On today’s show, Apple wants to wipe all HTC phones from the face of the earth, apparently because Steve Jobs is just grouchy about this whole business. Donald and Molly engage in a nice long talk about the validity of software patents, and then we wonder whether anyone would actually line up to buy a …
BOL 1177: Nerd Freestyle
We stayed on the rails pretty well in this episode, but there’s a whole long thing about cake toward the end that the chat room dubbed nerd freestyle and, well, we love that. In other news, new TiVo underwhelms a bit (other than the remote) and Viacom goes all anti-Internet with Daily Show and Colbert. …
BOL 1176: F1 is now FU
Microsoft’s latest security measure involves telling everyone not press F1. Well that’s reasonable. If you read everything Microsoft says. Also the juiciest weirdest firing ever happens to the developers of the most successful video game ever. Buzz Out Loud episodes are released in their original audio form. Some metadata supplementation and/or correction has been done …
BOL 1175: But I don’t WANNA Twitter!
New music stars are finally being told to social network buy the record labels and now they’re throwing a fit. Benito thinks they’re just being all rock and roll and disrespecting authority. We also discover buttocks meatloaf. Don’s ask. And we talk about Apple’s child labor problems and Sony’s PS3 glitches. Tomorrow Molly is back …
BOL 1174: Pregnant robot drones
0In and amongst our fights over Facebook patents, TV spectrum and the reasons for the decline of music, we find time to agree on one thing. Robot drones are cool. Robot drobnes that carry little baby drones with them are even cooler. Buzz Out Loud episodes are released in their original audio form. Some metadata …
BOL 1173: Unicorn power
It was a fantasy trip on Buzz Out Loud today, wherein fairy dust and unicorns are the new power generators of the future (Bloom Box), Mothra wants to eat your children (looming spectrum crisis), and we’ve got to save the beer-foam-measurement blogs (Web archiving policies in the UK). We’ve got a way with dry news. …
BOL 1172: All tanker captains need a sextant
Talk about a sentence custom-designed to send a chat room off the rails. But the actual topic of discussion was the massive insecurity of the global GPS network, which is totally susceptible to sat-nav jamming. Also, Apple continues to suffer under its terrible, self-imposed burden of censorship, and we are ALL GOING TO DIE FROM …
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BOL 1171: Pants.
dek: The pants meme is strong in this episode — so strong we can’t even pinpoint it to a certain topic. Google Buzz is pants, Microsoft may have no pants on, and the IOC is trying to sue the pants off everyone under the sun. And Molly will not be wearing pants to BOL’s SXSW …
BOL 1170: ACTA must be stopped
In today’s show, more unbelievable details from the top-secret Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement leak out, and we determine (again) that it’s sheer unadulterated evil and has to be stopped. Also, we explore the winkie defense, discover that naps boost your brain power, and hey, Betty White? We’ll let you host Buzz Out Loud for real anytime …
BOL 1169: Fun kills
Today on Buzz Out Loud, fun kills and companies kill fun. Apple kills all the good boob stuff in the App Store, Google’s building its Daemon-Skynet empire by getting into the power business, and Italy thinks 3D glasses can give you pink-eye. Also, Microsoft and Yahoo finally get that search deal done, about a thousand …