Buzz Out Loud Podcast

We recap all the announcements from Apple's WWDC keynote, especially ruminating on what the tethering app will cost for AT&T customers. We also rant a bit about the new prices for current iPhone conferences. And don't forget Snow Leopard people. That looks like a good upgrade for a very affordable price.

EPISODE 992

WWDC coverage
http://news.cnet.com/2702-1041_3-116.html

New 15-inch MacBook Pro Non-replaceable battery. No Express Card slot (SD card instead) Up to 3.06 GHZ processor up to 8GB RAM up to 500 GB. $300 price cut. $1699, $1999 and $2299 options 2.53, 2.66 2.8 GHz, and 250 320 and 500 Hard Drive. Includes FireWire port.
13-inch becomes MacBook Pro cheaper at $1199
MacBook AIR also with a price cut.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10259307-1.html

OS X Snow Leopard
Exchange support in Mail, Calendar and Contacts
Crash Resistance. A bad plug-in won’t crash whole browser.
$29 Upgrade.
$49 Family pack.
$10 ‘handling fee’ if you buy a new Mac between now and the September release.
$169 non-upgrade price but includes iLife
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10259248-56.html

Safari 4

New QuickTime 10
HTTP Streaming, editing video within player.
Get 5GB back after upgrade from Leopard.
http://download.cnet.com/8301-2007_4-10259637-12.html

iPhone OS 3.0 Copy paste, tethering (but not for AT&T users), multimedia messaging (later this summer from AT&T) purchase videos and audiobooks from phone. Supports HTTP streaming.
Find My iPhone. Encryption.
In-app purchases NOT available in free apps.
Push notifications

Tom Tom turn by turn navigation
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10259662-1.html
Available June 17
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-12519_7-10259579-49.html

iPhone 3GS Faster processor. Ready for faster HSPA network.
Autofocus
Video recording/editing
Voice control
Compass
Better Battery life, tethering
$199 16Gb, $299 32 Gb and now a $99 iPhone 3G. For new customers only! Loyal iPhone upgarders will pay $18 PLUS $200 extra for the hardware.
Available June 19
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10259830-37.html

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EMAIL

Hey Buzz Crew

Apple selling the OS X upgrade at $29.00 is obviously a stab at Microsoft. According to Paul Thurotte on Windows weekly, Microsoft planned on selling the Windows 7 upgrade between $79, for the basic edition, to over $200, for the ultimate edition. Now Microsoft has 2 choices.

Choice 1: Sell Windows 7 at a similarly low price. This means that Microsoft would have to sell many more copies than they originally planned in order to get a good return on their investment.

Choice 2: Sell Windows 7 at their original target price. As soon as they would announce these prices, Apple would put new commercials of PC vs MAC where they would compare their prices and show that Windows is more expensive than Mac. This would be a stab directly at Microsoft’s current “I’m a PC” ads showing that Macs are too expensive.

Either way, Apple has put Microsoft in a position that they did not want to be in. After the Vista PR nightmare, the upgrade to Windows 7 is the most anticipated Windows upgrade since going from 3.1 to 95. Apple had to try to take that away from Microsoft.

Love the Show.

Geff,
Geek at Large
Port-au-Prince, Haiti

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Guys,

I am sold on the 3GS. The feature set is a rock solid upgrade and kills
almost all the reasons a Palm Pre would be in the running. Still, the
weak link is AT & T, which I hate. But, I hate all carriers, so it is a
wash. Some of the limitations that ATT will put on the phone’s
usability, like tethering, will be negated by the jailbreaking
community, who will enable it. I doubt we will see a Pre jailbreaking
community. So, I still say that the only answer for Sprint (not Palm,
because they will be spreading the device over other carriers) is to
become the value brand. Offer better data packages and cheaper plans.
Otherwise, they are toast when the Pre hits Verizon.

Respectfully,

Clayton
Bloomington, IL

We wrap up coverage of the Palm Pre but are too early for the WWDC. Don't worry. We'll cover those announcements in a separate episode of Buzz Out Loud later in your feed. we also disrespect the Bing and congratulate the Pirate Party on their win.

EPISODE 991

EPISODE 991

Palm Pre’s big day
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10258825-94.html

After dismantling, Palm Pre is estimated to cost $170
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10258774-1.html

Palm sells 50,000 Pres
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=19374

WWDC 2009 live blog
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10257637-37.html

Apple prepares to reset the bar in the mobile app market
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10258103-37.html

Twitter to roll out ‘Verified Accounts’ this summer
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10258816-93.html
http://blog.twitter.com/2009/06/not-playing-ball.html

Bing off to solid start, but not that good
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10258576-2.html

Swedish Pirate Party headed to European Parliament
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/06/swedish-pirate-party-headed-to-european-parliament.ars

China to preload PCs with filtering software
http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/06/08/2907487-china-requires-pcs-to-come-with-anti-porn-software

Acer 3D laptop
http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/acer-launching-3d-laptop-in-october-nerd-specs-required/

New Zealand gets first dibs on Windows 7
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-10258946-75.html

Hacker named to Homeland Security Advisory Council
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10258634-83.html

PSP Go lacks mini USB, compatibility with existing accessories, common sense
http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/psp-go-lacks-mini-usb-compatbility-with-existing-accessories-c/

Sony considering UMD game trade-in program for PSP Go digital versions
http://www.joystiq.com/2009/06/05/sony-considering-umd-game-trade-in-program-for-psp-go-digital-ve/

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VOICEMAIL

Brandon in Philly calling from his Palm Pre

Richard in LA about Bing and the Microsoft logo

Firechief Kevin on how Emergency Services work

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EMAIL
Hey Buzz Crew,

I’m a relatively new listener, so I apologize if you’ve already covered this. I’ve recently learned of a machine called the EBM or “Espresso Machine” (http://www.ondemandbooks.com/hardware.htm). It’s a “book ATM” that is about the size of an office copy machine and can print and bind books to order. Their site claims that this machine will print a 300-page book in less than four minutes at a production cost of a penny per page. An NPR story reports that the machines retail cost about $175,000. (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104644575).

I was wondering about the crew’s opinion on this as it relates to the kindle. This seemingly cheap and more environmentally friendly way to produce books would be enough to convince me to try this contraption. Do you think this technology could catch on? If so, how do you think it would affect the publishing industry and reading community?

Keep up the good work!

Christine, the music teacher

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Hi guys,

I wanted to put my two cents in about the omelette in plastic. This
form of cooking if called sous-vide, under vacuum in french
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sous_vide).

Basically, you put whatever you want to eat in a vacuum sealed bag and
then cook it in hot water for some period of time. This is a very
popular way of cooking meat because you can cook the meat at 140
degrees Fahrenheit and you get the meat rare from edge to edge, it
might not look very good, pink throughout, but you could grill it for
a few seconds to get a charred exterior. The omelette in the zip lock
bag is pretty much the exact same thing just instead of meat you put
eggs and veggies and bacon. Sous-vide is a great way to make pulled
pork because by definition you cannot overheat the meat and thus you
can leave the meat in there for hours and even days.

As for the plastic, most zip lock bags do have on the manufacturer’s
site or the box it came in a max temp for the bag to be used under so
you do not want to over heat it. When heating up plastic, though, only
some kinds, the plastic releases a form of estrogen that can affect
mammary glands and in general is not good for you
(http://www.bio-medicine.org/biology-news/Compounds-in-plastic-packaging-act-as-environmental-estrogens-altering-breast-genes-585-1/).
However, there are special food grade plastics that do not have the
same compounds and withstand heat to a better degree and these food
grade plastics are the ones that should be used for the sous-vide,
though, one of those extra-tough zip lock bags used in water under the
max temp should be ok for making the omelettes.

————————
Gary Katsevman
Computer Science Undergraduate
Northeastern University

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1000th episode coming Thursday June 18th. Want to be on the episode? Post a video of yourself. MUST be less than 30 seconds long. And send a link. No attachments. Got them from Dwight and Mandeep. We’ll choose from all the messages we get and play a selection on the 1000th episode as well as post them in the Wiki.

Want to get involved in the production of the show? Find your favorite BOL moment, clip it out of the MP3, or video, and send us the moment. For video, please upload to a video hosting service and send us a link. Email either to buzz@cnet.com

But the question is, who's the lumberjack? (Psst, it's Shankland. Watch the video version.) We also discuss chain-mail Ziploc bags, what a spleen is good for, and even whether you should download Chrome for the Mac. We all agree Hulu could ruin itself if it charges for content in the wrong way.

Episode 990

First Look: Google Wave
http://cnettv.cnet.com/google-wave/9742-1_53-50072681.html

Google Chrome for Mac OS X and Linux
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10257538-2.html

Apple to launch cut-price version of iPhone
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c9169840-5157-11de-84c3-00144feabdc0.html

Sprint CEO says Pre deal is longer than six months
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10258187-94.html

FTC forces hive of scum and villainy ISP offline
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/06/ftc-forces-hive-of-scum-and-villainy-isp-offline.ars
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10257588-83.html

Before its time? Valve explains Left 4 Dead sequel to Ars
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2009/06/before-its-time-valve-explains-left-4-dead-sequel-to-ars.ars

Hulu may begin charging for video content
http://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/09/06/04/1754225/Hulu-May-Begin-Charging-For-Video-Content?from=rss

Acer Android netbooks will still ship with Windows, reveals chairman
http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20090604PD215.html

Chinese company shows Windows XP phone
http://www.pcworld.com/article/166170/

EFF tracking policy changes at Google, Facebook and others
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10257818-93.html?

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VOICEMAIL

Steve from Calgary on Google street maps
Google Street View in 3D story
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9945448-7.html

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E-MAIL
This is about yesterday's episode

Let me start by saying I do not deal with this hospital, but have been part of a very busy EMS system for eight years. I would assume that the hospital was not turning away the life threating emergencies ("blood coming out of every orifice"). They were turning away the 911 calls that were stable. People do call 911 for less than emergent reasons; swine flu symptoms, to bypass the line in the waiting room (people actually tell me this), follow up doctor appointments, rides across town (say their sick and leave the hospital once no one is looking), this list is endless. Locally the hospitals reroute medic/ambulance traffic when the rooms are full and the waiting room is a three hour wait (the exception is life threating emergencies). Hospitals want to give the best service possible and if people are waiting forever it is a PR nightmare for the hospital. With the computers down one can only assume that this situation happened.

Second rant, leave this out if you do not have time,

Firefighters are some of the most intelligent people I know, you would be surprised how many have Bachelor and Masters degrees. We are given training but not every answer for the real world can be taught. When we show up, we will always find an solution to the problem presented. So if we have to install converter boxes, I have already put one in my house. P.S. please do not tell people to call 911 to get help with their converter boxes, Someone will do it!!! That will be my next email.

Firefighter/Paramedic Damian

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Hey BOL--
I am an employee at Best Buy here in the Midwest and stumbled upon a letter to all employees outlining the launch of Windows 7.
Here is a link for the letter to read: http://www.4shared.com/file/109959093/8c2a8a41/image1.html
Basically it looks like any computer bought after June 26th will be eligible for a free upgrade to Win7 when it is released! (Seems a bit early to me, but great)
Also showing a presell of the Home premium upgrade version at $49.99

I hope this is some new information for you to enjoy!

Thanks,
Chris @ Best Buy

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Hi Buzz Crew,

Hubby makes me listen while on our trek to work everyday, I learn a lot. So I am happy to provide some wisdom concerning using Ziptop Plastic Bags

However! Ziptop Plastic Bag Omelets are awesome easy and great for feeding the hungry hoards. My family is part of the SCA (Society for Creative Anachronism) which means we camp in Elizabethan Style during our Summer "Wars". Can you scream Geek? LOL

So the Ziptop Plastic Bag Omelets have been part of our morning fare for awhile; they are seriously easy, you can make tons of Omelets at once, and you are only using up 1 pot, a huge plus when at a camping event. We shall have to take pictures during our next camping event in June 19-21, to show you!

You need:
Large pot of boiling water

#1. Mix up eggs and salt and pepper and place into a large ziplock bag. We do 2 dozen at a time because it will go for the entire weekend.

#2. Bring tons of extras, bacon, cheese, olives anything you would want in an omelet.

#3. Pore 2 eggs worth of your mixture into the lunch sized ziplock, no more than 3 eggs worth or it won't fit. Experience talking here!

#4. Add your extra ingredients.

#5. Take out as much air as you can and close the ziplock. This is crucial! Air will cause the pocket to swell in the boiling water and it will POP! Yep experience here as well!

#6. Allow to sit in the water for 6 to 8 minutes, best part of this is that it is hard to overcook the eggs as they are in boiling water.

Pull Bags out with tongs (Yep learned that lesson as well) and it is ready to be eaten!!

Also? Do you all have a plan for the evening meet up for the 1000th episode? Since we work in the City, we would love to join you at such an event.

Cilean
(Spoken as Selene)

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You've probably seen this already, but in case you haven't, the Palm Pre "hack" has been confirmed by DVD Jon on his blog:

http://nanocr.eu/2009/06/04/palm-pre-usb-hack-confirmed/

I'm sure that Apple will shut this down tout de suite.

LTS, and congrats on your upcoming 1000th show.

/John in Fairfax

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1000th episode coming Thursday June 18th. Want to be on the episode? Post a video of yourself. MUST be less than 30 seconds long. And send a link. No attachments. Jody's done it! Mike, Eliot, Al, Roberto, Adam and Aaron have done it. We'll choose from all the messages we get and play a selection on the 1000th episode as well as post them in the Wiki.

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Want to get involved in the production of the show? Find your favorite BOL moment, clip it out of the MP3, or video, and send us the moment. For video, please upload to a video hosting service and send us a link. Email either to buzz@cnet.com

EPISODE 990

Sure we talked about how Brian Tong rents his shoes, and got some insight into Rafe's love of Mila Jovanovic, but the big news is the first look at the Palm Pre. Rafe has it in his hands during the show. We also Dig Diggs new takeson ads. But will the Diggers?

EPISODE 989

Palm Pre: The CNET review
http://reviews.cnet.com/smartphones/palm-pre/4505-6452_7-33490473.html

Palm Pre stock levels at Best Buy for entire US now leaked in full?
http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/04/palm-pre-stock-levels-at-best-buy-for-entire-us-now-leaked-in-fu/

Digg Ads: Diggers Control How Much Advertisers Pay
http://mashable.com/2009/06/03/digg-ads/

Microsoft’s Project Natal roots revealed: 3DV Systems ZCam http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/microsofts-project-natal-roots-revealed-3dv-systems-zcam/

Ina’s video from 2007
http://news.cnet.com/1606-2_3-31689.html

Molly punching out 3DV CES 2008

Six months later, no ISPs joining RIAA piracy fight
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10256481-93.html

Music Streaming to Overtake Downloads
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/06/04/0159210/Music-Streaming-to-Overtake-Downloads?from=rss

YouTube To Premiere Movie Simultaneous To Theater Release http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-youtube-to-premiere-movie-at-same-time-it-is-released-in-theaters/

Introducing Xmarks "Bring Your Own Server" BETA
http://blog.xmarks.com/?p=1035

Hospital Turns Away Ambulances When Computers Go Down
http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/06/04/1358213/Hospital-Turns-Away-Ambulances-Computers-Go-Down?from=rss

Device Reads Messages From Surface of the Brain
http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/06/03/2220210/Device-Reads-Messages-From-Surface-of-the-Brain?from=rss

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VOICEMAIL

Steve from San Francisco – what the DoJ is after

Jason in SoCal android and Ubuntu

Jason in Cincinnatti about Apple

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EMAIL
Hi Buzz Crew,

While discussing new video features announced for the Xbox 360 during show #987, Tom made a side comment indicating that he removed the ability from his remote to turn off his Xbox because he didn’t want it to shut down while he was trying to download something big. I just wanted to mention to Tom that you can actually set up your Xbox to download while powered off, so you don’t have to worry about leaving it on and logged in if you have a bunch of things queued up.

Quoting Xbox.com: (https://support.xbox.com/support/en/us/nxe/xboxlive/xboxlivemarketplace/marketplace/managedownloads.aspx)
“If you don't have time to wait for a download to complete, you can let your console finish your downloads even after you’ve turned it off. The console enters a low-power state and the power light blinks every five seconds during background downloads. When your downloads are completed, it turns off automatically.

To enable background downloading, go to My Xbox, System Settings, Console Settings, Shutdown.”
A handy feature that’s been in place for quite awhile but unfortunately buried in the settings.

Happy downloading,
Love.The.Show.
Kato

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Hi Buzz crew

Hearing Tom talk about Opera Mini passing Safari as the most popular mobile browser (explained below) annoyed me; as the big Opera news yesterday was the release of the Opera 10 Beta 1!!

==Opera 10 Beta 1==
http://www.opera.com/next
* New looks by John Hicks, the FF logo designer
* 40% faster rendering and JavaScript engine (!!!)
* Opera Turbo: Centralised compression proxy (for netbooks on public- and airport wifi)
* Thumbnail previews in the tab bar
* From only nine to up to 26 speed dials
* Integration with popular webmail providers (for mailto: links)
* Inline spell-checking (yeha, that one took years)

== Opera Mini ==
AND regarding Opera Mini, the reason Opera Mini is so popular is that it is just a regular Java application. That means that it runs on almost any modern phone, not only smart phones.

Opera Mini now comes pre-installed on most (!) phones from Motorola, Sony Ericsson, Samsung, Nokia, and HTC. This is being pushed on the manufactures because Opera Mini pushed more than 122 million MB of data (January 2009) though their networks. That is a lot of monetizable mobile data.
–
Daniel, the opera singer from Oslo (really an Opera employee, but singer sounds cooler)

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Team Buzz –

It turns out that that Fire Fighters, not Boy Scouts, will help consumers with the DTV transition. I stumbled across this webpage: http://www.iafc.org/dtv which outlines a program which started in May between the International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC) and the FCC. The FCC is in essence recruiting volunteers from the fire service to go into people’s homes that are having trouble setting up their converter boxes. A good move on the FCCs part to get a group of volunteers with instant credibility who don’t have some kind of ulterior motive like let’s say, stealing from some unsuspecting person who simply wanted a different kind of “hook up”. The Fire Service, and all of public safety for that matter, is motivated by having the spectrum television stations are currently sitting on freed up. Once those frequencies become available, a large chunk will be used for increasing public safety bandwidth.

Mike in Dayton

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1000th episode coming Thursday June 18th. Want to be on the episode? Post a video of yourself. MUST be less than 30 seconds long. And send a link. No attachments. Could be well-wishing, could be memories, epithets we don’t care. We’ll choose from all the messages we get and play a selection on the 1000th episode as well as post them in the Wiki.

Want to get involved in the production of the show? Find your favorite BOL moment, clip it out of the MP3, or video, and send us the moment. For video, please upload to a video hosting service and send us a link. Email either to buzz@cnet.com

We have a crazy call from Dwight suggesting Palm and Apple are hooking up. OK that's just crazy, but entertaining. Most entertaining would be the new name of a combined company. Plum, And when youa dd in Bing, you get PlumBing. But Microsoft won't give up Bing right when they launched! And it works well too. we go over that as well.

EPISODE ###

Microsoft's New Bing Search Engine Now Live In "Preview"
http://searchengineland.com/microsofts-new-bing-search-engine-now-live-in-preview-20294

New slimmer version of Sony's PSP leaked on YouTube
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10252769-1.html

Leaked photos show next iPhone's features
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-19512_7-10252819-233.html

Google Promises Publishers (And Amazon) Will Sell E-Books In 2009 http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-google-promises-publishers-and-amazon-will-sell-e-books-in-2009/

Kindle DX shipping June 10
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10253252-1.html

Microsoft’s Zune HD shipping on September 5th?
http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/31/microsofts-zune-hd-shipping-on-september-5th/

Microsoft removes key limit for Windows 7 Starter
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10252407-56.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

DoJ Goes Against Film Companies
http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/05/31/1521236/Obama-DoJ-Goes-Against-Film-Companies?from=rss

The Psychology of Collection and Hoarding In Games
http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/05/31/1633236/The-Psychology-of-Collection-and-Hoarding-In-Games?from=rss

Bank Robber arrested after boasting about crime on MySpace http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10251862-93.html
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VOICEMAIL

Anonymous wants to know about HD radio iTunes tagging

Dwight the Key Grip has a conspiracy theory

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EMAIL

Tom
Hey Buzz Crew,

Just wanted to let Tom know that you actually CAN integrate the new Hulu Desktop application into Windows Media Center and Front Row. Not the cleanest integration, but it does work.

http://www.hack7mc.com/2009/05/adding-hulu-desktop-to-media-center.html
http://www.nullweb.com/?p=7

Also, as a side note, the desktop application does allow for much higher quality than the web version and allows for more resources to be used in achieving this.

Ian

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Hey BOLer’s!

The other day my Mom was watching “Clean House” Which, if you don’t know, is a Show on the Style Channel channel where they go and clean people’s cluttered houses and sell their junk at a garage sale. Anyways the lady who owned the house had a giant collection of CD’s and the clean house team told her that they’d let her rip the CD’s to her computer and than sell them at the garage sale which, after dragging her feet about it, she finally agreed to do. Isn’t that Illegal? And while I have no problem with that really you’d think they wouldn’t say that on a TV show for all to hear.

Love the show!

-Jack Baruzzini (Pronounce it if ya can!)
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Hi Buzz Out Loud,

Natalie was talking about getting a Pre and moving from Sprint over to Verizon and dealing with the fees and hassle of having to get a new Pre on Verizon.
Sprint will allow you to unlock your phone once you’ve terminated your service with Sprint. So you could use your Sprint Pre (or phone in general) on another CDMA carrier like Verizon. After you cancel your service with Sprint, contact customer support and they will supply you with a code that unlocks the phone. You can now reactivate the phone on another CDMA carrier. Check out the URLs below.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/mobile-gadgeteer/?p=699
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-9805638-1.html

-Darren

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1000th episode coming Thursday June 18th. Want to be on the episode? Post a video of yourself. MUST be less than 30 seconds long. And send a link. No attachments. Could be well-wishing, could be memories, epithets we don’t care. We’ll choose from all the messages we get and play a selection on the 1000th episode as well as post them in the Wiki.

Want to get involved in the production of the show? Find your favorite BOL moment, clip it out of the MP3, or video, and send us the moment. For video, please upload to a video hosting service and send us a link. Email either to buzz@cnet.com

EPISODE_895

Layoffs at Microsoft, Intel and IBM
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09%2F01%2F22%2F1435250&from=rss

Microsoft cutting 5,000 jobs on weak results
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10147922-56.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7845237.stm
http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-earnings-call-despite-down-economy-msft-ad-revenue-up-7-percent/
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-10147964-75.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

Intel shedding up to 6,000 jobs
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7844232.stm

Apple proves recession-resistant, for now
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10147621-37.html

Mac at 25: What’s next for Apple’s Mac?
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10146897-37.html

Obama staff appalled at low-tech white house
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/21/AR2009012104249.html?wprss=rss_technology

Obama Keeps His Blackberry (And Gets a Sectera)
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09%2F01%2F22%2F1319212&from=rss
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sect%C3%A9ra_Secure_Module

Palm announcing something at MWC next month, GSM Pre likely
http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/palm-announcing-something-at-mwc-next-month-gsm-pre-likely/

Palm Pre Android port already in progress
http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/palm-pre-android-port-already-in-progress/

Will Apple sue Palm over Pre’s multitouch
http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/apple-on-smartphone-competition-if-others-rip-off-our-intellec/

Palm Pro cheaper…who cares?
http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/01/22/treo-pro-now-available-from-sprint-for-249/

Washington Post launches political wiki
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10147883-2.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

Britanica to allow user edits now
http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/biztech/battle-to-outgun-wikipedia-and-google/2009/01/22/1232471469973.html

No More Space Tourists After 2009, Russia Says
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09%2F01%2F21%2F1810259&from=rss

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Brent - Why we should delay the DTV transition
Mike in Dayton - Don’t wait on the DTV transition.
DJ - Why we like IE in Windows

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I am sorry Natali, I did not mention you in my e-mail because you weren't on episode 893. I've been a loyal buzztonian for almost three years now. I’ve seen every episode of Loaded and Textra, and enjoyed them. I can't think of anyone nicer to fill Molly's shoes than you.
BTW: Great Nat Rant on extending the DTV deadline. I couldn't forget you. My Wife's name is Natalie.
Still love the show
Henry

Hey guys,

So I was at my local Fry’s Electronics the other day and saw a big bin of HD-DVDs on sale. At first I thought to myself… who would buy these?! Isn’t HD-DVD a dead format? Then I remembered a show where you talked about a DMCA exception that was passed which basically said that you are allowed to circumvent copy protection if the format is obsolete or no longer supported. Now I’m not obsessive enough to search though all the shows and show notes to find that particular episode but since you guys have railed about the DMCA more often than I can remember I figured you guys might know the answer.

Since HD-DVD is now obsolete can I legally rip HD-DVDs to my hard drive?
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Alexander - The movie junkie
Hollywood CA

Thankfully, this list was already posted in the alpha.cnet.com blog prior to the creation of the Buzz Out Loud blog. In an attempt to keep everything in one easy place, I am migrating the archive here! Enjoy some old episodes!