Today in tech news, Hulu launches its subscription service and we’re thinking about going over the top (maybe next year). Also, Farmville is apparently so prevalent that it forced a Firefox update … or, put another way, Firefox gets a little bit broken so that Farmville people can be happy. Sheesh. Steve Jobs sends more …
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Look for Brian Tong’s new movement on Facebook: pain-ray-free produce. But the rest of us actually think it’s kind of cool that the government pain-ray has been re-tasked to warm freezing plants. Also, the Supreme Court has finally ruled in the Bilski patent case, giving us a relatively non-destructive moderate decision. ACTA is ramping up …
Turns out the iPhone grip of death is simply a fact of life with all wireless phones. If holding your phone makes your iPhone 4 signal drop dramatically, Apple would like you to know you should either hold it a different way or buy a case. From them. That sounds logical, right? Right. No, thanks. …
Read the full post →“BOL 1257: Don’t hold it that way (that’s what Steve said)”
Turns out the newborn iPhones 4 might have a touch of the old jaundice — it’s ok, it’s pretty common, just try to lay them in direct sunlight for a few hours. (No, don’t try that. Just call Apple.) Top story today, though: a victory for the Internet! That victory? YouTube wins against Viacom! (Viacom …
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We shall call the iPhone 4 little smudgy (because Rafe calls his iPad big smudgy). Kent German drops by the show to let us get a look at the shiny new toy that comprises, basically, the first half of our broadcast. Then, though, tune in for an update on the Droid X announcement that happened …
Buzz Out Loud: the podcast that carries you through your formative years and even into college. We’ve got a great email about it, in fact. Also, we were totally right about the e-book price war–Kindle is now down to $189. Also, Apple will now collect your precise geographic information and share it with its partners. …
Here’s the thing: Google keeps insisting that the data it snared from open WiFi hotspots isn’t a big deal, it’s useless, it was an accident, and so on. But now, some French investigators discovered that the useless data contains obvious passwords and recognizable snippets of email. Which isn’t as useless as Google suggested, you know? …
Read the full post →“BOL 1253: Google has an honesty problem”
On today’s show, we counted up all the times AT&T is making you pay them to deliver various bits, and frankly, we’re mad as hell and we’re not going to take it anymore. Then again, it’s not like Verizon’s not headed in the same direction, and it’s not lik Buzz Out Loud episodes are released …
From the desk of the big man himself: tablets are gonna be huge. Thanks for that one, boss. Also, iPhone 4 shipments are delayed again, and that doesn’t even address the white iPhone 4 issue (where is that thing?). But Android’s no help, at least not if y Buzz Out Loud episodes are released in …
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It has a blue ball on top. And the ball changes colors. And an ergonomic design. Stop us if we’ve covered this before … it’s the Sony Move and it will rock you. Also, is there such a thing as Strike 4? More importantly, is there such a thing as a transg Buzz Out Loud …
