0In and amongst our fights over Facebook patents, TV spectrum and the reasons for the decline of music, we find time to agree on one thing. Robot drones are cool. Robot drobnes that carry little baby drones with them are even cooler. Buzz Out Loud episodes are released in their original audio form. Some metadata …
Month: February 2010
BOL 1173: Unicorn power
It was a fantasy trip on Buzz Out Loud today, wherein fairy dust and unicorns are the new power generators of the future (Bloom Box), Mothra wants to eat your children (looming spectrum crisis), and we’ve got to save the beer-foam-measurement blogs (Web archiving policies in the UK). We’ve got a way with dry news. …
BOL 1172: All tanker captains need a sextant
Talk about a sentence custom-designed to send a chat room off the rails. But the actual topic of discussion was the massive insecurity of the global GPS network, which is totally susceptible to sat-nav jamming. Also, Apple continues to suffer under its terrible, self-imposed burden of censorship, and we are ALL GOING TO DIE FROM …
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BOL 1171: Pants.
dek: The pants meme is strong in this episode — so strong we can’t even pinpoint it to a certain topic. Google Buzz is pants, Microsoft may have no pants on, and the IOC is trying to sue the pants off everyone under the sun. And Molly will not be wearing pants to BOL’s SXSW …
BOL 1170: ACTA must be stopped
In today’s show, more unbelievable details from the top-secret Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement leak out, and we determine (again) that it’s sheer unadulterated evil and has to be stopped. Also, we explore the winkie defense, discover that naps boost your brain power, and hey, Betty White? We’ll let you host Buzz Out Loud for real anytime …
BOL 1169: Fun kills
Today on Buzz Out Loud, fun kills and companies kill fun. Apple kills all the good boob stuff in the App Store, Google’s building its Daemon-Skynet empire by getting into the power business, and Italy thinks 3D glasses can give you pink-eye. Also, Microsoft and Yahoo finally get that search deal done, about a thousand …
BOL 1168: All the good porn is on Xfinity
We have two awesomely inexplicable voice mails today, we discuss the rise of Zeus (the botnet), and Ubisoft’s new DRM scheme sends us into a synchronized rage. We also chat with Peter Brantley, co-founder of the Open Book Alliance, about the latest twist and turn in the Google Books settlement attempt. Short version: copyright law …
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BOL 1167: 3D will make you go blind
0Well, ok, 3D might not make you go blind, but we think the issue warrants further study. At least, Molly and Rafe think it warrants further study. Tom’s just baiting us. Also, AT&T gets a Windows Phone 7 victory, Warner is still keeping DVDs on life support, and PDFs are just plain dangerous. Also, our …
BOL 1166: What’s in Veronica’s closet?
Spoiler: it’s Veronica! Also, gambling prostitutes. Ms. Belmont joins us today to talk about Google’s abject apologies and speculate about what’s inside that Google-Aid they’re drinking down there. Plus, we think Windows Phone 7 looks pretty cool despite that odd naming convention, and after that it’s all mobile news all the time. –Molly Buzz Out …
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BOL 1165: Kindles for all? The future is cloudy.
The rumor mill has it that Amazon wants to give its Prime subscribers a free Kindle. Like, all of them. We think that fails the sniff test, but we might be hypersensitive because of the ridiculous rumor mill that briefly killed off the Palm Pre and Palm Pixi this week. Oh, and Google’s working on …
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