Buzztown Archive

Every company can be hacked, but we didn’t expect Sony to tell us that an additional 24 millions users and over 12,000 credit cards were acquired. It’s not looking good for you guys. Microsoft and RIM are new BFFs in the mobile space and they need each other, plus new iMacs! Just like we predicted. Buzz Out Loud episodes are released in their original audio form. Some metadata suppleme...

Twitter shines in another moment for citizen journalism and the internet. And then there’s that guy who live-tweeted the whole raid, without knowing about it. Sony officially apologizes for the PSN outage and they’re giving back to the users, but is it enough? And we Like what the BOL Menu is serving. Buzz Out Loud episodes are released in their original audio form. Some metadata suppl...

It turns out that no matter how technologically savvy we get in the world, we could always be betrayed by the meat puppets behind the servers. Thanks for that one, Donald. And human error does appear to be what happened to Amazon, and also the Yankees. DSLReports, on the other hand, just plain got hacked. And it would also appear there’s no one equipped to help us with our little data leakag...

Dear every company on earth who’s apparently selling our data to anyone who will buy it and/or collecting it in fat, juicy databases that are like candy to hackers: can you just, like, try to be a tiny bit more careful? And maybe we will, too? Ok, thanks, great. Verizon’s LTE service is creeping back after an unexplained outage, Barnes and Noble hits back at Microsoft, calling its pate...

Sony comes clean about six days after its network intrusion and admits that its hack attack actually led to the reveal of tens of millions of usernames, addresses, dates of birth, and maybe even passwords, security questions, and credit card numbers. So, that’s a pretty bad day over at Sony. Also, Apple comes clean on its location data tracking, claiming that it’s not happening, and ev...

Facebook is unveiling, Youtube’s going Hollywood, Nook Colors are Flashing, Netflix is growing, The White iPhone is coming, & Location Gate continues with Microsoft joining in the mix. All this while the USA tries to catch up with it’s super slow download speeds. I’d like a Tech Wrap Supreme please to help me digest all of this. Buzz Out Loud episodes are released in their or...

On today’s show, the iPhone is apparently storing your location data even when you’ve turned off the location tracking services. And law enforcement agencies and a cottage industry of iOS forensics companies have been taking advantage of these logs for years. Nevertheless, Steve Jobs appears to insist in an email to a customer that Apple is not tracking anyone. Really. Hunch shows you...

On today’s show, a brilliant solution to the problem of science education, and which tech companies have the best and worst green records (it is Earth Day, after all — for real this time)! Also, Google and Apple are sending your location data back to the Mother Ship, Amazon is making everyone nervous about the cloud, and AT&T thinks wireless competition is extraordinary. Uh huh. Al...

On today’s show, prep is minimal, but the news is pretty interesting: Amazon’s cloud service went down overnight, taking lots of sites with it — including the Cydia jailbreak app delivery store. Apple blew it out with earnings, and so did Verizon — and HTC Thunderbolt sales. We continue to debunk the iPhone tracking discovery, but that doesn’t mean we’re not wor...

Skynet is self-aware and special guest Brian Cooley is flying to space to get off this rock. SPAM and an underground man cave seems like a better option for BT. We’ll also talk about the revelation that Apple is tracking our location data, but not using it…yet. Kindle users will like going to the library if they even go at all, and we can now officially call the Sony PSPgo the No Go. B...

Tong stood in line all night for Mortal Kombat, while Molly went to bed with her laptop and her brand new Keynote download. Impressive, right? In the actual news, Apple files a major set of patent and trademark lawsuits against manufacturing partner Samsung, Netflix is doing family plans, and what happened to all those 1-800 numbers. Dial carefully children. Dial carefully. Buzz Out Loud episodes...

Can you tell Brian Tong is back on the show? Actually, we’re legitimately wondering whether a home-brew electroshock like battery licking could produce video game skill improvements like DARPA is seeing with their electroshock research. No, really. Also, Google shuts down Google Video, President Obama wants a universal login that’s not Facebook Connect, and Match.com just got a whole l...

On today’s show, we celebrate the dubious holiday that is Foursquare Day (coming tomorrow), Skype has an Android vulnerability that Donald thinks might just be a feature, and Nintendo is going HD just in time for people to stop buying video games. Also, Best Buy says DVD windowing is totally working, if you enjoy manipulating customers into continuing to pay for a dying format. And Priceline...

On today’s show, Donald Bell gives us his in-person BlackBerry PlayBook review, why Twitter is like your freeloading, couch-surfing bum of a brother, and how the FBI’s command and control server could end up taking Elvis off life support. What, you didn’t know Elvis was still alive? The things you learn on BOL. Plus: the white iPhone is coming! No, really! And your comments on th...

Brian Cooley joins the show today to talk about the new privacy bill of rights–which apparently does nothing that browser Do Not Track buttons don’t do, and exempts the federal government while doing it. It being nothing. Also, T-Mobile tries to win new customers with new unlimited plans, Apple may get into the Netflix-killing game, and whether we should ban the Twilight books just to...

Two years ago Cisco bought a little video camera maker. Today it’s letting it go, sniff sniff. Also lots of legal laffs today: The Winklevii refuse to give up. Microsoft calls out Google on Federal approval of Google Apps. and a blogger hits HuffPo with class-action suit. Plus, future Macbooks to be made from bicycles? Buzz Out Loud episodes are released in their original audio form. Some me...

The U.S. Navy demonstrates how it can set a boat on fire remotely using a laser. Which is super awesome as a video, and slightly terrifying as a demonstration of future military capabilities. Also, Steve Jobs finally agrees to an authorized biography, Sony blinks in the George Hotz PS3 jailbreaking lawsuit, smart phone users are wasting hundreds of dollars a year, and Facebook is working on its la...

We all want to stream video on our devices but the big companies are saying NO! Bring on the parade of lawyers! and the Department of Justice approves Googles dream to help us plan our vacations so that we can travel freely about the world connected to our clouds & Google social media of course, while Facebook is engineering green open sourced servers that will require no air conditioning. Wha...

Hey, Buzz Crew … Google seems to be building out a version of Chrome OS for tablets, which we’re calling their double rainbow strategy: it breaks your brain. Plus, what Epsilon knew about their social phishing vulnerabilities, and when they knew it. Samsung cuts tablet pricing again, why we’re never using Pandora again until we get an email from Tim Westergren, and a seriously ol...

Netflix reportedly will pay about $100 million to stream every episode of Mad Men: chump change, if predictions of an $800 million streaming TV market turn out to be true. Also, it seems that everyone wants to get in on the tablet market, but given reported XOOM sales of only about 100,000, it’s possible the only tablet market there is is for iPads. Plus, AT&T iPhones and their dropped c...

In the news today, Google is coming under the antitrust microsope, your privacy is breached left, right, and center by everyone from Pandora’s mobile apps to the growing Epsilon email breach scandal. The MPAA files the least shocking lawsuit ever (sorry, Zediva), two venerable tech names become one, and the leaky ship of the NY Times paywall gets yet another loophole. –Molly Buzz Out L...

It’s the latest internet webcam sensation that has taken over the BOL crew. Google is bidding for some sweet telecom patents, but is anyone bidding on MySpace? We don’t think so. Plus, Computer Love returns to brighten up this Monday. Buzz Out Loud episodes are released in their original audio form. Some metadata supplementation and/or correction has been done for SEO, clarification, o...

Google’s face recognition scares us with its privacy implications, Hollywood gives us $30 dollar movies, and its not an April Fool’s Day joke. Honeycomb needs to bring more native apps to the platform, ASAP, and a SmartFart App already exists! Buzz Out Loud episodes are released in their original audio form. Some metadata supplementation and/or correction has been done for SEO, clarifi...

Microsoft tries to poke the European antitrust bear and point them in the direction of Google–ok, guys. Just, you know, beware of karma. Also, Google cracks down on the Android chaos (and hopefully the crapware, too), the +1 button points to, yet again, the all-consuming importance of recommendations, and Samsung did not–I repeat, did NOT–install keylogger software on its laptops...

Amazon is getting some flack after launching their new cloud player from guess who… The Record Labels! — and Dell said that the tablet will tank in the business world while Google installs an ultra fast internet connection in Kansas City of all places! Great news for Kansas City home property values. Will somebody tell AT&T to flip the switch on there 4G network…. Oh wait. Th...