When backed into a corner, the FCC acts less like a bear and more like a kitten … which is probably a good thing for the Internet overall. Facebook takes another lump, the HTC Evo shows up for pre-order at The Shack at all places, and Google Chrome is faster than a potato. Well, French …
Read the full post →“BOL 1222: Nobody backs the FCC into a corner”
Phrases are coined left and right on today’s show, from our plans to unbumble the Internet to the chat-room created phrase gestApple, to describe the behavior of everybody’s favorite door-busting-down, Ellen-berating iPhone-maker. Plus, three-day-old tuna. It’s a fun one. Also, six things you need to know about Facebook Connections (it violates your privacy six ways …
On today’s show, we discuss the coming of the IPv4 black market, throwing more nanodots at the solid-state storage market, and we’ve got two tech industry shockers: First, Sirius posted a profit, and second: AT&T did a nice thing for a listener. Plus, file-sharers are either the content industry’s biggest customers or way worse than …
Read the full post →“BOL 1220: There’s no place like 127.0.0.1”
The folks who built the Internet are thinking it could be a great idea if flying cars were available in military zones to help extract soldiers quickly from sensitive locations. And they should transform. So, awesome future on our way. Plus, Apple sells 1 million iPads, we try to untangle the h.264 codec mess, and …
Read the full post →“BOL 1219: DARPA requests transformer flying cars. So do we.”
It’s Rafe and Molly on the show today, and it kind of turned into a blur of Apple-related frustrations. But hey, our opinions might not matter in the least: iPad 3G arrives today in all its closed-off glory, while possible competitor tablets from Microsof Buzz Out Loud episodes are released in their original audio form. …
Read the full post →“BOL 1218 hed: Brace yourself, Apple fans”
Steve jobs picks a digital beef, or digibeef, with Adobe over Apple’s holdout on Flash, Palm and HP get married, we talk about the Sony Dash and whether or not we will give it to our mama’s for Mother’s day. Also, Natali knows nothing about the Boy Scouts, and Donald knows way too much about …
Between the legal drama playing out in the South Bay (Gizmodo raid! Dubious warrants! Potential counter-suits!) and the latest developments in the Infinity Ward/Activision internal drama (Involuntary labor! Withholding royalties and bonuses!), it’s pretty much the Days of our Lives around here. Also, no Hulu in the UK, and Comcast gets a big, steaming pile …
Dun DUN! Police break down the door of a Gizmodo editor’s house looking for evidence of some sort of crime involving the lost iPhone prototype … meanwhile, Nokia has to kind of pathetically blog about how someone took a prototype of the Nokia N8 and they would really, really like it back. It’s a weird …
Read the full post →“BOL 1215: Law & Order: Lost Prototypes Unit”
Natali Del Conte joins us in the studio to discuss really important issues such as boobquake day, cartoons, and violent video games. Oh, come on, we also discuss Google’s failed attempts to reinvent the mobile phone sales paradigm, unfounded causal links between violent video games and sociopathic behavior, and the dangers of colonization. Good show, …
Is this the ultimate early adopter penalty? If you buy more than two iPads to send to your friends overseas or give to your family, you risk a lifetime ban on future purchases? That just can’t be right. Also not right: the sweet little child who calls tell us how to get porn on the …
