TV with DVR & Internet: $89.90/moA bat hitched a ride on the space shuttle Discovery and I think it's going to be a long long time till touchdown brings it down again. Of course, IBM apparently wants to buy Sun too. We also cover the hot new features in the latest software update for the Nokia 5800. Oh, and the iPhone too.
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EPISODE 933 |
IBM to buy Sun?
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/19/technology/companies/19sun.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10198901-92.html
iPhone OS 3.0: What you need to know
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10198292-37.html
What iPhone OS 3.0 promises users and developers
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10198525-37.html
Nokia 5800 NAM gets v20.2.014 major update
http://symbianworld.org/1357-nokia-5800-nam-gets-v202014-major-update/
Amazon’s Kindle targeted by patent infringement suit
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2009/03/amazons-kindle-targeted-by-patent-infringement-suit.ars
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13512_3-10198880-23.html
Steam gets into micropayments with in-game DLC
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10198392-2.html
House of Dead says f-word more than any other video game
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13846_3-10198183-62.html
Xbox Live has family games from Hasbro for free
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2009/mar09/03-17FamilyGameNightPR.mspx?rss_fdn=Press%20Releases
Psystar releases new $599 Mac clone
http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/03/18/psystar-releases-new-599-mac-clone/
Computer science enrollment up
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=14861
Did bat hitch a ride to space on Discovery?
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/18/1232233
Voice mail
Anonymous
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Gatlin
Happy Birthday Windows 3.1
E-mail
Hi guys (”love the show?”)
Generally, I’m against “paid premium content” though I’ve subscribed to ESPN insider and NY Times Select (or whatever it’s called), but I thought this was a great way for the Rocky News staff to keep providing service to the Denver community:
THE DEAL IS SIMPLE.
You pledge to pay as little as $4.99 a month, and if we reach our goal of
50,000 pledges by April 23 we will go live with our site to revive a tradition of distinguished reporting and editing with 21st-century electronic delivery.
It's an investment, one worth $4.99 a month to encourage a bold, creative effort to continue a vision based on a 150-year Denver tradition.
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Hey B.O.L.,
Windows Mobile revamps their entire ui, gives you flash to go along with a new mobile browser, a free backup solution, and some great devices that will come with it and you guys get all worked up over cut&paste and mms on the iphone? Really? Tell me why? I propose that each host should own a phone from a different os to level out this iphone lovefest. Tom can use a windows phone, natalie a blackberry, and jason an iphone.
Loving the show just a smidge less,
Emiliano the Mechanical Engineer
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Hello BOL.
The problem with maps is the licensing, the maps that google use are not licensed for routing and navigation, as presented in this ( http://code.google.com/apis/maps/terms.html ) terms of using the google maps api:
Scroll down to restrictions: you must not use the Service or Content with any products, systems, or applications for or in connection with real time navigation or route guidance, including but not limited to turn-by-turn route guidance that is synchronized to the position of a user’s sensor-enabled device.
Google licenses the maps from TeleAtlas/Navteq and I am sure both companies would prefer that you pay them for their maps. again … and again … and again. for each GPS enabled device that you own.
Now we will worry about map DRM …
Thanks!
Best regards…
Khaled A.
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Dear Buzz Crew:
I just wanted to say congratulations and Happy New Year to all Persians around the world (those who listen to this Podcast), this Friday would be the end of winter and start of the spring which is the start of our new year, we call it "Norouz" (translated: the new day).
So Happy Norouz to all Persian BOL Fans around the world.
Love the Show,
Siavash From Iran.
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Episode 776 |
Yahoo says DRM issue overblown by media, but will offer refunds
http://www.betanews.com/article/Yahoo_says_DRM_issue_overblown_by_media_but_will_offer_refunds/1217287551
Microsoft goes live with Mojave videos
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10001331-56.html
http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/mojave-experiment-goes-live-doesnt-fail-to-annoy/
Dell hints it’s working on smartphone
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10000833-1.html
T. Boone Pickens dumps Yahoo stake
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10001380-93.html
‘Scrabulous’ disappears from Facebook
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10001319-36.html
Dave from Dallas has started a scrabble boycott group. You can find it by searching for “Scrabble Boycott” in the groups application.
When the ‘wisdom of crowds’ turns on itself: IMDB edition
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10000650-2.html
Why the Olympics Scare Tech Pros
http://blogs.wsj.com/biztech/2008/07/28/why-the-olympics-scare-tech-pros/
‘New car smell’ becoming less toxic, report says
http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-10001060-54.html
Voice Mail
John Southern Illinois
About that Internet in space effort.
Mike Sherman Oaks
Trying out driving 65.
Jason Marietta
Thoughts on the Cuil name.
Hey, guys!
So perhaps Steve & Co. (otherwise known as Apple, Inc.) didn’t learn their lesson the first time around. You guys remember the whole pushed-Safari debacle, right? Well, as it turns out, Apple has now pushed a MobileMe preference pane onto unsuspecting Windows users via iTunes 7.7!
Wait, what?? That’s right, they did it again! Those people just… ugh. Here’s the link to the Ars story:
http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/07/18/apple.puts.mobileme.on.win/
J-2
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Hey, Tom, Molly, and Jason
I found who the old lady is. A simple Google Image Search for Molly Wood and getting to page 7, I find her. Her name is Molly Wood. Below you’ll find more info. For Tom I found the pic's origin; Cuil got that picture from Google--click on the link. BTW here's the guys e-mail [REDACTED] he works for a car company. All this from a Google search. Amazing. I tried cuiling Jason but Cuil was down when I wrote this e-mail--darn. Love the show.
P.S. I mentioned the links in the chat room but was ignored 
Leo S.
Link to article (Molly)
http://washburnlaw.edu/news/2005/
Link to image (Molly)
http://washburnlaw.edu/news/2005/2005-03flss-wood.jpg
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EPISODE 774 |
Escaped ’spam king’ allegedly kills self, family
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-9999451-83.html
Cancer doc urges cell phone precaution
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-9999188-1.html
Reports: AOL cuts XDrive, Pictures, some blogs
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-9999471-93.html
Report: MySpace could work with Amazon on music service
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-9999472-93.html
IPhone 2.1 Update to Bring Turn-by-Turn GPS?
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/07/iphone-21-updat.html
EFF: Yahoo Music should compensate customers
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-9999244-93.html
The Death of Nearly All Software Patents?
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/24/1458215
Hasbro Finally Sues Makers Of Scrabulous; Invokes DMCA To Get It Removed
http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-hasbro-finally-sues-makers-of-scrabulous-invokes-dmca-to-get-it-removed/
Users can automatically encrypt Gmail traffic
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-9999473-93.html
Internet Firm Says It Targeted Ads To Customers’ Web-Surfing Habits
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/24/AR2008072403603.html
Vint Cerf Preps Interplanetary Internet Protocol
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/24/1728214
VOICEMAIL
Steve Tampa
What about the accessories.
Sorry to burst your bubble Tomolly, but Richard Vobes has been doing daily podcasts from his beach hut in Worthing UK since January 2005 and is currently up to show 1009 as of July 25th.
I don’t know if Vobes is THE MOST prolific, but the bar is substantially higher to pass than Curry’s measly 777.
Your long term fan (Since 2005),
Scotto
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http://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/columns/story/1152083.html
Finally! For once, the internet is being considered a utility. Wilson,
North Carolina did what the telecoms wouldn’t and installed fiber
optic all of the city. However, by opening that network up to
different carriers and being a carrier themselves, they have solved
several problems that plague the telecommunications industry. I hope
other cities and towns (and possibly telecoms) will see what Wilson
has done and follow their example. I salute Wilson for finding a
better, cheaper, and faster way to connect its citizens to the Internet.
Si
Durham, NC
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Hey Buzz Crew,
In episode 722, in responce to the whole “3D Standard” and 3D movies at home, Molly (almost rant-ally) says “What will it take to make the 3D glasses go away?”. Well, guess what, the technology already exists. I was in Seattle at the Boeing Visitors Center about to get a tour of the biggest building in the world by volume, and in the lower level of the building they have displays and exhibits to look at current and future technology. There was an exhibit from engine manufacturer Pratt and Whitney talking about their engine for the new 787 Dreamliner. Around the exhibit were 3 plasma TV’s with the imagies POPPING out at me with no glasses involved. You could walk to the right and left and see around the image… it was amazing!!! I had never seen anything like it, without glasses of course 
I went home and looked it up based on the information I could get off the plasma TV’s and it seems to be Phillips WOWvx 3D Technology.
http://www.presentationtek.com/2007/11/11/philips-wowvx-3d-display-technology/
Anyway, lets bring these into the homes, no glasses necessary!!!
Love the show,
Jordan from Cincinnati
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Hey buzz crew, jamoto (did i spell that right?) here’s some story for you.
http://equiliberate.org/?q=node/3
I’m a windows, mac and linux user, flexible to which any OS i use and i bought a laptop a couple of months ago and if i only had read the license terms of windows vista, i could have got my $699 Dell Inspiron laptop to be $499 if i got that refund. I didn’t even used the original windows vista in there. Oh well, but still happy because Mac OS X runs smoothly in this machine, made it to dual boot with Windows XP for the sake that my clients use it so i have to (work thing). If only Apple legalizes or distribute their OS on pc’s, businesses would embrace it in no time. Definitely. (hmm.. What would PC guy say about this… i wonder… =p)
ciao!
Polo
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