OK yeah we talk about Windows 7 and it’s lovefest but it’s so over. Time to get into the rumour mill again for the Windows 8 release. Why is Microsoft being so quiet about it?! We also cover the unnatural marriage of Verizon and Google over Net Neutrality. And Craigslist is not a pimp according …
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Molly and I go off on the net neutrality debate, not so much about what the meaning of it is, but why you shouldn’t use lies to defend your position. We also discuss the attractiveness of the Nook from Barnes and Noble and Molly and Rafe have a BlackBerry fight. About the phones. Not the …
New technology allows organic brain cells to control robots leading us to conclude that eventually we’ll all be brains in a data center. Also Apple announces a bunch of updates to their computer line as well as a new magic mouse. And the PS3 is now the King of the console hill. Who saw that …
Have a Google Voicemail account? Have some voicemails in there? I may have listened to them today! Thanks to some leaks in the Google cloud (rain?) it seems some folks voicemails are searchable on Google. Glad that eye appointment went well! Also Verizon and Motorola are bringing it to the iPhone. But will Verizon have …
Mozilla is upset about the browser ballot screen because it’s alphabetical, left to right, by manufacturer. That means Apple gets the prime spot. We think that’s parsing the screen to closely. So we decide to parse it even more! And we also reinvent battery technology and solve America’s Internet problems. And can you believe it? …
Amazon announced same-day delivery for certain areas today, although we’re not sure if you can buy wines by the glass. We also cover the BlackBerry Storm and Motorola Cliq announcements. Guess which one we like better? And the Danger Sidekick tale continues. Buzz Out Loud episodes are released in their original audio form. Some metadata …
Calculator hackers have figured out how to run independent OS’s on TI calculators. Unfortunately TI wants to stop them. Why? We have no idea. Also we play fast and loose with physics when discussing black holes and Higgs Bosons. We also totally redefined the word mint. In a bad way unfortunately. Buzz Out Loud episodes …
Yes Nokia launched a new Netbook, and yes Twitter fought the law and won. But it wasn’t until the end of today’s show that we finally get to the bottom of a long-running controversy. MP3’s don’t do what they promise. Jason and Brian explain why. Buzz Out Loud episodes are released in their original audio …
First, apologies for the song that will be stuck in your head for at least a week. Blame the chat room. In the news today, the T-Mobile Sidekick outage, the ongoing Facebook outage, the IBM outage that briefly crippled Air New Zealand, and the unbelievable failure that is the PSP Go launch. It’s a fun …
Rafe wonders what could possibly go wrong with Comcast monitoring its users to protect them from malware. In the process, Rafe makes a few comments that have us wondering whether he’ll return home to any internet at all. Barnes and Noble is rumored to be rolling out an Android E-book reader while Steve Ballmer claims …
