Today: Mark Zuckerberg clouds the air further on the FacePhone. Verizon squashes iPhone rumors flat. Netflix blames bad actors. and Peek gets it right for a change. 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 …
Read the full post →“BOL 1314: Weaponized viruses and overclocking your pacemaker”
Microsoft tries — again — to bribe users to Bing it while Blockbuster goes bankrupt and Blackberry bets on BlackPad. Also: Blogger bounced from bar. Bye! 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 migration. …
A nasty worm spreads quickly through Twitter.com but is quickly smashed. Intel wants you to pay $50 to make the CPU in the PC you just bought run at full speed. Facebook hides the ignore option on friend requests. And Germans say nein! to Street View. With special guest John Falcone. Buzz Out Loud episodes …
Read the full post →“BOL 1312: Poor little Tweetiebird gets a worm”
Facebook denies that it’s building its own phone, despite its own claims of how great it would be.Captchas get replaced with ads (evil?). HP invents the tablet-powered printer. And Jason joins us on the other side of the board! Buzz Out Loud episodes are released in their original audio form. Some metadata supplementation and/or correction …
Read the full post →“BOL 1311: Facebook’s not building a phone, or is it?”
The news that Windows Phone 7 won’t be coming to any CDMA carriers just yet has some of you close to suicide. That’s extreme. Just wait for LTE. It’ll happen. Also, the HDCP master key turns out to be legit (whoa!), notebook sales growth goes negative in a widespread iPad fallout pattern, and there’s a …
Samsung Galaxy Tab pricing shows up on Amazon UK, and it’s well over a thousand dollars U.S., presumably to force you toward subsidized prices so you’ll end up paying the same amount or more for with-contract tablets. Which … seriously? No. Also, Craigslist says the adult services section is gone for good, and Google’s music …
Read the full post →“BOL 1309: The telcos are a poison pill”
On today’s show, it turns out that people and not just computers are looking at some of the super-private data you give to Google. And some of those people are hipsters in ironic t-shirts. Yeah, scary. Also, the new Twitter debuts, and it’s better than the iPad version. Plus, IE 9 and Nokia’s new attitude …
Read the full post →“BOL 1308: Maladjusted mustache guys sniffing your data”
On today’s Buzz Out Loud, Jason confesses his noob security mistake, Consumer Reports wants the world to know they STILL don’t recommend the iPhone 4. Plus, Mark Zuckerberg’s Hollywood moment isn’t going to be as fun as he hoped, and we predict the MPAA will go nuclear if rumors of a permanent HDCP crack are …
Today on Buzz Out Loud, the deadly dashboard of patent pendencies, YouTube’s new live-streaming test (which we hope will eventually include CNET!), and Halo: Reach launching at midnight. Plus, could Apple launch an iPad with camera in time for the holidays? Rafe’s money is on the line. And a Stanford student gets the best tweet …
Read the full post →“BOL 1306: We instantly instantized the Internet”
In today’s news, Rafe is offended by the lazy criminals who just use Facebook to find out when people aren’t home. Also, Nokia gets a new CEO who’s apparently a fine steward. but is he a visionary? Especially with Android coming up fast? Also, Adobe brings back its Flash-to-iPhone app development tool. Buzz Out Loud …
