Brian Tong returns from the islands in time for us to get collectively punked by a surprisingly elaborate rumor about Keanu Reeves and two more Matrix sequels. But that’s nothing compared to the punking that is AOL’s subscription service, which generates 60% of its profits and isn’t needed by pretty much anyone who pays for …
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BOL 1391: Google’s Eric Schmidt is out and CNET New York is in
It’s not your regular Buzz Outloud today. From New York City, Wilson G. Tang, Jeff Bakalar, Dan Ackerman and Rex Brian (AKA Scott Stein) take over, and needless to say, it’s a very different BOL. In this topsy-turvy world, Google’s Dr. Eric Schmidt is forced out as CEO. HP joins the fray by rearranging its …
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BOL 1390: Pentabular screws and the bourbon fairy
On today’s show, Brian Cooley kindly drops in to keep the streak alive — with bourbon! Also, to discuss one analyst’s counter-intuitive assessment that the Nintendo 3DS is priced too low. Well, I suppose it is, if you’re a shareholder. But we’re happy. In other news today, the iPad 2 will have a camera (duh), …
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BOL 1389: Steve says Comcast/NBCU will be ok
On today’s show, we’ve got a new meme, new details about the Comcast/NBCU merger, and new comments from Apple dismissing Android tablets as both bizarre and vapor. Ok, guys, whatever you say. Verizon offers $200 off iPhone 4 upgrades, in case that takes the sting out a little, and we discuss the rise of universal …
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BOL 1388: Everybody hates Netflix
Our hilarious Internet video of the day is also a disturbingly meta metaphor for what’s got to be happening if the FCC would just roll over and approve a Comcast-NBCU merger 4-1, like they did today: walking headlong into the fountain. Hello, content balkanization! What could possibly go wrong? Also in the news, Steve Jobs …
BOL 1387: The lol j/k defense
Will Courtney Love’s lawyers argue that Twitter is just so fun and awesome that she can’t be held responsible for defamatory crazy talk she types on it? If so, we’re about to go crazy on Twitter. Also, Apple and News Corp may have pushed back their launch date for the Daily, BBC says no to …
BOL 1386: Sex in Space
On today’s show, the importance of studying sex in space (any volunteers?), whether News Corp will try to revive the corpse of MySpace (FrankenSpace?), and we win the orientation-switch choice wars! Hooray! All the iOS 4.3 news you can shake a stick at, plus Sandy Bridge benchmark goodness and Robots 1, Humans 0 (in Jeopardy, …
BOL 1385: It’s so hard to good-bye to H.264
We dissect Google’s decision to drop H.264 support from Chrome and go with WebM, we mop up a little bit of the Verizon iPhone news, and more importantly, we eventually get this show on the road after yet another tech disaster. Also, and this is very important, people, the next version of Android will not …
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BOL 1384: iPhone 4 on Verizon and the CES hailstorm of awesome
No time for a CES hangover (although we really needed it) because Verizon is hitting us hard with the iPhone 4 announcement first thing in the morning … but thank goodness they announced the iPhone, because if they’d punked us, heads would have rolled. But there it is: no LTE, yes to hotspots, white iPhone …
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BOL 1383: Hut Hut Hike! with the Blackberry Playbook
We get our hands on one of the hottest tablets of CES 2011. Molly shrieks, and I cry. Plus, Verizon announces a boatload of 4G LTE devices, Lady Gaga debuts her Grey Label product line and Jar Jar Binks comes to Blu-Ray. Buzz Out Loud episodes are released in their original audio form. Some metadata …
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