From the mind behind the iPod comes a rant about DRM: Steve Jobs writes on Apple.com about his thoughts on music. It’s an essay about why they use DRM and how Apple would drop DRM in a moment if allowed by the music labels. But will the labels listen? Buzz Out Loud episodes are released …
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The dueling Apples have finally reached an agreement! Does this mean that soon we’ll see The Beatles on iTunes? In other settlement news, Turner Broadcasting has paid the city of Boston $2 million for its Aqua Teen hijinks. Those LED signs were a little more expensive than they anticipated! Buzz Out Loud episodes are released …
Read the full post →“BuzzCast 02/05/2007 – Episode 404: Podcast Not Found”
Sing that title to the tune of We Built This City by Starship, and you’ll get our terrible, terrible humor. Anyhow, we’re lobbying our superiors to send us to Tokyo Game Show –we hear it’s the new E3, and we want in! Have a good weekend! Buzz Out Loud episodes are released in their original …
Read the full post →“BuzzCast 02/02/2007 – We built our IT on piracy”
Finally, we get to bring you the mindsticker commercial from yesterday that never made it into the final version of the show. Sony is having some trouble with being a mindsticker, at least with the PS3. Can Sony bring back its fans by pushing the PSP to the foreground again? Buzz Out Loud episodes are …
Read the full post →“BuzzCast 02/01/2007 – Be a mindsticker”
Well, life comes at you fast, as they say in the insurance commercials. And today came at us like a pack of cheetahs on speed driving a Ferrari. It started with a crashing Audacity program, that broke our first attempt at the podcast into little pieces. Veronica attempted a very valiant Humpty Dumpty but to …
Read the full post →“BuzzCast 01/31/2007 – Podcast, take two”
We’re feeling a little more secure today for a couple of reasons: Bill Gates is letting everyone know that Microsoft Vista is going to be much more secure, and that’s always good news! Another company is making new lithium ion batteries that are less likely to, uh, explode. Yay? Buzz Out Loud episodes are released …
YouTube is not only adding commercials, but they’re going to start a revenue-sharing program for creators of original content. That’s great, but the program also takes into account how creative the video is! For my sake, I hope they think videos of cats are super interesting. Buzz Out Loud episodes are released in their original …
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The new operating system doesn’t come out until Tuesday for home users, but we’ve been playing with Vista and it has some drawbacks. We discuss those as well as diving again into the moral and ethical debate about torrenst. Best of all, there’s a new t-shirt that will absolve you from all EULAs. Buzz Out …
Read the full post →“BuzzCast 1/26/2007 – Windows Vista, DOA?”
Just kidding! But it is Opposite Day, so be prepared for some wackiness. The big news is that researchers are predicting that universal disc players, like the LG BH100, will be the solution to the HD DVD vs. Blu-ray problem. Sounds like a good solution, if they knock down the price a bit! Buzz Out …
Read the full post →“BuzzCast 01/25/2007 – This is not Buzz Out Loud”
Norway has an ombudsman who seems to understand the Internet and how digital society differs from real society. That’s bad news for Apple. 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 product of data migration. Please report errors …
