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EPISODE 674 |
Yahoo, Time Warner reportedly talk deal to thwart Microsoft
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9886157-7.html
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9886254-7.html
Gates to Google: 'Your business applications stink'
http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9884752-16.html
Adobe bites its tongue after
iPhone Flash jab
http://www.news.com/8301-10787_3-9886265-60.html
Warning: Your
iPod may get you mugged
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9885873-7.html
http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/
1282422/researchers_ipods_attract_violent_crime
Is Microsoft’s ‘Singularity’ the OS of the future?
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9886184-7.html
NIN’s music experiment sells big numbers
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/05/076221
Ask.com seeks makeover as women’s site
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080305/ap_on_hi_te/ask_makeover
Rumors of Facebook music service bubbling again
http://www.news.com/8301-13577_3-9886214-36.html
AOL gets it right with Open AIM 2.0
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/05/
aol-gets-it-right-with-open-aim-20-embraces-meebo-and-ebuddy/
FCC: No plans for a Comcast-BitTorrent hearing at Stanford
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9885394-7.html
New video overtakes 'Evolution of Dance' for No. 1 Spot on YouTube
http://www.waxy.org/archive/2008/03/05/new_vide.shtml
DIA keeps Wi-Fi on the mild side (Thanks Wayne!)
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_8455504
Levitating haptics joystick gives good feedback
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/05/149231
Electronic tattoo display runs on blood (Thanks Chris!)
http://www.physorg.com/news122819670.html
Dungeons & Dragons co-creator dies at 69
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080304/ap_en_ot/obit_gygax
VOICE MAIL
Mark the Animator
Send letters to everybody.
Jason?
What should I call myself?
Amanda Atlanta
Fruit-naming conventions
Phone wiretapping
Hey guys I love the show, but I have to take issue with Toms file-sharing comparison to phone wire-tapping. Now with phones and information going over the phone, what’s going over phone is the information relevant to the product, not the product itself. Like if two dealers were discussing a coke deal, the coke isn’t going to come through the phone, but if an ISP is looking for certain mp3 files, that file will be where they are looking, in that same pool.
A better analogy would be comparing file sharing to chasing drug cartels on the seas and in the air. Not all the ships and the planes in the air have drugs on them, or are transporting anything illicit, but if you want to catch who you need to catch that is where your going to find them.
Shoby
Insecurity of banks
yes Bank of America and AT&T have the highest number of identity thefts per month as BofA is the largest Bank in the U.S. (by far) and AT&T is the largest wireless provider in the U.S. (by a bit i believe) so of course they have the most.
It seems to me that your professor used some fancy statistics to smear his data. A more accurate representation would the the percent of customer base whose identity was stolen.
love the show
~Chirstophahahaha from MA
Warn Buzztown!
Warn Buzz-Town: MacBook Pro Power Transformer Will Burn
I fell asleep with my exposed arm on top of the white power brick of my 2007 MacBook Pro and woke up with first degree burns and a tiny second degree burn. People, watch out! Blog and photo to follow but for now, be warned.
In other Mac news, my Mac’s logic board failed in the Apple Store when I was talking Mac Tech. Poor Apple! My dog (rusty) also died this weekend. Sucks for me!
Peace out,
Ross(cbrown)
My Napster settlement phone call
Hey folks, this is “Alex” from Columbus, Ohio, wanted clear up the confusion regarding the Napster Settlement story and my call. Seems I didn’t do my research, because there are multiple settlements against Napster, and the one my company is handling is not the same as the one reported in the New York Post. Our settlement was started by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, who wrote songs like “Hound Dog” and “Jailhouse Rock,” and encompasses songwriting royalties and music publishers, not the EMI/Warner/Universal case currently in the news. In my excitement to contribute something actually relevant to show, I confused the two settlements. My bad, sorry for the confusion, I’ll take a time out in the penalty box.
“Alex”
Speedtalkers
Hey Buzz Crew,
About a year ago, I e-mailed about a way Mac users could convert their podcasts to audiobook format so they could play them at a faster speed — a way for power podcast listeners to really get their podcast on.
[Refresher: The JOIN TOGETHER program http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/scripts07.php?page=1#jointogether can be used to group several podcasts into one audiobook file with each podcast being a chapter.
For individual files, QUICK CONVERT APPLESCRIPT http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/scripts02.php?page=1#quickconvert allows you to easily convert the file to AAC format, and the MAKE BOOKMARKABLE APPLESCRIPT http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/scripts07.php?page=1#makebookmarkable converts an AAC into a bookmarkable (audiobook) format.]
What I’m writing to say is that after spending a year speed-listening to many podcasts from many different sources, I’ve only run into three situations where I couldn’t make out what was being said and had to slow it back down to normal speed to make the speech intelligible. Oddly enough, they’re all on BOL:
- A Mollyrant
- Voicemail for Fordo
- Molly reading email from Fordo
Anyhow, thanks for an awesome podcast.
Cheers,
Jeff from Huntsville
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. 
Love your work.
Mel
Harry from MD
Just wanted to comment on the SF article about ipods causing a rise in crime. I think it's a pathetic attempt is raising fear among the general populace and shows a waste of taxpayer dollars.
I mean, didn't we have this same alarm rung 20+ years ago when walkmans first came out?
Or if those of you can remember way back when, in the early 80's people were robbed of their boom boxes?
What about when CD players came out?
This nonsense really is a call to use common sense and they could have saved taxpayer dollars by simply advising Ipod users: "Be aware of your surroundings"
I mean if you are walking down a mean dark street at 2am in a bad neighborhood with your ipod on, well....I think your chances of being robbed are pretty darn high as say, being among 200+ other users on the commute at 4pm.
You don't need a study for that.
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by xray777
March 6, 2008 2:58 PM PST
- @ Tom re: overall crime stats rising - Huh? I totally didn't understand your logic.
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(10 Comments)@ Molly: I understood you (this time).
Robbery/mugging is a crime subset of overall violent crime which is a subset itself of overall crime. Unless other types of crime FALL, robbery by definition causes a rise in the overall crime statistic.
That is NOT to say that increases in robbery stats cause a rise in OTHER TYPES of crime, which I think was Molly and Tom's point of misunderstanding/contention.