Buzz Out Loud Podcast

EPISODE 865

Listener co-host details: Email buzz@cnet.com with your name, phone number, preferred time of day (with time zone). We are shooting for doing the interviews next week.

Smartphone numbers are in: iPhone sales exceed Windows Mobile sales for first time
http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/smartphone-numbers-are-in-iphone-sales-exceed-windows-mobile-sa/
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081204-apple-rim-winners-in-shrinking-smartphone-market.html

Recharge your cell phone by talking into it
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08%2F12%2F03%2F2320200
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7764537.stm

Google was 3 hours away from DOJ Antitrust Charges
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08%2F12%2F04%2F1412218

Firefox users targeted by rare piece of malware
http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2008/120408-firefox-users-targeted-by-rare.html

Apple to sell a $99 4GB iPhone at Wal-Mart?
http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2008/12/04/apple-to-sell-a-99-4gb-iphone-at-walmart/

World’s second Android phone now on presale
http://www.intomobile.com/2008/12/04/worlds-second-android-phone-now-on-presale.html
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10113308-94.html

Report: Comcast usage monitor coming in January
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10112892-2.html

Apple believes someone is behind Psystar
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08%2F12%2F04%2F1528233

Monster Cable sues Monster Minigolf
http://consumerist.com/5101473/monster-cable-sues-monster-minigolf-for-trademark-infringement

Doctor performs amputation by text message
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08%2F12%2F03%2F2345206

Voice mail
Alex: Facebook phishing?

E-mailL
Morning JoMoTo
A Buxx card uses real money. It’s a preloaded credit card designed for
teens so that they have a card to use but can’t run up a big bill. Both of
my kids have them and it teaches them how to keep track of spending,
budgets, etc.
Love the show

Dr. Mom from Twitter

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The final version of the Double BOL BINGO- with full descriptions and proper names.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/33039348@N04/sets/72157610707558064/
http://www.box.net/shared/qvrycdsv8b#Double_BOL_BINGO
I’d have to say this was quite fun- though frustrating to a level of ridiculous at moments. Taking a hard look at what technologies actually have impact and presence and how people use said technology kept me interested throughout. Also: Finding a Segway outside of its protected preserves is very unlikely. Though the number of Kindle+Segway combos are probably much higher in number than Kindle+BlackBerry Storm combos.

Victory!

David in Provo (TrojanBee)

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Hey Buzz Crew,

As soon as I heard that I could win Cnet stickers on the live stream, I ran off. One of the only places you will ever see segways in Tarpon Springs, Florida is Fred Howard Park Beach. After about an hour of running throughout the beach, I found a nice little pack of segwayers. I then ran to the main center of Tarpon into many of it’s coffee shops, I found an Asus eee PC, though I’m not sure of the model. Admitably, the Zune and the GPS were those of my neighbors.

Pictures:
http://photobucket.com/BOLbingo

Please excuse the HORRIBLE quality as I took them with my phone. Due to my limited texting privaleges, was force to take a picture of a picture.

-Chris from Florida
-AKA PacGamer

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Hey Tom, Molly, Jason & Random Host,
I had just finished listening to Slashdot Review's daily podcast dated 3 Dec 08, "SDR2008-12-03", and I am seriously traumatized!!! They talk about a doctor, funded, by DARPA, who is working on re-animating the dead. You'll have to listen to the episode but this totally frightening to me. It's like a zombie movie in the making. DARPA is funding this so soldiers on the battle field can be quickly put into suspended animation so they won't die. What happens when it goes wrong? What happens when the re-animated creatures go awry? I am all for the advancement of science, but this is scary.
Love the show!!!
Kory - From Landstuhl Germany

EPISODE 704

Comcast to spearhead creation of P2P Bill of Rights
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/ 20080415-comcast-to-spearhead-creation-of-p2p-bill-of-rights.html

Defiant Psystar back selling Leopard computers
http://www.news.com/8301-13579_3-9919432-37.html

So exactly who or what is Psystar? We dig a little
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/04/15/ so_exactly_who_or_what_is_psystar_we_dig_a_little.html

Blue Jeans Cable strikes back--response to Monster Cable
http://www.audioholics.com/news/industry-news/ blue-jeans-strikes-back

Consumer groups urge do not track registry
http://www.reuters.com/article/governmentFilingsNews/ idUSN1520070020080415

Russian government enacts Byzantine Wi-Fi regulations
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/ 20080416-russian-government-enacts-byzantine-wifi-regulations.html

Politicos: Let’s ban in-flight cell phone chatter for good
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9920061-7.html

ISPs meddled with their customers’ Web traffic, study finds
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/144682/ isps_meddled_with_their_customers_web_traffic_study_finds.html

Doctorow tears up ISP contract over net neutrality
http://tech.slashdot.org/tech/08/04/15/1844219.shtml

Beware the ‘whaling’ e-mail that includes your company info
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9919571-7.html

AFP: German schoolboy, 13, corrects NASA’s asteroid figures: paper
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5g6fIS_34_CxE8-vcC5GvbjD4MIOQ

VOICE MAIL

Alex Austin
Is the DTV transition going to cause a fight?

Rob Oregon
More noises in electric cars.

E-MAIL

Apple monopoly

I was listening to episode 703 where you talk about the claim that Apple has a “monopoly” on Mac OS X, when I realized that the cloner has a point: Way back in the 1970’s the U.S. government forced IBM to allow people to buy OS 370 (it’s mainframe operating system) so that they could install it on clone mainframes!

Thus, you can argue that Psystar’s claim that Apple has a “monopoly” on OS X makes no sense (and I think I would agree) but the fact still remains that Psystar has a legal precedent going back 35 years that says that Apple can’t prevent people from installing their software on non-Apple hardware!

Porkchop D. Clown

Telco’s money

Hey guys,

Listening to the caller make a great point about the money given to the Telcos back in 1996, and I was flabbergasted by how you guys just wrote that off. So much so that I probably would have paused the podcast (for the first time) to write this, except that I was in the middle of a jog. How can you possibly just say that that money is gone, and we should just move on and forget about it. I have almost $200,000 in school loans, does that mean in a couple of year I can just say, well the money's gone and I haven't really done anything with it so let's wipe the slate clean and get me more money. NO WAY!

Though I do thank you for getting me riled up enough to run up the two hills home.

--Ricky from New York

EPISODE 673

Sanity prevails: IE8 will default to standard-compliant mode
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/ 20080303-sanity-prevails-ie8-will-default-to-standard-compliant-mode.html
http://www.news.com/8301-13860_3-9884688-56.html

Survey: Warnings from ISPs could slash file-swapping by 70 percent
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/ 20080303-survey-warnings-from-isps-could-slash-file-swapping-by-70.html

Nokia to bring Microsoft Silverlight-powered experiences to millions of mobile users
http://www.nokia.com/A4136001?newsid=1197788

Official Google Mobile Blog: Shifting Google Gears to mobile
http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2008/03/shifting-google-gears-to-mobile.html

What price, Scrabulous? Mergers, acquisitions, venture capital, hedge funds http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/04/ scrabulous-founders-look-to-score-big-report-says/?hp

Microsoft offers $100K to testers of Office Live workspace
http://www.nytimes.com/idg/IDG_002570DE00740E1800257402000312F0.html

Ranking corporate America on identity theft
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/27/ranking-corporate-america-on-identity-theft/

Movie studios could be behind missing iTunes rentals
http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2008/03/04/ movie-studios-could-be-behind-missing-itunes-rentals

Daylight Saving wastes energy, study says
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/ SB120406767043794825-UOLcfJA8×9Gw9ozbCz77MiLmtaE_20080327.html

Do coat hangers sound as good as Monster cables?
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/03/03/do-coat-hangers-soun.html

MySpace gets its own MTV show, but only in the U.K.
http://www.news.com/8301-13577_3-9884700-36.html

Cyber-goggles: Record and identify every object you see
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/03/2117250

VOICE MAIL

Alex Columbus
Why nobody’s got paid from Napster settlement.

Jared Omaha
How come I can’t record?

Alex? iPhone
Price cut.

E-MAIL

Where’s Stage 6?

Hey Buzz team,

I had to catch up on the episodes from Tuesday of last week up until Monday...of today. And was extremely sad that there was absolutely no mention on the shut down of the highly beloved Stage 6. It was really a boundary pushing Web site, which actually offered hi-def uploading, free of cost when no one else did. It was awesome, and the DivX player is the best video watchy thing, hands down.

I understand, that if with the death of Netscape and HD-DVD, maybe it was just too morbid to talk about it.

Ajay from Ontario.

Mind you, I might have just missed it, and sorry if I did.

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Vista cracked by Iraqis

Hey Buzz crew

On Episode 672 of Buzz Out Loud you were talking about the “new way” of activating Windows Vista. Just to make things clear, I did pay for my copy of Windows.

I’m around a lot of Iraqi Interpreters that the Marine Corps hires to work for us, and sometimes they ask me to fix their computers. One Iraqi I met showed me how he had activated and fully updated the copy of Vista on his computer, using the same method described by the Pantheon group.

I don’t know if they managed to get an early crack from them, or somehow they have set up their own “Crack Group” out here in the Middle East. But the computer I saw was cracked about a month before the Pantheon release.

I just wanted to ask what your thoughts are on this.

Thanks for the podcast
Dusty (Cpl Parra, Manuel) in Ramadi, Iraq

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Bootable flash key makes disk encryption attacks super-simple

Hey guys, this is Adam the Grad Student from Miami. Thought this was in interesting article about encryption, easier than air canisters. (Yay, first mail sent!)

http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/04/ bootable-flash-key-makes-disk-encryption-attacks-super-simple/

Adam the Grad Student

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Another U.S. government effort to unregister a domain name

Thought you might be interested in this.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/04/us/04bar.html?hp

“Steve Marshall is an English travel agent. He lives in Spain, and he sells trips to Europeans who want to go to sunny places, including Cuba. In October, about 80 of his Web sites stopped working, thanks to the United States government.”

Now the U.S. federal government is unregistering domain names — without a judicial say so. I’m outraged. But someone else’s feeling might depend on how they feel about the embargo.

thanks,
New England Kent

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OMG I’m using WiMAX!!

Hey JAMOTO

Longtime listener first time writer

I just moved to Denmark for work and my company was very nice to rent me an apartment. I get settled in and find a regular box with an Ethernet cable coming out of it. So i plug my PC and voila, I'm on the Web. However I realize there is no other cables plugged to the box! (Except for power.) I went online and looked for the ISP that provides the box.

So the box transforms the WiMAX signal to regular old Ethernet.

I feel sooo avant-garde

Buzz out loud j’ adore

Love

Jean-Philippe

PS
The name of the company?
clearwire
http://www.clearwire.com or .dk for denmark