On the first day of the iPhone 3G massive amounts of Phanatics went home frustrated. Activation problems meant a lot of folks couldn’t go home with a working iPhone. Some didn’t even have a working phone at all, as the old phone got deactivated but the new one was not brought into working order. Meanwhile …
Buzz Out Loud 763: Average people suck
And by average people we mean, mean people. As we have learned that mean and average are indubitably the same thing. However we also learned on today’s show that Men are from Redmond and women are from Cupertino. That and a lot of news that actually isn’t about he iPhone. Though we covered that to. …
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Buzz Out Loud 762: Linux for housewives
At least in Taiwan, the Linux version of the Asus Eee PC is very popular amongst housewives and students. Meanwhile geeks want the Windows XP version. Also on the show today Microsoft finally declares war on Apple’s advertisements, and an Xbox 360 price cut may be coming as early as Sunday. Oh and there was …
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Buzz Out Loud 761: Debt by data plan
No, not death, but close to it. The race is on for who has the most expensive iPhone plan in the world! Plus Microsoft finally gives us a date for XP SP3, sort of. And we have some security news for you as well as a recap of the digital TV transition. So listen up! …
Buzz Out Loud 760: 100 Penny challenge
We’ve offered over 99 pennies in reward money as a challenge to the first person who can make some e-salt that will stop the snail robots from taking over our planet. Of course running would probably also work as they are snails. Also Microsoft and Yahoo are fighting and us children don’t like it. But …
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Buzz Out Loud 759: Worms on the tongue
And that, my friends, is how we get you to listen all the way to the end. But in actual news of the day, a judge ordered Google to expose the viewing habits of millions of YouTube users. But it’s ok, because only a few people will get to look at them. That’s fine, right? …
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Buzz Out Loud 758: Return of the living MicroHoo
The rotten corpse of the Microsoft-Yahoo merger has apparently reanimated itself and is wandering down Wall Street, munching on the brains of News Corp and Time Warner, recruiting them to its unholy cause. Sigh. In other news, Microsoft has a new Office subscription service, Blockbuster decided Circuit City just isn’t worth it, and we debunk …
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Buzz Out Loud 757: Vista: it’s not Stalin
Big thanks to one of our callers today who offers some much-needed perspective on Vista and … well, everything, really. Also, Netflix saves the profiles (yay!), AT&T releases details on iPhone 3G pricing (ouch if you don’t get a contract), and Fiji objects to other things named Fiji. Just like how we object to other …
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Buzz Out Loud 756: Dicker caught dickering
You know how sometimes the punishment fits the crime? In this case, the criminal fits the crime. GoDaddy’s VP of domain auctions, appropriately named Dicker, was caught bidding (dickering?) on domains on his own auction site. D’oh! Also, Sony starts offering some creative incentives to get you to buy their TVs: their movies. Hmm. Buzz …
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Buzz Out Loud 755: Issues of men and womthem
Thorny gender issues arise on Facebook, Bill Gates takes his leave, Sony announces movie downloads without any movies but their own, and anyone in North Carolina who?s offended by their own, inadvertently rude WTF license plate can get it replaced at no cost. But we say: drive it with pride! Buzz Out Loud episodes are …
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