Buzz Out Loud 946: OpenMoko is NoMo
Rafe and Molly take over the show today (because of travels by Tom and Natali) and, not surprisingly, geek out and argue a lot about things like FM radio transmitters. In the actual news, it's cell phone Monday with lots of talk about the spread of Android, the future of smartphone Internet apps, and the stupidity of illegally pirating a movie and reviewing it on Fox News. Oops.
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EPISODE 946 |
MLB’s Web video puts everyone else to shame
http://www.businessinsider.com/baseball-crushing-everyone-at-web-video-2009-4
T-Mobile to use Google software in devices for home
http://news.cnet.com/T-Mobile-to-use-Google-software-in-devices-for-home/2100-1037_3-6249436.html
End of OpenMoko
http://mobile.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/04/228240
iPhone 3.0 to include video editing?
http://www.tuaw.com/2009/04/05/rumor-iphone-os-3-0-to-include-video-editing-tools/
Plus, FM radio transmitter
http://www.businessinsider.com/new-iphone-to-have-fm-radio-transmitter-video-editing-2009-4
FCC pressed on
iPhone Skype, tethering apps
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10212102-94.html
AT&T retracts new terms of service, apologizes
http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/03/atandt-retracts-new-terms-of-service-apologizes/
FriendFeed’s redesign makes everything real-time
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10212575-2.html
Net firms start storing user data
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7985339.stm
Fox News columnist fired for reviewing pirated version of "Wolverine"
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/06/business/media/06fox.html
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/06/1246232&art_pos=4
Nikon DSLR gets articulated screen?
http://www.cameratown.com/news/news.cfm?id=7470
British Steam
Car aims for speed record
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10212316-1.html
Voicemail
James from Irvine
innovation through bandwidth caps
Shane from Las Vegas
Chrome on the TV!
E-MAIL
Hey Buzz Crew,
Last week ya’ll had a short piece about Twitter Jurors and their potential effect on our legal system. Two issues that have come up include a system that doesn’t fully understand how people utilize the new technology and people that might be using the technology during inappropriate times (such as during trial deliberations.)
Thought you would enjoy seeing this story about our very own Arkansas Twitter Juror, Johnathan Powell. Lawyers in his case were seeking a mistrial over the $12.5 million judgment based on a handful of tweets made by Powell. The lawyers contended he tweeted during the trial; Powell said it was after. Turns out the time stamps on his tweets were made them look like Powell sent them two hours earlier than he actually did. The judge consequently ruled there were no grounds for a mistrial.
http://www.nwaonline.net/articles/2009/04/03/news/040409fzjurortweet.txt
I have no doubt that at some point inappropriate tweeting could lead to major legal snafus in the future. Since this was clearly not the case, Johnathan merely helped to introduce a few of our local legal experts to the world of modern, Internet-based communication.
Love the show!
Brad the Writer
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I have found some information on an iPhone 32GB 3G from at&t’s website. Perhaps there is an update coming this summer.. I kind of hope so, but at the same time I do not because I still have an iPhone 16GB 3G under contract.
http://blackberrybold.tradeups.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dushaun/3416957428/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dushaun/3416123347/
Dushaun / Nashville,TN
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Hey Buzz Crew,
You guys talked about OnLive, the streaming game company, sometime in the last couple weeks. Randy, Scott, and Patrick (the same Patrick Beja whose emails you guys have been reading on the show lately) also discussed it on The Instance last week, and they really got me thinking. From what I’ve seen, game prices on the service haven’t been announced, but I would hope they would be cheaper than store bought games as it sounds like you will have to pay for the subscription. I wonder if this model could be applied to other processor/graphics intensive programs such as Photoshop. It seems that it would almost be more suited to this application as latency would not be such an issue.
What do you think? Would a streaming, hosted subscription model work for these high-end programs?
Chilli (formerly Erik the MBA student)
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
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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. 
What's with a all the FriendFeed real-time bashing? If your FriendFeed stream has too many events in it, then you need to utilize (1) the pause button, located at the top right in the updated version, or (2) filters.
Maybe I just don't have enough friends, or my firends aren't uber-involved in social networking, but I find that FriendFeed updating in real time to be very convenient.
I'll usually have it running in a background tag, accumulating updates, and check it every so often for anything I'm interested in. It's nice not to need to refresh the page in order to see new content. Isn't that what RSS is for?
Regarding Gentoo Linux and bandwidth:
I'm not sure what Alex in Buffalo was smoking. My main Gentoo box is updated much more frequently than once a month, and doesn't consume nearly that much bandwidth to do so.
Gentoo typically downloads the source for applications as needed for updates, which are then compiled locally. Source code is WAY more compact than binaries, especially since it's compressed.
Other updates, such as the metadata describing which versions of which packages are available are updated via rsync, which only updates the changed parts, and uses compression in the transfer.
Basically, Gentoo can be (and normally is) way more bandwidth-efficient than binary-based Linux distributions on similar update cycles.
If Alex has more than one Gentoo box, there are definitely ways to save bandwidth:
http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Local_rsync_mirror
http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Sharing_Portage_over_NFS
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by JanInVan
April 7, 2009 9:38 AM PDT
- Interesting discussion about the review of the "pre-release" movie. You compared movie piracy to drunk driving: Something one shouldn't do, and if you did it, you certainly shouldn't admit that you did it. Drunk driving is both a crime and a taboo... it's an unacceptable crime.
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(5 Comments)Do you really think there's a similar taboo on movie pirating?
Speeding, for example, is illegal, dangerous, etc. and yet I believe you have all admitted to speeding. You've even rationalized it. You "have to speed" because everybody else is doing it; the other drivers honk at you if you don't, etc.
I think the movie reviewer was "speeding", and he was just unlucky to be working for a media property company that felt it had to take a stand on high moral grounds.