Gadgetory

hi i'm molly wood and welcome to the bus report the show about the tech news that everyone is talking about this week it's the eminent new iPad your brain on cell phones and a really sad facebook breakup story but first it's the gadget of the week the gadget of the week is the motorola xoom not the regular one that jumps like you and me get i mean i know that one launched this week and everything and it's all exciting and is it too expensive for the Wi-Fi version and what not but that's actually not the zoom I mean I mean the limited edition gold Motorola Xoom all for the beautiful people it's a special gold plated tablet made only for Oscar nominees and hosts it'll be in their high-priced goodie bags on Sunday at the Academy Awards sadly half the people who get these will probably drunkenly leave them on chairs at the Vanity Fair afterparty and now for the news Apple will hold an event March second to almost certainly announced the ipad to the real questions now or whether Apple will also announce the iphone 5 and how soon the new iPad will come out so that it can counter the threat from the coming crush of Android tablets there were some rumors this week that there might be ipad 2 production delays but then other analysts and apple blogs rushed to say there were absolutely no delays and don't even be thinking androids going to get a little window of opportunity here folks no no iPad will rule forever in other news a new medical study this week shows that cell phone radiation has a measurable effect on nearby cells in your brain in fact the study said that areas of the brain near the phone's antenna showed unusual and surprising increases in activity during your call but they also says they don't know whether that increased activity in your brain is actually bad for you dude it's bad I guarantee you it's bad i'm not saying cell phones cause cancer I'm just saying they probably do also this week developer danlo and hurts created a facebook app that would email you any changes in the relationship status of specified friends so you could keep track of when your crush finally dumps that loser she's dating or you know when those people get together and you know it's just totally not going to work out then when they break up you can send out your little i-told-you-so cards unfortunately even though the app racked up three point six million users in like two days Facebook came along and shut it down and disabled low and hurts his account and Facebook won't even say why and they won't give loan hurts his records and his t-shirts back worst breakup ever but hey myspace I hear he's available and now for a few other tech headlines of the week thursday the 24th with Steve Jobs his birthday so happy birthday Steve hope you're doing okay buddy possibly as a little birthday present Apple shareholders this week rejected a proposal to force Apple to reveal a succession plan in case jobs doesn't come back to work Steve did not make an appearance at the shareholders meeting though so you know figured Tim Cook microsoft released its first Windows Phone 7 patch this week and it is not going well the update has caused some people major problems including bricking a few phones so that's just the kind of press you need when you're up against iphone and android not good a couple in Egypt just named their newborn daughter Facebook in honor of the social networking site that sparked a regime toppling revolution they couldn't have just put it on their license plate and finally WikiLeaks open up a gift shop selling shirts and bags and stuff to raise more money because if there's anybody I'm going to give my credit card info to its WikiLeaks although I do kind of want a Julian Assange beach towel he'll be cool alright that's the buzz report for this week everyone I'm Hollywood and thank you for watching unfortunately even though the app wrapped up balls you could make a card I told you and then like a little broken heart picture yeah that'd be funny