Buzz Out Loud Podcast

We realize the problem with an operating system installation party is there's nothing to do. We also warn you about the great iPod camera shortage of 2009..if it's real. And we all like the Asus Eee-reader. Too bad that and the glasses-free 3D TV aren't real...yet.

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Technical issues could delay iPod camera upgrade
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/09/07/technical_issues_could_delay_ipod_camera_upgrade.html

AOL hires Yahoo’s “Peanut Butter” guy to make it relevant again
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/08/technology/internet/08aol.html?hpw

T-Mobile and Orange in U.K. merger
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8243226.stm
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10346417-94.html

Not quite a patent troll, TiVo’s profitability seems increasingly based on lawsuit victories
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/09/dish-network-told-to-fork-over-another-200-million-to-tivo.ars
http://investing.businessweek.com/businessweek/research/stocks/financials/financials.asp?ric=TIVO.O&dataset=incomeStatement&period=A&currency=US%20Dollar

iPhone C64 emulator approved by Apple, removed again for hHiding banned feature
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/09/iphone-c64-emulator-approved-by-apple-removed-again-for-hiding-banned-feature/

Asus Eee-reader to open like a book
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10346194-1.html

Copyright troubles for Sony
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/09/07/2148227/Copyright-Troubles-For-Sony

“Anonymized” data really isn’t--and here’s why not
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/09/your-secrets-live-online-in-databases-of-ruin.ars

Facebook ‘enhances intelligence’ but Twitter ‘diminishes it’, claims psychologist
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/twitter/6147668/Facebook-enhances-intelligence-but-Twitter-diminishes-it-claims-psychologist.html

Underwater laser pops in navy ops
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8243503.stm

Voice mail
Mike about 3D TV

Remy liked the show

E-mail
I called all my friends who might be interested, but they ALL wanted to be hosts to get the free Windows 7 Ultimate Edition.

Thinking about it, it is obvious that Microsoft wasn’t thinking. All of us who might get excited about this program would ALL want to be hosts! Those not interested in hosting would probably not be excited about Windows 7 let alone an installation party.

Love the show.

Tom in Huntsville, AL

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Google front page patent – Please do not call this a patent, I know you all love to poke fun at us but be a bit fair. Design patents are more like a trademark then a standard patent. Design patents only protect the appearance and not any of the tech behind it, they are used for anything from packaging to buildings. The design patent only provide very limited coverage as they only protect against near exact copies. Still love the show.

Tim the Patent examiner.

Natali got a little flustered when we learned that AT&T is changing the subsidy so that folks who thought they would have to pay more might not have to. But it's OK: if you preordered, the company will refund the difference. So she calmed down eventually. We also discuss China backpedaling on the filter software, and the need to encrypt.

EPISODE 999

iPhone OS 3.0 wide release coming Wednesday
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10265918-37.html
http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/stop-hitting-f5-iphone-os-3-0-release-still-hours-away/

June 17 Announcement: iPhone 3G S upgrade eligibility update
http://www.att.com/gen/press-room?pid=1574

Apple/iTunes doesn’t like supporting the Pre
http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/

China backpedals on filtering software
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2009-06-16-china-web-filtering_N.htm?csp=34

Windows 7 downgrade to XP limited to 6 months
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10265750-56.html

Firefox 3.5 ‘Web upgrade’ planned for end of June
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10265652-2.html

AT&T and Verizon deny price fixing SMS
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2348890,00.asp?kc=PCRSS03069TX1K0001121

Gmail may HTTPS encrypt everything all the time
http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2009/06/https-security-for-web-applications.html

NSA e-mail surveillance pervasive and ongoing
http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/06/17/1323207/NSA-Email-Surveillance-Pervasive-and-Ongoing

Disney Asus Netpal Netbook…get ‘em young!
http://blogs.usatoday.com/technologylive/2009/06/disney-asus-team-up-on-netbook.html
http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/disney-and-asus-announce-netpal-netbook-for-kids/

VOICEMAIL
Remy – very excited about Apple 3GS

Anonymous – Google Voice frustration

Christy L – HD Makeup

E-MAIL
Buzz crew,

You have mentioned this story previously – thank you for that as I
have been the person publicizing it – but the telephone incumbent TDS
just lost its last opportunity to appeal at the Supreme Court. A full
2 days before the city would have lost the investor money (they had
one year from the lawsuit start), the Supreme Court declined to review
the Appeals Court judgment. The City is now moving forward with its
all fiber network.

I have put the details up at muninetworks.org

Thank you for mentioning this story, over the past year, folks in
Monticello took great heart that people were watching from across the
country, indeed planet when one counts your listeners.

Christopher Mitchell
Director, Telecommunications as Commons Initiative
Institute for Local Self-Reliance
http://www.newrules.org/information/
http://www.muninetworks.org

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Hey guys, just thought I’d make you aware of plans in the uk to pay
for faster broadband in the long run by charging 50p per month ontop
of our landline bills. Currently in Britain the majority of people
have a landline with a line rental payable to ‘British Telecoms’ even
if you have another provider, so a £10 per month phone package starts
to cost £20. And with the prices of mobile Internet, mobile calls and
voip services (especially being free on mobile carrier ‘Three’)
becoming more popular and cheaper it is conceivable that the only
people paying for this upgrade are going to be the ones that aren’t
actually going to require it, namely the older technophobics who will
never ditch their landline and never been online. Anyway just though
I’d let you know what was going on this side of the Atlantic. Have a
great 1000th.

Si from Sheffield, England.

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here is a quick video showing the augmented reality possibilities that the compass in the new iPhone will unlock. This is already on G1. As you can see, this seemingly pointless feature can have some pretty remarkable affects on the apps created for the iPhone.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b64_16K2e08

Donald S. Clark
University of Illinois: Urbana-Champaign

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Hi Buzz Crew,

Let me cut to the chase. I heard on last Friday’s episode that this 1,000th Buzz Out Loud Podcast is going to be “longer.” How much longer will it be?

As much as I enjoy listening to the daily audio podcast, a longer one is not going to work for me. If the 1,000 episode was two months ago I would have jumped for joy (I “used to” listen at work). Recently, I’ve made a deal with myself (and my wife-to-be) that leading up to our wedding, I would go to the gym in an effort to be healthier (not as fat). I begin and end my routine with Buzz Out Loud. I press “play” on my 2nd gen ipod (I know I’m behind the times) to begin my work out, and I and end it the second the closing music finishes. If I’m in the middle of a set, it doesn’t matter, I stop and I leave. You see, I HATE the BORING gym. It’s the bane of my existence.

So that said, you will KILL ME if I have to work out for an hour and a half, or god forbid, two hours. I promise I will curse your names down to the last email, caller, or heaven help us, horrible Opera reference…

Speaking of Opera, Can someone please tell me why our country is so ridiculous that a company, such as Microsoft, can’t include or make their software the “default” browser within…well…. their software? What happened to a little elbow grease? If you have a browser “Opera” and you think you should have the right to be on someone’s machine, do what every company on the planet has done to gain market-share. “Do a little advertising. Make a better product. Creatively distribute it.” Perhaps that will help you get your product to the masses & gain some name recognition. I don’t recall firefox ever having a pity-party. I don’t hear them running to big brother, crying “It’s not fair! It’s too hard for me to get into the game.” Grow up, learn to hit, and then maybe you’ll get to play. Why does everyone think they deserve a trophy?

Thanks for listening. Thanks for sometimes having unusually short podcasts. Finally, Thanks for being my daily hub into the tech world. Congratulations on 1,000!

Sincerely,
Joe Pifher (Pie-fur).

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The 1000th episode is tomorrow! There will be no pre-show, here will be a live audience it will be streamed live on cnet.com/live. There will be audio and video on demand afterwards in the normal podcast feeds.

1000th episode meetup in San Francisco: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=113374732587

Send us buzz at buzz@cnet.com or call us at 1-800-616-CNET (2638)

We speculate even more on the rumored large format Kindle, and get the announcement date wrong right from the start. What, we're supposed to read press releases? Also on the rumor front, we discuss Apple's interest in buying Twitter and Electronic Arts. Somethings just not sitting right about this one.

EPISODE 967

Thanks, all: CNET TV wins People’s Voice Webby
http://www.webbyawards.com/webbys/current.php?media_id=97&season=13#film_tech_vid

New photos, details on the Gigundle
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10233431-1.html

Windows 7 RC has arrived this morning
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10233399-56.html
http://download.cnet.com/Windows-7/3000-18513_4-10906772.html

Apple in “late stage” talks to buy Twitter, announce at WWDC; Google got told to walk?
http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2009/05/05/apple-to-buy-twitter-and-electronic-arts
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/05/05/twitter-mania-google-got-shut-down-apple-rumors-heat-up/

Report: FTC eyes Apple, Google board relationship
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10233187-37.html

When does a Netbook cease being one? Asus rolls out one just shy of the 12″ mark (missed this one yesterday)
http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/asus-goes-big-ger-with-11-6-inch-eee-pc-coming-this-month/

Craigslist, seven AGs hold sex ad summit today in NYC
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10233256-93.html

RIM CEO confirms Storm 2
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSN0439320520090504

…and it will soon have native LogMeIn
http://download.cnet.com/8301-2007_4-10233320-12.html

Navigon exits GPS PND business: the Big 3, recession, and nontraditional nav systems are flattening the industry’s structure
http://www.gpsbusinessnews.com/NAVIGON-stops-PND-business-in-North-America_a1497.html

Hacker purports to be holding VA prescription records hostage for $10M
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10233348-83.html

VOICEMAIL
Electric cars are worth it

Apple iPhone tablet prediction

Curve vs iPhone

E-MAIL
Hey everyone,
I’ve been reading more about the new Amazon Kindle widescreen and it’s starting to sound like this is being aimed at college students more than the savior of newspapers. Even though this device hasn’t been released yet, and as a college student myself, here a couple of items I have before I drop down money for this device.

1. Many textbooks manufactures are making personalize editions for the university and are not available to buy online. This semester I had three of my four classes that had a personalize edition for the university so students had to buy the textbook at the bookstore and not at amazon.com.

2. Rumor has it that the new widescreen kindle will support PDFs. What would be great is if the new kindle will support powerpoint since many classes are taught on powerpoint and the professors put the ppts available for download.

3. Many college students will not get the kindle as the university bookstore will probably not buyback the downloaded textbooks at the end of the semester. Although, if all of my textbooks that were available for the kindle were $80 - $100 instead of $500 for textbooks, the difference in savings will pay for itself.

Gregory Schultz
Mass Communication major
Louisiana State University

Guys (and gals),

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For years, I have been a Sprint…er…Nextel…whatever. Anyway, I see two things that Sprint can offer that will save them, if they so choose. First, you have the iDen PTT service. It is vastly superior to anyone else. Let’s face it, if you want PTT, Nextel is it! Yet Sprint has let this feature sit stagnant for years. Why else would they buy Nextel? Start throwing that feature in as many phones as you can, it has a loyal following!

Second, and probably more importantly to the masses, they have really great speeds (in some places, or so I hear). When they launch the Pre, they should allow 10 gigs of data and tethering. Offering a better deal, rather than a much /cooler/ product (iPhone) could save them.
Sadly, with the eminent release of a GSM Pre, it looks like Palm is doing the wise thing and NOT doubling down on Sprint.

By the way, Sprint CEO Dan Hesse is pretty much an idiot.

Respectfully submitted,

Clayton

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BOL Crew,

Just wanted to pass this along (although I’m sure you’ve already seen this). The guy behind NoScript makes his money from ads displayed on his own page, which appears automatically (by default) every time there’s a new update to NoScript. However, he has admitted and apologized for making his NoScript extension break functionality in the extension AdBlock, specifically to not block ads on his own domains. He has since apologized, but it’s very interesting.
http://hackademix.net/2009/05/04/dear-adblock-plus-and-noscript-users-dear-mozilla-community/
Love The Show!

-Greg (emptythevoid)

We actually talk about Jennifer Aniston's relationship problems today, because she allegedly blamed them on Twitter. I think Twitter has officially arrived, if it hadn't already. Plus, the Asus Eee is getting voice recognition. And Nissan is bringing it with the all-electric vehicle. But for how much?

EPISODE 937

OnLive to replace game console with online availability of games
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10797_3-10202688-235.html

Zeebo gaming console
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10797_3-10202898-235.html

Warner Archive site offers DVD burn-to-order
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/story.aspx?guid={A5B4D522-4BE5-4FF5-8022-CBA1A19158B7}&siteid=rss

Dell is working on mobile device?
http://www.gearlog.com/2009/03/michael_dell_were_working_on_a.php

Mobile app store customers to quadruple in next 5 years
http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20090324005655&newsLang=en

Asus to get voice recognition
http://i.gizmodo.com/5181923/asus-eees-getting-voice-recognition-this-year

Twitter advertising Twitter services
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/23/twitter-opens-the-revenue-faucet-starts-serving-ads/

Nissan turns up the heat on EV’s - U.S. consumer market by next year?
http://www.autonews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090323/ANA02/303239909/-1

Google makes changes to search
http://mashable.com/2009/03/24/google-semantic-tweak-search/
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/two-new-improvements-to-google-results.html

Penguin-free Linux 2.6.29 kernel released
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03/24/linux_2_6_29_kernel_released/

Twitter breaks Jen Aniston’s heart
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/twitter/5038203/Jennifer-Aniston-ended-relationship-with-John-Mayer-because-of-his-Twitter-obsession.html

Colbert wins space station name contest
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/23/2128257

VOICE MAIL
James from Irvine
Xbox gives out free demos

William in Las Vegas
IE8 adoption rate.

Matt from Florida
Navteq trucks?

E-MAIL
Hi Buzz Town,
I actually made my Sony Clie PEG-T415 from over 5 years ago a univeral remote where I could control multiple devices. I am surprised it took this long for SmartPhones to be remote devices.

Love the show,

Zach Schneider

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Hey Buzz Crew,

Ann Arbor Michigan is losing its only daily paper. While not a city the size of Seattle (or Detroit for that matter), Ann Arbor is the home to the University of Michigan, and a decent sized city itself.

An article from the Ann Arbor Chronicle (online only news source)
http://annarborchronicle.com/2009/03/23/farewell-ann-arbor-news/

And two from the News’s site on mlive.com
http://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2009/03/ann_arbor_news_to_close_in_jul.html
http://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2009/03/letter_from_ann_arbor_news_pub.html

The tech angle here is that the Ann Arbor News is going to a primarily on-line business model via a site launching in July called AnnArbor.com . There will still be two "print editions" on Thursday and Sunday. Should be an interesting venture to watch. I'll keep you posted.

-Matt
Ann Arbor, MI

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I always cringe whenever you (and other podcasters) talk about “Sarbanes Oxley”, so I figured I’d try to summarize the basics for you on the mechanics of GAAP and SOX.

GAAP, generally accepted accounting principles, are the set of rules that must be used to account for financial transactions in the US.

Generally, when non-financial people talk about Sarbanes Oxley, they are only referring to a single section, Section 404. The essence of this section is that a public company must have documented and tested procedures (called internal controls) over the it’s financial reporting. One aspect of this is that you must have controls that ensure that you adhere to GAAP.

In a nutshell: GAAP is the rules. SOX makes you have procedures to follow the rules.

The discussion on why accounting rules would affect the ability to charge or not charge for software upgrades is a topic for another time. Why it can’t be one cent versus $10, is probably a judgement call to make the amount “significant” enough in the accounting sense. IMHO it could be less, but c’mon, they are in the business of making money.

Hope this helps.

–Doug the CPA

We debate the proper pronunciation of WebOS from Palm. Does it rhyme with Huevos? In any case, Palm has killed the old Palm OS, so may it rest in peace. We also analyze the state of the TV industry. LCD shipments are down, so everybody's getting out of the plasma business? I guess that's why I'm not CEO of an electronics company.

EPISODE 910

Buzz Out Loud chat auction to benefit Kiva
http://www.humanety.com/

MS to offer free Windows 7 upgrade to Vista users
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/11/238222
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/02/upgrading-to-windows-7-what-xp-and-vista-users-need-to-know.ars

Google penalizes itself for paid-blog promotion
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10162610-93.html

FCC prevails over Verizon in subscriber retention fight
http://arstechnica.com/telecom/news/2009/02/fcc-prevails-over-verizon-in-customer-retention-battle.ars

Asus to make fewer EEE PCs
http://www.infoworld.com/article/09/02/12/Asus_plans_to_reduce_variety_of_Eee_PC_netbooks_1.html

Palm OS dead
http://www.precentral.net/palm-ceo-ed-colligan-talks-pre-investors
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2009/02/a-farewell-to-palm-os-company-stakes-future-on-webos.ars

Opera turbo-charged browsing
http://www.opera.com/press/releases/2009/02/12/

Yearly LCD TV shipments dip for first time
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10161978-92.html

Pioneer to stop making TVs
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10162515-1.html

Panasonic to bring Full HD 3D by 2010
http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/panasonic-sets-out-to-bring-3d-full-hd-to-blu-ray-by-2010/

Report: Apple to stream video to iTunes users
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10162234-93.html

Musician sells CD for $15.98, CD + live concert for $5,000
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/02/11/musician-sells-cd-fo.html

VOICEMAIL
Staticky guy from maybe Denmark?
Has a trademark claim

Patrick New Hampshire
What I would do if a pirate ship was found in my yard.

E-MAIL
Hey Jatona, Patrick the problem solver here.

Regarding the netbook naming issue, here is a word you could use to refer to the devices *and* the feelings you seem to have towards them: “mehbook”.
Ok this won’t stick, but it’s sort of fun to say once or twice right?

Cheers,

Patrick Beja

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Hey Buzz People,

Jonathan from the UK here. I found a story on the BBC’s website (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7885569.stm) talking about how the European Parliament(different from the EU? Not sure wants to have a red button on the front of a games console to turn off the game or ban a particular game from running. What the EP doesn’t seem to realise is that the console ALREADY HAS AN OFF BUTTON!. Games are rated for a reason, parents should choose which games their child can play. Also, all of the current gen consoles(360, Wii and PS3) have age settings so you can ban games over a particular age built into the console. The European Parliament do indeed need to educate parents to the avaliability of the functions, but if the parents don’t already exercise authority over their children when it comes to video games, how is a big red button going to change anything?

Educate the parents to this function of the console, and leave us gamers alone. That was my Jonny rant

Love the show, Jonathan.

I’m not sure why the authors guild are upset about the text to speech
thing on the new Kindle.

the only book that isn’t going to suck when read to you by a machine
is “A Brief History of Time”.

-Bjørn

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Buzzers,

Do you have any idea why my iTunes asked me if I would like to update
“carrier” information? Did the rest of the world get this message today?
What could the carrier, at&t, want to change on my phone?

I don’t like this kind of updating…and I’m not paranoid…no matter
how many people are watching me.

Mark from Virginia

And then: http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/02/iphone-carrier-update-boring.ars

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Heya Buzz Crew,

In episode 909 (and others), there was a general sense of irrelevance regarding satellite radio. *gasp!*

I have been a satellite radio subscriber for years now and while I was quite skeptical of the merger, I still love my Sirius-now-SiriusXM radio - in both cars. I often equate the experience to moving from dial-up to high-speed Internet: don’t try it unless you’re ready to commit because you won’t want to go back. I don’t even listen to the sports or celebrity stuff; the music is enough for me. The channels are far more genre-specialized than any terrestrial market and, of course, the music is commercial free! When I’m at home I even tune into their TV feed (via DISH Network / DIRECTV) and online stream since I already know the lineup.

They have made listening while driving a great experience and it’s available right now, not in a few years. I’ll warrant that there are good ‘net-based audio options, but wireless data coverage is not ubiquitous, streaming is unreliable while driving (tower hops), and, most serious of all, we are always under constant threat of usage caps.

They had better be careful with the price, though - there is a fiscal limit to my love.

Ryan from Castle Rock

While there are stories about Windows 7, the FCC investigating Cox Cable, and the Palm Pre launching in March, you really need to listen to the story of the Klingon who robbed a convenience store. Really.

EPISODE 904

Six editions of Windows 7: Better than Vista, still too many
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/02/official-windows-7-skus-revealed-six-editions.ars
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10155943-56.html
http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1890

Vuze calls for FCC probe of Cox Cable traffic management
http://arstechnica.com/telecom/news/2009/02/vuze-calls-for-fcc-probe-of-cox-cable-traffic-management.ars

AT&T to buy Verizon spectrum?
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/att-may-buy-3-billion/story.aspx?guid={ACE7576D-432F-4AAF-9ACF-B71A3F5C1D13}&dist=msr_1

Google Latitude
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4774345n
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/see-where-your-friends-are-with-google.html

Palm Pre launching 3/15?
http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/02/04/sprint-eol-list-reveals-target-palm-pre-launch-plenty-more/

Toshiba's sexy smartphone. Where did this come from?
http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2009/02/03/toshiba-comes-out-of-nowhere-with-the-ultra-slick-tg01-touchscreen-phone/

Garmin and Asus combine on Nuvi phone
http://www.infoworld.com/article/09/02/04/New_GarminAsus_smartphones_to_take_many_OSs_1.html

India’s $10 laptop is not a laptop
http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/04/indias-10-laptop-is-not-a-laptop/

Zune original programming
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2009/feb09/02-04ZuneMeanPR.mspx

Yahoo Search Pad
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10156207-2.html

For poseurs only: HarperCollins launches “video books”
http://arstechnica.com/media/news/2009/02/for-poseurs-only-harpercollins-launches-video-books.ars

Man robs convenience stores with Klingon “Bat'leth”
http://entertainment.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/04/1456240

VOICEMAIL
Rod the School Counselor
Thanks for all the bandwidth!

Steve from Long Island
Cruise ship

E-MAIL
Hey JaMoNaTo,

You mentioned the iPod Breathalyzer on the show this last Monday (Ep. 902) and I thought you might like the link. Behold, the iBreath! It looks like this is not only an iPod Breathalyzer, but also a FM transmitter. Not only will this work off of your ipod’s batteries, but you can also use it with (I believe) is just a standard iPod sync cable hooked to any power source (Computer or USB power adapter for car or wall).

Josh
Computer and Network Technician
(aka “The company computer guy”)

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Hey buzz team,

This is Alex from RssPlayer and I just wanted to add to Joshes email from episode 903 when he created the tiny urls for all your podcasts.

There is something called Custom Url Schemas on the iPhone. They are designed so that one app can open another app and share data. Some commonly know schemas are http:// (opens safari) tel:// (calls someone) and mailto: (opens email). In the next RssPlayer update, I will incorporate a custom url schema that will allow you to import a feed simply by clicking a link in safari or mail.

Here is an example
rssplayer://foo.com?feedurl=http://tinyurl.com/ourfav

When clicked, RssPlayer opens and import the feed. No more typing.

Maybe someone will build a iPhone friendly netcast directory with a button that imports directly to RssPlayer.

So that’s it.

Keep up the good work.
Alex from New Jersey

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Hey Tom, Natali, Jason, Rafe, and Molly Monday

This is in reference to picking up geeky/nerdy chicks at coffee shops.
Ever since last month (or two months ago) when you discussed
initiating conversation with girls who use netbooks (or anything tech
related for that matter) at coffee shops, I have been trying to get my
game on and work up the courage to talk to some of them. Today, I had
the perfect opportunity when a very attractive woman sat down next to
my table and opened a book on how to use Adobe Dreamweaver CS4. She
started reading on page one, so I assumed that she was just beginning
to learn how to use it. This was perfect, because not only do I use
CS4, but I just finished reading a book on it myself! So, with my
heart pounding, palms sweaty, and mind racing, I opened my mouth and
said: “excuse me, hi, you are going to really love using that
software.” She then turned to me, smiled and said: “really, that’s
great because I’ve been looking for a good alternative to Front Page.”
We then nerd-chatted it up for 20 minutes, and then she ended up
giving me her number! Score!

So, thanks for the help and encouragement guys, it worked!

Chris
Larkfield, CA

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I just have to give a “well actually” to the Crazy Canuck.

I checked up on CrazyCanuck’s numbers. I didn’t quite follow. They seemed pretty off to me.

The first place I assumed he strayed was his calorie conversion. Food Calories are based upon heating one KiloGram of water 1 Celsius Degree. (not 1 gram) As such
they are equal to 1000 calories.

But that wasn’t enough of a discrepancy. “2,569 Calories is equal to .002988 Watts”???

The watt is a unit of measurement equal to 1 Joule/ 1 second. (1 Kilowatt equals 1000 joules/ second.)
1 calorie is equal to 4.187 Joules. (1 Kilocalorie= 4187 Joules)

So a 1 oz. shot of whiskey containing 64(,000) Calories equates to 267,953.88 Joules. In terms of watts (267,953.8 watts. or (267.95 KiloWatts.)

This means it would take just .56179 oz. of whiskey to produce 150 Kilowatts. (per second remember)

There are 3600 seconds in an Hour. 2022 oz/hr of whiskey could maintain 150 Kilowatt/ Hr. (50.56 bottles @ 40 oz./ hr.)

But we’re talking 100% efficiency here.

The worlds top of the line coal fired power plants are just 32% efficient. That is 3.125 times less.

2022 * 3.125 = 6318.75 oz/ hr. or 158 bottles/ hr.!!

But that’s really good!!, The worlds most efficient otto cycle (4 stroke internal combustion) engine is approx 20 % efficient.

2022 x 5 (100/20=5) = 10,110 oz/ hr. or 252.75 bottles/ hr.

I figure if we had 405 people from buzztown, each taking 1 shot every 12 minutes (5/ hr.) we could
easily power a 100% efficient 150 kWH Data center between us.

Love the Show.

Josh in Salt Lake City.

We're coming to you from CES 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada and it's all about Netbooks today. I'm sure we'll get more buzz about 3D TVs and more later this week. Also, Ellie doesn't like it when we call out the title of the show, but that makes it easier for Jason to find them for his special edition! (And please excuse a bit of distortion in today's episode. Sorry! -Jason)
Listen now: Download today's podcast

EPISODE 886

Yawn— MacWorld (woohoo iTunes DRM free!!)
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10133230-37.html
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20090106-apple-mwsf-announcements-new-macbook-pro.html

Apple activates iTunes downloads over 3G, with a caveat
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10133349-1.html
http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2009/01/06/apple-labels-both-win-with-drm-free-itunes-tiered-pricing

Free Nine Inch Nails albums top 2008 Amazon MP3 sales charts
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20090106-free-nine-inch-nails-albums-top-2008-amazon-mp3-sales-charts.html

AMD’s Neo processor debuts in HP notebook
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20090106-amds-neo-processor-debuts-in-hp-notebook-whoah.html

Asus says Netbooks can be upscale with the S121
http://ces.cnet.com/8301-19167_1-10131423-100.html
http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/asus-s121-with-worlds-first-512gb-ssd/

…and new Eee PC with swiveling screen
http://ces.cnet.com/8301-19167_1-10131412-100.html

MSI XSlim MacBook Air-like thing
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2009/01/msis-super-thin.html

LG’s Watch Phone: production please?
http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/07/lg-shows-off-gd910-watch-phone-production-later-this-year/

LaCie breaks off quad-interface 2big Quadra RAID drive
http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/lacie-breaks-off-quad-interface-2big-quadra-raid-drive/

Google’s Android runs on a Netbook — Google OS in the offing?
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/opensource/?p=316
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20090105-android-netbook-port-leaves-some-pondering-google-os.html

Phishing is a minimum-wage job
http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09%2F01%2F06%2F2213256&from=rss

SlingPlayer Mobile for iPhone announced
http://www.cnet.com/8301-19515_1-10131943-234.html

Pay-as-you-go airline charges by the minute
http://blog.wired.com/cars/2009/01/new-airline-pla.html

What piracy? Movie biz sees record box office in 2008http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20090105-what-piracy-movie-biz-sees-record-box-office-in-2008.html

E-MAIL

Hey jamoto,
As one of your UK listeners, I’d just like to clarify the ‘liveness’
of the BBC iPlayer. It actually broadcasts tv shows on the internet an
hour after they are first broadcasted on tv. Just thought that you
should know.

LTS,
DanieInHell

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Hey Jamoto++,

Web Developer Matthew Horoszowski (say Horoshofski) here and just
wanted to point out this article,
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/technologynews/4126913/Mind-game-where-players-use-brainwaves-to-float-ball-through-hoops-unveiled.html
,
which talks about a new game that uses your brainwaves to control a
small ball and move it through hoops and things.

Guess that one prediction for this year down!

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Hey JaMoTo + 1:

On the dial tone issue from Monday’s show: when someone moves out of a
house or and apartment, the phone company *should* leave dial tone on
the line, but with no account information. This gives access to 911 and
611 (to be able to call the company to fully activate the line). When I
worked for BellSouth, that service was called a QuickServe.

However, QuickServes can be disabled if the line is needed at another
residence or business and no other cable pairs are immediately
available, hence the reason that Tom’s line didn’t have dial tone.
FWIW, no dial tone, no 911.

Barry Stubbs

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Stop it!!! Stop with the announcing of the title in the actual show!!

Stop it, stop it, stop it, stop it, stop it, STOP!!!

<3 Ellie

News of the Yahoo demographic's searching habits arouses a sudden love for space in Brian Cooley today. Also, the Nokia N97 gets a chilly reception, especially in light of all those delectably cheap Netbooks flooding the market. Pownce disappears, Apple suddenly starts recommending antivirus for Mac users, and Microsoft claims the Xbox 360 pwned Black Friday.

EPISODE 863

iPhone beware, the Nokia N97 is coming (PC World)
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/pcworld/20081202/tc_pcworld/iphonebewarethenokian97iscoming
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10110873-1.html
http://www.nokia.com/A4136001?newsid=1274500

Netbooks dominate cyber-Monday, at least on Amazon
http://www.pcworld.com/article/154754/

Asus: $200 Netbooks next year
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/12/02/asus_200_dollar_netbook/

Pownce to shut down after Six Apart sale
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10110443-2.html

Microsoft: Xbox 360 Routs PS3 in Record Black Friday Sales
http://www.pcworld.com/article/154778/microsoft_xbox_360_routs_ps3_in_record_black_friday_sales.html

Forbes: Nintendo making $6 profit on every Wii sold
http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/01/forbes-nintendo-making-6-profit-on-every-wii-sold/

Data shows Wii games discounted fastest
http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/25/data-shows-wii-games-discounted-fastest/

Apple suggests Mac users install antivirus software
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10110852-83.html

DVR commercial skipping: 50 or 97 percent? Depends on who you ask
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081202-dvr-commercial-skipping-50-or-97-depends-on-whom-you-ask.html

Cell phones are even worse than chatty passengers
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/02/AR2008120201066.html

No escaping Britney Spears: 2008’s top searches
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10110841-2.html

VOICE MAIL
Dwight the key grip: so close to bingo!

E-MAIL
Molly,
You know how you we a little peeved about Apple's new proprietary but not proprietary “mini display port”. Well here is a Gizmodo story that gives you a glimmer of hope!

http://gizmodo.com/5100514/apples-mini-displayport-might-not-be-bs-proprietary-port-after-all
- Elam

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Great idea for a CNet Channel broadcast through CBS affiliates. I would have to say from a technology standpoint that couldn't be difficult and really shouldn't require the person to manage it. I personally have an auto updating video playlist in iTunes that nearly does this already. Just subscribe to all of your RSS feeds and then play through the list starting at a certain time every day. Once that's done playing go to an "off air" static screen until the next day, that's if you run out of video in the 24 hour period. It could probably be done with Automator and some apple scripts come to think of it. Interesting…might have to play with this for fun. jason

Regards,

Daniel

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Hi buzz crew,
Sorry for any typing mistakes but I am writing this on a blackjack 2. I just wanted to let you know that I saw my first Netbook today at a coffee shop. I really wanted to get a dell mini9 but chickened out because I didn’t know how I would deal with a ridiculously small keyboard.
(Ironic I know.)
So apparently this guy with the Netbook had the same problem as me because he had a full size usb keyboard connected to it! What is the point of a tiny little glove compartment computer if you need to lug that beast around with it?

Buzz You Long Time.
Dave in Saratoga, NY.

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Dear BOL Crew,

First of all, thanks for a great daily podcast to keep me up to date on tech.

I will be going on a 7 month navy cruise soon and I don't want to miss my daily BOL fix. Available bandwidth during the cruise does not allow me to download podcasts or anything else. There just is not enough bandwidth. I have also tried getting BOL via your RSS feed, but it does not work again due to bandwidth limitations.

I can received email attachments, but I don't know if there is a way for me to setup before my cruise an automatic daily email attachment with the BOL audio file.

Can you recommend a solution?

Thank you! I love listening to BOL daily when I am on tierra firma.
Mark

Commander Mark
Supply Officer
P.S. You need to do a show from a navy ship while on cruise. We could fly you on and catapult you off! (0 to 150 mph in 3 seconds!)

(How would http://www.podlinez.com/ work for you? -JH)

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Hey guys,

There is going to be a protest about the Australian Internet Censorship on the 13th and I was wondering if you could give it a little publicity.

http://www.stopthecleanfeed.com/

Cheers,
Brad
The Australian

EPISODE 854

Obama can’t use his BlackBerry
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/16/us/politics/16blackberry.html

Asus phone
http://gizmodo.com/5090348/asus-announces-800mhz-worlds-fastest-smartphone
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/11/17/asus_p565/

Google speech application supposed to really launch today
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/16/update-on-google-iphone-voice-recognition-app-look-for-it-on-monday/

Flash on Windows Mobile
http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2008/11/16/adobe-to-demo-flash-on-mobile-but-only-windows-still-working-on-the-iphone/

AOL video uploads shutting down
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/15/aol-gets-out-of-user-generated-video-business/

Most users don’t office in the cloud: 1% use Google Docs
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081117-report-users-continue-to-prefer-office-over-google-docs.html

Old people are scared of technology
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/scared_of_technology_youre_old.php
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10097839-1.html

UK couple in real-life divorce over virtual affair
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27718230/?gt1=43001

Order pizza from your TiVo
http://www.gearlog.com/2008/11/ordering_dominos_pizza_from_yo.php
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10098333-93.html

Lost Beatles song may bring Fab Four to Net sales
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10098215-93.html

Quantum cloaking makes molecules invisible
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/16/2137230

US space-funeral company plans lunar cemetery
http://news.sg.msn.com/oddities/article.aspx?cp-documentid=1786876

VOICEMAIL

Jason in Georgia - What happened to exploding batteries

Andy Novosibirsk, Siberia - Netbooks galore here!

CT baggage handler - But how did they get there?

EMAIL

Hey guys, Looks like MS has decided what to do with all the cash they were going to spend on Yahoo.

I work for one of the Microsoft managed partner ISV's. MS was just on our weekly internal sales call and our MS partner manager was on talking about how we can offer up Microsoft financing through the end of the MS fiscal year (June).

This financing is not just for MS products but anything that is involved in the entire enterprise solution including hardware and other software.

The internal MS guys are touting that 2-5 business days turn around and touting that it will be easier and cheaper than going with traditional financing . They are willing to finance anything from small 10k deals and up, and depending on customers credit rating with D&B will determine the % rate. He was saying that it was going to be in the range of 5-8%.

https://www.microsoftfinancing.com/

Rob

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$139 blu-ray players on Woot.com today.

Just sayin...

Ryan the Biologist

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In trying to catch up with BOL, I was listening to #845 and I want to
pose a question related to the AT&T experiment with bandwidth caps. Has
anyone thought about the licensing contracts that AT&T might be looking
to sign with media companies? Think about it, AT&T or Comcast could sign
usage contracts with sites like Netflix, YouTube or Hulu so that their
site usage does not apply to their customers’ bandwidth caps. This would
allow ISP’s to make more $$$ and control traffic.

Coming soon to a legal agreement near you… AT&T merges with YouTube.

So far I have not heard anyone bring up this point via CNET or that TWiT
guy. If ISP’s can stop Bit Torrent, then they can probably allow
certain, preferred content to flow freely.

No charge for this two cents opinion. LTS.

Thanks,

Rodney

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In show 853, you had two stories which prompted me to type in... First, you made a big deal out of Google search on the iPhone supporting speech. Windows Live Search Mobile has had this feature for quite some time - and I find it quite useful. Like the Google offering, you speak to it, it sends the speech to the servers, and the servers do the speech-to-text. The use of the accelerometer in the iPhone is new - and a cool idea - but the speech part is not new. I use Google Search on my Windows Mobile phone if I am in a place where I can type easily, but use Windows Live Search Mobile specifically for the speech-to-text if I am driving or walking.

You also made a big deal out of President-elect Obama making use of technology by planning to put his weekly address on YouTube. President Bush podcasts his weekly address - see http://www.whitehouse.gov/podcasts/, or http://www.whitehouse.gov/rss/radioaddress.xml. Not sure YouTube video is an earth-shattering improvement for a weekly address that most people won't pay any attention to after the first month. I also happened to listen to an NPR Podcast just after BOL, and they made it sound like Obama invented the Internet because he plans on putting government information on the web. While I'm all for using technology, and more is certainly better, can we have a reality check? Some of the advances in technology use are simply because time is elapsing. When the government launched THOMAS back in 1995, that was newsworthy from a tech perspective. Saying you will put more stuff on the web is, well, simply expected.

LTS,

/John in Fairfax

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You guys were teasing about using old software on Friday’s show. Well I am
one of those use it till it dies dudes.
I am still using Quicken Version 3, 1993 that dates back to the Windows 95
days. It still works on XP just fine.
There is more than one reason for sticking with it. Don’t have to learn new
version and best of all hackers are not
going to be looking for a realistic user of a 15 year old version of
financial software. Also still use Eudora for email.
Have been using it since 1995 and it also still works fine on XP. I have
years worth of elaborate filters which I have
moved every time I get or build a new machine. I figure all the hackers and
attackers out there are trying to
break into Outlook and MS stuff in general. At work I use Outlook on our
office exchange server just fine but
at home I am still with Eudora V5.1.

Really like BUZZ and all the CNET podcasts. Keep up the funnin’ with us
…. half the time I almost crash on
the way to work or on my way home because I am rollin’ in laughter while
listening to BOL

BYE
Darrell in Virginia
Also got email about Grandpa using Sidekick ‘98 and a user that brings back kids software

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Wii Speak
In fact the game does not come with that hardware it just can use it
if you have it. So, the game can travel through the rental and used
markets as normal, just not the hardware. Now whether the hardware
should work the same, that you can debate. Thanks for the great
podcast.
Johnny P