If both of them get you free WiFi, which one would you rather have? Also in the news today, Google’s Street View team doesn’t care for a little turnabout, the patent process gets smarter thanks to the Web, and IMDB is now delivering movies and TV. Yeah, really. Maybe we’re the only ones who thought …
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Don Reisinger joins the cast today for a rousing discussion that goes something like this: Best Buy bought Napster. Really? Yeah, I know, right? Weird. Huh. Yeah. Wonder why they did that. Dunno. It’s a great show. You’ll love it. (No, seriously! Don rants more than I do!) Buzz Out Loud episodes are released in …
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In today’s show, Rafe joins us for a discussion of useless video blobs, the implications of, uh, Internet shopping, the NPD numbers that read Tom’s mind, and the U.S. Senate’s enormous gift to Big Content (per Ars Technica). Also, we rouse the Buzz Militia from their stupor to launch an attack on Apple’s arbitrary and …
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In the midst of the debate over the rising cost of text messages, Microsoft finds that you actually sell more stuff if you lower the price. Then again, we?re consuming more text messages than ever, so ? we argue about capitalism. Also, the best of DemoFall AND TechCrunch50, because dangit, we cover them both. Buzz …
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On today’s show, we reveal a huge spoiler: Monk is the 12th Cylon. (Apologies to any of you who don’t watch that show.) This is vaguely related to the news that NBC’s return to iTunes comes shackled with variable pricing. In other news, RIM releases its first ever flip phone, and amazing space-based solar power …
The Large Hadron Collider comes online tomorrow (Wednesday, Sept. 10), so we’re just kind of assuming we’ll be here for tomorrow’s show. Of course, if it uses .NET, we’re definitely doomed, if Computerworld’s speculations about the daylong outage of the London Stock Exchange are to be believed. In any case, if today IS our last …
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The evil power of Dr. M is even greater than we thought … strong enough, in fact, to tarnish the shining reputation of the long-awaited Spore. Also in the news today, DVD ripping goes legit, a little too late, thanks to RealDVD, but we determine it’s probably not worth getting sued over. And we put …
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If a robot has a firm handshake, does that mean its creator is a standup guy, or just that he programmed his robot to have a firm handshake? That and other serious technology topics are examined today, and we also give our official Buzz Out Loud reviews of the new Microsoft commercial with Jerry Seinfeld. …
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Tom thought he made up a word, but upon further review, slaver turns out to mean to smear as if with saliva. Ew. But we also talked further about listening to media in the shower and even got to some tech news. That involved the release of Spore, the recall of Sony laptops, and Amazon …
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In a world … where browser tests show all kinds of things but seem to agree that Chrome is fast, where 58% of adults don’t know what a social network is, and where DVRs are the new marriage counseling, a tiny team of intrepid podcasters stand together to fight back the forces of inaccuracy, rumor, …
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