Veronica?s back with us today as we record from the New Meida Expo in Las Vegas. We talk about the woes of the modern Web, and specifically Netflix?s problems ont he back-end. Also there?s some news about Windows 7, or at least news about when more news will be coming. And thankfully the IOC backed …
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Stuck in a side hall in the Las Vegas Convention center, using borrowed equipment and sharing two power outlets among four power hungry devices, we somehow pullled off a podcast. We talk about the plucky bravery of Psystar, the plucky bravery of the District Court and of course the plucky bravery of Jason. Just because …
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Brian Tong fills in for Tom Merritt in today’s show and it’s just as awesomely fun and crazy as you’d expect it to be. Granted, there’s some news in there, too: Best Buy will start selling iPhones (yay!), more and more users, analysts, and companies are pointing to serious problems with 3G connectivity (boo), and …
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Congress learns all about cookies (not the delicious kind … but maybe the deli.cio.us kind), Gmail goes down and Google proves to be a terrible communicator, the Kindle may take off after all (har har), and Twitter baffles us completely regarding its follow/follower spam prevention thing. In sum, it’s a Tuesday, but it feels like …
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We tried to give NBC the benefit of the doubt when it comes to Olympic streaming, but then we tried it. And it’s ridiculous. Also, we wonder if the iPhone makes you fat, even as it fattens Steve Jobs’ wallet, discuss the technicalities of invisibility cloaks, and opt-out of Obama’s aggressively hip Internet outreach campaign. …
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In the fine tradition of subject lines that tell you nothing about the show or clue you in to the fact that this is, in fact, a tech show. But sometimes, we also like to talk about cowboys. And dogs. And extra-malicious hackers at Black Hat, Vista security rendered useless by same, and the low, …
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Why buy the Lordship when you can just choose the title from the drop-down? Also on the show today, Black Hat 2008 shatters our faith in all that is technology (just like it does every year) and we engage in a lively discussion about the relative crappiness of the apps on the App Store, as …
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You can lead a cow to the dance-hall, but you can’t make him two-step. Unless, that is, you’ve got a dollop of artificial intelligence and some wrap-around earphones. In technology news of the day, universities fight back against the RIAA, a cut-and-paste Buzz Out Loud episodes are released in their original audio form. Some metadata …
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Ok, we mean it’s reborn, thanks to an appeals court reversal of charges that its remote-storage DVR violates all kinds of copyright laws. But born again has some nice drama to it. In other news of the day, Steve Jobs admits Apple seriously biffed the Buzz Out Loud episodes are released in their original audio …
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Details are leaking out on a post-Windows OS from Microsoft code-named Midori that would use virtualization and the cloud to manage your computing life. Throw in the semantic Web and you have a buzzword threefer! But it brings up the interesting fact that Microsoft is thinking of an end of life for Windows someday. In …
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