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November 12, 2008 11:53 AM PST

Buzz Out Loud 851: Boxcar Jack is looking for you at HoboBook.com!

by Molly Wood

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Social networking finally reaches its most underserved niche: the hobos. Look for Tom to officially join the Hobo Nation any day now. In other news of the day, Caroline McCarthy joins us for a rollicking discussion of The Washington Post's war on spam, and Molly most likely gets herself fired from CBS and kicked off TWiT in one fell swoop. So, learn to love Caroline. She might be sticking around.

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Episode 851

Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 makes date with U.S.: Black Friday for $799.99
http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/12/sony-ericsson-xperia-x1-makes-date-with-us-black-friday-for-79/

Qualcomm floats 'PC alternative' 3G device
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=10805
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122646599469620261.html

Microsoft close to blowing another $1 billion on Verizon search And mobile deal
http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/11/microsoft-close-to-blowing-another-1-billion-on-verizon-search-and-mobile-deal
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10094749-94.html

'Washington Post' blog shuts down 75% of online spam
http://it.slashdot.org/it/08/11/12/1253230.shtml

More Google catch-up: Gmail Adds video IM
http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/11/more-google-catch-up-gmail-adds-video-im-goog-
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10093175-2.html

Google meets the CDC: Flu tracking by search trends
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081111-google-meets-the-cdc-flu-tracking-by-search-trends.html
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-10094798-71.html

First Trek film footage unveiled
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7722407.stm

Contact with extraterrestrial life by 2025?
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-10094740-52.html

Identifying people by odor as effective as fingerprinting
http://idle.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/11/2223205

Classmates.com user sues; schoolmates weren’t really looking for him
http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2008/11/classmates

Voice mail
Shalin loves space
http://www.nasa.gov/missions/science/f_analyzer.html

Karen hates space

Ken: a Netbook in the wild?

E-mail
Hi JaMoTo,

I am a little peeved today. Tuesday nights are a great night for TV so I decided to skip some shows and watch them online. But nooooo, CBS decided pull the rug out from under the viewing public and not post any full episodes of “The Mentalist” on their site. So I decided to go to Hulu and watch “Law & Order SVU.” Again another network decided to pull the full episodes. I thought this was their idea. Fox and NBC, didn’t they start Hulu? I’m convinced only ABC and to some degree Fox wants people to see their shows. I guess I could buy episodes on iTunes or Amazon. I just wish there was some consistency. Thanks, I needed to vent. Love the show!

Tina in Omaha.

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Hey Super Cool Buzz Crew,

The reason for the gimmicky gift card is profit. The speaker gift card at BestBuy can only be acquired in $50 intervals. Studies have shown that people spend between 15 and 25% more than the gift card is worth when they take it redeem it at the store. Offering a cool, (any of my 6 kids would love a speaker the size of a credit card) yet gimmicky item starting at $50 may encourage the gift card buyer to increase the gift from $30 or $40 to get the gimmick will, in the end be more money at the store. This is because the extra money spent with a gift card is not a hard dollar amount, it is a percentage of the card value.

BTW, I won a Zune through the PepsiStuff promotion and have subscribed to your podcast, along with 4 others from CNET. I love the way the Zune software deletes my listened to podcasts off of the device and replaces it with fresh ones automatically. Do iPods do that ? I have never used one, I'm kind of against apple as I explain here:
http://tsabonis.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!C4372C2C55C1E241!142.entry

Always, love the show.

Anthony

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I was very surprise to here your report about the windows 7 article on infoworld.com . Not surprise that you reported it but that the article was so negitive and contridictory to everything that I have heard mainly TWIT podcast episode 167. So I made my way to the article in questioned and realised a “developer” from this website was band from the MIcrosoft pdc conference. So I start to question how they got the windows 7 pre-beta build…maybe bitorrent? Finally there is another thing I realised…who runs bench marks on a pre beta version of software that is ment for develpers? There is nothing obligating you from making a comment about this on your show. I was just informing you, since you guys usually do a good job of reporting good solid tech news. I know you guys frequent TWIT but i put a link below anyway. I was going to link other articles but I think TWIT is respectable enough.

http://twit.tv/167
Mark

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May 6, 2008 11:31 AM PDT

Buzz Out Loud 718: Always worry

by Molly Wood

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We could tell you not to worry, but then you'd e-mail us and tell us why you should. So, new rule. Always worry. And the HTC Touch Diamond ain't all that, but we're not saying the 3G iPhone is going to be all that, either. Don't get your hopes up. This is turning into an Eeyore sort of day, isn't it? Here's some good news: Zune 2.5 offers TV downloads! So...yay!
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EPISODE 718

Vodafone, Telecom Italia announce massive iPhone rollout
http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2008/05/06/ vodafone-telecom-italia-announce-massive-iphone-rollout
http://www.vodafone.com/start/media_relations/news/ group_press_releases/2007/vodafone_to_offer0.html

Zune 2.5 update brings TV downloads, Zune Card sharing
http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/06/ zune-2-5-update-brings-tv-downloads-zune-card-sharing/
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/ may08/05-05Zune25PR.mspx

Business Center: After abandoning iTunes, NBC shows up on Zune
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/145515/ after_abandoning_itunes_nbc_shows_up_on_zune.html

Consumer Reports: Apple leads in support--by double digits
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=1689

McAfee deal aims to make Yahoo search safer
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9936682-7.html

T-Mobile offers 3G in New York
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/06/technology/06phone.html

HTC beats Apple to 3G with Microsoft-based iPhone rival
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/145521/ htc_beats_apple_to_3g_with_microsoftbased_iphone_rival.html

Free satellite TV service begins
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7384928.stm

Washingtonpost.com wants identities of readers who post comments
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9936794-7.html

Hard drive recovered from shuttle Columbia used to complete experiment
http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/06/ hard-drive-recovered-from-shuttle-columbia-used-to-complete-expe/

Keep your data safe at the border
http://www.cnet.com/8301-13739_1-9935170-46.html

VOICE MAIL

Mike Jersey
Wait a minute. I can’t get a Wii Fit for Mother’s Day…

E-MAIL

Can you comment on this?

http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/ospp/securityguide/V2comint/Cellular.htm

How serious is this problem? At work, “they” are circulating this around trying to justify why we can’t have cell phones inside our building but is this an issue for consumers in general? I keep my phone on at all times in case of emergency…am I vulnerable?

Thanks,

Vinita Chhahira - don’t even try it

San Fran trip?

Hi Buzz Crew,

I’m going to be visiting San Francisco for the first time ever this weekend.
What is the absolutely geek/tech thing to see/do?

– Sugendran
[PS:]

Financing for Telecommunications

Hi JaMoTo

I thought that you might like to know that when I attended a Master class Project Finance Course the Class teacher, who has many decades of project financing experience stated that no sane bank would project finance telecommunication infrastructure as to the following:

Butter’s Law of Photonics.

New Technologies

That been the case he can’t see how any of the telecommunication infrastructure projects could pay for themselves with the cash flows that they generate as a stand alone service.

In the show you keep mentioning that there will be a time where you will hit transmission capacity but given there is still dark fiber and Butter’s Law the actual transmission capacity shouldn’t be an issue for a while yet by which such things as powerline data transmission should be mainstream. I would have thought that the “last mile” is the bigger issue but then with the newer wireless technologies this could be solved soon too.

Love the Show
--Matthew from Sydney

Google phone

Hey TMJ,

I can give it to you on authority that the first major carrier phone running Android will be coming to T-Mobile in October 2008. It will feature both a touch screen and a physical keyboard, 3G (UMTS or HSDPA?), and is planned as only the first of a possible many.

--Anonymous.

Rii the Wii Fit for mother

I got a Wii Fit the day it came out in the U.K. and promptly lost it to my aged mother (sorry mom).
This is a woman in her 60’s who does not play video games and has to call me when the TV remote confuses her. She now does almost 30 minutes of yoga then goes for a jog every day and looks forward to the next day for the new games that she has unlocked. I don’t know if she is going to loose lots of weight, but she says she feels better and is moving easier which can only be a good thing.
I think that the fit is a great gift for the older person.

Cheers
--Ray
(England)

P.S.
Directly across the street from the house is a fully kitted out fitness gym, which she has no plans on using. Go figure.

MacGyver

Hi MO-TO,

I got back from Maker Faire, where I heard from Lee Zlotoff the creator of MacGyver that he will be making a MacGyver Movie. Now there is no release date, no actors, as far as I know no script. He says he wants to make it, and I know I want to see it. I have high hope this would be a really good movie.

http://makerfaire.com/pub/e/1318

--Roeurn Tourn

(Ru-in, Torn)noun