Turns out those terrahertz scanners in the airports are mostly safe, but they do a little unzipping of your DNA. Derek says it’s nothing to worry about. You won’t grow a third arm in the airport. Even if it would be handy in carrying baggage. We also find out email isn’t private. Did we need …
Month: October 2009
BOL 1095: The Phrase that Pays from Amazon
Amazon’s trying to compete with PayPal with a new service that brings one-click shopping into the rest of the non-Amazon world. We also kick around a rumor of Netflix coming to the Wii and discuss Google and Yahoo music searches. Oh and then Cooley and I get deep about business models and copyright. That’s near …
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BOL 1094: Crushing on the Droid
Rafe is being drawing in to a love story with the new Motorola Droid. Dare we call it a Dro-mance? It’s certainly a flashy new phone for Verizon which hasn’t always been known for flashy new phones. We also congratulate Google on getting the contract to provide email to the city of Los Angeles. Well …
BOL 1093: eBook Mania
MySpace and Facebook are hooking up? In a way. Maybe. But the real meat of the news today is all the eBook hype. Barnes and Noble will sell the Que, Bridgestone has a color one coming out and Barnes and Noble may not always have its own Nook eReader. But does anyone want them? Buzz …
BOL 1092: The slippery Slate
Bill Keller from the New York Times let slip he’s been working on a version of the New York Times for the Apple Slate. Great! What the hell is the Apple Slate? well obviously it’s a much-rumored Apple Tablet. We also discuss T-Mobile’s unlimited plans and hope against all hopes that they are truly unlimited. …
BOL 1091: The French Disconnection
So the French have passed a three strikes law that will disconnect your Internet if accused three times of piracy. At least there’s some judicial review. Also John McCain moves against Net Neutrality and Windows 7 seems to truly be good news for Microsoft. Buzz Out Loud episodes are released in their original audio form. …
BOL 1090: Screw Win 7 time to hype Windows 8
OK yeah we talk about Windows 7 and it’s lovefest but it’s so over. Time to get into the rumour mill again for the Windows 8 release. Why is Microsoft being so quiet about it?! We also cover the unnatural marriage of Verizon and Google over Net Neutrality. And Craigslist is not a pimp according …
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BOL 1089: Net neutrality double rant
Molly and I go off on the net neutrality debate, not so much about what the meaning of it is, but why you shouldn’t use lies to defend your position. We also discuss the attractiveness of the Nook from Barnes and Noble and Molly and Rafe have a BlackBerry fight. About the phones. Not the …
BOL 1088: RAID your brain server
New technology allows organic brain cells to control robots leading us to conclude that eventually we’ll all be brains in a data center. Also Apple announces a bunch of updates to their computer line as well as a new magic mouse. And the PS3 is now the King of the console hill. Who saw that …
BOL 1087: Google’s leaky cloud
Have a Google Voicemail account? Have some voicemails in there? I may have listened to them today! Thanks to some leaks in the Google cloud (rain?) it seems some folks voicemails are searchable on Google. Glad that eye appointment went well! Also Verizon and Motorola are bringing it to the iPhone. But will Verizon have …