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 be killing cell phones AT&T changing its data plans and the new iphone is coming hooray but first it's the other gadget of the week the gadget of the week is the kodak playsport it's one of those mini HD camcorders that everyone so hot on so it's totally portable and it shoots video up to 1080p resolution good price to about the standard 150 bucks but here's the thing this one takes video underwater up to 10 feet I know perfect for snorkeling and swimming plus just think of all the high quality shark attack videos that are going to start showing up on you too and now for the news the big news is coming Monday as Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference kicks off with a steve jobs keynote we're expecting to find out whether the lost prototype of 2010 is actually the new iPhone and there's some talk of a new Apple TV box and hopefully a subscription music service to replace the brutally murdered la la but Steve is not waiting till Monday to do some talking he got unsaved at the All Things D conference to talk to Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher jobs answered questions on topics ranging from satirical cartoons to flash on the iPad and iPhone to the future of PCs and even movies and he had these words of reassurance for frustrated 18t customers I am told that a lot of places are getting a lot better you know certainly by the end of this summer and I believe the people that are telling me that truly believe it and our high competency people and if they don't then they won't and that's that I guess speaking of AT&T though may be part of their network improvement plan is to just like keep people from using the network very much 18t got rid of its unlimited data plans this week even the one on the iPad now there are two plans fifteen dollars a month for two hundred megabytes of data and twenty-five dollars for two gigabytes of data and then they charge you if you go over now almost no one goes over to gigs so it's not as bad as it sounds and if you already have a thirty dollar unlimited data plan you get to keep it and you have until june seven to sign up for that plan if you want to be grandfathered in that's right june seventh WWDC day so clearly something about that new iphone must be a data hug like tethering yep you can now do tethering with your AT&T devices even the iPhone but only for an extra twenty dollar a month fee and that fee does not include any more data than the 2gig max so that is paying for the privilege of not buying a crippled phone and that is bullcrap the rest I'm actually okay with no shocker right moving on the Financial Times ran a story this week about how Google doesn't want employees using Windows possibly because of security concerns seems plausible right although wow do you think they would ban office too because I mean how could a multi gazillion dollar company run on google docs no they will never take over the world using Google Docs anyway Microsoft fought back with a blog post about how windows security is not only way better but OS 10 security is not good at all and Microsoft's corporate vice president of corporate communications which is his real title said that maybe the ban might have a teensy little bit to do with Google developing its own OS to compete with Windows and then he tore into the financial times on Twitter which actually just as a little aside Microsoft has been all about twitter lately the corporate account debunked rumors that Steve Ballmer might be at WWDC with this tweet see and I noticed that Microsoft is kind of funny and cool on Twitter so maybe they could try that in like the commercials and the real world and stuff just a thought how great it is to host a lunch party you can use house burning tools to build your guest list upload your pictures which is his face right in other headlines in the tech world researchers in India say radiation from cell phones may be killing bees which is weird because I didn't even know bees had cell phones okay I'm just kidding in a controlled experiment the researchers found that hives exposed to 900 megahertz gsm phones eventually showed a reduction in population and the radiation possibly confused the bees navigation abilities bee colonies that we're exposed to dummy phones showed no ill effects now obviously more studies are necessary Before we jump to conclusions but when you read the report it helps to just try not to think about your brain very much and that's the bus report for this week everyone I'm Mollywood and thank you for watching things in general when they start to fix them get worse before they get better that's what I'm told and if you believe that things should be getting a lot better soon