dek: Nexus One gets multitouch but the rest of the Android universe is left out in the cold. Plus, Motorola’s not using the Droid name for its upcoming Android phones. What’s going on here? Plus, we revel in the intellectual awesomeness of imagining Windows 7 running on an iPad (even in virtual mode). –Molly Buzz …
BOL 1157: Fighting trolls is like fighting ghosts
dek: On the Internet, the only thing harder to fight than frivolous copyright infringement accusations is comment trolls. Nevertheless, we’re all going to give it our best shots. In other news, Woz hacks its Prius, the Internet comes up with wishful-thinking rumors to turn the iPad into the thing we all wanted it to be, …
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BOL Episode 1156: Tweet to the handbag
On today’s show, Amazon gets called out on price-fixing, even though Macmillan wants to charge too much for e-books. AT&T redefines unlimited, and Microsoft is redefining the bar code, Apple got the fake Flash out of its iPad ads, and big news! Jason had his baby, and Molly’s coming back to Buzz Out Loud full …
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Buzz Out Loud Podcast 1155: Fujitsu threatens to sue over stupid iPad name
While every woman on Earth universally thinks the name iPad is stupid, Fujitsu still wants to own it. We’ll tell you about the Fujitsu iPad which has existed since 2002 and why Apple thinks they can still own the name anyway. We also look at the MSI tablet which may be much better than iPad. …
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BOL 1154: How much is that Moon trip in Microsoft points?
Yes of course we rehash the Apple iPad. we find out how to pronounce it properly in Boston. We determine that it is the fundamental problem with Democracy. But there is other news. Including a class action suit against Microsoft over their points system on Xbox and Zune. And President Obama wants to kill the …
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BOL 1153: iPad? Yes. Apple named it iPad.
We record right after Steve Jobs finished his 90-minute announcement of the Apple iPad, their new tablet computer. It’s variably impressive depending on who you are, but will anyone buy it? We discuss. Also it’s over for the Mars rover Spirit. At least the roving part is over. But it’s still alive and doing science. …
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BOL 1152: Hacks on a plane
The FAA has asked Boeing to prove it’s new connected airplane isn’t so connected it can connect hackers. We also discuss why folks think women aren’t as good at math when all the women we know are great at math. And we hash over some Apple tablet rumors. I mean how could we not. We …
BOL 1151: NASA, park the shuttle on blocks
Among the news of China picking a fight with the US over Google, and Jammie Thomas getting her fine reduced, there’s a goldmine idea for NASA. Gene wrote in to explain that instead of selling off the shuttles, they can just leave them parked at the space station. And we took it further with some …
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BOL 1150: Up the creek without a Bible
The FCC is coming for the schools and churches just like that crazy guy on the corner told you! June 12th they’ll require anybody using a wireless microphone that operators in the 700 MHZ spectrum, to stop using that mic. That’s right. the purge is coming! For microphones!. Actually it’ll affect Broadway shows too. Will …
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BOL 1149: Secretary Clinton plans to free the Internet
We had the pleasure of chatting with Jared Cohen, Senior Adviser to Secretary Hillary Clinton today. He gave us some more insight into Secretary Clinton’s speech about the freedom on the Internet, specifically relating to China. We also clarify that Verizon is not booting people off the Internet. But apparently Cox is. So take all …
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