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Buzz Out Loud 1581: OS X Mountain Lion: the OS to rule the ecosystem? (Podcast)
Former federal CTO Aneesh Chopra joins the show today to talk wireless policy and what the heck happened with SOPA/PIPA; we dish on what really happened with Molly’s Galaxy Nexus; and the address book uploading controversy that just won’t end. Plus, Into It/Not Into It, and one angry, angry voice mail. Good to be back!
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EPISODE 1581
NEWS:
-Obama campaign opening tech field office in San Francisco
-Mac OS X Mountain Lion announced – brings full on iOS to the Mac experience
-Windows 8 to launch in 4th quarter, per Fujitsu product road map
-Twitter under fire post mobile privacy row
-Apple: App Access to Contact Data Will Require Explicit User Permission
-App-gate’ serves reminder: You’re on your own
-All kinds of mobile apps use address book data without permission
-Congress sends letter to Apple questioning the Path debacle, developer data access
-Apple iPad plant conditions better than the norm: agency
-EU, U.S. approve Google/Motorola Mobility deal
-HP CEO: Google-Motorola deal could close-source Android
-Facebook Launches Verified Accounts and Pseudonyms
GADGETS:
BT’s PS Vita Review
INTO IT NOT INTO IT:
-Google’s HUD glasses have been sighted
-Win a vacay for downloading 419GB over 3G?
-Cryoscope lets you feel your forecast
-Can Amazon replicate Apple’s brick-and-mortar success?
-Kissinger: Smooching robot for virtual make-out sessions
-Heat-absorbing robot shares the warmth when you’re cold
-Kinect Star Wars launches April 3
VOICEMAIL:
Sam in Cleveland calls in about Redbox
Chris calls with iPhone 5 rumors
Spencer from Texas calls in about Facebook
EMAILS:
Hey Buzz Crew,
It’s interesting to note that Redbox’s move to purchasing DVD’s upfront from distributors in order to avoid the studio-windows is exactly the opposite of what Netflix did in 2000. Netflix switched from upfront purchases through distributors to a revenue-sharing model with the major studios. The revenue sharing model allowed Netflix to grow its library cheaply and keep stock in highly-demanded movies, but the overall cost was higher with the revenue-share; furthermore, the studios have taken more of Netflix’s competitive advantage by implementing windowed releases in their current deals.
I think Redbox is making a great move, because over the rental life of a DVD this represents decreased revenues for the studios, so maybe they’ll start to move away from the windowed release.
Full disclosure: I own stock in Coinstar, Redbox’s parent company.
Love the show, and keep up the great work!
Jon in Orlando
tpettyrox in Chat
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“”Talking on this phone is like holding a waffle up to your face”" – Buzz Out Loud
“”It’s large size is a pain to hold and you’d be better off if you have gorilla sized hands”" – Brian Tong (prize fight)
Am I talking about the Galaxy Note? Actually I am talking about the HTC HD2 when it came out. It was one of the first phones with a 4.3?” screen and I remember cnet making a little fun out of it even though today 4.3?” screens are the preferred size on android phones Now the Galaxy Note is coming and again cnet seems to have size issues from I have seen and read. In your podcast, please do not knock non-iPhone phones for delivering what Apple refuses to do, which is choice.
Jim Savage
San Diego
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Hey buzzcrew,
You guys (and many others) have complained a lot about Android fragmentation over the past two or so years. However, I think the real problem lies not in the software, but with how people think of Android. That’s right – you’re thinking about it wrong! (RIP Steve.) Right now, people think about all phones running Android as Android phones. That sounds like it makes sense, but then people start to complain about Android phones being too different, phones not getting updates, etc. Instead, if people start calling Samsung phones running Android “”Samsung phones”", Motorola phones running Android “”Motorola phones”", and HTC phones running Android “”HTC phones”", the fragmentation will seem less existent. To me, the only “”Android phones”" are Nexus devices. This way, custom user interfaces seem less intrusive, because you’re not using a Google device, but rather an HTC, Samsung, or Motorola device. For example, whenever I look at an LG phone running Android, I would be infuriated if I thought of an Android phone ruined by LG’s custom skin. However, if I just think of it as an LG phone with Android just as the underlying software, I can accept it. I still won’t buy it, but I won’t be as angered if it never gets updated past Gingerbread, because it’s not actually an “”Android phone”". Doesn’t Android seem nicer now?
-Jack W
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Justin Bieber’s ‘Turn To You’ An Ode To His ‘Brave’ Mom
Song is a touching tribute to mother and pop-star son’s early life together.
By Jocelyn Vena
<P><a href="http://www.mtv.com/music/artist/bieber_justin/artist.jhtml">Justin Bieber</a> has dropped his ode to his mama, Pattie Mallette, just in time for <a href="/news/articles/1684918/justin-bieber-taylor-swift-mothers-day-songs.jhtml">Mother's Day</a>. The song, a guitar-driven ballad titled "Turn to You," breaks down the pair's life together, and their early struggles as Mallette worked to raise a baby Bieber as a teenager.</P><P>Over jangly guitars, Bieber recalls, "You worked two jobs to keep a roof up over our heads/ You chose life for me, no you never gave up/ I admire you for the strength you instilled in me/ You were so young, you were just my age when you had me/ Mom, you were so brave, there was nothing that would stop or get in our way/ And I know you will always be there for me."</P><P></p><div class="player-placeholder right" title="MTV First: Justin Bieber" id="id:1684329" width="415" height="255"></div><p></P><P>The song's empowering message really picks up on the chorus, when he proclaims, "So when you're lost/ And you're tired when you're broken in two/ Let my love take you higher cause I still turn to you."</P><P>"I wrote a song for my mom. But I'm going to put it out on Mother's Day," he told MTV News, explaining why Mama Mallette was worthy of her own track. "[It's] about the struggles, I say in the song. She had me at like the age I am now. [It's about] just the struggles she went through and how brave she was, and I think the world needed to know that."</P><P>Shortly after releasing the song on Thursday, he had a very specific message for all the moms out there: "Help moms in need. Give them strength. thank u mom," he <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/justinbieber" target="_blank">tweeted</a>. "it's on ITUNES. Happy Mother's Day Weekend. this is for my mom and all those moms out there. here is #TurnToYOu ."</P><P></p><div class="player-placeholder right" title="Frame By Frame: Justin Bieber's 'Boyfriend'" id="id:1684574" width="415" height="255"></div><p></P><P><i>What do you think of "Turn to You"? Leave your comment below!</i></p>
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Sony conjures up magic with a Doll for UK HX8 Bravia TV launch
Kimberley Wyatt assists
Ex-Pussycat Doll and Got to Dance judge Kimberley Wyatt and world famous?magician?Drummond Money Coutts have been drafted in to help Sony put across the message that its HX8 Bravia edge-lit LED TV offers pictures as good as the real thing.
The set, available in 40, 46 and 55-inch screen sizes, is in stores now and features the Sony Entertainment Network, allowing access to applications for Netflix, BBC iPlayer and a host of other connected TV content providers. Each one has been recognised by the Energy Saving Trust for itsnenergy efficiency.
All of the sizes come with Sony’s proprietary picture technologies,?X-Reality PRO and?Motionflow XR800Hz, and are Full HD 1080p and Full HD 3D models. The monolithic design incorporates a Gorilla Glass front screen. Freeview HD is built-in, as is Wi-Fi, and they start at around ?1,199 for the 40-incher.
The HX8 range will soon be joined by stablemates, HX7, EX6 and EX5.
Certainly tasty, we’re sure you’ll agree.
So’s the telly.
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Sony conjures up magic with a Doll for UK HX8 Bravia TV launch originally appeared on http://www.pocket-lint.com on Fri, 11 May 2012 17:17:00 +0100
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So this what it looks like to make $20 BILLION in one day.28-year-old Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg surfaced moments ago outside his home in Palo Alto, CA — just hours after his Facebook IPO earned him an extra $20 billion — and he looked…
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Justin Bieber’s ‘Turn To You’ An Ode To His ‘Brave’ Mom
Song is a touching tribute to mother and pop-star son’s early life together.
By Jocelyn Vena
<P><a href="http://www.mtv.com/music/artist/bieber_justin/artist.jhtml">Justin Bieber</a> has dropped his ode to his mama, Pattie Mallette, just in time for <a href="/news/articles/1684918/justin-bieber-taylor-swift-mothers-day-songs.jhtml">Mother's Day</a>. The song, a guitar-driven ballad titled "Turn to You," breaks down the pair's life together, and their early struggles as Mallette worked to raise a baby Bieber as a teenager.</P><P>Over jangly guitars, Bieber recalls, "You worked two jobs to keep a roof up over our heads/ You chose life for me, no you never gave up/ I admire you for the strength you instilled in me/ You were so young, you were just my age when you had me/ Mom, you were so brave, there was nothing that would stop or get in our way/ And I know you will always be there for me."</P><P></p><div class="player-placeholder right" title="MTV First: Justin Bieber" id="id:1684329" width="415" height="255"></div><p></P><P>The song's empowering message really picks up on the chorus, when he proclaims, "So when you're lost/ And you're tired when you're broken in two/ Let my love take you higher cause I still turn to you."</P><P>"I wrote a song for my mom. But I'm going to put it out on Mother's Day," he told MTV News, explaining why Mama Mallette was worthy of her own track. "[It's] about the struggles, I say in the song. She had me at like the age I am now. [It's about] just the struggles she went through and how brave she was, and I think the world needed to know that."</P><P>Shortly after releasing the song on Thursday, he had a very specific message for all the moms out there: "Help moms in need. Give them strength. thank u mom," he <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/justinbieber" target="_blank">tweeted</a>. "it's on ITUNES. Happy Mother's Day Weekend. this is for my mom and all those moms out there. here is #TurnToYOu ."</P><P></p><div class="player-placeholder right" title="Frame By Frame: Justin Bieber's 'Boyfriend'" id="id:1684574" width="415" height="255"></div><p></P><P><i>What do you think of "Turn to You"? Leave your comment below!</i></p>
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Buzz Out Loud 1585: Girls just wanna Pinterest (Podcast)
Sure, there’s a new iPad to discuss, a mind-controlled skateboard to tell stories about, lawsuits against Apple over Siri, and the thing where Ray Kurzweil doesn’t think there’s intelligent life in the universe. But Sharon Vaknin is on the show today, so as soon as Pinterest comes up, that’s all we can talk about! PIN ALL THE THINGS! Plus, some news, I swear.
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EPISODE 1585
NEWS:
-CNET conversations with hot startups of SXSW 2012
-Ray Kurzweil interview: he doesn’t believe there are aliens out there!
-Five non-surprises from first new iPad reviews
-Walmart will stream your own DVDs back to you–for a fee
-”Why I left” letter turns into a meme; startups recruit dissatisfied hires
-After-244-years-encyclopaedia-britannica-stops-the-presses
-Man sues Apple over Siri ads: Does he have a case?
-Yahoo sues Facebook for infringing 10 patents
-Yahoo’s own lash out against company over ‘weaponized’ patents
-SXSW: Company Turns Homeless into Wi-Fi Hotspots in Texas
-Homeless-hot-spots-at-sxsw-a-manufactured-controversy
-The Power of Youth: How Invisible Children Orchestrated Kony 2012
QUICK HITS:
-Google hires DARPA Director Regina Dugan
-Police tell Twitter that missing girl is safe before telling mom
GADGETS:
-New rumor adds to 15″ MacBook Air chatter
INTO IT NOT INTO IT:
-iCEO: Cuddle with a Steve Jobs plush
-New iPad hits stores at 8 a.m. Friday
-Pinterest to get ‘beautiful’ profile redesigns
-Wal-Mart to offer digital movie content
-MP3 DJ Doorbell: Rickroll your unsuspecting visitors
VOICEMAIL:
AJ from Los Angeles has a prediction on the iPhone 5.
Collin Davies says he is not excited about the latest Apple Product.
Dan in Salt Lake City is super frustrated with ICS and Google.
EMAILS:
Hey Buzz Crew,
As a loyal AT&T customer for over 10 years and an iPhone owner for over 4 I was incensed when I began to be throttled in late February. Due to the success of Matt Spacarelli in small claims court, I began to plot my REVENGE!!! When I saw that my iPhone 4S had magically became a 4G phone overnight my bile began to rise and I was ready to add this to my list of complaints. But, lo and behold, my speeds have increased from a throttled .2 Mbps, to 2 Mbps on 3G, and now 8 Mbps! So, until I get throttled again later this month, AT&T can consider me a happy customer! Love the show.
Greg
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The elephant in the room omission from the new iPad is the failure to incrementally increase the maximum amount of storage.
Does that relate to the flash memory crisis from the tsunami?
Does that relate to a technical/financial issue (reaching the end of Moore’s law)?
Is that an attempt to force iCloud on users?
Will
New Haven
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Molly the iPhone is five years old and there are 500,000 apps. The iPad is two years old and there are 200,000 apps. Do the math.
Dane
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Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs: First photos of actor portraying late Apple CEO
Filming’s begun
Two and Half Men actor and the former Mr Demi Moore, Ashton Kutcher has been photographed making his way to the set of his new film about the late Steve Jobs.
Not without controversy, both in terms of the subject matter as well as the casting of Kutcher, there’s no denying the 34-year-old actor bore more than a passing resemblance for the former Apple CEO, complete with black turtle neck jumper and trademark beard.?
Filming has only just begun in Los Angeles and is currently going under the working title of “Jobs: Get inspired.” The biopic is said to focus on Jobs’s “hippie years” in the lead up to his forming Apple. It’s pencilled in for a 2013 arrival.?
Kutcher’s portrayal of Steve Jobs is not the only film in the pipeline with Sony Pictures also working on a movie based on Walter Isaacson’s biography.?
In 1999 a film entitled Pirates of Silicon Valley”was also released, though of course back then the world had never heard of an iPod, let alone an iPhone or iPad.
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Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs: First photos of actor portraying late Apple CEO originally appeared on http://www.pocket-lint.com on Tue, 15 May 2012 17:12:00 +0100
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Mitt’s Millions Move the Web
by Claudine Zap
News flash: Mitt Romney is way richer than you. How rich? A very cool — if incredibly maddening tool — can tell you exactly how long it takes for Richie Romney to make your salary (hint: not very long). Based on the presidential candidate’s 2010 tax return, the Slate calculator tells us: “Mitt Romney made $40,000 in 16 hours 10 minutes and 34 seconds.”
After facing growing criticism by his Republican competitors, and taking a drubbing in the South Carolina primary, the Republican candidate finally released his 2010 and 2011 tax returns. Voters were again reminded of the great divide between wealth and regular working stiffs: Romney earned about $21.6 million in 2010 and estimates about the same for 2011.
Mitt proved after releasing his tax information that his rate is, as he had estimated, “probably closer to the fifteen percent rate than anything.”
How is that possible? Easy: The very legal and very low capital gains tax. Romney, a former head of Bain Capital, has been living off investment profits, which unlike wages from a paycheck, are taxed at the lower 15 percent rate — instead of the 35 percent that wealthy Americans pay on earned income.
Mitt’s riches gave searches on the term “capital gains tax” a one-day jump of 50 percent, along with lookups on “what is capital gains tax,” “capital gains tax rate” and “history of capital gains tax.”
John Cassidy in the New Yorker points out that it was Bill Clinton who first cut the capital gains tax from 28 percent to 20 percent. George W. Bush slashed it down to 15 percent — where it remains today.
Maybe it’s not surprising that Romney was reluctant to release his tax statements. The New York Times reports that the Republican is the wealthiest candidate to ever run for president, with an estimated family fortune of $190 million to $250 million.
Forbes called Romney’s admission of his super-low tax rate a “teachable moment,” adding that keeping the investment income tax low allows for a “ginormous loophole” — tax shelters to convert fully taxed income into capital gains. “If you can transform $10 million of wages into gains, you can save over $2 million.”
However, as NPR reporter Tamara Keith pointed out in an analysis of the Newt Gingrich proposed tax plan, Romney would pay zero percent on taxes: The former House Speaker calls for a 15 percent flat tax that everyone could choose on earned income, and no tax on capital gains.
Much of Romney’s income comes from Bain, made through private equity deals, and is taxed at the lower capital gains rate. And even at the current rate of 15 percent, that sweet deal could be hard for ordinary taxpayers to swallow.
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Huawei launches the Ascend Y 100 and the G 7105 exclusively with O2
Cheap as chips
O2 will be the exclusive vendor for both the Huawei Ascend Y 100 and the Huawei G7105, as the manufacturer again caters for an entry-level audience.
While not of the same calibre as the excellent Huawei Ascend G300, the Ascend Y 100 is again an Android-powered smartphone running on Gingerbread 2.3. The handset sports a 2.8-inch touchscreen and there are both HSDPA and Wi-Fi for efficient browsing of the web.
Kitted out with a 2-megapixel camera with 4x digital zoom, Huawei was keen to accentuate the Ascend Y 100’s ability to shoot video at 30 frames per second, twice the speed of other phones at this price point, apparently.?
Talking of which, the Huawei Ascend Y 100 will be available from 1 June for ?79.99 on PAYG or free with a ?10 per month contract. Anyone who buys the phone before 31 August will also received a voucher for a free interchangeable back cover. This cover can either be designed by themselves or chosen from one of the ready-made designs.
The Huawei G 7105 as a back-to-basics feature phone offers very little in terms of functionality. Its focal point is the 2.8-inch LCD touchscreen while the camera is a simple 1.3-megapixel snapper with 4x digital zoom.
Though there’s no Wi-Fi connectivity, Opera Mini, which compresses websites for faster loading speeds, is on board, so hopefully you won’t be twiddling your thumbs for too long.?
In terms of battery life and we’re looking at 600 hours standby and 300 minutes talktime.?
Available now in white for ?39.99, a pink variant will also soon be available through selected O2 stores.
Although Huawei has predominantly focused on the lower-end of the mobile market, it will be launching its flagship device, the Huawei Ascned D quad later this year, which the manufacturer is calling the “world’s fastest smartphone”.
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Huawei launches the Ascend Y 100 and the G 7105 exclusively with O2 originally appeared on http://www.pocket-lint.com on Fri, 11 May 2012 15:18:00 +0100
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ITV Digital website offers split screen Euro 2012 experience
Game footage and news feed on one page
Football fans will be able to enjoy (or commiserate as the case made be) this summer’s European Championship via a split-screen facility on ITV Digital’s dedicated Euro 2012 website.
Optimised for both smartphones and tablets, the site will broadcast any games being shown on the ITV channel at the top of the webpage while below will be a rolling real-time news feature.
Here viewers will be able to get updates to other games including goal highlights, match reports and social media activity such as Twitter updates.
Stat fans will have access to group details, goal scoring charts and match data on the right-hand side of the page providing multiple ways of covering the tournament from one webpage all the way up to where England lose on penalties and beyond.?
ITV Digital’s Euro 2012 website follows the launch of the ITV News site earlier this year and again sees ITV partner with Made by Many, a digital innovation and service design company.
The website is live now and can be reached by visiting?www.itv.com/sport/football/euro/.
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ITV Digital website offers split screen Euro 2012 experience originally appeared on http://www.pocket-lint.com on Wed, 16 May 2012 15:55:00 +0100
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Martin Luther King Jr. Speeches Move the Web
by Claudine Zap
Martin Luther King Jr., the slain civil rights leader, is honored with a federal holiday on Monday, January 16. Along with working to integrate the country’s buses, schools, and lunch counters through nonviolent protest, the reverend inspired with his words.
Searches on his most well-known speech, “I Have a Dream,” have surged in the last week.
The speech certainly deserves the recognition it receives: The talk was delivered from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the 1963 March on Washington, and was considered a turning point in the civil rights movement.
The mesmerizing, repetitive “I Have a Dream” phrasing is recited in schools, echoed in churches, and quoted by politicians. It goes, in part, “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
Watch the “I Have a Dream” speech.
But King left behind a body of work — and possibly his second most popular speech: the legendary “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” has gained interest on the Web. “Mountaintop” was delivered at the Mason Temple in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 3, 1968, the day before King was shot.
In a nod to the seminal work, Samuel L. Jackson recently took on the role of King in a Broadway play called “The Mountaintop,” which imagines King’s night before he died, after he has given the speech.
Many consider the words prophetic: “I’ve been to the mountaintop … I’ve seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.”
Watch a clip of the speech here.
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Mark Wahlberg’s Comments Spark Controversy
by Mike Krumboltz
In a recent interview with Men’s Journal, actor Mark Wahlberg made a remark about the 9/11 attacks that could spark a considerable controversy.
Wahlberg was originally scheduled to fly on one of the planes that hit the World Trade Center. Fortunately for him, he took a different flight a week earlier. When he spoke to Men’s Journal about what could have been, Wahlberg remarked, “If I was on that plane with my kids, it wouldn?t have went down like it did. There would have been a lot of blood in that first-class cabin and then me saying, ‘OK, we?re going to land somewhere safely, don?t worry.’”
Wahlberg quickly apologized for the remark. According to gossip site TMZ, he said that his comments were ?irresponsible and that ?to speculate about such a situation is ridiculous to begin with. I deeply apologize to the families of the victims that my answer came off as insensitive, it was certainly not my intention.?
Apologizing was a wise move. Wahlberg?s comment was quickly picked up by blogs and news organizations. NPR, the Washington Post, Us Weekly, and the Huffington Post have all covered the story. Lanford Beard of Entertainment Weekly writes, “Methinks a certain A-list action hero is getting a little too Method.”
TMZ spoke with Deena Burnett-Bailey, whose husband, Thomas Burnett, called her moments before the plane crashed into the tower.
Burnett-Bailey told TMZ: “Does Mark Wahlberg have a pilot’s license? Then I think hindsight is 20/20 and it’s insignificant to say what you would have done if you weren’t there. The plan for Flight 93 was foiled by heroes. For him to speculate that his presence on board could have stopped everything is silly and disrespectful. Sounds like someone is grandstanding.”
Wahlberg’s recent action film, “Contraband,” took in more than $28 million during its opening weekend.
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