Gadgetory

hi i'm molly wood and welcome to the buzz report this week pakistan's internet road construction Yahoo's ahem buzz and clogging the tubes returns but first it's the gadget of the week the gadget of the week is the chumby check it out the chumby is like a little internet beanbag it's all soft it's durable costs $179 it's Wi-Fi enabled and you can kind of just use it to do whatever internet stuff it could be a digital photo frame an internet radio receiver could be an alarm clock a home weather station in our assess reader you could use it as an ipod speaker dock this jack back here like a little widget server Dealey you can even put charms chumpy charms on it right here so cute did stop looking at me like that you don't you want chumby look at it go freaking cute and now for the news earlier this week the country of Pakistan attempted to censor YouTube in that country but the misguided efforts went wrong and the entire world lost access to youtube for almost two hours over the weekend and then the entire country of Pakistan was taken offline while the problem was sorted out now this incident points to a serious flaw in the way Internet traffic routing works basically what Pakistan did is take the road to youtube and build a giant detour that took all the traffic to like a black hole in Pakistan so then no one could get to youtube and Pakistan was sucking in more traffic than it could handle so then all the world's ISPs had to close all the roads into Pakistan so they could rebuild the road to youtube and according to experts this kind of rerouting is almost impossible to prevent and it's not that hard to pull off in fact here's how one security expert put it to the AP to be honest there's not a single thing preventing this from happening to etrade or Bank of America or the FBI or the White House or the Clinton campaign so it would be like you know if I knew somebody who had some internal access and a major international data carrier and I slipped him a couple of hundos and I said you know I think that and gadgets been getting a little big for its britches and you know I'm not saying it happened I'm only saying it could in yahoo news the company this week launched a dig clone that it's calling yahoo buzz see that's funny to me because a couple of weeks ago yahoo launched this tech tracker thing on yahoo finance and then they said they were starting a new daily tech news roundup called the buzz I'm Sarah Lacy and this is the bus and I let it go because like the very next day they changed the name to the dirt and I was like yeah boom you better change that name but little did I know that they were just saving the name for this new yahoo buzz think okay and first of all do you guys know any other words and second why you got to take my name for your dig ripoff why not just call it like big with 1g or you know like borough I think I'm gonna launch a little social net aggregation play and call it cnet borough you can check out my sweet little meerkat mascot yeah you're both going down okay that was a lot of anger let's move on and find out what's clogging the team now this video was posted on YouTube on februari 22nd and it has already gotten more than 2.2 million views it's a three-year-old giving an adorably precocious summary of Star Wars an OB Kenobi kind of cancer he's keep saying Luke how do learn how to do his little light up thorn he have to try to block the whole pokeball it blowed up princess Leia's planet but don't talk back to darth vader he'll get ya huh I mean if she talks really well for a kid She Who am I kidding she's no chummy people she's new chummy I'm Mollywood and this has been the best report thanks for watching you