On today’s show, Time Warner’s new live TV iPad app is too cool to last very long, iOS is slower than Android (but Apple’s nit-picking the results, predictably), and Sony is continuing to try to turn George Hotz into a smoking crater for daring to jailbreak the PS3. –Molly Buzz Out Loud episodes are released …
Month: March 2011
BOL 1427: Why Yahoo can’t have nice things
We’re back in the bunker, everyone, talking the Japan crisis and its effect on tech supply chains. Plus, bid on the SXSW iPad 2, or if you don’t have that kind of cheddar, buy Street Fightr and Sonic for iPhone and the proceeds go to charity. Obama’s IP czar wants to make unauthorized streaming a …
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BOL 1426: Nanowatches, CEO talk, and cats
Apple’s iPad 2 dominates the tech news headlines, even down here in Austin. America is sold out of iPads, and we’re at least partly to blame. Also, no NFC for your iPhone anytime soon, Facebook gets into the Groupon game, Brian Tong and Cheezburger CEO Be Buzz Out Loud episodes are released in their original …
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BOL 1425: Buzz Out Loud does SXSW
From Austin, Molly and Brian interview Pete Cashmore, get caught up on the big group texting trend, and fall in love with Felicia Day. Plus: movie stars! Buzz Out Loud episodes are released in their original audio form. Some metadata supplementation and/or correction has been done for SEO, clarification, or as a product of data …
BOL 1424: BOL.xxx
Between computer love and our frustration at Apple’s capricious review-unit shenanigans, today’s show ends up a tiny bit off the rails. However, in the straight dish, Kinect is the fastest-selling consumer device, Safari falls to hackers in record time, AOL has some brutal layoffs, and Discovery lands safely and is headed for the museum. Sniff. …
BOL 1423: No joy in Zynga-ville
Zynga tries to trademark the use of -ville as a suffix in everything from games (including the games it shamelessly ripped off) to clothing stores. Won’t someone stop the madness? Please? Also, Goldman Sachs states from its highly compromised position that Facebook could be a credible threat to Netflix, and credulous reporters and shareholders eat …
BOL 1422: Gamer-cising is good for you!
Facebook is going to start showing movies (and making you buy credits), Microsoft is staking Nokia $1 billion to distribute Windows Phone 7/Nokia love children, and Sprint may buy T-Mobile USA and create a massive mobile carrier third head. Plus, in data porn, Android tops the U.S. smart phone market, AT&T dominates on downloads, and …
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BOL 1421: Alien life or comet scum?
On today’s show, the increasingly scary security battleground that is our mobile phones (and how carriers could be making it worse), Sony’s war against jailbreaking the PS3 goes nuclear, and Microsoft announces that IE6 needs to die. Plus, RIM’s roadmap for 2011 doesn’t inspire that much confidence, and the reason we’re so tired on Monday …
BOL 1420: Star Wars: the Chalupa of Sci-Fi
Today we are joined by Rafe Needleman of Reporters’ Roundtable and Wilson Tang from The 404 to break down Microsoft’s tablet strategy, what a $539 Xoom means for the iPad 2, and all the dirty things you can do with Opera. Oh, and we found a spot for our moon base! Buzz Out Loud episodes …
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BOL 1419: iPad 1 plus iPad 2 does not equal iPad 3
On today’s show, we’re joined by Eric Franklin of the Crave podcast and Wilson Tang from the 404 for what turns out to be a much more reasonable and serious discussion than you might expect. Short version: what’s going to happen to the Android tablets now that iPad 2 is out, and will there be …
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