You know how sometimes the punishment fits the crime? In this case, the criminal fits the crime. GoDaddy’s VP of domain auctions, appropriately named Dicker, was caught bidding (dickering?) on domains on his own auction site. D’oh! Also, Sony starts offering some creative incentives to get you to buy their TVs: their movies. Hmm. Buzz …
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Thorny gender issues arise on Facebook, Bill Gates takes his leave, Sony announces movie downloads without any movies but their own, and anyone in North Carolina who?s offended by their own, inadvertently rude WTF license plate can get it replaced at no cost. But we say: drive it with pride! Buzz Out Loud episodes are …
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ICANN approves its plan to totally overhaul the Internet domain structure, but all we can do is make fun of the name ?Winklevoss.? Hee. ?Winklevoss.? Also today, Microsoft wants to shut off your gadgets from afar (or at least, their patent filing suggests that they do), the Samsung Instinct is totally the new iPhone, and …
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Ok, now this is weird: the music industry is trying to undermine the way the music industry distributes and promotes music and has always distributed and promoted music. They’re calling the radio piracy. What has the world come to? Buzz Out Loud episodes are released in their original audio form. Some metadata supplementation and/or correction …
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There’s no way we’d bait the IOC like that, knowing how notoriously aggressive they are about controlling their content. They hardly want anyone to see it. That’s why it’s all Vista-only this year. Buzz Out Loud episodes are released in their original audio form. Some metadata supplementation and/or correction has been done for SEO, clarification, …
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Black holes from the Large Hadron Collider? No worries. Mac OS X Trojan in the wild? Minor worries. Total top-level domain overhaul? Worries deferred until we see it in action. Buzz Out Loud episodes are released in their original audio form. Some metadata supplementation and/or correction has been done for SEO, clarification, or as a …
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Why ?your stupid face? works to get you to install malware, why eBay just flat out isn?t for small sellers anymore, and why you shouldn?t trust your IT guy ? or at least not one in three of them. Buzz Out Loud episodes are released in their original audio form. Some metadata supplementation and/or correction …
Netflix inspires nothing but rage in Tom, Molly, Jason, AND Natali with its announcement that it will not only get rid of profiles, but erase all the data of the profile-holders. Tom? Quitting. Buzz Out Loud episodes are released in their original audio form. Some metadata supplementation and/or correction has been done for SEO, clarification, …
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Somehow today’s show suddenly turned into a poetry slam, replete with economic gloom, the devastating hackery of coffee pots, and the slow creep of a fox on fire. Buzz Out Loud episodes are released in their original audio form. Some metadata supplementation and/or correction has been done for SEO, clarification, or as a product of …
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It’s Firefox Download Day! In bummer news, Mozilla’s site was down by at least 10:12 a.m. (around the time we started our show). So, that’s a bad start, then. Buzz Out Loud episodes are released in their original audio form. Some metadata supplementation and/or correction has been done for SEO, clarification, or as a product …
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