Gadgetory

hi i'm molly wood and welcome to the buzz report and now for the gaps of the week the gadget of the week is the HTC athena otherwise known as the HTC advantage x 750 one now the athena is a like a device it is not quite a complete computer but it kind of has this laptop like design with a qwerty keyboard right here it's maybe like a little bit more of a smartphone although obviously it's very huge it's got a 3 megapixel camera so you know it's better than a camera phone but it's not as good as like the nokia n95 5 megapixels has Wi-Fi and gps and 3g support so one up on the iphone and it comes with this leather case that sort of makes it look like a purse or like a paperback book with one of those dorky covers so you know it's just like the thing I don't know I think I kind of love it it's kind of like a three-legged dog and now for the news Facebook is everywhere this week first security firm sophos did a study and tricked facebook users into giving up sensitive personal information sophos created a fake profile named Freddie Starr and invited 200 people to be Freddie's front apparently 82 people accepted and most of them gave up some personal information in fact 23 of them gave Freddie their phone number or home address and then you have Freddie did Freddie when blabs the whole world about it talking about how he could totally steal his friends identities now that they gave him so much info Freddie sucks man you just can't trust people on facebook oh speaking of facebook now that the site is open to everyone it's really taking off in popularity but some of its original inhabitants aren't too happy about that in fact one of our interns here at news com wrote an article this week speculating that old married people like me I guess are on Facebook because they're either trying to regain their lost youth or they're just plain creepy but you know there is a lot of pressure to be young in the social networking space I mean one of the most popular people on Facebook right now is apparently this unborn baby who's the Geezer now Missy CBS has invested in an online Talent Search show called big shot the show will air only on the internet but with CBS now owning a fifty percent stake it's expected to get why distribution on sites like AOL the hope is that the show will provide yet another way for young marketable internet stars to get famous in the real world well I think we can already predict a winner and finally yahoo is more popular than Google this according to the annual American Customer Satisfaction Index for the first time consumers said yahoo is their favorite portal just beating out google that's gotta hurt in other news google has announced that it will pay anybody ten dollars to scope out local businesses and get them on google maps oh this just in Google is now more popular than yahoo I'm Hollywood and the suspend of us report thanks for watching it's okay little buddy I'll take you home