We’ve offered over 99 pennies in reward money as a challenge to the first person who can make some e-salt that will stop the snail robots from taking over our planet. Of course running would probably also work as they are snails. Also Microsoft and Yahoo are fighting and us children don’t like it. But …
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And that, my friends, is how we get you to listen all the way to the end. But in actual news of the day, a judge ordered Google to expose the viewing habits of millions of YouTube users. But it’s ok, because only a few people will get to look at them. That’s fine, right? …
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The rotten corpse of the Microsoft-Yahoo merger has apparently reanimated itself and is wandering down Wall Street, munching on the brains of News Corp and Time Warner, recruiting them to its unholy cause. Sigh. In other news, Microsoft has a new Office subscription service, Blockbuster decided Circuit City just isn’t worth it, and we debunk …
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Big thanks to one of our callers today who offers some much-needed perspective on Vista and … well, everything, really. Also, Netflix saves the profiles (yay!), AT&T releases details on iPhone 3G pricing (ouch if you don’t get a contract), and Fiji objects to other things named Fiji. Just like how we object to other …
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You know how sometimes the punishment fits the crime? In this case, the criminal fits the crime. GoDaddy’s VP of domain auctions, appropriately named Dicker, was caught bidding (dickering?) on domains on his own auction site. D’oh! Also, Sony starts offering some creative incentives to get you to buy their TVs: their movies. Hmm. Buzz …
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Thorny gender issues arise on Facebook, Bill Gates takes his leave, Sony announces movie downloads without any movies but their own, and anyone in North Carolina who?s offended by their own, inadvertently rude WTF license plate can get it replaced at no cost. But we say: drive it with pride! Buzz Out Loud episodes are …
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ICANN approves its plan to totally overhaul the Internet domain structure, but all we can do is make fun of the name ?Winklevoss.? Hee. ?Winklevoss.? Also today, Microsoft wants to shut off your gadgets from afar (or at least, their patent filing suggests that they do), the Samsung Instinct is totally the new iPhone, and …
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Ok, now this is weird: the music industry is trying to undermine the way the music industry distributes and promotes music and has always distributed and promoted music. They’re calling the radio piracy. What has the world come to? Buzz Out Loud episodes are released in their original audio form. Some metadata supplementation and/or correction …
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There’s no way we’d bait the IOC like that, knowing how notoriously aggressive they are about controlling their content. They hardly want anyone to see it. That’s why it’s all Vista-only this year. Buzz Out Loud episodes are released in their original audio form. Some metadata supplementation and/or correction has been done for SEO, clarification, …
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Black holes from the Large Hadron Collider? No worries. Mac OS X Trojan in the wild? Minor worries. Total top-level domain overhaul? Worries deferred until we see it in action. 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 …
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