On today’s show, we get schooled about how cell phone 911 works, we school the music industry on their consistently terrible ideas regarding physical formats (seriously? Albums on micro SD cards? Are you kidding us with this?), Obama cools his pro Net neutrality stance, and Japan gets to work on the space elevator. Jason already …
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Quit laughing. This is serious business, related to cell phone radiation and sperm motility and viability. Also today, we talk about the new, NEW Microsoft ads (again), EA backtracking on its unpopular decision and Mark Zuckerberg sticking with his, and whether weather will make a difference in PlayStation 3 sales. Our bet: no. With guest …
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Yes, we talk about politicians, and we crack a couple of non-jokes about politics, but we’re definitely NOT talking about politics. Because we want us all to get along. Natali Del Conte joins the Buzz crew today to bid a (fond?) farewell to the Gates-Seinfeld ads, talk about Mark Zuckerberg and all his money, and …
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Whether it’s the BlackBerry, the Internet, CNET TV, or hilarious jokes about the Large Hadron Collider, it’s a good bet that someone either on or in today’s show invented it. Probably Molly. Also in the news today, Nintendo is super rich, the first Android phone is getting a Steve-note (sans Steve) on Sept. 23, and …
If both of them get you free WiFi, which one would you rather have? Also in the news today, Google’s Street View team doesn’t care for a little turnabout, the patent process gets smarter thanks to the Web, and IMDB is now delivering movies and TV. Yeah, really. Maybe we’re the only ones who thought …
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Don Reisinger joins the cast today for a rousing discussion that goes something like this: Best Buy bought Napster. Really? Yeah, I know, right? Weird. Huh. Yeah. Wonder why they did that. Dunno. It’s a great show. You’ll love it. (No, seriously! Don rants more than I do!) Buzz Out Loud episodes are released in …
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In today’s show, Rafe joins us for a discussion of useless video blobs, the implications of, uh, Internet shopping, the NPD numbers that read Tom’s mind, and the U.S. Senate’s enormous gift to Big Content (per Ars Technica). Also, we rouse the Buzz Militia from their stupor to launch an attack on Apple’s arbitrary and …
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In the midst of the debate over the rising cost of text messages, Microsoft finds that you actually sell more stuff if you lower the price. Then again, we?re consuming more text messages than ever, so ? we argue about capitalism. Also, the best of DemoFall AND TechCrunch50, because dangit, we cover them both. Buzz …
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On today’s show, we reveal a huge spoiler: Monk is the 12th Cylon. (Apologies to any of you who don’t watch that show.) This is vaguely related to the news that NBC’s return to iTunes comes shackled with variable pricing. In other news, RIM releases its first ever flip phone, and amazing space-based solar power …
The Large Hadron Collider comes online tomorrow (Wednesday, Sept. 10), so we’re just kind of assuming we’ll be here for tomorrow’s show. Of course, if it uses .NET, we’re definitely doomed, if Computerworld’s speculations about the daylong outage of the London Stock Exchange are to be believed. In any case, if today IS our last …
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