Maggie Reardon from News.com joins Natali and I to talk about a host of cell phone news including new iPhone patents, legislation around sexting, and of course, courier pigeons that deliver contraband cell phones to inmates. I mean, we all saw that last one coming… right? Buzz Out Loud episodes are released in their original …
Month: April 2009
Buzz Out Loud 953: Pedestrian Road Rage
Don’t walk slowly and then stop abruptly if you are on the sidewalks of New York City. Natali might show you a new type of road rage. Also, cabbies in New York might have to give up their cell phones while on the job, AT&T has plans to extended their carrier exclusivity to the iPhone, …
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Buzz Out Loud 952: The Last Gasp of Stupid
NBC and the cable companies are teaming up to make it really annoying for you to watch the Winter Olympics onlione. Brian Cooley sums up their plans well, and it’s today’s title. We also discuss fiber-eating alien insect and solar power beamed down from space. Buzz Out Loud episodes are released in their original audio …
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Buzz Out Loud 951: Scary and hot
In this case it refers to Jeff Bakalar’s face, but it could also refer to Amazon, Steve Jobs, and Skype. Well at least in part. Find out all about all of these things in today’s scary and caliente episode. –Tom Buzz Out Loud episodes are released in their original audio form. Some metadata supplementation and/or …
Buzz Out Loud 950: Hackers brave bats and dragons
AT&T had an outage yesterday morning in the bay area due to fiber optical cables being cut. This didn’t just affect landlines but cell phones as well. Rafe describes the dangers hackers would face in trying to cut those cables. We also estimate the distance to New York as 12 worms, and give a plus-five …
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Buzz Out Loud 949: Leonard Nimoy melts your pants
There is a lot about pants in today’s episode. I mean the French Parliament kileld the Net piracy bill, and Conficker started adding a key logger and the AP does more stupid stuff. But really, it’s all about pants. The new Star Trek movie was shown to a surprised group of Austin fans. Apparently it …
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Buzz Out Loud 948: Cyborg vs. mutants
Seeing how the cyborg is real and the mutants are not, I think the cyborg will win this. Yes the cyborg is real. He’s a filmmaker with only one eye so he figured he’d put a camera in the empty socket. For now it’s only a red LED, but soon it will be a camera. …
Buzz Out Loud 947: Walk this Wii
The DS has a new add-on that includes a pedometer to help you measure your walking. We don’t know if it will slim down the Mii that giot fat ignoring Wii fit. Australia is going on an all-fiber diet for their Internet needs, and the AP wants everyone to stop linking to them. OK! Careful …
Buzz Out Loud 946: OpenMoko is NoMo
Rafe and Molly take over the show today, due to travels by Tom and Natali, and not surprisingly, geek out and argue a lot about things like FM radio transmitters. In the actual news, it’s cell phone Monday with lots of talk about the spread of Android, the future of smart phone Internet apps, and …
Buzz Out Loud 945: Born to be WILB
Turns out surfing Facebook at work has a name and it’s good for your productivity. A study shows that 20% of your time spent Workplace Internet Leisure Browsing (WILB) will improve your output. Texas also says Hasta La Vista to Vista and AT&T tries to block movies on its wireless. Buzz Out Loud episodes are …