On today’s show, we talk to Ken Parks, director of content at Spotify, who lays down the one rule of music licensing negotiations: you don’t talk about music licensing negotiations! Plus, Amazon’s tablet is incoming, 41 percent of Netflix users plan to take their ball and go home, and girl power at the Google science …
Month: July 2011
BOL 1509: Hey, Windows Phone 7, how much does a polar bear weigh?
Today on the show, we discover that Windows Phone 7 does have a life in the wild — at least one phone does, anyway. Also, Plants vs. Zombies are taking over the world and BT, Steve, and I are headed for a Tetris showdown. RIM continues to try to defend its co-CEO setup (why!?) and …
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BOL 1508: Google + is now 10 million strong
Google + is making some changes, but hopefully it’s only going to keep the G+ train going: estimates have it at 10 million users and on track for 20 million by this weekend. Yeah, no, really. Plus, Netflix makes a change that makes us sing and pushes you toward either DVDs or streaming, but probably …
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BOL 1507: We’re out of disk space, too
On today’s show, Google already runs out of disk space for Google +, and we’re running low on disk space ourselves. The first Google eBooks integrated e-reader is landing soon, Apple takes another run at HTC, and we’re discovering the most evil cities on the Internetz. –Molly Buzz Out Loud episodes are released in their …
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BOL 1506: Copyright Cops
Antuan Goodwin joins us today to discuss the ISP’s agreement to become the Copyright Cops of the internet. Should we fear them? We also talk about driving while talking on the phone and whether or not it is safe. And we continue to follow all of the hacking stories and possible vulnerabilities in our devices. …
BOL 1505: Thomas Dolby blinds us with genius
On today’s show, special guest Thomas Dolby drops in to talk with us about the state of the music industry and digital distribution, his new album, and the amazing sounding MMORPG that goes along with it. We’re pretty overwhelmed by his brilliance. But we recover a bit for tech news, like Hulu’s 1 million paid …
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BOL 1504: Awesome is dead.
Today we listened in on Mark Zuckerberg’s awesome announcement which we found to be not so awesome. Skype is being integrated into Facebook but I think we are more excited about Spotify finally coming to the U.S! Apple Passes RIM In U.S. Smartphone Market Share and Microsoft wants Samsung to pay a smartphone fee of …
BOL 1503: FTC needs to put that probe somewhere else
Today on Buzz Out Loud, we preview tomorrow’s awesome Facebook announcement — and we hope it’s not just Skype integration. Microsoft is getting in bed with Baidu in China, but Cisco is getting in a much dirtier bed with China’s government, helping build a massive surveillance system that we’re sure will just be used to …
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BOL 1500: RIM’s motto: The buck stops here … and there
On today’s show, RIM responds — if you can call it that — to an open letter purportedly from a senior executive calling out the company on all its woes. RIM’s response? We’re fine. Well, we’re fine, but we will also agree to form a task force to investigate whether we need a better CEO …
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