Sony PS3 jailbreaker George Hotz scampers down to South America to avoid having to turn over his possessions to Sony — but claimed he’s just there on spring break. Um. Ok, dude. Also, Apple’s grand plans to take over the Internet completely, the new Color app that either is or isn’t the most amazing startup …
Read the full post →“BOL 1433: George Hotz and the Girls Gone Wild defense”
Sprint doesn’t like the AT&T/T-Mobile deal, and they plan on doing something about it. Firefox 4 comes out with a strong launch, and Microsoft tries to piggy back on it. Yeehaw! And, we’re willing to give our brainwaves away. Buzz Out Loud episodes are released in their original audio form. Some metadata supplementation and/or correction …
On today’s show, Brian Tong has an exclusive about the next crop of iMacs: they’re on a boat! Also, Kent German calls in from CTIA to talk AT&T-T-Mobile fallout on the show floor, plus a sneak peek at Sprint’s new phone announcements. We rant about Microsoft’s new strategy of demanding licenses for things like status …
AT&T gets bigger, a whole lot bigger with its purchase of T-Mobile. Trust us, mobile plans won’t be getting any cheaper. Sprint gets a few consolation prizes, Twitter is 5 years old and we feature the Morning-After App. Buzz Out Loud episodes are released in their original audio form. Some metadata supplementation and/or correction has …
The government is planning a new sock puppet program that will create fake online personas to play on social networks in countries around the world (but not America — they say). Microsoft and the feds shut down another giant spam-sending botnet, and HP continues its bold moves: next up, a cloud computing platform. Also, a …
Read the full post →“BOL 1429: Spies on Facebook? Yes, it’s true.”
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 …
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 …
Read the full post →“BOL 1427: Why Yahoo can’t have nice things”
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 …
Read the full post →“BOL 1426: Nanowatches, CEO talk, and cats”
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. …
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 …
