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In today’s show, Molly gets a new favorite metaphor, Apple deletes the very thought that you should run antivirus on a Mac, .Tel gets our wallets at the ready, and poor widdle Windows’ market share drops below 90 percent. The horror! Buzz Out Loud episodes are released in their original audio form. Some metadata supplementation …

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News of the Yahoo demographic’s searching habits arouse a sudden love for space in Brian Cooley today. Also, the Nokia N97 gets a chilly reception, especially in light of all those delectably cheap Netbooks flooding the market. Pownce disappears, Apple suddenly starts recommending antivirus for Mac users, and Microsoft claims the Xbox 360 pwned Black …

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Today’s title is an example from Natali’s mind of some tags you might put on a video with Yahoo’s new video tagging game. I would like to see that video. We also touch on the myth of Cyber Monday and keep you up to date on Linux on the iPhone. Buzz Out Loud episodes are …

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We’ve got a host of Black Friday news today, like Apple retail stores matching online promotions, Sony still refuses to lower the price on the PS3, but they will let you get a PlayStation credit card and a $150 discount (along with whopping interest rates, of course, so pay that sucker off right away, mmkay?), …

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On today’s show, we learn that there’s little difference between nuclear war and horseshoes, at least in the close enough department. Also, a new segment: This Week in Cooley! Plus, a flurry of online news including mobile scheduling for your TiVo, the travesty of the teacher and the porn pop-ups, and Chrome is the king …

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Rafe and Molly square off over the re-use of air conditioning technology, the fail whale sinks a deal between Facebook and Twitter, Gmail is cracked, and an enterprising astronaut creates the ultimate in must-have space tech: a zero-G coffee cup. Buzz Out Loud episodes are released in their original audio form. Some metadata supplementation and/or …

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So we talked about a lot of serious news today including the Justin.TV suicide, the new Google wiki search and the unauthorized access of Barack Obama’s Verizon calling records. But really, Rafe’s description of net-connected Deer is what I’ll remember about this episode. How about you? Buzz Out Loud episodes are released in their original …

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In today’s show, we find out that the demise of humanity is imminent (or that all of our robot mythology is fundamentally rooted in self-hatred), the RIM BlackBerry Storm takes the world by drizzle, and Microsoft hopes that actually giving you songs will convince you to buy a Zune. Oh, and we don’t care about …

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We discover a fun new tautology on today’s show (you know, competition … for the win?), have a fun time goofing off with Brian Tong, rail against Apple’s decision to include HDCP restrictions in its new MacBooks, and rejoice at the arrival of Netflix streaming on the Xbox 360 (minus a few select Sony movies, …

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On today’s show, Brian Cooley announces that he’s made the switch … I mean, the big switch. He bought an iPhone. The world briefly stopped rotating, and when it resumed, we laid down the smack on poor Jerry Yang, the Justice Department, the XM-Sirius merger and subsequent channel flipping, and some poor guy who thought …

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