Gadgetory

hi i'm molly wood and welcome to the buzz report and now for the gadget of the week the gadget of the week is the tivo series three light now many TiVo fans spend their nights dreaming of the series 3 the mack daddy of stand-alone tivos with two HD tuners a 250 gigabyte drive dual cable card built in ethernet swoon but then the dreams turn to nightmares when they remember the eight hundred dollar price tag ok it's about 650 right now on amazon but still well folks there's a new dream in town the series 3 light according to forum post the lite version will come with no o LED display no backlit fancy remote control smaller hard drive and no THX certification and a $300 price tag three unknowns see now that's the kind of dream that has a really happy ending you know what I'm saying because you buy one perverts and now for the news sony has announced that it's getting out of the amateur video sharing game the company is relaunching the site formerly known as grouper and turning it into a streaming entertainment network called crackle crackle will be devoted to more professional quality video and to uncovering untapped talent for example it will feature a stand-up comedy channel and stand out acts will get the chance to perform at the well-known improv comedy clubs and for budding filmmakers crackle is offering prizes like pitch meetings with movie executives or even actual theatrical releases Wow I mean finally a chance to get famous from your dumb little hobby of making videos when I'm on the Internet if only this had been around in time for the Mentos and Diet Coke guys Amanda conduct Andy Samberg Perez Hilton and Jessica rose aka lonely girl 15 ah guess they'll just have to make do some other way and now for this week's iPhone news roundup a security researcher reports that the iphone's web dialing feature which makes use of the Safari browser is terribly insecure Billy Hoffman says malicious websites could trick users into calling toll numbers or even send your phone into an infinite dialing loop or set you up for phishing schemes but you know what who cares it's just so pretty in other news Duke University IT directors say the wireless adapters and iPhones are apparently knocking out the school's wireless access point by flooding the wireless network with mac address requests they say that have lots of students return to school in august with iphones they're in deep trouble but didn't you hear what I said who cares pretty and apple hound calm reports that it has found some 68 bugs in the iphone but only a few of them are even remotely serious many of them are simply annoying interface choices and not actual bugs and they believe that overall the OS the applications in the interface are extremely solid see pretty at last week's III game convention nintendo announced that it would be attempting to whip your fat little gamer butts into shape with a new game called Wii Fit the game will use a new controller called the Wii Balance Board to measure your movements track your progress and even check your body mass index dear Jim please cancel my membership I have found an excellent new way to stay in shape love Molly now let's have a look at some of that gameplay dear Jim have made terrible mistake gameplay not a substitute for actual exercise he'll never leave you again love Molly in other games news we found out this week that the head of Microsoft's games business Peter Moore is moving to Electronic Arts to run the sports division so bummer about all is Microsoft Game tattoos then I mean there's this one and now there's this one and it's especially a bummer because the next one is gonna have to get is this what I'm Hollywood and this has been the bus report thanks for watching you