great podcast! I am actually the guy who is working with Dave (doing the trash talking) on that video game study. Thanks for the shout out. I am thinking that people who are more aggressive just normally play more violent games.
Just a thought, maybe you can set the botnet against those Texas crazy ants…. what’s that ants? The botnet said your queen is very fat?
Thanks,
Rob
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XP SP3 endless reboot on my Dell
Hey guys,
I know I’m a bit behind on the podcasts, but i was listening to episode 723 when you guys were talking about the hp computers being a problem. Well just for the record, i have a dell, and it has an Intel processor in it. So why did i get thrown into this endless reboot cycle? The world my never know.
Love the show,
Nick the high school student
P.S. To get rid of this problem, I had to do a system restore.
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Early DTV adaptation
I was listening to Talk of the Nation earlier and I heard that in Willmington, VA they are gonna switch over to full DTV and shut their analog towers off on September 8th of this year! I guess that’ll be the true test to see if its gonna freak out the masses or pass like a calm fart in the back of the class room. Again, love the podcast
sincerely
evandr from peoria, il
As host of the Buzz Report video series, Molly provides a fresh and funny perspective on the latest consumer electronic products to hit the market, as well as commentary on the stories and development that she thinks are truly buzz-worthy. She is also co-host of Buzz Out Loud, CNET's "podcast of indeterminate length," which entertains listeners with a funny and skeptical take on the day's technology news. Her other podcast, Gadgettes, is proof that girls can be geeks too. 
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. 
- add one to the masses that say "play in Peoria"s origin is as Wikipedia says it is (from live shows, vaudeville), and only later came to be a test market for middle America.
- just checking if Molly knows about www.finalgear.com (the site that the TopGear producers go to to see how they're doing).
Regarding the magnet to turn off the brain's speech center- sign me up for one of those when they start allowing people to talk on their cell phones on flights. I'm gonna need it!