Episodes will be released daily (as long as we can keep up on it).
The mystical city of Argleton in the UK appears on Google Maps but presents a face of green empty fields to people in person. What is it hiding? Druids? Wizards? Copyright protection? We also discuss the hot new XPERIA X 10 and the less hot Droid Exchange data plan. Also, we can tell you when …
Read the full post →“BOL 1098: Find TuPac and Elvis in Argleton”
Over at BlueBeat.com, the best MP3-selling Website you’ve never heard of, has got it all for your listening pleasure, the entire Beatles catalog in MP3 form for just 25 cents each! Get them while you can (which won’t be long). In other news, file sharers might buy more music, Bittorrent might save the Internet, and …
Read the full post →“BOL 1097: Beatles Bargain Basement Blowout!”
Turns out those terrahertz scanners in the airports are mostly safe, but they do a little unzipping of your DNA. Derek says it’s nothing to worry about. You won’t grow a third arm in the airport. Even if it would be handy in carrying baggage. We also find out email isn’t private. Did we need …
Amazon’s trying to compete with PayPal with a new service that brings one-click shopping into the rest of the non-Amazon world. We also kick around a rumor of Netflix coming to the Wii and discuss Google and Yahoo music searches. Oh and then Cooley and I get deep about business models and copyright. That’s near …
Read the full post →“BOL 1095: The Phrase that Pays from Amazon”
Rafe is being drawing in to a love story with the new Motorola Droid. Dare we call it a Dro-mance? It’s certainly a flashy new phone for Verizon which hasn’t always been known for flashy new phones. We also congratulate Google on getting the contract to provide email to the city of Los Angeles. Well …
MySpace and Facebook are hooking up? In a way. Maybe. But the real meat of the news today is all the eBook hype. Barnes and Noble will sell the Que, Bridgestone has a color one coming out and Barnes and Noble may not always have its own Nook eReader. But does anyone want them? Buzz …
Bill Keller from the New York Times let slip he’s been working on a version of the New York Times for the Apple Slate. Great! What the hell is the Apple Slate? well obviously it’s a much-rumored Apple Tablet. We also discuss T-Mobile’s unlimited plans and hope against all hopes that they are truly unlimited. …
So the French have passed a three strikes law that will disconnect your Internet if accused three times of piracy. At least there’s some judicial review. Also John McCain moves against Net Neutrality and Windows 7 seems to truly be good news for Microsoft. Buzz Out Loud episodes are released in their original audio form. …
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 …
Read the full post →“BOL 1090: Screw Win 7 time to hype Windows 8”
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 …
