Buzz Out Loud Podcast

Microsoft may change the name of the Kumo to Bing, which makes us wonder what the past tense of Bing would be. Bong. Also Last.FM is under attack from TechCrunch, and Eucalyptus is welcomed back into the App Store with open arms...and open searches.

EPISODE_982

EPISODE 982
Nokia Ovi launch
http://www.nokia.com/A4136001?newsid=1317441
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE54P1A320090526?feedType=RSS&feedName=technologyNews
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10249116-94.html
http://blog.ovi.com/2009/05/26/update-on-ovi-store-opening/

Last.fm user data was sent to RIAA by CBS
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/23/2149255&from=rss
http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-new-last.fm-gave-data-to-riaa-claims-still-nonsense/

Apple changes mind on rejected e-book reader app
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10248736-37.html

Internet giving rise to “citizen spies”
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/24/1229228

Twitter reality show
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-10248849-71.html
http://blog.twitter.com/2009/05/twitter-goes-hollywood.html

Linux consortium upset about Microsoft contract in Switzerland
http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/red-hat-sues-switzerland-over-microsoft-monopoly-965
http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/red-hat-sues-switzerland-over-microsoft-monopoly-965

Circuit City is back and it is awesome!
http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/05/23/circuitcitycom-is-alive-and-kickn/

Kumo to be dubbed Bing, AdAge says
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10248998-56.html

Nanotech memory could hold data for 1 billion years
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/26/1353219&from=rss

DSi can help you find ghosts
http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/05/25/nintendo-dsi-to-become-ghost-hunter/

E-MAIL

“Hi buzz people! I haven’t listened to buzz for a week coz I’m in Turks
and Caicos sipping my rum inspired drink which I forgot the name.

Anyways while down there I met a guy which he claims that he knows
somebody that works for apple.

According to him a tablet is in the works and they will call it the
iBook.
Remember they scrap the iBook name and replace everything with the
macbook.

Make sense or maybe we were too drunk. I don’t know just passing along.

Love the show.

Eugenio from nj”

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“The yellow pages should buy Skype from Ebay. Think about it if you are
searching the Yellow Pages website all you have to do is click a Call
button on the ad and Skype could launch. They could sell it to the
companies who advertise as a benefit and charge them for the calls to
their normal number or encourage them to get a Skype line.

Just a thought
MattBatt
Ocoee FL”

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“Previously on Buzz Out Loud…

We didn’t get a Molly rant, but we did get some Molly cussin’! BLEEP you AMD!!
Craigslist is pimpin’ mad.
Palm throws down the stylus for June 6.
This week stupid is brought to you by Microsoft and Apple.
Cooley talks nice about cars, batteries and GPS. Wait, isn’t GPS in space?!
Jason gets compass geeks riled up.
The internet might really be a series of tubes, under a series of roads.
Amazon reviewers make something outta nothing.
We learned about the Royal Wii and poked the Pope.
And we heard the word Twoogle for the first time.

Sheala, GA

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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

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.

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)

Ron Richards from iFanboy joins us as we finish today's show with a discussion of "geek" vs. "nerd" and decide "dork" is the next wave. We also talk about a cow that poops money, also known as Jonathan Coulton's business model. And we get mad at AT&T.

EPISODE 938

AT&T working with RIAA
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10203799-93.html

How it works for a real musician
http://www.jonathancoulton.com/2009/03/24/payday/

John Mellencamp: Back In The Good Old Days…
http://techdirt.com/articles/20090323/2137204220.shtml

Last.fm woes
http://mashable.com/2009/03/25/lastfm-third-party-mobile/
http://blog.wired.com/business/2009/03/lastfm-radio-to.html

Blockbuster comes to TiVo
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10203610-1.html

Facebook face recognition
http://www.inquisitr.com/20556/facecom-launches-facial-recognition-app-for-facebook/

Skype handles more international calls than AT&T
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/03/skype-handles-more-international-calls-than-att.ars

Apple sued for iPhone being a book reader
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/03/24/apple_sued_for_promoting_iphone_as_ebook_reader.html

A 3D web moves closer to reality
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7963302.stm

Iogear puts USB devices on your network
http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/iogear-puts-four-usb-devices-on-your-network-with-usb-net-shares/

DTV coupons are back
http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/24/dtv-coupons-are-here-again/?partner=rss&emc=rss

Fox to launch social network
http://www.mediabistro.com/webnewser/foxnewscom/fox_nation_where_you_can_be_part_of_real_news_112318.asp

Nasa gives images to Microsoft’s telescope and launches Mission Madness
http://www.gearlog.com/2009/03/nasa_launches_mission_madness.php
http://www.appscout.com/2009/03/nasa_to_provide_images_data_to_1.php

VOICEMAIL
Paul from Hawaii
Onlive and latency
http://palgn.com.au/article.php?id=13939&sid=4e12272d62effe4cc9ff303d421fe5ff

Dan
New name for micropayments!

E-MAIL
Roadable Airplanes. It makes me wonder why I listen when I hear things like that.
Of course Joe Idiot can’t fly a car, ever. That’s why they call it a “roadable airplane” instead of a flying car. It’s an airplane first, and requires a pilot’s license to fly. All of the FAA requirements for airplanes apply. And no, “black boxes” are not required.
What happened to your common sense?
Mike
(phew. that makes me feel better… — Mike

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Hey buzz crew.
On the ps3 you can download full version of some current gen games. Examples I can recall off the top of my head are grand turismo: prologue and burn out paradise. These still can be found on disc format. Xbox 360 currently has no current gen games available for full download.

I personally thought that they would expand the selection of available games if they ever did make a ps3 with no blue ray. especially since they (ps3) use standard hard drives that are easy to replace and upgrade vs the over priced xbox 360 120gig hd @ $134 dollars at amazon.

just some insight from a xbox 360 and ps3 owner.

Thanks and love the show.
Diego the hospital IT security guy in miami beach.

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Hi there

Cooley’s discussion about Nissan bringing EVs to the US in the next few years reminded me of this - basically Mitsubishi has been testing their new EV here in New Zealand for the last few months with the vehicle intended to be sold for between $30k and $40k (that’s about $15k to $20k in US currency - wasn’t $15k Tom’s limit?). You can already register your interest in the vehicle . Wikipedia notes that the vehicle should be on the market in the ‘09 to ‘10 time frame.

Cheers
Jonathan

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Reference your discussion about Warner’s burn-to-order DVDs in episode 937:

It would be nice if you folks would keep in mind all the poor souls who still don’t have high-speed internet access. I live a mere 40 miles away from downtown San Jose, CA and dial-up is the best I can do.

There is no FiOS where I live.

There is no cable here.

I live too far from the closest phone company central office for DSL.

And satellite is a non-starter for me — price and latency issues.

So, while I might enjoy the ability to download a movie for $14.95 in a matter of seconds or minutes, I can’t, Mr. Cooley.

For someone in my situation the $19.95, burn-to-order DVD might make a great deal of sense. In fact, I wonder if a dual-layer DVD sent via the postal service might give me higher through-put than my crappy dial-up connection.

Regards,
Robert M.

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Hello Buzz people,

My Kindle topic is in response to the free ebooks on the Sony Reader.
For some time, there has been a pretty awesome way to download public
domain ebooks straight to the kindle over the evdo from feedbooks.com.

The way it works is you open http://www.feedbooks.com/kindleguide in
your kindle browser, which downloads the book guide that shows up in
your home menu. From the guide, you can browse the available books by
title, author, genre and popularity, and download them straight to the
kindle in mobi-pocket format. I don’t know how the selection compares
to the sony/google offering, but there are supposedly thousands of
books on feedbooks. They are of course available to other devices, but
you can’t beat the seamless evdo delivery.

The other thing I wanted to bring up, that I haven’t really heard much
about since Google started migrating GrandCentral over to Google Voice
is that they are providing a simple way to make free long-distance
calls from any of your phones (including a landline) to any phone in
the US (and reasonable rates overseas as well). You just type in the
number or your contact’s name in the little “call” box, and Google
calls your selected phone, then connects you to the person you are
calling. Take that AT&T!

Dave

The 3.0 version of the iPhone firmware is coming in the summer and will feature copy and paste, MMS, search, and more. All things a cheap Nokia phone can do now, but hey, the iPhone couldn't and now it can. So there. We also review the sleek new Dell Adamo and take Australia to task for a fine for hyperlinks.

EPISODE 932

Live blog: iPhone OS 3.0 preview
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10197216-37.html
http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2009/03/16/the-iphone-os-30-announcement-scorecard/

Hands-on with the Dell Adamo
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10197525-1.html
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10197525-1.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4871279n

Banned hyperlinks could cost you $11,000 a day
http://www.smh.com.au/news/home/technology/banned-hyperlinks-could-cost-you-11000-a-day/2009/03/17/1237054787635.html

Comcast, Sony open retail store
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-10197316-7.html

Roku to add 10 more channels by year’s end
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10197802-1.html

Why total music purchases by Web users are still falling
http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-online-music-buying-streaming-rise-but-total-music-purchases-by-web-use/

Layoffs at Nokia
http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/03/17/nokia-cutting-1700-poor-souls/
http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=65337&full_skip=1

Mozilla says next Firefox likely months away
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10197411-2.html

Opera Turbo
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10196982-2.html

Mental faculties decline at age 27???
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7945569.stm

Charity Smackdown
http://charitysmackdown.com/team_SU2C.html

VOICEMAIL
Dance? in Colorado
A little bit about cell towers

Josh in Denver
You don’t talk abotu Twitter too much.

E-MAIL
You talked about RIM coming out with a prepay phone and were wondering
why that might sell.

Foreign workers. One of the huge troubles in bringing in you Offshore
software guys for stints in the US is they can’t sign up for cell
phones. And a business doesn’t want unused loaner phones sitting
around. This would solve that.

Love. The. Show.
Isaac in minneapolis

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Ok, this makes the second time Natali has mentioned dropping Fios. However, what she has not mentioned is why she dropped it. As someone who is waiting for Fios to make it to my area (Internet only), I’m curious if Natali could provide me with a reason I should stick with Comcast.

Currently, I’m using Comcast for internet and uber basic cable. I would have gotten just internet, but the package with basic cable was cheaper. Go figure. Also, I’m using vonage for my phone service. And while I’m at it, after looking at Google Voice, I must say most, if not all those features are available through Vonage, and with that I get a quasi landline.

Troy
NH

Natali opens with some rage against Verizon Fios over a billing problem after she canceled the service. She feels somehow, well...Jason explains it best in the show. We also get a Molly rant over Ireland's new content filtering on the Internet and TechCrunch's reporting that Last.FM was giving data to the RIAA. Which it was not.

EPISODE 916

Microsoft asks for severance back from laid off employees
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-10169119-75.html

Workers ’stealing company data’
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7902989.stm

Xbox Live denial of service attacks
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2009/02/microsoft-responds-to-xbox-live-denial-of-service-attack.ars

Wisconsin digital-download tax
http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/40012437.html
http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/21/1724230
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gfQBey_1cAAmZx3lArC6B8aNmfnA

New Zealand delays copyright amendment
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/communications/soa/New-Zealand-delays-copyright-amendment/0,130061791,339295130,00.htm

Ireland blocks music-sharing sites
http://www.sbpost.ie/post/pages/p/story.aspx-qqqt=NEWS-qqqs=news-qqqid=39782-qqqx=1.asp

Stolen Microsoft device remotely wiped
http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2009/02/23/stolen-windows-mobile-65-htc-diamond-wiped-remotely/

Palm Pre handled, handed out to celebrities?
http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/palm-pre-handled-handed-out-to-celebrities/

Pirate Bay says 80 percent of torrents are legal
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/02/pirate-bay-survey-says-that-80-of-our-torrents-are-legal.ars

CBS says it did not hand over user info to the RIAA
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2009/feb/23/digitalmusic-piracy

We are all from Twitteronia
http://sesquipedalis.blogspot.com/2009/02/finally-use-for-twitter.html

UFO Hotspots mapped
http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/02/22/ufo-hotspots-mapped/

VOICEMAIL
Anonymous
About the military robots

Zan
I propose a new holiday

E-MAIL
Hey BOL
I work for the Forest Service and we just got a few new re-imaged computers back and as i was poking around in the new image i found there is a bittorrent client install and configured to fetch updates from an internal RSS feed and download, distribute, and delete automatically… pretty cool stuff and very useful for our slightly limited bandwidth… Love the show!

Eric *not a ranger* Forest Service guy

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On Friday you had a caller mention that Sprint has changed its Pre informational website so that tethering wasn't available, however in looking at the actual palm.com/pre website you’ll notice that “phone as laptop modem” is still a feature that's listed…here’s a direct link: http://www.palm.com/us/products/phones/pre/#tab2
If that link doesn’t work, you can go to http://www.palm.com/pre and click on “details.” Not sure what to make of this..
Kinda sorta love the show…. Just kiddin’
Stephen
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America

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Hey Buzzcrew,

I was listening to episode 914 on my way to class, and I found the part about the woman e-mailing in her sleep quite interesting. My girlfriend has at times text me in her sleep, and I am not talking of just a couple random sentences, it was a full blown paragraph, grammatically correct, but that did not seem to make much sense. When I met up with her later that day and asked her about it, she was shocked. I showed her the message, she first though I had somehow gone to some lengths to fabricate the message on my phone, so I told her to open up her phone to check her outbox, and sure enough there it was. Although not a very common occurrence, I have gotten a few laughs from the few other random sleep texts she has sent. Love the show.

Jerry
(The Rocket Scientist in Training)
Purdue University
West Lafayette, Indiana

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Mo god bebo is awesome.
This new direction they’re taking is great, AOL FTW.
Now they can pull your info from youtube, twitter, myspace, facebook, del.ico.us (i know it’s delicious now, but i MUCH preffered del.ico.us ) and flickr!

I mean one social network pulling all your stuff from all the other social networks? that’s genius!

Xadacka.

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Hey, mea culpa for not getting back to you sooner, but I've been elbow-deep in autopsies all week!

For the record, we docs use regular old Wikipedia ALL THE TIME. Yea it's crowd-sourced info, but we use it as a refresher, not as a primary learning source.

Also, oxytocin does a lot of things, what they teach you in med school is that stimulates milk production after you give birth. So, actually, excessive social networking is more likely to make you lactate, not get cancer... a way more comical outcome IMHO. LOL.

-dr. karl

PS: Natalie, you are only pregnant if the purple on your feet is in the shape of a plus sign. Also, if I *cuddle* with my *netbook* does that make me less of man? What if I spoon with my macbook? jk.

Episode 753

Internet provider halts plan to track, sell users’ surfing data
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/24/AR2008062401033.html

RIAA declares that AM-FM radio is a ‘kind of piracy’ (thanks Mark!)
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/06/recording-indus.html

American Airlines’ Wi-Fi debuts tomorrow; Glenn Fleishman’s analysis
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/06/24/american-airlines-wi.html

BlackBerry Bold delayed on AT&T until at least mid-August!
http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2008/06/25/blackberry-bold-delayed-on-att-until-at-least-mid-august/

Hackers crack London Tube’s ticketing system
http://blog.wired.com/cars/2008/06/hackers-crack-l.html

Two trojans For Mac OS X
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/25/0032226

Real-world Firefox 3 memory usage leads the field
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/24/2012204

No XP reprieve; Windows 7 release set
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/24/2358210

Clueless video game bill nears passage in New York
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080624-game-law.html

Twitter officially announces its funding; Jeff Bezos participates
http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-twitter-officially-announces-its-funding-jeff-bezos-participates/

Vint Cerf: Video streaming to give way to downloading
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13953_3-9976895-80.html

Voice mail

Tom Cincy
Our pain makes him feel better

Joe Westside
Maybe we should just forget keyboards on smart phones
http://blog.wired.com/cars/2008/06/hackers-crack-l.html

E-mail

Hey Buzz Out Loud

In episode 752 I was a bit surprised by the mention regarding the
Lounge Forum discussion on Microsoft not fighting back against
Apple’s ads. It is a great discussion, but Microsoft is definitely
coming back at them with a vengeance, albeit very late in the game.
Check out the cover of Fast Company June 2008. They hired ad firm
Crispin Porter+Bogusky. For those that arent wise to the marketing
world, this is the agency responsible for the Subservient Chicken
site among other very notable campaigns. According to the article we
will start to see Microsofts response in July.

An interesting nugget from the article is that Crispin is outspoken
in not forcing the firm to convert to Windows. They will continue to
use Mac computers. From a marketing perspective, I would love to use
that in the next Apple commercial.

Lastly, show mercy. I have only been listening for about a month, but
Ive become quickly obsessed. What is the “pigeons” all about? Im clueless.

Dominic Pannone
Austin, TX

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Hey BOL crew I came across this link while browsing the web and thought you might get a kick out of it. The title really says it all, what if people bought cars like they did computers?

http://www.unixgirl.com/humor/cars.html

Thanks love the show,

Mark

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Hi JaMoTo. Speaking as a geeky blind guy, the only 2 platforms that
have speech software on phones that I know of are symbian and windows
mobile and I ask you, which would you rather run on? Nokia have stepped
up and handed us a goldmine of possability for adaptive tech on mobile
phones. The only suitable comment can be,
Woooooooooooooooooooooooooo Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
recurring! I’m slapping a wicked air bass solo to selibrate. Oops,
don’t want to spill the coffee on the laptop. Be still my beeting heart.

This almost takes away the feer that one day soon, all phones and
tablets will have vertual keyboards making them as expensive plastic
bricks to the blind. At least Until decent voice recognission finally
comes along that is which will probably be round the same time as the
singularity going on current vox functionality trends.

Danny the madly dancing down under blind bass teacher

Ps, sorry for the spelling. Thunderbird rocks but I can’t get the spell
check to work even though I need it like ISP’s need a kick in the but.

PPS,

love - the - show

EPISODE 667

Yahoo-Microsoft buyout brawl, one-two punch with a swift comeback punch
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9916001-7.html
http://www.news.com/8301-13953_3-9915835-80.html
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120776803032602423.html

Experts hack power grid in less than a day
http://it.slashdot.org/it/08/04/09/2256241.shtml

Computer viruses hit one million
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7340315.stm

IBM ships fastest CPU on Earth
http://tech.slashdot.org/tech/08/04/10/1152205.shtml

Free music streams turn into increased music sales
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/ 20080409-last-fm-free-music-streams-turn-into-increased-music-sales.html
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9915471-7.html

Blockbuster eyes streaming to TVs
http://www.news.com/Blockbuster-eyes-streaming-to-TVs/ 2100-1041_3-6237068.html

Microsoft introduces tool for avoiding traffic jams
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/10/technology/10maps.html

FCC greenlights text message emergency alert system
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9916004-7.html

Zune Guy’s name-change endeavor is back on
http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/ zune-guys-name-change-endeavor-is-back-on/

VOICE MAIL

Peter from Ontario
How to stop Safari update.

Brent
How do you pay for a stolen credit card?

Umberto from Brazil
Some people can’t search.

E-MAIL

We have stupid legislators, too

Hey T.M.J.,

If there is someone in the world that can’t envy you North Americans on the stupid legislators field, I can assure you that’s the Brazilian people.

And to prove that for the entire planet again (after blocking YouTube because of that Cicarelli’s video), they have decided to block the access to Wordpress.com because of one specific blog (priscilafonseca.wordpress.com) that posted an explicit video from YouTube that’s not even there anymore!

Again it evolves a sex video, a careless girl, and service from the Internet used by more then 1 million Brazilians. I mean, how deja vu is that?

So, suck it up! Our legislators are worse than yours!

–
Rafa

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My wife insisted that I e-mail

Yesterday I listened to episode 689 where the caller ranted about the phrase “can’t have your cake and eat it too” (I know… I’m always behind… but I’ve listened to every podcast since around episode 100. Every episode… I OCD like that).

My wife and I have had multiple conversations about this phrase. She was really bothered by it… I didn’t really care. However, when I heard the explanation, I laughed and I laughed and played it for her later when I got home. She’s so grateful and insisted I e-mail to let you know how grateful she is… and I’m grateful we’ll no longer have this discussion!

Keep up the great work!

Kenny

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ISPs in U.K. against BBC

You may have already talked about this, but I am still a day behind.

I read in the news yesterday that ISP’s in the U.K. are up in arms because the BBC iPlayer service (a service that allows U.K. residents who pay a BBC TV licence to watch a variety of BBC TV shows anytime up to 7 days after they air) is so popular it is using too much bandwidth. Isn’t this where TV is probably going? This is only one service.

As Hulu, YouTube, and others like them become increasingly popular can you guess what will happen here in the US ?

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Geoff Johnson

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Possible cable cutters caught

Saw this in my morning feeds and wanted to pass it along. The little animation of how the repairs were done is a nice touch:

Dubai Port Trust authorities have held two ships suspected for cutting the undersea fibre optic cables that disrupted Internet services across Middle East, Asia and North Africa.
The ships, MT Ann and MV Hounslow, were caught after Reliance Flag, which owns the cables, passed along satellite images of the two ships in the vicinity of the cables when the damage took place.
This may not be part of any “conspiracy” as the authorities believe that undersea cable were damaged because of jerks and force of the ship. Details on Hindu and ET.
If you are curious to know how ships detect and repair the damaged undersea cables, watch this video animation from Alcatel-Lucent via Bonnie.net.

http://www.labnol.org/internet/favorites/ the-ships-that-cut-the-undersea-internet-cables/2904/

Keep up the great work!

Shane

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Apple sucks

Hi guys,

So much for my two free songs, I got billed for them.
04/10/2008 C&C APL*ITUNES 866-71 $1.00
04/10/2008 C&C APL*ITUNES 866-71 $1.03

Take care.
Doug

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BOL cameo in Flickr Video

Thanks as always for making my morning commute less painful every day. Just wanted to let you know that even though I didn’t rewind and relisten to the 51 seconds of Buzz Out Loud during which this sample Flickr video was made, I’m pretty sure I didn’t miss anything.

And, yes, I know I shouldn’t be videoblogging while twittering on my cell while listening to BOL as I crawl down the freeway, but hey… That’s just how I roll.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/revolute/2400749801/

http://laist.com/2008/04/09/flickr_video.php

Keep that buzz,

Andy

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Digital switch-over --obvious fix

Sooo, why don't they just broadcast a message on the analog wavelengths for one month post the transition to Digital? The message can have both the phone number and Web site as to how to proceed from there. This would ensure that everyone gets the message–even the people who have been living under a rock for the past year.

It really isn't that difficult to figure out.

Brandon from Corona

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Nomoreweed.com

Hey! Just thought I'd say when I typed nomoreweed.com into Firefox it came up with Google search for ‘is “Molly Wood” is smoking the weed?’ Don't know if it will be the same by the time you read this if you do, but was quite funny! Your ace!

From Seb

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Another thought on floor models

How about this for an alternate look at the “floor model” controversy.

At my local Staples, all the chairs have a big sticker on the price tag that says “FREE ASSEMBLY”. So why on earth would they charge $5 for a floor model, when they’d assemble one out of a box for free?

Sounds like a manager with a Napoleon complex to me.

Keep up the good work!

Paul from Japancast.net