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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Financial markets will collapse, venture capitalists will cause a run on startups that lead to ever more financial collapses, companies that try to disable their DRM servers will inevitably reverse that bad decision, and Web redesigns will happen and you can’t opt out of them. Live with it. We’re jerks today. It’s Friday. Buzz Out …
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Natali Del Conte joins us today for a discussion of quantum mechanics, Apple laptop pricing, super satellites, click-jacking, and crowd-sourced baby names. It sounds kind of heavy, but it’s surprisingly goofy. We think you’ll enjoy it. Also: stop Skyping us! Buzz Out Loud episodes are released in their original audio form. Some metadata supplementation and/or …
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That’s the dog-sized Bluetooth headset you can buy to go with today’s REAL news item, the new BlackBerry Storm: announced but not released. Until it comes out, though, it’s basking in the warm glow of the meeting and maybe exceeding expectations judgments coming from the press. In sum, it sounds cool. And Google decides it’s …
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Apologies in advance for the slightly dirty word toward the end of the show. Now you’ll all listen, won’t you? In other news, Ford wants to make sure your kids don’t speed, that they wear their seat belts, and that they intensely hate your guts. And Google wants to make sure you don’t send mail …
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