We know that HDTV can be confusing, and now some hardware companies are recognizing this fact. If they don’t clear it up enough for you, Molly is totally willing to explain everything to you personally. Buzz Out Loud episodes are released in their original audio form. Some metadata supplementation and/or correction has been done for …
Read the full post →“BuzzCast 08/17/2006 – HDTV is like, math hard”
Apple wants to ban the use of the word pod, because it doesn’t want consumers to have brand confusion. So henceforth, because not everyone uses iTunes to listen to our show, we’ll be known as the mp3-cast of indeterminate length. Wow, that sounds terrible. Thanks, Apple–thanks a lot. Buzz Out Loud episodes are released in …
Dude, get a Dell is turning into Dude, don’t let your battery explode! Dell is recalling 4 million batteries, so if you’ve got one of their laptops, make sure that you check the model. Also today, do you think a terabyte of storage is too much? It might be now, but give it a few …
Read the full post →“BuzzCast 08/15/2006 – Dell’s 4-million-battery recall”
Microsoft is putting the power into the user’s hands: first, by letting them design games for XBOX Live, and then by designing a free blog editing program that can be used with a lot of different blogging platforms. Despite those efforts, some listeners are still saying Let Apple into your heart. Oh, the confusion! Buzz …
Read the full post →“BuzzCast 08/14/2006 – Let Mad Dog make you happy”
It’s a day of achievement here on Buzz Out Loud: IBM celebrates their 25th birthday, Pluto finally gets the official recognition it deserves (been a long time coming, if you ask me), and the movie industry may just let you finally copy that downloaded film to DVD. Oh, and Tom calls the ladies pretty. Thanks, …
Read the full post →“BuzzCast 08/11/2006 – You look good (in pictures)”
I’m baaaaaaack! I can’t believe how out of the loop I am on the news. Molly was trashing Apple, and there was no one here to defend them! Anywho, Creative has high hopes for the MP3 player market, Verizon tries to make good with the gamer community, and Microsoft clearly needs to take another look …
Read the full post →“BuzzCast 08/10/2006 – NASA lost moon landing tapes”
In a victory for obsessive time-wasters everywhere, the courts ruled Major League Baseball doesn’t own baseball statistics. Fantasy sports have been freed! We also discuss whether a EULA should trump fair use, and whether cool special features will propel the high-def DVD formats to greatness. Buzz Out Loud episodes are released in their original audio …
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It’s one thing when robots run amok across the countryside, but they should never mess with a man’s car. I’m no robot apologist but apparently this time it wasn’t the robot’s fault. It was a nasty software license. Are EULA’s more dangerous than robots? We also speculate on the safety of AOL’s free antivirus, the …
Read the full post →“Buzzcast 08/08/2006 – Car-eating robots”
It’s day three without Veronica, and, well, she didn’t miss much out of WWDC. All the wild rumors of televisions and iPhones and video iPods turned out to be, as expected, wild rumors. But hey, Apple’s all Intel now, so that’s something. In other news, Time Warner is sorry for saying it won’t support TiVo …
The Apple WWDC rumours are starting to get boring. Which means they may be true. Plus AOL lays off 5,000 customers. Ah the price of free. At least AOL Video looks good. Buzz Out Loud episodes are released in their original audio form. Some metadata supplementation and/or correction has been done for SEO, clarification, or …
