We all really hope this isn’t our last show ever, but if it is, we can apparently join a bunch of other Facebook hoodlum types and go loot the Apple store. Or, as one caller brilliantly renames them, the Apple Chapel. Also, sad news from China’s Foxconn Plant, Comcast continues its parade of breathtakingly evil …
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BOL 1472: The Internet and the end of snow days
On today’s show, Eric Schmidt appears to spout off wildly about fighting anti-piracy laws to the death, but frankly, we kind of agree. Also, LinkedIn’s IPO goes bonkers, Apple is close to signing all the necessary music labels to its hoped-for Amazon and Google killer, Kindle e-books outsell all print books on Amazon, and it …
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BOL 1471: Spoiler alert: Sony hacked again
Multiple rage-fits on today’s show, as we discuss poor Sony’s PlayStation Network being hacked again, patent trolls going after the entire app store market, the Winklevoss twins taking their hurt feelings all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, and sweet little elementary school kids unable to have a school talent show thanks to the …
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BOL 1470: Amazon is bringing a quad-core tablet?…We hope.
Brian Cooley invades the studio! Bing uses your Facebook social graph to help you make better…Decisions. T-Mobile lets you make Wi-Fi calls for free, but that will probably go away if the merger with AT&T happens. Another reason not to like it. Plus, the Power Point versus Keynote debate rages on! Buzz Out Loud episodes …
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BOL 1469: PlayStation Network: safe enough for America!
Sony is firing up the PlayStation Network again and most of America should have access by now. But the Japanese government says it won’t allow PSN back on in its country until Sony can ensure that it’s triple-dog-super-secure. Which, uh … I kind of want it to be that secure here, too, don’t you? Plus, …
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BOL 1468: Bad Facebook! No biscuit for you!
Facebook gets busted for actually hiring a PR agency to try to plant anti-Google stories in the press. Wow. What are you guys, like 14? Oh, wait. Kind of, yeah. In other rant bait, an FCC commissioner who blocked any conditions regulating the NBC/Comcast merger got a lobbying gig at Comcast! How … sleazy. Plus, …
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BOL 1467: Angry Chrome Birds
Google keeps the news ball rolling, dropping two new Chromebook laptops and an enterprise-ready Chromebox. Plus, of course, they make Chrome OS official. Oh, and how could we bury the lead? Angry Birds is now available in the Chrome App Store! For free! Plus, it turns out 100,000 Facebook apps were accidentally leaking your data, …
BOL 1466: Google and the nine OS strategy, and Microsoft buys Skype
Huge news day today, with Google’s I/O presentation packing about a day’s worth of news into a single hourlong presentation–and this is just the first day. We wonder whether Honeycomb, Ice Cream Sandwich, and Chrome OS can exist in the same world, and whether the music labels will ever again get a seat at the …
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BOL 1465: I left TiVo because TiVo left me
Comcast and TiVo’s long-running negotiations (think five years, people) to bring TiVo software to Comcast’s set-top boxes is now officially dead. As are TiVo’s hopes, as far as we’re concerned. Also, CNET may have tipped off Sony to yet another planned attack this weekend, and good news! They stopped it! Bad news: PSN and Qriocity …
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BOL 1464: PSN Hackers don’t quit
Wilson Tang from the 404 joins us in studio to hack away at all the tech news along with host of the week Mr. Brian Tong. Hackers are threatening a third attack on Sony which may cause consumers to think twice about adding their credit card information onto any site in the future despite the …