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hey everyone I'm Mollywood and welcome to the buzz report the show about the tech news that everyone is talking about this week iphone 4s has a come back just in time for blackberries collapse Netflix can't make up its mind and watch what happens when Bravo steals our jokes first up it's a gadje of the week the gadget of the week is the iphone 4s or as I'm calling it the comeback kid see last week I was calling it the iphone not 5 and actually even the iphone for psych the iphone 4s announcement was greeted with pitchforks and torches because it wasn't an iphone 5 nevermind the fairly impressive guts a dual-core processor much better battery life it's a world phone now it has a better wireless antenna for improved call quality and faster data and an even more amazing camera plus iOS 5 and all that cool Siri voice assistant technology but none of that seemed to matter because it wasn't a redesigned Apple phone until pre-order time apple said pre-orders top 21 million in just 24 hours shipments are now delayed from every carrier and Sprint's sold out of the low-end model almost immediately iphone 4s appears to be a hit which I mean what did you expect it is a new iphone even if it doesn't look like a new iphone that's just what happens now it is of course hard not to imagine that sales of the iphone 4s were helped by the outpouring of sadness and support in the wake of Steve Jobs passing away last week in fact on Twitter and elsewhere people were calling the phone the iPhone 4s as in for Steve even in death he is the world's best salesman you'll be missed Steve now on to the news Oh research in motion rim's blackberry server suffered a multi-day outage this week and no one in North or South America was getting any email at all that's bad because pretty much all the blackberry can do these days is email it's extra bad since it's happening just as the iphone 4s comes out a bunch of new phones were announced at ctia this week and the Samsung Galaxy Nexus with Android Ice Cream Sandwich is looming also activist investors are trying to fire rims to CEOs or even force a takeover rim is maybe trying to sell and doesn't really want to be the busted toaster at the garage sale and also they would really like to convince you to buy some blackberry 7 phones so there's bad timing and then there's I can't even believe this smoking crater is happening right before my eyes timing this is the last one oh hey you know maybe blackberry could split up its phone and email services and spin-off the email services into like a company called quick stir because I hear that name is available again that's right after the disastrous announcement that Netflix would spin off its DVD rental service into the new company called quick stir Netflix CEO Reed Hastings is taking a mulligan Netflix emailed its customers to let them know it is not splitting into two companies after all and DVD rentals will still be part of Netflix sorry for any confusion unfortunately everyone so mad at Netflix now that even this whole listening to the customer news was greeted with fury and mocking possibly because as far as we know the crappy price hike in the weak sauce streaming library are also staying with Netflix I mean you can only listen to your customers so much you know in facebook news this week don't panic it's not another redesign this is actually good news facebook finally launched its ipad app this week after a no-show at f8 and apple's iphone 4s launch of it best part about it the photos actually work like they never seem to on safari oh no no wait that's not true the best best part about the ipad app is that there's no ticker go get it a Google engineer this week accidentally published in almost five thousand word memo that was meant to be an internal only note it says that Google+ is an example of Google's quote complete failure to understand platforms ouch he says Google+ was a knee-jerk reaction that Google is openly hostile to platforms and that they just tried to whip up a Facebook clone with no outside developer support and their efforts are doomed to fail also that poor Google engineer accidentally posted the whole thing publicly on Google+ because it's like impossible to use and figure out what's public and what's not it's just all so true Google do not fire that guy seriously and finally something new and exciting a major network is casting for a reality show about young professionals in the Silicon Valley you know this sounds really familiar can't quite put my finger on it oh yes the real rich white guys of Silicon Valley every thursday at nine eight central only by bravo watch what happens yeah hey major network if that is your real name when we did that we were kidding and that's the buzz report for this week everyone I'm mollywood and thank you for watching