Episodes will be released daily (as long as we can keep up on it).
On today’s show, it appears that the person who caused Apple’s stock to drop like a stone on reports of a Steve Jobs heart attack was just doing it for the lulz. So, he didn’t even short-sell the stock? Wow. Stupid trolls. Also, Oprah declares the Amazon Kindle her most favoritest gadget of all time. …
Read the full post →“Buzz Out Loud 838: Hot troll on troll action”
Comcast offers faster Internet speeds, but doesn’t raise its data transfer caps, studies show that gamers aren’t that nerdy (ruining future punch lines for generations of comedians), Microsoft goes outside the lines to issue a critical security patch (yikes!), and Samsung tries to entice you to Blu-Ray by offering Netflix streams. Eh? Buzz Out Loud …
Read the full post →“Buzz Out Loud 837: Barkeep, bring me my anti-cancer beer!”
It looks like Wii Fit will outsell Grand Theft Auto IV this year, Apple’s already sold 10 million iPhones, people are lining up for the T-Mobile G1 Android phone (much to our surprise), and just when we started to think the economy might be turning around after all, we got the news about Yahoo laying …
Read the full post →“Buzz Out Loud 836: I would rather get in shape than kill hookers”
Several organizations including the Electronic Frontier Foundation (aka EFF) sent public letters asking the broadcast networks and YouTube to ease up on the copyright takedown notices. Maybe this campaign season will help shed some light on the issues with the way the Digital Millennium Copyright Act is implemented. As long as it’s fixed for all …
There’s a new smart phone from LG called the Cookie. It has a little more juice than the Palm Centro. But Natali doesn’t like juice in her cookies. But that doesn’t mean she doesn’t like this smart phone. We also cover the new mobile browsers and Apple’s attack ads against Microsoft. Buzz Out Loud episodes …
Read the full post →“Buzz Out Loud 834: No like juicy cookies!”
Anything that nerdy had to come from Tom. And it did. Rafe Needleman joins the cast today to discuss waiting for Windows 7 (Steve Ballmer says it’s ok), the fury over FireWire being omitted from the MacBooks reaches a fever pitch — so much so that Steve Jobs himself sends an email in response. His …
Read the full post →“Buzz Out Loud 833: Adobe, the mad wizards of Orthanc”
In today’s episode, Patrick Norton joins the gang for a rant-a-thon, IMDB turns 18, we’re surprisingly not mad about the Android killswitch, Radiohead proves it made a winner with its digital album giveaway, and YouTube gives the Queen the giggles. Buzz Out Loud episodes are released in their original audio form. Some metadata supplementation and/or …
Read the full post →“Buzz Out Loud 832: Kauai: one big digital converter box”
Tom couldn’t decide whether to go with the marginalized whackjob wall paint, or just get a marginalized whackjob fringe. Vote? In other news of the day, the McCain campaign discovers that the DMCA can be ANNOYING! Maybe they’ll do something about it once they’re back in politics-land! Also, EA says no one cares about DRM …
Read the full post →“Buzz Out Loud 831: Marginalized whackjob fringe”
Steve Jobs delivers: he delivers one less button, an all-new proprietary display port, annoyingly glossy screens, and a paltry $100 price drop on the new MacBook. Huzzah. We do have some other news to talk about today, luckily, like Microsoft sticking with Windows 7 as the official name of Windows 7, and Joost deciding it …
Read the full post →“Buzz Out Loud 830: One more thing: one less button”
On today’s show, the world of anonymous chatting gets even more confusing, thanks to the increasing numbers of computers passing the Turing test. Is it a pervert? Is it a computer? Is it both? In other news, Chrome breaks Molly’s heart, Sony breaks all the rules and keeps the PS3 prices high, and people keep …
Read the full post →“Buzz Out Loud 829: no 55-year-old pervert, that’s a robot!”
