Turns out, according to some developers, that the only way to get your hands on a prereleased iPad is to build it a special sealed bunker of its very own, with darkened windows and a chain so it can’t get up and walk away on you. People, we are NOT making this up. Also, we …
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Apparently some auto dealers sell cars to folks with bad credit if those folks agree to allow a box to be installed int heir car that gives the dealer remote access. In other words if they fall behind in the payments the car can be shut off remotely. This led to madcap mayhem in Austin …
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If 3D is the chicken and the Avatar DVD is the egg, somehow we should all get free chickens or 3D is DOA. Or something like that. We’ve all still got a bit of a BBQ hangover from our time in Austin, but at least Rafe’s here to make a little sense. Oh, wait, he …
Veronica Belmont and Ben Huh join us on stage to talk about the brewing war between Apple and Google, pay walls on the web… and we also wage tiny cute little wars on each other as well. Buzz Out Loud episodes are released in their original audio form. Some metadata supplementation and/or correction has been …
Today’s BOL happened before a live studio audience at SXSW in Austin, TX. Cali Lewis and Nicole Lee joined us on stage to discuss the state of SXSW Interactive, the on-going Google/China kerfluffle, and pharmaceutical companies’ struggles to fit the risks of drugs into a Twitter-friendly 140 characters. Also, Cali Lewis nearly loses a toe…. …
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Patent wars reignite, the Internet is nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize, and multitasking may be coming to the iPhone. It’s an epic sort of show today. Also, PS3 gets in the game with a motion-controller, and employees like us knowingly violate IT policies like crazy people. Buzz Out Loud episodes are released in their …
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We’ve utterly given up the concept of on-topic today, as talk of Apple’s Developer License Agreement suddenly turns into a conversation about patent law and nuclear arsenals and our one voicemail is a dirty anagram. What happened!? Also, some bad words. Buzz Out Loud episodes are released in their original audio form. Some metadata supplementation …
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The European Parliament is, somewhat unexpectedly, riding the the world’s rescue by demanding that the super evil ACTA agreement be negotiated in the open and that the three-strike ISP provisions be taken out. Well, hot damn! That’s big news! I mean, that Cisco router is big news, too, but it just doesn’t have the same …
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Weren’t the folks who ordered an Intel Core i7 surprised when they got a Styrofoam fake instead? well yes. But we still haven’t heard from Newegg how this happened. However the fake was incredibly well done. So props to that. We also discuss Apple’s first iPad ad and Ubisoft’s incredible DRM failure. Buzz Out Loud …
On today’s show, a special interview with Adam Sadowsky, president of Syynlabs, the company that created the awesome Rube Goldberg machine in the super-ultra-extra viral Ok Go video, This Too Shall Pass. Turns out making that video was as hard to make as you might imagine. Also, we discuss the pending smellpocalypse coming out of …
