Learn More about Samsung Omnia IISo, Apple bought Lala, and Ars Technica thinks it has a source who knows what Apple's going to do with it-- it's going to make a Web site that sells music and stores it in the cloud. Kind of like what Lala already is, but it's going to be all iTunes-ified. And that has Rafe worrying about cloud failure again. We also kvetch about Facebook, a Mozilla employee complains about Google, and the "New Moon" videotaper is set free.
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EPISODE 1124
Now, Facebook lets users hide friends from people who are not logged in
http://www.insidefacebook.com/2009/12/10/now-facebook-lets-users-hide-friends-from-people-who-are-not-logged-in/
http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=197943902130
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10413835-36.html
Mozilla worker touts Bing over Google, citing privacy
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10413473-56.html
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=28387
FTC: Kids can find adult content in virtual worlds
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10797_3-10413742-235.html
Charges dropped in ‘New Moon’ taping
http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2009/12/twilight-saga-new-moon-videotape.html
Apple to fold Lala into iTunes, transform into Web service
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/12/apple-to-fold-lala-into-itunes-transform-into-web-service.ars
Video game sales drop, but still strong
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-10413599-52.html
More drivers using mobile phones since penalty change
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8407142.stm
USPTO asking for ideas to enhance patent quality
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/12/10/2031211/USPTO-Asking-For-Ideas-To-Enhance-Patent-Quality
TechCrunch files suit over JooJoo
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10413762-92.html
Data nerds hack NASA (in a good way)
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/12/nasa-hackathon/
Best of 2009 clips show
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Listener co-host show
Want to talk with us on this year’s listener co-host show? These interviews will be recorded Monday, December 21 from 3-4 p.m. PT. E-mail buzz@cnet.com, subject “Listener Co-host”, and include your name, contact number where you can be reached for the interview (landline preferred), and we will compile the list and select four people for the show.
VOICE MAIL
Dwight the key grip on Tom’s 3 DVDs
E-MAIL
Hey Buzz Crew, this is Jeremy the theater manager. I’m writing in to tell you about my chain’s monthly newsletter. One of the constant topics in the letter is recording–how to spot it, what to do about it, so on. Almost every month it’s followed with a picture of a manager and a bow-tie clad teenager holding a five hundred dollar check. I’m not sure how I could sleep at night sending someone to prison and ruining their life for five bills over some crappy camera screener. I really don’t think the punishment fits the crime. Personally I tell all my employees that if they see someone taping, they should sit next to them and ask for the camera. That way, nobody goes to jail, there’s one less unwatchable screener on the torrent sites, and, hey, free camera. Everybody wins!
Love the show.
P.S. The MPAA site given in the newsletter is fightfilmtheft.org .
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Hi Buzz crew,
Your discussion of real-time writing on Google Wave got me thinking about a great new revenue possibility for established authors.
Imagine if someone like Stephen King were to announce he’s writing his next novel on Google Wave. How many fans and writers would pay $30 for a 1-year membership to access that wave anytime? They could access the wave and watch King write his novel in real time. It’s not only great for King’s fans, but could also be a graduate-level course in writing for serious students.
David in Missouri
While Yahoo and Microsoft are flirting again and video game sales are plummeting, it doesn't matter. We are all going to be eaten soon by the blob of organic material floating by Alaska. It ate a bird, people! Get with it! Seattle is next. Oh and we can film our demise with the first 3-D webcam. So that will comfort us during our demise.
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EPISODE 1021 |
Yahoo, Microsoft finally near deal
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10289209-56.html
Video game sales revenue plummets 31 percent
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10797_3-10289207-235.html
Games Industry Suffers From Recession, Finally
http://technologizer.com/2009/07/16/games-industry-suffers-from-recession-finally/
Blu-ray celebrates 91 percent sales increase for first half of 2009
http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/16/blu-ray-celebrates-91-percent-sales-increase-for-first-half-of-2/
Possible Twitter lawsuit would dive into murky blog waters
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9135606/Possible_Twitter_lawsuit_would_dive_into_murky_blog_waters
Cosmetic surgery co. gets slapped for fake online reviews
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/07/cosmetic-surgery-co-gets-slapped-for-fake-online-reviews.ars
World’s First 3D Webcam Tested
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/07/16/2213224/Worlds-First-3D-Webcam-Tested
New Air Force BACN system ends incompatibilities between comm systems
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/07/air-forces-universal-translator-has-everybody-talking/
New DVDs For 1,000-Year Digital Storage
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/07/17/1213203/New-DVDs-For-1000-Year-Digital-Storage
Huge Unidentified Organic Blob Floating Around Alaska
http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/07/16/1421255/Huge-Unidentified-Organic-Blob-Floating-Around-Alaska
Bill Gates is part of a team that has patented a new beer keg. Sure it could be used for other things. But the point was we're pretty sure he came up with the idea when drinking warm beer in Africa. We also talk about porn on the iPhone and new Windows pricing.
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EPISODE 1005 |
Microsoft Windows 7 pricing revealed: pre-orders kick off June 26th
http://www.slashgear.com/microsoft-windows-7-pricing-revealed-pre-orders-kick-off-june-26th-2547957/
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10272703-56.html
AT&T’s 3G upgrades to improve iPhone service
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10271450-94.html
WSJ publisher calls Google 'digital vampire'
http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20090624/FREE/906249985
Porn comes to the iPhone
http://macenstein.com/default/archives/4693
http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/apple-pulls-adult-content-app-from-app-store-anyone-surprised/
Web filters to censor video games
http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/games/web-filters-to-censor-video-games-20090625-cxrx.html
China throttles Google, U.S. ratchets up trade war over Green Dam
http://government.zdnet.com/?p=5026
MetroPCS $5 unlimited international calling
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE55N59U20090624
Bill Gates on beer keg patent application
http://gizmodo.com/5302082/bill-gates-applies-for-patent-on-high-tech-keg
http://www.techflash.com/microsoft/Bill_Gates_wants_a_better_beer_keg48998721.html
15-Year-Old Invents Algae-Powered Energy System
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/06/24/2223245/15-Year-Old-Invents-Algae-Powered-Energy-System
VOICEMAIL
Helen has something…er… for Cooley
Sean from Boulder on Windows
EMAIL
This will be my first “well actually” but as a mechanical engineer I
thought it worth pointing out that converting between units on a
complicated platform like the space shuttle is probably a bit more
complex than entering a few searches in google. Unfortunately, you
can’t just replace every 1/4″-20 x 1″ socket head cap screw with a
M6.35-1.27 x 25.4 screw. For one, the hardware doesn’t exist, and two,
the nomenclatures are different. You would actually have to reengineer
quite a bit to make a functioning system using only metric units.
It may be the bane of every freshman engineering student in the US,
but mixed units are the current reality.
Chris the LabVIEW Guy
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Hey Buzzcrew,
Just wanted to pass along a thank you. In large part to your constant harping about the DMCA takedown procedure’s lack of consideration for fair use, I decided to tackle the issue as the topic of my paper topic in my Copyright seminar this past semester. I got an A in the class and sumbitted it to a copyright writing competition. I won the competition at the local level and will move on to the national competition. I got $600 from ASCAP for winning at the local level, so it turns out the ASCAP is actually good for something.
If you have any interest in reading the paper, you can find it here (warning- it’s long).
-Will the lawyer in Milwaukee
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Hey All,
So Tom, from episode 1003, you had a 1977 Maverick? Tell us about it.
I had a 1969 and a 1977 Maverick at the same time.
Bought the ‘77 new, my 1st new car ever. Loved the ‘69 and cussed the
‘77 most of the time.
The 1977 had a 302 engine and by the time all the pollution crap was
hung on it I think it had less
power than the 1969 did with it’s straight 6 (170 c.i.d. I think). ‘69
was fast and had great fuel mileage.
Did you have a CB too or was that just a Midwest thing? Would that
qualify as the original form of Twitter?
What’s your 10-20 good buddy? I bet Cooley had a CB, am I right?
Anyway, The good old days, huh.
kenwarf02
p.s. Note of pride, that login was my first for the BOL Chat room of
episode 1000,
so I figure I probably won something for getting you to 1,000 in the
chat room.
http://www.lovefords.org/galleries/images/77_maverick_orange.jpg
http://www.ehuggydesigns.com/ford-maverick.jpg
Pope Benedict XVI has embraced Facebook but it's just an app. So you can't write on the pope's wall or poke him. We also are excited for the queen to get her golden Wii. And we're still somewhat excited about the Palm Pre. We also discover the meaning of PORN: Private Online Retail Network.
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Episode 980 |
No visual voice mail on Palm Pre
http://gizmodo.com/5264854/palm-pre-doesnt-have-visual-voicemail
Best Buy stores only getting four Palm Pres for launch day?
http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/05/21/best-buy-stores-only-getting-4-palm-pres-for-launch-day/
New version of Chrome…still no love for Mac
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/21/2054230
http://chrome.blogspot.com/2009/05/speedier-google-chrome-for-all-users.html
More Americans play games than go to the movies
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/21/2221246
Her Majesty the Queen gets a gold-plated Wii
http://gizmodo.com/5264715/queen-elizabeth-is-getting-a-gold+plated-wii
Pope joins Facebook
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE54L3AS20090522
Apple rejects iPhone app over access to Kama Sutra
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10247565-37.html
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/05/22/apple-says-no-projec.html
California wants to reinstate ban on violent video games
http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=66714
Google StreetView in Germany
http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=66727
Energy Star standards are not as useful for servers
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/22/0714225
http://www.infoworld.com/d/green-it/energy-star-servers-merely-first-step-258
1,000th episode coming Thursday, June 18. 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.
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VOICEMAIL
Garrett from Grand Rapids goes Cooley-spotting
E-MAIL
Hey Buzz,
I can really see the possibilities for Google’s new tracking/ad delivery idea: “Hello, we see that your parachute has not deployed. Would you like to buy a reserve?” Yes, Google has gold here. LTS.
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Nathan Pilling
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Dear BOL,
In show #977 Brain Cooley mentioned the work with Dove prisms that invert and reverse the world. His statement included a bit of hyperbole.
I’m a behavioral optometrist and we use prisms in our work.
The brain researcher Karl Pribram did a good bit of this work and I had the chance to chat with him about this work.
Prism after effects of simple prisms that shift images side to side or up and down last about the same amount of time the prisms are actually worn.
Put on the prisms, reach for an object and miss to the side. In a few minutes we recalibrate the movement.
After 5 minutes of wearing the prisms, when you take them off your hand moves in the opposite direction.
A fallacy that is often promulgated about the Dove (inverting and reversing) prisms is that after a period of time the world looked normal to the wearer.
This is not true.
What happened is that the conscious perception never flipped but the motor patterns were rewired so that all movements were made accurately.
Normalization, when the prisms come off, then does happen but takes a while.
Pribram did say however that they never should have done this work with humans.
The new software remains in the brain and later in life, during emergency types of situations, such as may happen when driving, the person might use the wrong motor software.
Perhaps an overzealous researcher or grad student wore the Dove prisms too long and then made an error in judgment in just such a situation.
To my knowledge there was no suicide as Cooley mentioned.
IN DEEP BASS VOICE: LOVE THE SHOW
Paul – the behavioral optometrist
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I’ve thought Ben was the new Alex for a while, but….
Google search counts for names on the bol blog:
Fordo: 129 (by herself! But, tied with Remy?)
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Freviews.cnet.com%2Fbuzz-out-loud-podcast%2F+fordo
Here’s the chart, that doesn’t always work.
http://sites.google.com/site/bolalexscale/
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EPISODE 892 |
Meet Son of Storm, Srizbi 2.0: next-gen botnets come online
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20090115-meet-son-of-storm-srizbi-2-0-next-gen-botnets-come-online.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7832652.stm
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09%2F01%2F16%2F142211
Video game industry roars in December
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10797_3-10143990-235.html
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20090115-king-of-the-hill-nintendo-dominates-final-2008-sales-charts.html
Intel profit sinks 90%
http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/15/technology/Intel_earns/?postversion=2009011521
Circuit City fails to be wanted, will now be liquidated http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/circuit-city-fails-to-be-wanted-will-now-be-liquidated/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7834250.stm
UPDATE: Apple Mac Mini based on Nvidia Ion
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/apple-mac-nvidia-ion,6849.html
Facebook has Whopper of a problem with Burger King campaign
http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9126098
New cloaking surface throws an electromagnetic curveball
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20090115-new-cloaking-surface-throws-an-electromagnetic-curveball.html
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10143649-1.html
Where to watch the inauguration online
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10144072-38.html
Choices narrowed for first U.S. CTO
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2009/tc20090115_815265.htm
How many AAAAAs in Khaaaaaaaan?
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/01/16/how-many-aaaaas-in-k.html
Voice mail
Ryan from Hawaii: Pull the plug!
http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/wfaa/latestnews/stories/wfaa090115_mo_DTV.81dfa76.html
(from Greg in Baton Rouge)
Patrick from NH: carpentry tip for Cooley
E-mail
Hi all. I am not a famous person. I have never voted for an idol. I’ve
only been an AT&T customer for 3 weeks so I’ve only managed to send
less than 100 txt messages - not a heavy texter. Even after all that,
I still got the American idol spam txt yesterday. You guys made me
feel like I’m a “somebody”. Thanks!
Peter on the train in Chicago
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Hi BOL Crew, Long time first time, At&T said they were sending these texts to “heavy texters” and people who had voted for American Idol in the past. I fit in to both categories. I have voted twice from my phone and my sister, my mother, and myself send 8000, 5000, & 4000 texts a month respectivly. I’m a little hurt i didn’t get a message. :’( Love the show.
McAfee15
I bet you think this podcast is about you. Don't you? Don't you!? On today's show, we learn how easy it is to spot a narcissist on Facebook (stay away!), terrible ideas that will criminalize professional eBay sellers and kill eBay even faster than it's killing itself, and how video games might be the only thing that can survive a recession.
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EPISODE 816 |
Bill would give retailers power to halt online auctions
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080924-bill-would-give-retailers-power-to-halt-online-auctions.html
Users fail to spot fake pop-ups
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7633402.stm
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080923-study-confirms-users-are-idiots.html
T-Mobile soft capping 3G data at 1GB per month
http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/t-mobile-soft-capping-3g-data-at-1gb-per-month/
Other G1 flaws
http://gizmodo.com/5053747/android-and-t+mobile-g1s-five-most-obnoxious-flaws
Games are recession-proof earners?
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/09/23/games-are-recessionp.html
China to run out of IPv4 addresses in 830 days
http://tech.slashdot.org/tech/08/09/24/1254235.shtml
Narcissists easy to spot on Facebook--if you know how
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080923-narcissists-easy-to-spot-on-facebookif-you-know-how.html
Google gets political with quotation tool
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10049591-36.html
Two ways to get Comcast to increase the data cap
http://gigaom.com/2008/09/24/two-ways-to-get-comcast-to-ditch-the-data-cap/
LHC shut down until early spring
http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-10049188-76.html
Phone that works as car key
http://www.nttdocomo.com/pr/2008/001415.html
VOICE MAIL
Daniel: a phone is a phone
E-MAIL
After listening to Molly and Brian rant on about the SanDisk microSD thing, I started to think about the issues you all raised:
The cards are too small to see album art or album titles
The cards are easy to loose
And also the email that a listener sent in about storing his entire music collection in a Velvetta box when the LHC forces us all underground.
So I started to think...
Wouldn't it be cool if you had a case for all of your microSD albums (so it could hold a whole bunch of them), so you wouldn't lose them. And wouldn't it be cool if this case had a color screen on it, so you could cycle through all of your cards and see the album covers? And wouldn't it be cool if this case could also play the songs on your microSD albums?
Oh yeah, isn't that an iPOD? Store all of your albums in flash memory, be able to see album covers, and listen to your music.
LTS,
Jamie
Hi JaMoTo
Regarding Gregory’s comments (BOL #815) about MP3-CDs, it would seem the BBC have experimented with the format, although not with music. The soundtracks for ‘deleted’ Doctor Who episodes have been released on MP3-CD — for example you can get almost 5 hours worth of classic ‘Troughton’ on one disc (see below). Given that many CD players seem to recognise the format (at least here in Europe) I wonder why it isn’t used more widely? Possibly the licensing costs for a year’s worth of music would be a nightmare?!
Still, works great as an audio book format.
LtS,
Simon
(PS. It just occurred to me: why is the snowman “abominable”? I mean what did he ever do to deserve such a title? He just keeps to himself, and never bothers anyone. Clearly he’s been the subject of some kind of slander. Should we start a campaign to clear his name?
I blame Bigfoot! Grrr!! )
Hey Buzzites,
i just heard the discussion about possibly selling MP3 cd’s and how the quality wouldn’t be as good as normal cd audio.
Even though i’m not one of the people that really notices the difference between lossless and high bit rate MP3’s, I agree with Brian C in that i’d rather have the full quality audio than not. But I couldn’t help but think your missing one real option.
Surely you could around get the same amount of lossless audio on a dvd as you could get compressed audio on a cd.
John B off of England.
I laughed when I read “funnerer”. It is a PERFECT way to ridicule Apple’s “Oh, we’re so smart that we can bend grammar rules and it makes us cooler because everyone knows that we are so smart).
It’s only derivative because Chunky chocolate bar pushed that it’s “thickerer” back in the 70’s.
Dana
Exchange on the android is going to take a while. Android may be open, but Exchange is not. Someone (T-Mobile, Google) will have to make a deal with Microsoft to get the specifications of Exchange, and implement it in a /Close sourced/ application. Alternatively, someone can reverse engineer the Exchange protocol, and implement it. There are actually already reverse engineered versions of the protocol out there, but none of them are complete. Enterprises would never release an application like this, so it would probably be a small 2-man shop, and no enterprise would accept an app from such a small shop.
Sargun
While the idea of another physical media for music might seem dumb in the US.. other countries, such as Canada where I live, don’t have access to a wide array of un-DRM online music stores (Amazon.ca sucks!). Canada and other countries probably have more restrictive distribution rules around media, or the online companies just might not have bothered yet (ahem.. Amazon?). So this might be a way to get digital music to those markets, rather than us being force to get it by other.. less legal means. Dumb yes. Completly pointless… maybe not.
LTS
Jamie
In today's show, Rafe joins us for a discussion of useless video blobs, the implications of, uh, Internet "shopping," the NPD numbers that read Tom's mind, and the U.S. Senate's "enormous gift" to Big Content (per Ars Technica). Also, we rouse the Buzz Militia from their stupor to launch an attack on Apple's arbitrary and annoying App Store approval process. Save Podcaster!
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EPISODE 808 |
Committee amends, approves 'enormous gift' to Big Content
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080911-committee-amends-approves-enormous-gift-to-big-content.html
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10039745-38.html
Apple rolls back problem driver in new iTunes 8 update
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=543
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10040273-37.html
MySpace Music adds user playlists, Amazon links
http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/09/myspace-music-a.html
NPD numbers for game consoles
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080912-madden-09-owns-360-moves-back-in-front-of-ps3-in-sales.html
Video game industry shows signs of slowing
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-10040111-52.html
Et Tu, Mozilla? Firefox 3 to get privacy mode
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/12/065230
iPhone Takes screenshots of everything you do
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/09/hacker-says-sec.html
100Mbps. 2010. Over the air. Don't be surprised.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=10010
Japan tops world broadband study
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7610534.stm
Seinfeld and Gates hit the road for Vista
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10039646-56.html
VOICE MAIL
Gabriel
My guess on iTunes.
Bill Portland
A couple of iTunes announcements we missed.
Rob from Philly
I had to install Real Player.
On yesterday’s show (807), you mentioned that TiVo should buy Sling. However, Sling is owned by Echostar (Dish Network), who has a dispute with TiVo over their DVR technology. A great idea would be for Dish to license TiVo’s DVR technology and TiVo to license Dish’s Sling technology.
Bennie Jr.
Hey Buzz people,
That’s right, Apple has rejected my application because it duplicates the functionality of the desktop iTunes application. What!
Here is the e-mail they sent
“Since Podcaster assists in the distribution of podcasts, it duplicates the functionality of the Podcast section of iTunes.”
That just sucks. It really sucks. Maybe they should reject all calculator applications because they already have a calculator.
Anyway, just thought you would want to know as this is juicy news.
Keep up the good work.
Alex S.
from New Jersey
Hey there all powerful buzz crew.
Just wanted to let ya’ll know that the analog signal is being used to display a message with the hot line.
I know this because I took a day trip to the beach and in the morning my portable TV worked but after lunch every station had that notice.
By the way I thought it was cool that the FCC paid fire departments $15 per converter they helped install, I think I read it in the WSJ, but do a live.com search to be certain .
Love the show.
Stephen
Charlotte, N.C.
typing from my phone so forgive the lack of proper CAPS. Episode 807 10 mins 16 seconds in, Tracfone will not deduct credits for text messages received if they are not opened. However, you can look in the in-box and read the first 50 characters as they scroll by in the preview. Love the show.
Michael
On 806 you were talking text msg fees and on 807, no calls or e-mails about US Cellular having free incoming text messages and calls. They did follow the crowd up to the $0.20 for outgoing messages, so they are not all goody goody. I didn’t e-mail or call because you I was sure someone would. Oh, and I love my BlackBerry and haven’t thought once about switching to that other phone, what was it called…
http://www.uscc.com/uscellular/SilverStream/Pages/x_page.html?p=f_calltextpix
Thanks,
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