Gadgetory

hi i'm molly wood and welcome to the buzz report the show about the tech news that everyone is talking about this week it's a big huge internet fight verizon and the inevitable iphone speculation and the most insane animal fight you ever saw but first it's the gadget of the week the gadget of the week is the Playboy holiday special the publisher of the iconic magazine will release 56 issues of Playboy dating back to nineteen fifty three in digital form you'll get more than 100,000 pages of articles and 650 issues all on a single ultraportable 250 gigabyte hard drive oh she's that hard drive and now for the news this week a huge fight exploded over streaming video content on the internet in one corner there's comcast a humongous Internet service provider on the other corner there's level three a humongous internet backbone provider which a few weeks ago agreed to host and deliver netflix's streaming video to comcast and other ISPs now near as we can tell the exchange went like this level three was all like hey comcast this streaming netflix stuff is wicked popular we're going to need to send like five times the traffic to you that we used to because we have that whole free traffic sharing agreement and then Comcast was like um that's going to clog up our internet tubes and bandwidth is expensive you're going to help pay for this and level-3 said um nope to which comcast replied sucks to be you then and our customers haha and then level three was like media comcast is violating the neutrality in truth it's your basic money related baby fight and regardless of who's right and who pays whom there's one thing you can bet on you and me will almost certainly get stuck with the bill one way or the other well in other big internet fights this week the whistleblower site WikiLeaks unleashed a massive data dump of confidential US State Department diplomatic cables everyone in every government condemned the leaks and various hackers even launched denial of service attacks against WikiLeaks until their web hosts amazon finally took them offline an interpol went after the founder Julian Assange over sexual assault charges that kind of keep appearing and disappearing the whole thing is just crazy and shady and morally ambiguous as hell and then here's the thing mainly the big reveal was stuff like how Libya's Moammar Qaddafi has a voluptuous blonde Ukrainian nurse with him all the time one cable said Kim jong-il was flabby and old and then Silvio Berlusconi is apparently a total Putin butt kisser I guess maybe the thing that WikiLeaks wanted the world to know is that global diplomatic relations proceed with all the seriousness and dignity of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills thanks for that guys in gadget news the Microsoft Kinect system is the surprise holiday shopping hit of 2010 with 2.5 million units sold in less than a month Sony's PlayStation Move appears to be moving much slower and it certainly doesn't have the same buzz because once again look at it can you say marital aid we've been through this Sony she said marital aid verizon will launch its LTE based 4g network this weekend faster data speeds for everyone well for 38 major markets and 60 major airports verizon says you can expect download speeds up to 10 times faster than 3g for now pretty much only on USB modems data plans start at fifty dollars a month for five gigs of data or eighty dollars for ten and verizon says it will start rolling out 4g devices in the middle of next year and no i'm not ignoring the device everyone is wondering about 4g iphone oh my god oh my god oh god and finally let's have a look at what's clogging the tubes this week it's the crow vs cat vs cat street fight which had almost two million views just five days after it posted on youtube check it out see without the music that's just a plain old cat fight video but with it scene 4 mortal kombat it just goes to show you the power of a musical score oh she's let's score and that's the buzz report for this week everyone I'm Molly would thank you for watching the gadget of the week is the Playboy hard drive the publisher okay okay all right I can do this oh ok mm-hmm I'm five year old seriously all right 32