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Molly Wood, author of Anchordesk and the Daily Buzz, and Tom Merritt, author of the Real Deal, give you their take on what's happening in tech news this week. Email us at buzz@cnet.com or call 1-800-616-CNET to leave a message.
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Buzz Out Loud 725: CBS' podcast of indeterminate length
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Author: Tom Merritt, Molly Wood and Jason Howell
Thu, May 15, 2008
In today's episode, Leo Laporte drops in (and out) to discuss the future of CNET, the future of Yahoo, and lack of future we'll all have if the Air Force doesn't stop trying to build a real-life Skynet. Also, Leo points out why we should probably all delete our Plaxo accounts, Nintendo gets patent trolled, and can we leave Twitter? At least for one day?
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Buzz Out Loud 724: YOU are!
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Author: Tom Merritt, Molly Wood and Jason Howell
Wed, May 14, 2008
It's episode 724, wherein we argue, but in a happy way, MySpace wins a $234 million antispam judgment they'll probably never collect, and Google blurs faces in Street view, maybe just to be nice. Also, it turns out seniors are more acutely aware of the passing of time (or they hate commercials more than the youngsters do) and Qtrax makes four improbable deals.
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Buzz Out Loud 723: Best bad idea ever
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Author: Tom Merritt, Molly Wood and Jason Howell
Tue, May 13, 2008
The military has proposed creating their own botnet to help combat cyberfoes. Kevin Poulsen at Wired thinks this is idiotic. We think there's a certain amount of mad genius to it, and debate the points. Meanwhile 6 million Chileans had their personal data leaked to the Internet. Don't worry it's not all shock and awe. Harvard says violent video games are A-OK! Shoot 'em up, kids!
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Buzz Out Loud 722: Print your own drugs
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Author: Tom Merritt, Molly Wood and Jason Howell
Mon, May 12, 2008
In today's show, we learn that the future lets us print our own drugs, and robots will drive our sailboats for us. Sailboats? Sailboats. Also, Gmail has a new spam problem, the BlackBerry Bold could be the new iPhone of Summer 2008, and the Rolling Stones have rolled their way right off of eMusic. Bummer.
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Buzz Out Loud 721: Copy an MP3, lose your house
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Author: Tom Merritt, Molly Wood and Jason Howell
Fri, May 09, 2008
Plus old PowerBook power supplies are sparking up a storm. It's scary legal day today between the Pro-IP act and the Los Angeles County copyright laws. At least R2D2 can safely project legitimate DVD movies on our walls. Even if they're prison walls.
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Buzz Out Loud 720: Lovin' Out Loud
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Author: Tom Merritt, Molly Wood and Jason Howell
Thu, May 08, 2008
Announcing the launch of our new dating podcast, Lovin' Out Loud! Also, Microsoft may or may not build content filtering into the Zune, by which we mean "probably will." Also, should judges decide the intent of technology in awarding boffo-sized judgments against P2P search engines? And on that note, we're off to order some pizza online.
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Buzz Out Loud 719: Yotta yotta yotta
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Author: Tom Merritt, Molly Wood and Jason Howell
Wed, May 07, 2008
There's a lot of storage headed your way in the coming years. A lotta, in fact. We'd even go so far as to say it's a yotta. Byte. In other news, no one in the tech industry will be taking a vacation between June 15 and July 12, due to the second coming of the iPhone, and Archbishop Desmond Tutu is getting behind a more democratic music industry. Try that one on for size, RIAA.
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Buzz Out Loud 718: Always worry
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Author: Tom Merritt, Molly Wood and Jason Howell
Tue, May 06, 2008
We could tell you not to worry, but then you'd email us and tell us why you should. So, new rule. Always worry. And the HTC Touch Diamond ain't all that, but we're not saying the 3G iPhone is going to be all that, either. Don't get your hopes up. This is turning into an Eeyore sort of day, isn't it? Here's some good news: Zune 2.5 offers TV downloads! So ... Yay!
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Buzz Out Loud 717: Dedicated to yo' fat momma
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Author: Tom Merritt, Molly Wood and Jason Howell
Mon, May 05, 2008
Yo' momma is so fat. How fat is she? She's so fat she has two Wiis, one for each ... ok, never mind. In other news, Microsoft walked out on Yahoo. Is it for good this time? What does it mean for you? (As usual, a big fat nothing, unless you're a Yahoo stockholder.) Also, on the deathwatch today: E3, Cuba's ban on home computers, and Google audio CAPTCHA.
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Buzz Out Loud 716: Hope for old people (like Tom)
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Author: Tom Merritt, Molly Wood and Jason Howell
Fri, May 02, 2008
There's still time for us to strike entrepreneurial gold, we talk "malicious circuits," and Microsoft blah blah blah blah. Also, Popcorn Hour starts shipping its magical streaming box of wonder and it looks like we're in store for some wiener whistles.
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Buzz Out Loud 715: Fork the Pidgin
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Author: Tom Merritt, Molly Wood and Jason Howell
Thu, May 01, 2008
As in, stick a fork in the Pidgin forking controversy, because it's forking ridiculous. Also, iTunes Store gets same-day DVD releases and memristors make their debut. In other news, we do get a whiff of vapor, but the possibilities for the new Sezmi set-top box have us pretty fired up, nevertheless.
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Buzz Out Loud 714: Dr. M for mayor
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Author: Tom Merritt, Molly Wood Author: and Jason Howell
Wed, Apr 30, 2008
Somehow, DR. M has proven himself so diabolically clever that we kind of love him. In other news, will the next iPhone be unlocked, sell for $199 with AT&T contract, cure malaria, wash your dishes, and defeat Kasparov? It will if you believe the rumors. We like to believe them. It's a happy fantasy world. Also, Wikipedia is broken. Where have you heard that before? Oh, yeah. Here.
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Buzz Out Loud 713: Chore Wars: The Cleanening
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Author: Tom Merritt, Molly Wood and Jason Howell
Tue, Apr 29, 2008
There can be only one (see Highlander II, you n00bs) MMORPG that makes you clean your room. And we have found it. Chore Wars. Also, iPhone comes to Canada and we go green: new Prius talk, disappearing ink to save on energy and people, and how to stop buying CDs (uh, once the labels get on board).
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Buzz Out Loud 712: Windows XP: a pre-downgrade upgrade
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Author: Tom Merritt, Molly Wood and Jason Howell
Mon, Apr 28, 2008
Dell, HP, and Lenovo will offer Windows XP as a "pre-downgrade," as a convoluted way to get you out of having to buy Windows Vista. Hear that, Microsoft? The bell tolls for you. Speaking of "For Whom the Bell Tolls," Metallica is considering all the "Internet options" for its upcoming album (that includes hoping people on the Internet will buy it).
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Buzz Out Loud 711: Cat co-host
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Author: Tom Merritt, Molly Wood and Jason Howell
Fri, Apr 25, 2008
Brian Cooley fills in for Molly and Jason ( tall order). We also meet his kitten Moneypenny, unfortunately she doesn't say much. Even when we talked about kitten captcha. Oh well.
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Buzz Out Loud 710: Operation MAHEM
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Author: Tom Merritt, Molly Wood and Jason Howell
Thu, Apr 24, 2008
Ok, the Internet, that was pretty cool. But molten jets of metal hurled through space to destructive effect? I mean, is someone keeping an eye on these DARPA guys or what? In other news today, a DirecTV/DISH conspiracy of awesome proportion, Android coming to T-Mobile this year, and Samsung fanboys prove they are the fanboyest of them all.
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Buzz Out Loud 709: We're gonna need a bigger cloud
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Author: Tom Merritt, Molly Wood and Jason Howell
Wed, Apr 23, 2008
We explain Live Mesh, the Ninth Circuit tries to explain why customs can search your laptop without any reason at all, and eBay (yawn) sues Craigslist over some (yawn) stock stuff. Also, Apple buys a chip-maker and that story leads to wild speculation about chips and such. No, really. It's a tech show. Haven't you heard this show before?
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Buzz Out Loud 708: Meat Parade
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Author: Tom Merritt, Molly Wood and Jason Howell
Tue, Apr 22, 2008
Mii parades, Sony Home, and growing new limbs. Slow news days make for the best shows of all. Oh, and FCC Chairman Kevin Martin says evidence points to widespread blocking, Netflix's CEO says the company will charge a slight premium for Blu-Ray discs, and Stephen Hawking says primitive alien life is either likely, or rampant on Earth.
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Buzz Out Loud 707: Space is cancelled
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Author: Tom Merritt, Molly Wood and Jason Howell
Mon, Apr 21, 2008
The Russians have canceled their space tourism program, because space is too serious to monetize. Also, Skype offers unlimited long-distance on ... phones. VOIP is so dead. You heard it here first. In other news, Microsoft bonanza: Windows predictions, welcoming ethical hackers, and burning down your house.
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Buzz Out Loud 706: "U can't haz Internet" - AT&T
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Author: Tom Merritt, Molly Wood and Jason Howell
Fri, Apr 18, 2008
AT&T threatens that the Internet is going to run out by 2010, and apparently, it's because everyone's watching Gossip Girl online. Luckily, the CW has caught on to the danger and is pulling Gossip Girl offline so the hordes won't keep watching it on their Website. Because that would be just plain dangerous. Also, Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony are all number one! Just ask them!
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Buzz Out Loud 705: Why court the pwnage?
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Author: Tom Merritt, Molly Wood and Jason Howell
Thu, Apr 17, 2008
In the news today, Safari saves your bacon with a hole-patching update, and NASA says it's better at math than teen-agers (which we fervently hope is true). Yahoo and Google get closer to a deal, which we fervently hope is just going to happen, already, so we can quit speculating, and we're planning our summer road trip to Pittsburgh.
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Buzz Out Loud 704: Monster in Blue Jeans
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Author: Tom Merritt, Molly Wood and Jason Howell
Wed, Apr 16, 2008
I have never had so much fun reading a legal response than I did the note from the head of Blue Jeans Cables to Monster Cable. See the episode for the full story. We also determine that politicians across the world are nuts, and I'm not good math.
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Buzz Out Loud 703: No doughnuts, no peace
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Author: Tom Merritt and Molly Wood
Tue, Apr 15, 2008
If Flickr's not buying doughnuts for the world, then Tom's not buying. But he's in San Francisco, so he won't have to buy his own doughnut anyway. It's a doughnut paradox. Also, Psystar lays down the smack on Apple's OS X EULA and really, we only care about one thing today: rocket racing. For real. Rockets. Racing. Awesome.
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Buzz Out Loud 702: Design to annoy
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Author: Tom Merritt and Molly Wood
Mon, Apr 14, 2008
Yes, Microsoft has come clean and admitted that they design User Account Control, the little popups that happen when you install software for instance, were in fact designed to annoy you. They hoped it would make software better. IO don't think it worked. Also Rafe gets Blockblustery and we take on Virgin Media's load of Bullocks.
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Buzz Out Loud 701: Donut for your hate
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Author: Tom Merritt and Molly Wood
Fri, Apr 11, 2008
Flickr-haters get free donuts. If that's what you get for hating, sign us up! Also, Gartner hates on Windows, and no one gets any donuts for that. Europe rejects plans to criminalize file-sharing, offering donuts in the form of broad exemptions for fair use, and Network Solutions gets a big, fat donut hole for putting ads on your sub-domains.
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Buzz Out Loud 700: Merger-Mania!
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Author: Tom Merritt and MoAuthor: lly Wood
Thu, Apr 10, 2008
Yahoo and Microsoft bring Google, AOL, and News Corp into the ring for a pretty awesome merger-mania that we sincerely hope involves the gratuitous use of Spandex. Sunday, Sunday, Sunday on Pay-Per View! That darned RSA conference continues to scare the sneezes out of us by demonstrating how taking down a national power grid is trivially easy. (Insert nervous giggle here.) We guess it's good to know?
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Buzz Out Loud 699: The smell of pong
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Author: Tom Merritt and Molly Wood
Wed, Apr 09, 2008
It's episode 699, in which we coin a new phrase, "swang pong." You figure it out. Also, video on Flickr and bad news about promotional CDs (and goblins). And if you live in the U.S., it's time to feel good about yourselves and your Internet. A new European study says it's one of the best in the world. Who'da thunk?
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Buzz Out Loud 698: Beacon will kill you
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Author: Tom Merritt and Molly Wood
Tue, Apr 08, 2008
Today, Buzz is on your side, with such gems of wisdom as "don't shop at Staples," "bacon will kill you," and "how to opt out of Beacon." I guess that last one is pretty helpful. In other news of the day, we refuse to talk about the Google App thing, unless you can prove to us why we should. Thanks in advance.
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Buzz Out Loud 697: Men behaving badly
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Author: Tom Merritt and Molly Wood
Mon, Apr 07, 2008
In the news today, men are scamming and being scammed online, Jerry Yang (Yahoo) and Steve Ballmer (Microsoft) are getting nasty (in a legal-sounding way), the official Craigslist blog calls the unofficial Craigslist blog a deceptive text-ad-runner, and we ladies are just over here in the corner being nice to each other. Er, except the ones with the AVPR1a gene.
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Buzz Out Loud 696: So Say We All
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Author: Tom Merritt and Molly Wood
Fri, Apr 04, 2008
Happy frakkin' Friday! BSG is back, we're recording in a studio other than our own, and Madonna sleeps with her BlackBerry. Ew. Also today, Craig cracks down on a Craigslist blog and a UK ISP fights back against the filtering machine.
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Buzz Out Loud 695: Pass the caffeinated rabbit
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Author: Tom Merritt and Molly Wood
Thu, Apr 03, 2008
It turns out that if you give a rabbit enough coffee, it won't get dementia. And neither will you! Long story. We'll explain. In other news, Apple is now the number one retailer in the United States and Comcast launches 50Mbps broadband in Minneapolis/St. Paul, which actually launches us into a big Comcast rant. Sorry, Comcast.
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Buzz Out Loud 694: Know Your Zombies
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Author: Tom Merritt and Molly Wood
Wed, Apr 02, 2008
It's zombie-preparedness day, and may we suggest you also prepare yourself for a barrage of rumors of the eBay and Blu-Ray variety. Also, today, Amazon reaches right inside Molly's brain and launches shopping via text-message (hello, impulse purchase heaven!), and one listener defends the sacred honor of the Chevy Nova.
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Buzz Out Loud 693: We're not April's Fools
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Author: Tom Merritt and Molly Wood
Tue, Apr 01, 2008
Except for this one part right at the end, but other than that, this is a strictly joke-free experience. Well, we make a couple of bad jokes, but that's not April's fault. In the actual news today, Windows may be suffering on the enterprise end, we can't find a good reason for Scribd, and we confess that we think computers should do the driving.
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Buzz Out Loud 692: Shine on, Chumby
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Author: Tom Merritt and Molly Wood
Mon, Mar 31, 2008
Chumby is the wave of the future, Shine is ... shiny? And tomorrow is Molly's Day Without Google--and maybe yours, too. In other news, if you can call it that, Adobe changes its Photoshop Express terms of service, while the rest of the Internet keeps theirs the same.
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Buzz Out Loud 691: The Babies Have WiFi
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Author: Tom Merritt and Molly Wood
Fri, Mar 28, 2008
In the future, we will love the cockroaches, because they bring the WiFi. Sadly, autonomous death-bots will make life unliveable, and that's assuming the Large Hadron Collider hasn't turned us all into strangelets. In happier news, the music industry is floating a plan to tax everyone who uses the Internet so they can prop up the decaying corpse of their business plan! What a fun day.
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