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 apple's big September music event Google organizing your mail for you and the patent troll that could end the internet but first it's the edge of the week the gadget of the week is this cool new thing that Apple announced the day after we tape this it is the new Apple TV Steve Jobs calls it a hobby but it's a heck of a lot more tempting hobby than it used to be it's 99 bucks now it's small enough to fit in your hand and it streams netflix it also streams music and photos from your computers or from your iOS devices like your iPad which is pretty neat you can also rent movies and TV shows but only TV shows from fox and ABC so basically if you have a lot of max iPhones iPads and iPods at your house plus a netflix subscription and you're a really big glee fan you have never been happier than you are today and now for the news speaking of Apple the company held its big September music event this week and we had an ace reporter on the scene take it away Molly thanks Molly that's right i'm here at the yerba buena center where steve jobs just announced a total revamp of the ipod line the shuffle gets its buttons back the ipod nano says goodbye to the click wheel forever and the ipod touch gets even thinner if that was even possible plus it gets the front facing camera for FaceTime and the retina display no 7 inch iPad but we do get her a a new version of itunes another thing to download the new itunes also includes something called ping which is Apple's music social network you can only use it in iTunes but you can share music recommendations with your friends follow artists that kind of thing it's sort of like myspace music but it doesn't connect with myspace music or Facebook or anything like that I don't know why either back to you Molly thanks Molly great report and in other tech news this week Google announced a new feature called priority inbox that will supposedly screen your gmail emails for what's important and then put it at the top of your inbox less important stuff like newsletters or email coupons and the like will go down at the bottom and then you can star emails for follow-up it actually tell what's important to you partly by how often you reply to emails from certain senders so you might want to start sending little thank-you notes to groupon so you don't miss anything good just saying also this week Microsoft co-founder paul allen sued most of the Internet including Google Facebook Apple Netflix and yahoo for infringing on for insanely broad patents that could cover everything from auto refreshing status updates to related news links on the side of a web page and by the way Paul Allen is sitting on an arsenal of more than 300 other patents that cover the rest of the web that he didn't sue this time around like Foursquare and Twitter yep Paul Allen pretty much owns the internet still think broad idea based software patents are a good idea Oh Touche Paul moving on digg got a redesign and in case you were wondering if people still use dig apparently all the people who still use dig hate the redesign more than they've ever hated anything they hate it so much they carpet bomb the dig front page with links to reddit they hate it so much that interim CEO Kevin Rose said some of the features they miss like upcoming stories will totally come back they hate it so much that interim CEO Kevin Rose actually just went ahead and announced a new CEO matt williams from amazon and he said hey how many email him cuz i'm headed to bermuda now good call kevin and finally a sad trombone moment for myspace which announced this week that it would connect to facebook letting its users synchronize posts and other activity with the obvious social networking winner reached for comment myspace said what at least we're not friends stir we have music whoa keep on rockin myspace and that's the buzz report for this week everyone i'm molly wood and thank you for watching is the Apple TV you let on the front there a receiver social here so i won't cover that up say about that washdown