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Buzz Out Loud 1519: Content holders become content withholders (Podcast)

Fox decides to implement an 8-day window and subscription authentication on its content across the Web ... which we know consumers love. No really, we love that. Meanwhile, patent wars continue to ruin smartphone innovation -- hopefully not so much that it prevents us from getting the transparent gadgets that some genius Stanford researchers. Also, Mango is coming!

Molly Wood Former Executive Editor
Molly Wood was an executive editor at CNET, author of the Molly Rants blog, and host of the tech show, Always On. When she's not enraging fanboys of all stripes, she can be found offering tech opinions on CBS and elsewhere, and offering opinions on everything else to anyone who will listen.
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Fox decides to implement an 8-day window and subscription authentication on its content across the Web ... which we know consumers love. No really, we love that. Meanwhile, patent wars continue to ruin smartphone innovation -- hopefully not so much that it prevents us from getting the transparent gadgets that some genius Stanford researchers. Also, Mango is coming!

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EPISODE 1519

NEWS

Windows Phone Mango released to manufacturing; coming to consumers this fall
http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_phone/b/windowsphone/archive/2011/07/26/windows-phone-mango-released-to-manufacturing.aspx

First phone revealed in Tokyo
http://www.pcworld.com/article/236642/first_windows_mango_phone_unveiled.html

Nice timing: Facebook debuts "Facebook for Business"
http://gigaom.com/2011/07/26/facebook-for-business/

Facebook Runs Ads Teaching Users How To Turn Off Facial Recognition
http://mashable.com/2011/07/26/facebook-facial-recognition/
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2389192,00.asp

Electronic Arts pulls in almost $1 billion in revenue in one quarter
http://www.siliconvalley.com/ci_18553158?nclick_check=1

Amazon.com Announces Second Quarter Sales up 51% to $9.91 Billion
http://blogs.forbes.com/josephhargett/2011/07/27/amazon-coms-second-quarter-earnings-inspire-bullish-bets/

Fox Switches To Authentication For New Shows Online; Dish, Hulu Plus Get First Crack
http://paidcontent.org/article/419-fox-switches-to-authentication-for-new-shows-online-dish-gets-first-cra/

How To Apply For Your Next Job In Less Than A Minute Using LinkedIn
http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-use-apply-with-linkedin-2011-7

Mozilla mobile OS may face future patent battles, says expert
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9218656/Mozilla_mobile_OS_may_face_future_patent_battles_says_expert

Google Lawyer Says Patents Are 'Gumming Up' Innovation
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-26/google-general-counsel-says-patents-are-gumming-up-innovation.html

In 'Anonymous' Raids, Feds Work From List of Top 1,000 Protesters
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/07/op_payback/

A message to PayPal, its customers, and our friends
http://pastebin.com/LAykd1es

Quick Hits

Apple Finishing Up Work on an Ultra-Thin 15″ Mac Notebook [Updated]
http://www.macrumors.com/2011/07/26/apple-finishing-up-work-on-an-ultra-thin-15-notebook/

Blind Faith: 35 Percent of Consumers Want iPhone 5, Sight Unseen
http://www.macrumors.com/2011/07/27/survey-35-of-u-s-consumers-planning-to-purchase-next-generation-iphone/

YouTube film ‘Life in a Day’ coming to theaters
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-20083554-93/youtube-film-life-in-a-day-coming-to-theaters/?tag=cnetRiver

Gadgets

Verizon Wireless unveils $600 4G LTE-enabled HP Pavilion laptop
http://www.bgr.com/2011/07/26/verizon-wireless-unveils-600-4g-lte-enabled-hp-pavilion-laptop/

Transparent battery promises future with see-through devices
http://dvice.com/archives/2011/07/transparent-bat.php

VOICEMAIL

Gil from San Diego talks about Apple forcing Amazon to remove their store link from their apps

Jason from Seattle wants to know if you are really willing to give Google all your info on Google+

Kieth in Georgia has an idea about the cough switches

SEND US VIDEO VOICEMAIL! WE WANT TO SEE YOU!

EMAILS

Hey Buzz Crew,

Holy frozen nipples Batman! LOL I really don’t see the big deal with the increase in price over Netflix! I feel when they first started that it was too cheap to begin with. If I had to I would Happily pay 20-50 dollars for instant streaming. Those who are talking of cancelling because of the price hike I feel are cheap people. You pay for convience! Anyway, LOVE THE SHOW.

Hypnotik in the Chatroom

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I drove past yet another shuttered video store on the way to work today, and was thinking grim thoughts about how hard it’s going to be to get less-mainstream DVDs if I go to streaming-only on Netflix. There’s an independent video store downtown, and it’s awesome, but parking and traffic make it a pain. There’s a Blockbuster, which sucks because it’s a Blockbuster, but also because it’s on the wrong side of town. And that’s it except for Redbox. For a town of 100,000 people.

That’s when it hit me! This was the plan all along! Easy and cheap DVDs with a broad and deep catalog. Then streaming, even if their streaming catalog is just the crumbs of the market. Slowly but surely they kill the traditional distribution chain until all that’s left is the online model, then they jack up the price of DVD plans just as people are looking for ways to economize. Suddenly the studios have no way for their midlist and backlist titles to reach an audience. There’s simply no room in a Redbox for that kind of variety. The studios have no choice but to sign over the streaming rights, and Netlix becomes king of the world. Or, at least, can finally get invited to party with Ryan Reynolds.

Love the show,

Mike the Grammar Geek

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Guys,

Thanks for not taking me apart (like a clock!) on yesterday’s show for my nerditarian Batman correction. I didn’t intend to be anonymous. I thought you would infer my name from my email address. Also, my lateral lisp is now relatively under control. Have a fully satisfactory day!

Mark Smith
Flyover County, Kansas

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Sure facebook,com at 9% is three times more typed than google.com at 3.3%, however there were four Google websites mentioned, which total up to 8.3%
3.3% google.com
3.3% youtube.com
1.1% gmail.com
0.6% mail.google.com
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8.3% google websites

Facebook still wins but it’s more of a squeaker.
Keep on Buzzing…

Ken from Chicago

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Hey Buzzers,

I know there has been a lot of discussion of the Higgs boson on the show over the years including many references to its common name the god particle. I wasn’t sure however, if the history of that term had ever been discussed. The term came from Nobel-prize winning physicist Leon Lederman in his book: The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question? But according to Peter Higgs (whom the Higgs boson is named after) Lederman was trying to call it the goddamn particle but the books editors wouldn’t allow it. Supposedly he wanted to call it that because the particle was so “”goddamn hard to find.”"

Thought you might enjoy this little tidbit, keep up the good work!

Matt the wedding photoshopper
San Diego

Sources:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/jun/30/higgs.boson.cern
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_God_Particle:_If_the_Universe_Is_the_Answer,_What_Is_the_Question%3F
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/jun/30/higgs.boson.cern
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_God_Particle:_If_the_Universe_Is_the_Answer,_What_Is_the_Question%3F

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We got a nice note from Marius in Norway, and we just wanted you to know we’re thinking about you!

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Will from Georgia lets us know that if we don’t like it….don’t use it in regards to Netflix & Google+

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