iPhone 3GS from AT&T. Free ShippingBuzz Out Loud 857: Dumber than a robot donkey
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.
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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’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’ 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’s Second Life, yeah, me neither. It’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
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’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’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’s a great user experience.
- Richard
Washington, D.C.
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Hey JaMoTo and the extra crew member!
Looks like we’re not immune from the big media companies as much as you are in the States. According to The Age…
The Australian film and television industry has launched a major legal action against one of Australia’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.
The interesting thing is, the Seven Network is in this suite. For those who don’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 resorting to suing when they could just easily join the other two networks by providing Australians more legal alternatives to the torrents? This goes for the other companies in the suit. If they really want to kerb illegal downloading, why don’t they open some US-exclusive options like Hulu to the Australian audience? You guys (maybe it was The 404, I can’t remember, haha!) said yourself that Hulu’s catching up to YouTube in terms of revenue.
It’s great to be an iiNet customer at this stage too. First the trial of the internet filter, now this from the entertainment industry. I’m with iiNet myself, so it’ll be interesting what’s to come.
Love the show guys!
Cheers!
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Mark
For the teacher and others who are having problems with HDCP issues there
are HD Strippers that are adapters or boxes that they themselves are HDCP
compliant and then pass through the signal without the HDCP DRM. a famous
example is the HDFury:
Robert Clark
Prince Albert,SK
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A hobo is a traveling homeless person who takes work when they can get
it. A tramp is a traveling homeless person who does not work.
Hobos are also governed by a code of ethics, have a duly appointed hobo
king, and a rich hobo-only written language based on a series of
pictographic symbols and codes which they used to communicate things
such as marking a good place to sleep, where you can find someone
willing to give you food, and what towns have cops that will beat the
crap out of you.
So I think Tom will be doing a decent service by launching a hobo social
site. I would give it a square missing it’s top line.
–Keith from New York, not a hobo
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JaMoTo,
I just wanted to take a quick moment to ask that you recognize the BOL chat room moderators on the show as they do an absolutely fantastic job of making the chat extremely user friendly and pleasant.
I’m sure you guys are generally too busy either getting ready for, or actually executing, the show to really notice how hard they work at helping new users along and just generally making everyone feel comfortable within the community.
I’d list them all by name but I fear that I would forget someone and feel terrible about that - suffice it to say that if someone has a gold star next to their name they are nothing short of awesome personified.
Not as anonymous as I used to be,
Snit
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.
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Jason Howell can
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from time to time. 
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2335038,00.asp
Anyone needing more confirmation FUD-Wood knows (k)rap all about technology listen to BOS 856 (0:43) where her tone regarding Apple adopting HDCP was so negative it's as if you'd have thought Apple invented the damn thing listening to her.
Then today 857 (38:07) while Tom shows his wisdom and tells the listers the real deal regarding Apple and HDCP - and how they are one of the LAST to adopt it by giving in to the studios.
NOTICE: FUD-Wood tries to hide away from her original remarks yesterday as she squeals " 'cos they [Apple] didn't do this before" without any admission of her remarks yesterday.
FUD-Wood go spend a year or two in a tech school before commenting on tech. Like I said before I would have no problems disliking Apple or getting information wrong, but my problem is you seem to always get it wrong.
I would not worry or care about HDCP At the moment, simply because I have no access to such DRMed media here in Saudi Arabia.
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by DennisMcCK
November 21, 2008 11:23 PM PST
- Regarding Guns N? Roses releasing "Chinese Democracy," Dr. Pepper is making good on their promise made last March to give a free soda to every person in America if the album comes out before the end of 2008. However, you have to visit their website this Sunday to get the coupon which is only available for only 24 hours. Here's a link to the "article" that appeared on page 2 of the Business section in today's San Francisco Chronicle:
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They don't seem to be publicizing this very much, so it's up to the Buzz Brigade to get the word out!