Drop, charge, and lose the cordsBuzz Out Loud 954: Sext cells
Maggie Reardon from News.com joins Natali and me to talk about a host of cell phone news, including new iPhone patents, legislation around sexting, and of course, courier pigeons that deliver contraband cell phones to inmates. I mean, we all saw that last one coming...right?
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EPISODE 954 |
eBay buys Gmarket
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2009/04/16/technology/business-us-gmarket-ebay.html
Apple iPhone patents
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10220939-37.html?tag=newsEditorsPicksArea.0
PC sales are down but it is not that bad
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10220392-92.html
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/15/dell-still-struggles-hp-and-acer-grow/
CNN first to 1 million Twitter followers
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10220629-93.html
Yelp has Twitter-like reviews
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/15/yelps-new-and-improved-iphone-app-officially-hits-the-app-store/
Verizon Hub app store
http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/verizon-bringing-app-store-the-hub-landline-demos-hub-2/
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE53E7HJ20090416?feedType=RSS&feedName=technologyNews
Radio Shack lets you trade in your gadgets
http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/04/16/radioshack-stores-now-accepting-trade-ins-of-old-gadgets/
Smuggling pigeons
http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/devious-carrier-pigeon-caught-trying-to-smuggle-cellphone-parts/
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/04/15/colombia.jailbird/index.html
Rock Band for The Beatles
http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/the-beatles-rock-band-to-support-multiple-mics-for-harmonious-p/
If your Amazon account is suspended, so are your Kindle books
http://i.gizmodo.com/5214546/surprise-if-your-amazon-account-dies-it-takes-your-kindle-with-it
Vermont removes harsh “sexting” penalties
http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=65971&full_skip=1
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Regarding the email on BOL952 of Roel, from Belgium, I wanted to let you know how are things here in Portugal.
You can’t have distractions while driving and you should keep both hands on the wheel while driving.
This means no GPS navigating, text messaging, call making or even cleaning your nose. This last one happened to a poor guy about a year ago in Oporto, my hometown.
This guy was in traffic using tissues to clean his nose while driving and some police officers took this law so literally that they pulled their
car by his side and gave him a ticket.
Love the show, I hear it everyday on my headphones while riding my bicycle to work.
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Real Life Snakes on a Plane?
As a throwback to the movie, it could never happen for real could it?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8001644.stm
Regards,
Ed in the UK
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This is a tech story. Like him or not, Ashton Kutcher is a significant face of the tech world. He's a geek. Not just because he uses Nikon cameras. He understands that the Internet is the new way and TV is the old. What is he up to? He's online all the time... blogging, video, live video streams... not just twitter. And he's still in a film or two a year. He's pretty busy considering he can live comfortably for the rest of his life on what he and his wife have mad. At least he's not just partying and getting DUI's like so many other celebs.
I wasn't following Kutcher until recently. I joined because I was impressed by one guy taking on CNN. But. I've found his twitter feed surprisingly interesting. He may not be your thing, but you can't simply dismiss him with "I've got better things to do." Why don't you act like journalists and cover the story? But of course you first have to be able to tell when there is a story. It seems like a journalist should be able to do that too. Get him on the show. Ask some questions. Do that journalist thing.
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by AdamBindslev
April 17, 2009 10:45 AM PDT
- Listened to the podcast - and enjoyed it as usually. But something got me wondering. I think it was Natali saying that having 1.000.000 followers would make it impossible to reply to your followers. I think that is very true. But something was hinted - and that was that Natali for instance actually would respond to replies - and that not having that two-way communication in some way or form would be "cheating".
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by AdamBindslev
April 17, 2009 10:59 AM PDT
- OK - I must retract my statement. Just got a reply from Natali!
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(4 Comments)Even though I havent tried it out - I really doubt that. Natali has 16.000 followers. Do you really reply, if people write you on Twitter Natali? Does we not hit the "cant reply to followers"-mark when we reach 1.000 followers?
Just wondering
Adam the CEO in Denmark