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Buzz Out Loud Podcast 1131: CES 2010 preview (excerpt)

buzz@cnet.com (CNET.com) — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 01:15:00 PST

We are on our way to CES in Las Vegas so there will be no new episode today. Instead, here is an excerpt from episode 1131 where we preview the type of tech that is expected to be found in abundance at this year's CES.

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Buzz Out Loud Podcast 1138: Good luck with that, Bono

buzz@cnet.com (CNET.com) — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 11:58:00 PST

So, Bono has been listening to his manager and soaking up the idea that the Internet needs to be locked down before it ruins the video industry. This selfless act of Cassandra-like prophesying involves talking about how great the U.S. is at stopping child porn and how great the Chinese are at stopping anything they don't like. We point out a few holes in the theory there. Also, Google is doing everything. Seriously, if you even think fleetingly that Google might do something, well, apparently it already is.

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EPISODE 1138

CES starts Thursday
http://ces.cnet.com/

Google announces Android press conference for January 5
http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/google-announces-android-press-conference-for-january-5th/

Google and HTC working on a Chrome OS tablet
http://gizmodo.com/5438716/htc-working-with-google-on-a-chrome-os-tablet

An affordable $199 tablet for everyone – and It’s not from Apple
http://www.pcworld.com/article/185764/an_affordable_199_tablet_for_everyone_and_its_not_from_apple.html

AllThingsD confirms Apple Event for Jan. 27 now
http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20100104/major-apple-product-announcement/

Social network suicide? Not if Facebook can help it
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2010/01/facebook-fights-back-disallows-the-suicide-machine.html

Bono Net policing idea draws fire
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8439200.stm

Google and Spotify dance over U.S. launch
http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/04/google-spotify-launch-android-nexus-one/

Google Chrome displaces Safari as third in survey
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10423733-2.html

World’s tallest building opens in Dubai
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8438416.stm

Cinema surpassed DVD sales in 2009
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052748704789404574636531903626624.html

Alcohol substitute that avoids drunkenness and hangovers in development
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/6874884/Alcohol-substitute-that-avoids-drunkenness-and-hangovers-in-development.html

In the feed tomorrow: our CES preview with me, Molly, and Brian Cooley. Then starting Wednesday BOL live from CES at 9 a.m. Pacific and then at 1 p.m. Saturday our CES wrap-up BOL. A full schedule of live shows from CES can be found on CNET Live!
http://www.cnet.com/live

VOICE MAIL
Allen in New York Happy New Year

E-MAIL
Hey Buzz Crew,

I'm a custom furniture maker in Bellingham, Washington, but also an avid technology geek. I'm working to put these two interests together to design and then create an ultimate technology desk for myself. Not something that looks like it's from IKEA or something your grandfather might have had!

Tech wise, it will have integrated power and cord management, a gadget storage and recharging section, as well as space for all the little tech accessories we all seem to collect.

I'm stuck on what other things, if any, I should consider, so I thought I'd ask the experts! I figure you guys have accumulated a good sense for what tech geeks like us like in our workspaces, so if any of you are so inclined to respond, what things would you like in a desk like this?

If you like, I'll let you know how it comes out

... and of course, love the show!

Carl Flansbaum
"woodgeek"

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Dear Buzz Crew,
It seems I owe you an apology. Assuming that, like Wikipedia, the Buzz Out Loud wiki was policed by hawk-eyed moderators, as a joke I altered the entry for last year’s prediction show to suggest that Tom predicted a Google acquisition of a fried chicken franchise during 2009.

Much to my amusement and embarrassment, the pretend chicken prognostication came up on episode 1136. While such a partnership would be truly revolutionary, my apologies are owed to Tom for diluting his prediction accuracy and to Molly, who inexplicably suggested that she recalled Tom actually predicting Google Fried Chicken.

Please accept my humblest apologies, and keep up the great work. JP

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BUZZ CREW! There is a mind peripheral for the PC! I got it for christmas and it is truly AWESOME! Links on Newegg!
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16826100006&Tpk=neural%20impulse%20actuator

Jeremy Davis

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XML is a syntax, an open way to structure data. Regarding the Microsoft Word case, I think the sticking point for the patent owners is that the “custom XML” is that they created a data structure, manifested in XML, for storing documents. Saying “all XML is customizable so it can’t be patented” is like saying “books are just a bunch of letters and words, you can’t copyright stories and novels.”

Buzz Out Loud Podcast 1137: Tech predictions for 2010

buzz@cnet.com (CNET.com) — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:01:00 PST

We count down our top ten (or so) predictions in the world of technology for 2010. Enjoy!

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EPISODE 1137

Tom's Predictions for 2010:
Apple Tablet will come out in the summer and be $899
3DTV will be the big marketing push
Project Natal will launch but be overshadowed
Machine-to-machine connections will become a thing
Enterprise cloud services will be huge with companies like IBM and Oracle getting in to counter Google
More netbook-specific versions of software
Goodbye Palm
IBM will get back into hardware
HP will come out with a compelling IPTV box that includes cable.

Molly’s Predictions for 2010:
WiMax drools, LTE4 rules — WiMax rollouts will stall and LTE4 will take off like a rocket.
Google will blend Android and the Chrome OS into one offering
Microsoft will introduce a tablet.
Apple will not.
Palm will fold or be purchased.
Microsoft will make a Zune phone.
Congress or the FCC will force cell phone carriers to drop exclusivity agreements. (Har.)
Book publishers will boycott Amazon and the Kindle in force until Amazon agrees to higher prices for digital books.
Twitter will be purchased, probably by Facebook.
The “cloud” craze will slow after a MAJOR security incident, probably involving Google.
2010 will be the year of mobile security awareness.

Jason’s Predictions for 2010:
Vulnerability exploit of Android.
Google Wave will fizzle even further into obscurity and go the way of the dodo. FAIL.
No more than 3-4 total Microsoft retail stores will open by years end. Seen as a failure.
Android app store will pass 50,000 apps by years end.
E-book store in iTunes.
News will start to get out about the next generation Microsoft game system.
Embedded connectivity (ala Kindle and Nook) will become much more prevalent among other types of tech.
Google will extend its adwords to the mobile platform as a way to subsidize their phones for the public.
The iPhone actually doesn’t make it to Verizon before year’s end.
iTunes subscription music, streamed directly to the device.
Netflix and Twitter will be acquired.
Data plans are about to nosedive in the same way that cell phone minutes plans plummeted not too far back.

Buzz Out Loud Podcast 1136: Predictions Results for 2009

buzz@cnet.com (CNET.com) — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:00:00 PST

At the beginning of 2009, we made a whole bunch of predictions about the next year in the technology space. Turns out, we are really bad at predicting things.

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EPISODE 1136

Tom Merritt’s 2009 predictions:
One mass media company will push out an Internet-only or Internet-primary hit (webisode).
GPS will slowly disappear (except in-dash, Standalone GPS merge into phones).
Some sort of big, public security breach that will cause the change of fundamental internet protocol.
Android will outsell iPhone.
Yahoo will finally be purchased in 2009.
A mind control game peripheral will come out.
Twitter will get as big as facebook.
Google will buy a fried chicken franchise.
Bandwidth riots.
DTV transition will go off without a hitch. (Mostly be fine)
A real look of the next-gen console. (Prototype of next-gen console)

Molly Wood’s 2009 predictions:
There would be no copy and paste for the iPhone in 2009.
Molly will buy an Android phone by the end of the year. (Molly breaking up with the iPhone)
Steve Jobs will leave Apple in 2009. (Leave his current role, like Bill Gates)
The usefulness and price of netbooks will be severely compromised by features. (get more expensive and bigger)
Yahoo files for bankruptcy after failing or refusing to do a deal that could save them in 2009 only.
A major newspaper ('''LA Times''', NY Times, i.e. National newspaper) will go online.
Google will buy Twitter or Twitter dies.
Significant number of Americans will dump cable for internet-only television. Cable company have to change pricing model.
Symantec web will enable subscribing to any podcast in certain topic based on tagging.
Alien life will be discovered on Venus.

Jason Howell’s 2009 predictions:
Copy and paste will exist in the iPhone for 2009.
A major Mac exploit (wide-spread virus etc.).
Netbook sales will double in 2009.
LHC will not go online in 2009. (i.e. the world will not end)
iTunes will get an eBook section. Bonus: iPhone will get an eBook reader firmware upgrade.
Microsoft will attempt to buy a cellphone company in order to tie in with windows mobile.
Blu-ray will gain market share over DVD.
Fancy Android phone with solar panel will be announced.
A cloud services will be proven to have taken a considerable chunk out of software sales. (beginning of the end of software that we know it as.)
iTunes will go DRM-free.

Notes
Molly and Jason bet a two dollar bill on the copy and paste iPhone crisis.
Tom said that Molly is from Venus.

Buzz Out Loud Podcast 1135: Best Moments of 2009 (again)

buzz@cnet.com (CNET.com) — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 11:04:00 PST

This year's best of show is made up entirely of clips sent to us by listeners. We selected and edited them to make a good-flowing show, but the hard work of collecting them was all on buzztown. Great job everybody! You sent some amazing clips. Stuff we would never have dug up on our own. The following people submitted clips to us by email. Thanks for all your hard work.

NOTE: The first release of this episode was incomplete. This is a repost with the additional content at the end. If you are automatically downloading this episode again, that is why.

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EPISODE 1135
SPECIAL NOTE: There is no video version of this episode.
Special thanks to all of our listeners who helped contribute to the creation of this episode. You absolutely rock the casbah:

Aaron Belcher
Berke Hitay
Bill the Admin from Cleveland
Dan Lueders
Dan Fejes
Darin Boots
Dustin Hollon
George from New Jersey
Inferno Falcon
J Rojas
Jane Kohner
Jeff in Wilmington, North Carolina
Joe in Glen Falls
Joshua Caleb
Nunzio the software engineer
Pete in san Jose
pilotmike in Kansas City
Randy
Reid of the Catskills
Sherman from Oakland, CA
Tony Wang

Buzz Out Loud Podcast 1134: Listener Co-Host Show

buzz@cnet.com (CNET.com) — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:01:00 PST

This year, we bring Stephen (aka Darthweef), Joanne (aka Engnr_chik), Tom Merritt (the doppleganger from the UK) and Phil Barter onto the show!

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EPISODE 1134
The co-hosts for this year's episode:

1. Stephen Johnson (aka darthweef)
For the love of geeks
New Brew Thursday podcast

2. Joanne Fong (aka Engnr_chik)
JoanneFong.com

3. Tom Merritt (aka GatorRock)
RunMerrittRun.com

4. Phil Barter (aka smilingphil)
Recovery Audio podcast

Buzz Out Loud Podcast 1133: The Web not-as-exclusive-anymore Episode

buzz@cnet.com (CNET.com) — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 00:01:00 PST

Ho Ho Ho. Enjoy this compilation of some of the best moments from the pre and post show discussion from our live show in 2009.

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Buzz Out Loud Podcast 1132: Cutting Room Floor

buzz@cnet.com (CNET.com) — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:01:00 PST

The Cutting Room Floor episode is all about your unheard messages, whether you wanted them to be on the show or not.

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EPISODE 1132

Buzz Out Loud Podcast 1131: The last Word from Microsoft?

buzz@cnet.com (CNET.com) — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:55:00 PST

Breaking news right at the top of the show as Microsoft loses its appeal and the court rules they have to stop selling infringing copies of Microsoft Word by January 11, 2009. We also welcome the new White House security czar and the Google Yelp drama plays on. We're on break now, but we do have special episodes in the feed. We'll be back on January 4! Have a a great holiday!

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EPISODE 1131

Microsoft loses Word patent appeal
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5BL3FV20091222

White House appoints cybersecurity chief
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10420268-83.html

Who Walked, Google or Yelp?
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/21/who-walked-google-or-yelp/

Apple’s TV subscription plan gains potential partners in CBS, Disney
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/12/21/apples_tv_subscription_plan_gains_potential_partners_in_cbs_disney.html

Ford to offer new Wi-Fi option in cars: “BYO Modem” is the model
http://www.wired.com/autopia/2009/12/ford-brings-wi-fi-to-the-highway/

Israeli programmer hacks Kindle, breaks DRM protection
http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/12/22/israeli-programmer-hacks-kindle-breaks-drm-protection/

Backupify drops paywall; backs up your data from Twitter, Facebook, and Gmail
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=28839

CES Preview
3D TV
Ebook readers
In TVs is thin going to be the new differentiator where size was before?
Netbooks
Wireless Charging, nee HDMI?
Motion Control
Pandora in-car

VOICE MAIL
Anonymous on Verizon

E-MAIL
Hey gang,
On episode 1130, the gang discussed justin.tv adding a pay-per-view model on livestreams and receive a negative response. I used to follow justin.tv ’s Twitter stream and they were constantly promoting live artists that were streaming concerts. Examples include: John Mayer, Lady Gaga, Snoop Dogg, and many more. I remove the list after constantly getting ping to see Cincinnati receiver Chad Johnson’s livestream. I can see this as a great way for artists to receive compensation to show live concerts online but the real question is will people pay for this? We shall see.

Love the show,
Greg
New Orleans, LA

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Hey BOL,
Public key cryptography is a good idea but I have a feeling that the
movie studios don’t trust the theaters and thus wouldn’t want them to
be able to play the movie until it is supposed to be released. With
regular encryption the movie studios can send along the movie before
it is released and don’t have to worry about the theaters being able
to play the movie until the key is sent to them at the time the movie
is released.

Love the show,
Alex Kaiser, Mill Valley, CA

Buzz Out Loud Podcast 1130: Verizon is Robbing the Hood

buzz@cnet.com (CNET.com) — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:20:00 PST

Verizon explains its early termination fee reasoning. It turns out it's just trying to help the poor. You see, when they charge these outrageous fees, it SAVES poor people money on their phones. At least as long as they don't mind being locked into a contract for years. We also rage against the Rage Against the Machine number-one non-Christmas song.

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EPISODE 1130

Barnes & Noble to compensate for late e-book Readers http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704786204574608100009605442.html
http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/nook-1-1-update-hitting-now/

Yelp bails on Google deal? http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10419547-36.html