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Molly Wood, Tom Merritt and producer Jason Howell give you their daily take on what's happening in tech news throughout the week. Listeners can email us at buzz@cnet.com or call 1-800-616-CNET to leave a message, and be a part of the show. Visit the blog at http://bol.cnet.com. Copyright: 2008 CNET.com Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:36:00 +0100 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!
Apple deletes Mac antivirus suggestion Twitter CEO: The revenue’s coming soon, but I won’t tell you how .Tel them where to find you Vista SP2: What's inside? Windows 7 Beta 1 to arrive January 13? Windows drops below 90 percent market share Vlingo one-ups Google with a better voice-powered iPhone application Logitech makes 1 billionth mouse PayPal brings allowances into the 21st century Scientists report mental ‘body-swapping’ BOL named an iTunes ‘Classic’ VOICE MAIL E-MAIL Hopefully the attachment won’t be a problem with security software on the CNET network but here’s the BOL Bingo card! Feel free to email back with items to swap, remove, and/or replace. Enjoy! Holly in NYC (hollyhock on Twitter, watchBOL chat, CNET forums) Hello Buzztown. If buzztown isn't able to come up with a suitable automated method, I'd like to volunteer to email him the podcast manually each day. I'd like to do that as a small thank you for his service. Feel free to pass my email along to Mark for this purpose. PS. I think you should add "somebody typing 'Brittney Spears' into a search engine" to in-the-wild Bingo. Hey JaMoTo, It’s amazing how Molly coined the term “net-box” and Brian came up with portable xbox 360, and suddenly there is one on engadget. It is awesome how BOL pushes technology along. They should keep this moving along and create a netbook + net-box, but then I guess it would just be a super battery draining, overheating, carpal tunnel inducing netbook with an enormous power supply that sounds like a vacuum cleaner. Oh well, I guess we have some more hurdles to jump before we get to this point. http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/03/ben-heck-outdoes-himself-with-xbox-360-portable/ Love the show, As a loyal user and fan of the iPhone from day one, I always enjoyed Understand it’s the popular thing and you have to talk about it. You Bob Hi BOL - Here’s what I see in the wild every day — BOOKS! Books. They’re not just for geeks anymore. (Note jeans tucked into boots.) Amanda I just listened to Tuesday’s show where you mentioned that Apple store employees do not suggest antivirus software. When I worked for Apple tech support it was considered a fireable offense to flat out say “Macs can get viruses.” In stead we were told do dance around it and say something along the lines of “while it is certainly possible for viruses to be written for a mac, you only need to worry about antivirus software if you have windows installed.” Ian from Saskatoon CORRECTION: Thank you for your help, attached file: type: audio/mpeg size: -1 bytes here Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:57:00 +0100 News of the Yahoo demographic's searching habits arouses 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 Friday. Listen now: Download today's podcast
iPhone beware, the Nokia N97 is coming (PC World) Netbooks dominate cyber-Monday, at least on Amazon Asus: $200 Netbooks next year Pownce to shut down after Six Apart sale Microsoft: Xbox 360 Routs PS3 in Record Black Friday Sales Forbes: Nintendo making $6 profit on every Wii sold Data shows Wii games discounted fastest Apple suggests Mac users install antivirus software DVR commercial skipping: 50 or 97 percent? Depends on who you ask Cell phones are even worse than chatty passengers No escaping Britney Spears: 2008’s top searches VOICE MAIL E-MAIL http://gizmodo.com/5100514/apples-mini-displayport-might-not-be-bs-proprietary-port-after-all ********** Great idea for a CNet Channel broadcast through CBS affiliates. I would have to say from a technology standpoint that couldn't be difficult and really shouldn't require the person to manage it. I personally have an auto updating video playlist in iTunes that nearly does this already. Just subscribe to all of your RSS feeds and then play through the list starting at a certain time every day. Once that's done playing go to an "off air" static screen until the next day, that's if you run out of video in the 24 hour period. It could probably be done with Automator and some apple scripts come to think of it. Interesting…might have to play with this for fun. jason Regards, Daniel ********** Hi buzz crew, Buzz You Long Time. ********** Dear BOL Crew, First of all, thanks for a great daily podcast to keep me up to date on tech. I will be going on a 7 month navy cruise soon and I don't want to miss my daily BOL fix. Available bandwidth during the cruise does not allow me to download podcasts or anything else. There just is not enough bandwidth. I have also tried getting BOL via your RSS feed, but it does not work again due to bandwidth limitations. I can received email attachments, but I don't know if there is a way for me to setup before my cruise an automatic daily email attachment with the BOL audio file. Can you recommend a solution? Thank you! I love listening to BOL daily when I am on tierra firma. Commander Mark (How would http://www.podlinez.com/ work for you? -JH) ********** Hey guys, There is going to be a protest about the Australian Internet Censorship on the 13th and I was wondering if you could give it a little publicity. http://www.stopthecleanfeed.com/ Cheers, attached file: type: audio/mpeg size: -1 bytes here Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:46:00 +0100 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. Listen now: Download today's podcast
Cyber Monday supposed to be big this year Joost for iPhone Yahoo Video Tag game Facebook Connect appears set for expansion Baidu vows search overhaul Hackers boot Linux on iPhone uTorrent for Mac Morroco biometric ID cards European Cyber Crime unit Criterion Collection dips its toes into online film rentals VOICE MAIL Dwight in Hollywood Whoa snap! It looks like “Transit Mode” may be closer than we think. I don’t think that anyone has mentioned it yet (since you guys discussed it a week before the G1 was publicly available), so I give to you: Locale . Locale is an app for Android which — well, the site is much more informative than I could be about it. Suffice it to say that there are GPS-enabled, location-aware phone profile changes going on here. I’m thinking v2.0 could add hooks into changing voicemail settings; id est: If curVelocity > 25mph Then Yeah, it’d *probably* wind up being slightly more complicated than the preceding block of code, but it’s a start. Heck, they can even use that as a springboard, no charge! Link: [http://code.google.com/android/adc_gallery/app.html?id=25] ~ J-2 in MD, who Luvs.the.freakin’.show! P.S. After sending the following email, I took another look at the screenshots on the Android page. It looks like you can already set up specific call forwarding features based on current location! (see last pic) Now all we need is that voicemail greeting change thingy, and T.M. is here. For realz! I listen to the buzz out loud podcast a lot and I really enjoy the banter. Sometimes I learn more about the tech world from listening to you guys than I do from reading most of the articles on technology and I recommend the podcast to my friends. Now, here’s something I’d like to hear about. Today, on the front page of c|net, I was treated to a large, annoying, autorunning video ad of the iPhone. This is the second time it’s appeared this month that I know of. There is a close button at the top of the ad, but the button does not work and the ad plays ad whether I want it to or not. This has to be my number one pet peave on the internet these days since these ads only serve to clog up my tubes locally with content I don’t want to see. Ad blocking does not appear to work, so I notified CBS through the “ad feedback” link that for this weekend I will be blacklisting c|net on this network. What do you guys think? Am I over reacting in a world where my ISP is planning to start limiting my monthly bandwidth and where annoying ads such as these are using up my bandwidth sans my permission? Or am I justified in wishing to control what goes across my network and what uses up my bandwidth and what doesn’t? I do not have anything against ads because I know everyone needs to get paid for the work they do, but come on, do they think we’ll keep coming back to a site that continually uses up more bandwidth than it’s worth? Afterall, CnetTV stops streaming after 3 videos for precisely the reason of not wanting to use up bandwidth, why limit the bandwidth there but not in this case? Just my pet peave and rant of the weekend. Matt in Palm Bay With as nice as the Holiday Help Desk is to watch on cnettv.com, why An OTA version of cnet couldn’t be too difficult via DTV and would I am merely curious. I enjoy both the404 and B-O-L as morning shows. Stephen Michael Kellat Hello Molly, Tom, Jason +1, I am a long time listener from India. Please make mention about the role of social media (Twitter, Flickr) in the aftermath of the Mumbai attacks if you can. Wired article WSJ article I must confess that I have some concerns about it in this context, the biggest being the safety of the hostages, e.g. there were requests from the authorities to stop the twitter feed #mumbai, since the holed-up attackers might be following them, thus giving away details of the operations of the security forces. However 36 hours on, #mumbai still lives. In any case, it sign of the times and definitely of relevance beyond India. Love the show. Cheers, Murari Venkataraman Wii Speak Channel I’m surprised you guys didn’t talk about this today. Gosh, you guys are getting more and more influential. Someone should make a list of all the things you guys changed in order to make these troubled times less… troubled. In fact, I bet Molly could run for president and win at this point. Or better yet, you could make a podcast oriented government. Every week a new episode would come out with new laws for people. And it would be fair, because you would let other people come on to the show and submit their own laws. http://www.gamespot.com/news/6201714.html?tag=latestheadlines;title;3 Love the show, attached file: type: audio/mpeg size: -1 bytes here Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:49:00 +0100 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?); and Nintendo has a couple of new DS Lite bundles on offer instead of the DSi. At least one of them comes in ICE BLUE.
Apple retail stores will match reseller prices Use the new PlayStation Visa, get $150 off purchase of PS3 Nintendo hunkers down for Black Friday Sling opens up its Hulu competitor to the public U.K. agency bans ‘really fast’ iPhone ad Digital sales surpass CDs at Atlantic Gmail ‘vulnerability’ turns out to be phishing scam Google admits breaking App Store rules Microsoft ranked fifth worst spam service ISP 90 percent of gaming-addiction patients not addicted VOICE MAIL Anon: PeekYou E-MAIL Keith ********** Hey JaMoTo+1, This is Kumar from Hong Kong. I’m just writing in about Episode 859 where you mentioned that Felicia Day’s show The Guild was paid show. In fact, the first season of The Guild is available for free on YouTube, and the first episode of the second season was just released, and is now available at MSN Video (and Xbox Live/Zune Whatever-it’s-called, obviously). You can get all the links at watchtheguild.com. Also, someone asked why it wasn’t available as a podcast. While it isn’t officially a podcast, there is a website (www.rsshandler.com) that converts YouTube channels to video podcast feeds. Pretty nifty, huh? It’s come in handy for me many times (I use it for Season 1 of the Guild, the official Monty Python channel, the official PotterCast channel, and more). Cheers, P.S.: Is there a way to send you guys voicemail through Skype or something of the sort? Or how about sending an mp3 through email? The US telephone number isn’t of much use down here in Hong Kong. ********** Hey Buzzers, I vote for the immediate establishment of the Association for Creation of Reliable Obfuscated Naming for Your Meaningless Subcommittee aka ACRONYMS I wonder if I can get hold of the acronyms.gov? I'll let you know how that goes Dave the Software Engineer ********** The government department charged with creating names like “SAFER”, “PATRIOT”, “CANSPAM”, etc. is the “American Central Research Office Simon ********** Dear Buzz Crew, or JaMoTo as the case may be : ) I’m writing you concerning the verdict in the Amero Case. I’m the Technology Coordinator / IT Admin for the Clarendon Public School District in Clarendon, AR. I am absolutely disgusted and in shock that this case was even brought to court in the first place. The ones who should be paying fines, and more appropriately being tossed out on their collective asses, are the police computer “expert” and the school tech guy. They lied in court and proceeded to make several errors and mistakes when talking about internet technology. Stories like this make me want to be like the old South Western Bell Telephone: Reach out and “touch” someone. And by touch, I mean slap the holy crap out of. I feel really bad for this poor woman. I know her health is not good, but I’d find me a good lawyer who understands the tech and sue the living pants off of the idiot cop, the tech guy, and the district. I have had a few cases where I’ve found porn on systems and porn on the browser cache, but they have all been linked to spyware that has infested the machine. The source is usually from software such as “free” screensavers that the teachers bring from home via thumb drives and install on their teacher computer. I also see a lot from botched installs of Limewire, Frostwire, Aires, Bear Share, etc. They can install all the major file sharing apps they want. My school side firewall and the DIS side filtering system won’t let them work. Simple, but effective. I manage a Novell (Suse Enterprise Linux w/ Novell Open Enterprise Server) network and right at 300 computer systems. We have a hardware firewall at each campus, a site license with Grisoft for our AV, Firefox w/ Adblock as the default browser, and we are behind the AR Department of Information Systems 8E6 filtering system. I use several free tools to manage malware infections when they happen. My point is this. Even with the very good protection that the state’s filter system, our firewall, and AVG provide for us, I still get porn pop-up and malware issues that happen. I do not care how much hardware and software protection you throw at it, if you have a large network, you will have issues. Period. End of Story. Add kids on computers to the mix and your risk goes way up. If you want to have and impervious system, I have a very simple solution. Unplug the network cable. Until you are ready for that day, at least hire some people with more than a brain stem to run your network. I cannot guarantee that as of right now every machine on my network is updated with the latest patches and AV updates. But I can guarantee that none of our systems are more than two months behind. It boggles my mind to think of the problems that the Kelly Middle School faces now if the same idiots still run the network. Sincerely, Brent Cannon ********** I’m a teacher. Not only should Julie Amero go after the IT department in her former district. I think the whole commuity needs get up in arms about the huge waste of money persecuting this poor woman. They need to impeach/fire the DA, the head of the police department that arrested her. The cops and DA’s office should have laughed in the district officials faces - and if the district pushed it they should have been arrested for filing false charges. I’m am disturbed by the fact she didn’t know how to turn off the monitor. I teach technology to students K - 5 all of them know how to turn off the monitor. SOP for hitting an inappropriate website is turn off monitor, tell an adult, the adult gets you out of the site and checks what you were doing just before. If the student was acting within the rules - a note goes home to the parents explaining that a site was accidentally accessed and has been turned into IT to be blocked. If the student acted outside the rules - well they don’t report the bad site unless they get caught (My classroom is set up so I can see all the screens easily). Those I find by checking histories on the computers. In the last 4 years, I have had 2 or 3 kids a year accidentally access inappropriate sites usually while doing research on cancer, the Civil Rights Movement or the Civil War. Love the show, attached file: type: audio/mpeg size: -1 bytes here Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:02:00 +0100 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 of speed!
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Cooley debriefs: - From iPhone to Bold: how it's going, why I did it. - Promo: EOH today discussing car tech seen at the L.A. Auto Show (open now) Amazon Kindle 2 Slated For "Early Q1″ Flurry of online video stuff: - YouTube goes wide screen - TiVo goes mobile for everyone The Guild Coming to Xbox Live Marketplace Teacher in porn pop-up case dodges jail but loses creds Senate: When analog TV goes dark, leave a light on Web and mobile increasing TV viewership New study crowns Google’s Chrome king of speed Nanotech clothing fabric ‘never gets wet’ Voice mail Bob the patent lawyer: “close enough for nuclear war” Jamoto, On Buzz-Out-Loud #859 Daniel in Hell e-mailed about the EULA for the iPhone which restricted the use of the phone for, “the development design manufacture or production of various kinds of weapons”. I believe that this is due to the fact that it contains a GPS unit, which could at least theoretically be used for a targeting or timing system. I would guess that this would be a standard EULA feature of other GPS devices, but maybe just the iPhone since it can run apps and would be easier to configure for the task. I guess the option of using the phone to record and replay a Molly rant is still an unrestricted pleasure. Love the show, keep up the good work. Thomas the Professional Nuclear Engineer ********** Orbital Speed and Buzz Out Loud Rhett Allain ********** Emmanuel What’s Up Buzz Crew! Who better to help with Obama with his FCC Transition than a Level 70 Shaman! Last week President Elect Obama appointed Kevin Werbach as a Co-Chair to the transition team. Level 70 ain’t nothing to sneeze at. I’m also sure this is why Obama wants a laptop in the Oval… I mean with all that down time, I’m sure Werbach will have Obama hooked on World of Warcrack in no time! http://www.wowinsider.com/2008/11/20/obamas-fcc-transition-co-chair-is-a-wow-player/ ********** What’s this I hear? You need another host for Friday? I’m not doing anything over Thanksgiving - flights home from Vegas to Portland for both Thanksgiving are too expensive, (in these troubled times, I’ve even written the intro in advance: (Camera 1) Merritt: “Coming up on CNET Live: it’s that time of year again, time for 10 STRAIGHT hours of CNET Live’s Holiday Help Desk, when we ease the pains of your holiday tech shopping. Lots of reviews, lots of questions, lots of answers!” (Camera 2) Cooley: “Plus, I’ll teach you how to roast a turkey with the Nickel-Metal Hydride batteries from a new Ford Escape hybrid! And Cars! Cars! CARS!” (Camera 3) Me: “And I made a cape from my CNET sweatshirt! CNET Live starts now! EXCELSIOR!” (I unfurl my cape and fly stage-left Al Gore-style. Animated exclamation points dancing on screen. Play intro sequence.) Perfect opportunity for my Al Gore impression. You can have that for free. Unfortunately I’m not very patient with verbose callers, comfortable in front of cameras, or altogether functional before noon, but that also means I’m totally nerdcore, so feel free to give me a call. Like Cooley said, nobody’s gonna be watching this anyway, right? (Just let me know before Wednesday, because the price doubles on Thursday.) LTS, -Andrew attached file: type: audio/mpeg size: -1 bytes here Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:54:00 +0100 Rafe and Molly square off over the reuse 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. Listen now: Download today's podcast
Twitter rebuffs a Facebook poke? Gmail exploit may allow attackers to forward e-mail EU strikes down French “3 strikes” copyright infringement law Has HavenCo’s data haven shut down? Machine condenses drinking water out of thin air Astronaut invents zero-G coffee cup NFL demos live 3D broadcasts Verizon workers fired over Obama records breach Why Obama should ditch YouTube Have it all: Lunascape, the browser with three engines VOICE MAIL Ed from Maryland: Success! E-MAIL First, the race for the fastest computer in the world. In summary, we won! (We being the Los Alamos Roadrunner team). Oak Ridge’s new Jaguar was the second ever to get a Petaflop/s on the Top500 benchmark, but came up short a mere 46 Teraflops. That margin of victory is larger than the performance of any machine built before 2004. But, Roadrunner still gets more than 3x more Flops per watt than Jaguar. To Oak Ridge’s credit, they did get the fastest scientific application ever. A 1.3PF, single-precision, run of a superconductivity simulation. More atoms and more detailed force calculations in these models than have ever been simulated. By next year’s SC conference, there should be lots more record breaking simulations coming from the Oak Ridge and Los Alamos monsters. Also cool, the OpenCL standard is moving along nicely. It’s a library to allow easier use of GPU cores for computation. A useful release should come out sometime in 2009 which ought to make the GPU solutions every booth was hawking more appetizing. The new Intel and AMD CPU lines were mostly ignored. No one seemed to care at all for Michael Dell’s keynote. Sun is going whole hog into high performance, despite layoffs elsewhere. And, sadly, not much new in networking and storage. The good news is, despite These Troubled Economic Times, high performance computing seems to be doing ok. The budgets for most labs and research centers are flat or growing slowly, and the vendors are pushing lots of innovation into the space. Plus the t-shirt giveaways were more prolific than they’ve been since the dot-com days…:) Also, Austin is a very cool town, and The Salt Lick is mighty fine BBQ…I’m still stuffed. Love the show, I’d just like to point out how amazingly intelligent Charter Communications is in regards to throttling high bandwidth users like myself. Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been downloading a lot of, ahem, “Linux ISOs” over the torrents. So it seems that Charter saw fit to slow my download speeds, but rather than throttle my torrents, they throttled everything over HTTP. As a result, I’m still able to download my “Linux ISOs” at over 300KB/sec, but it seems that all HTTP traffic is capped around 30KB/sec. As a result, if I want to watch legitimate commercial or user generated content on sites like Hulu and YouTube, the video is far too jerky and requires too much buffering to be even remotely watchable. As a result, it’s now faster to download shows over torrents than it is to wait for them to load on Hulu. What a great way to discourage piracy, Charter! -Kyle Hi TMJ+, I am writing to express my wonderment that I have a Google product that was updated from Beta to a full version in just a couple of months. We are all familiar with the Google habit of leaving most products in Beta for indefinite amounts of time for legal and other sundry reasons. Regards Hi buzz crew, I just wanted to write and let you know I found something Well, love the show, and haven’t missed in over 2 years! Justin Hey BOL, After listening to your HDCP rant, I have to vent. I hate HDCP. Just Love the show! Hate HDCP! Mike the chip designer in FL Here’s some good content for you (and another MP3, heh), iPhone nukes. This taken directly from iPhone EULA: You also agree that you will not use these products for any purposes prohibited by United States law, including, without limitation, the development, design, manufacture or production of missiles, or nuclear, chemical or biological weapons. LTS, attached file: type: audio/mpeg size: -1 bytes here Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:53:00 +0100 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? Listen now: Download today's podcast
19-year-old Commits Suicide on Justin.tv SearchWiki: Make search your own Report: Obama’s cell records improperly accessed Apple releases the iPhone 2.2 update. It's a big one Astronauts ‘drop’ space tool bag Water ice glaciers spotted on Mars New Internet goes to space, comes back to Earth DVD sales down; Blu-ray's missing its mark: What's Hollywood to do? Economy takes bite out of CES Online quiz tests phishing knowledge YouTube tests out high quality, stereo surround videos Guitar Hero fake awesome video VOICE MAIL Chace from Maryland - On the suicide story. Steve from Cupertino - GSM BlackBerry Loved the Star Trek TNG / Data references in yesterday’s podcast. I just had to tell you, since you seem to enjoy about your listeners jobs so much, that I am a Data Production Specialist, which means my boss calls me Dr. Soongh. (Actually, the company I work for does some pretty cool stuff with robotics, but not quite to the android level yet–check out the website.) Love the show, Renee I reply about you commenting on MMS yesterday. I am getting an iPhone around Christmas this year and I did know about the lack of MMS but you just reminded me. Many of my friends are on a no data, or pre-paid plan for their phone. Now if I have an iPhone and want to send a picture to them they are kinda stuck! How can they check e-mail from their phone to see my picture? Is there some kind of redirecting service maybe? So it is pretty bad both ways. If someone sends me an MMS I have to go to weird page thing. And if I send them a picture over e-mail they have to find an internet connection somewhere. Also, just to let you know that I created some icons for CNET and BOL users (like me) that I have uploaded here: Love the show. Jono from Australia I think you may have talked about this in the past. Baen books has several complete books available on-line for free at http://www.baen.com/library/. You can read them on line, or download a copy or load it on an e-book reader. The idea here is that you can read a book by an author you do not know, and will then be happy to pay for more books by This is the same benefit game companies get from used games. I think the software companies should learn from this and stop worrying about used games. Used book stores have not put book publishers out of business, and they have been around a lot longer then video games. LTS Hey jamoto + probably cooley, I am in Nashville for a company annual meeting and, while chatting at I guess they are emerging after all! Love the show, Damon the radiotherapy service engineer Rick the Tennessee country lawyer here. Regarding the 2rd life divorce on 854. Internet marital misbehavior has become an all too common ground for divorce these days so the story is not surprising. I have to say the Microsoft financing story made me think that Microsoft will have an “associate” named Gudio who will spend his time repoing software over the Internet . “first we will start with Power Point.”"Ya don’t pay then we will take your Exchange mailboxes”" One by one.” attached file: type: audio/mpeg size: -1 bytes here Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:41:00 +0100 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 Yahoo Glue. In case you were wondering. Listen now: Download today's podcast
RIM BlackBerry Storm arrives Meet the first multitouch consumer laptop: HP’s TouchSmart tx2 Mozilla revenue $75 million in 2007, up 12 percent Microsoft, labels try to revive subscriptions Sources: Apple, music labels talk DRM-free songs Web debut for Guns N’ Roses album Yahoo brings its Glue to the U.S. Hey, remember Lively, Google’s Second Life, yeah, me neither. It’s gone. Samsung launches 256GB solid-state drive IBM gets DARPA cognitive computing contract VOICEMAIL Daniel: MMS on the iPhone Hello Buzz crew. Like many others, I downloaded the Xbox New The only downside was that I had to switch to my TiVo to order pizza. - Richard ********** Hey JaMoTo and the extra crew member! Looks like we’re not immune from the big media companies as much as you are in the States. According to The Age… The Australian film and television industry has launched a major legal action against one of Australia’s largest Internet service providers for allegedly allowing its users to download pirated movies and TV shows. The action against iiNet was filed in the Federal Court today by Village Roadshow, Universal Pictures, Warner Bros, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, 20th Century Fox, Disney and the Seven Network. The interesting thing is, the Seven Network is in this suite. For those who don’t know, we have 3 major commercial television networks, namely the Seven Network, Nine Network and Network Ten. The last 2, offer Australians on-demand downloading of their shows on their website, and the Nine Network themselves have locally produced shows on the iTunes store. So why is the Seven Network resorting to suing when they could just easily join the other two networks by providing Australians more legal alternatives to the torrents? This goes for the other companies in the suit. If they really want to kerb illegal downloading, why don’t they open some US-exclusive options like Hulu to the Australian audience? You guys (maybe it was The 404, I can’t remember, haha!) said yourself that Hulu’s catching up to YouTube in terms of revenue. It’s great to be an iiNet customer at this stage too. First the trial of the internet filter, now this from the entertainment industry. I’m with iiNet myself, so it’ll be interesting what’s to come. Love the show guys! Cheers! ********** Mark For the teacher and others who are having problems with HDCP issues there Robert Clark ********** A hobo is a traveling homeless person who takes work when they can get Hobos are also governed by a code of ethics, have a duly appointed hobo So I think Tom will be doing a decent service by launching a hobo social –Keith from New York, not a hobo ********** JaMoTo, I just wanted to take a quick moment to ask that you recognize the BOL chat room moderators on the show as they do an absolutely fantastic job of making the chat extremely user friendly and pleasant. I’m sure you guys are generally too busy either getting ready for, or actually executing, the show to really notice how hard they work at helping new users along and just generally making everyone feel comfortable within the community. I’d list them all by name but I fear that I would forget someone and feel terrible about that - suffice it to say that if someone has a gold star next to their name they are nothing short of awesome personified. Not as anonymous as I used to be, attached file: type: audio/mpeg size: -1 bytes here Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:52:00 +0100 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, ahem). Also: India takes on Google in the Earth-spying department. Yeah, India! Go, India! Listen now: Download today's podcast
Apple’s new MacBooks have built-in copy protection measures (thanks Mager!) Psystar antitrust claim against Apple dismissed Microsoft’s new Xbox experience launches, Netflix users go wild Netflix streaming on Xbox doesn’t include Sony Columbia Pictures movies (thanks, Anu!) Quality pays: Hulu trumping YouTube Microsoft to offer free consumer security suite A drink backed by a sports (gaming) hero PC Magazine goes out of print Indian space agency, Isro, to roll out a rival to Google Earth (thanks, Phil!) Woman wants a cyborg eye! - BTONG contribution VOICE MAIL Paul from Verizon: why the BlackBerry rocks! E-MAIL I’ve been traveling so I missed a couple podcasts, but I don’t think there has been a mention of the re-start of the One Laptop Per Child Give One Get One program this past Monday (11/17). I’ve been wanting to get one of these laptops for a while mostly because I think they’re interesting and I want to help out the program. I know the OLPC folks got a lot of grief last time they offered this program because they didn’t really have the logistical infrastructure to handle the delivery of laptops to people who bought them quickly and some people had to wait months to get theirs. This time however, they’ve teamed up with Amazon.com and things look like they should work much more smoothly. I placed my order with Amazon and I should get mine by Friday. I’m sure there are listeners that would like to get a new NetBook/E-reader. And I think the keyboard is waterproof so in can be a great conversation opener for chatting by the pool (Chris from Austin). So deploy the Buzz Brigades to help kids in developing countries get a great tool for education. Julian (San Diego) Hey JaMoTo I was listening to episode 853 and 854 Re: The Wii speak application and then again on to the subject of the software companies not liking pre-loved games. If the companies don’t like the idea of pre-loved games why don’t they have their own way of buying back sold games. This would allow people to get the same value from their games as trading their old games to EB etc… But allow credits to the new games. This would kill 2 birds with one stone so to speak. Plus with the idea of saving the planet. Think about the latest game being made out of our old games. Love the show. Jon “The Student” Australia Hey Buzz Gang, Just wanted to tell how impressed I was with the new NetFlix add-on to the Xbox 360. The quality is very good, particularly on cartoons. I just hope they update it so you can add stuff to your queue without a computer. I would hate to think the Xbox is just as dumb as a TV tuner and can only passively show videos. That would be as stupid as having a super gaming computer that’s hooked to my TV and my network that can’t browse the web… oh wait… never mind. Take Care, I have to disagree that the ‘Remote Spy’ program is significantly different then EA’s DRM. Well, on a technical level at least. Both should have EULA’s stating don’t use their program illegally. In the discussion the case was made for business sales of this product, but for private sales one completely legitimate reason for a spy program that quickly comes to mind is by parents monitoring their children’s computers. I’m sure there are other things people can think up, but that’s my strongest legitimate use point. In the class action lawsuit (http://www.courthousenews.com/2008/09/23/Spore.pdf) it states that the irremovable DRM is not disclosed (properly/at all) in the EULA and even if you made a case that it didn’t inappropriately phone home, the fact that it can prevent legitimate hardware/software from working is malware like behavior that occurs after an uninstall of the game itself. In both cases when looking from a certain perspective they are put in a good or bad light… but if the government goes after one they should be going after the other. Ben @ Nova Scotia attached file: type: audio/mpeg size: -1 bytes here Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:40:00 +0100 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 it was a good idea to call our show. Good times! Listen now: Download today's podcast
Yahoo's Jerry Yang to step down, as a search for new CEO commences Yahoo’s ultimate search: A new CEO Intel’s 3.2GHz monster Nehalem roars onto the scene Feds can locate cell phones without telcos Expanding the cloud: Amazon CloudFront Sirius, XM subscribers revolt over merger-induced changes Magnatune — sharing-friendly, artist-friendly label — goes all-you-can-eat, no-strings-attached More “Vista Capable” e-mails unsealed, revealing sassy civil war Google ‘Voice Search’ hands-on verdict: Awesome District Court halts keylogger sales Facebook app verification fee draws criticism VOICEMAIL Ned from Missouri: I call collusion! JaMoToNaCooTonRa...oh forget it. I think it's funny when everyone laughs at President Bush's old e-mail address. In 2000, wasn't AOL the myspace/facebook of it's time? We've come a long way, to be sure, but that was then. Cent me, 2 times! Jason the curator. ********** I’m surprised that Domino’s Pizza in the U.S. is only now catching up with Domino’s Pizza in the U.K. when it comes to couch potato ordering - Domino’s Pizza has been on Sky’s digital TV platform for the last several years (IIRC, since the beginning 7 years ago). And if you’d rather order your Domino’s Pizza from your laptop instead of your TV then just go to the Dominos Pizza website (http://www.dominos.co.uk/) which has also been running for years. cheers Scot in London ********** On the topic of pollies and tech, and Web 2.0. The Australian Prime Minister had joined Twitter. http://twitter.com/KevinRuddPM It would even appear that Kevin himself is putting up some post (I am What is even crazier, they have been replying to questions and LTS. Cheers, Tim. ********** I talk to one of the Phoenix mission managers today. I asked, “If by some mirical Phoenix powers back up after the winter would the mission continue?” Apparently Phoenix cannot analyze any more soil. The equipment they use to test soil samples has exhausted. The camera and weather station may still work, but they would have to request more money from NASA to continue the mission. Then he told me they really don’t think phoenix will come back. Why name it Phoenix if you’re going to let it die. Here’s keeping hope alive. Love the Show ********** This is Daniel, tech support from Memphis. Just writing in reference to episode 852 where another Daniel asked "WHY THE HELL WOULD SOMEONE REGISTER HOBOBOOK.COM?" ..sigh. Thank you Tom and Molly for sharing my vision for the online hobo community! You have inspiring me to do something with one of the domains I've been sitting on for a while: Hoboforums.com. Why hoboforums? I honestly can't remember, BUT now I am glad I actually have something to do with this domain! If you are wondering, yes, the site is exactly what you think it is. Hoboforums, where transients meet technology. We're still throwing around slogans. LTS Daniel Lewis attached file: type: audio/mpeg size: -1 bytes here |
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