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CNET Buzz Report: Buzz it like it's hot: 10/06/2006

2006-10-06
hi I'm Molly wood and welcome to the buzz report and now for the gadget of the week the gadget of the week is the new Bluetooth watch from Sony Ericsson and fossil it's the mbw 100 and it actually lets you control your calls and music find out about incoming text messages and even display caller ID on-screen Wow how can you possibly cram as much information into a single watch Oh easy it's the size of a Volkswagen hey you can't have everything and now for the news there's been yet another technology recall this week due to fire hazard and officials warn that this recall could have a much wider impact than recent recalls of Dell Toshiba Fujitsu Lenovo and other laptops as this particular product enjoys much wider adoption than any laptop ever could that's right everyone its hello kitty meanwhile Fujitsu this week joined Dell Apple Lenovo IBM and Toshiba in recalling laptops that contain Sony batteries the news came after Sony initiated a worldwide recall of the lithium-ion batteries that have proved to be such a problem for laptop makers hmm wait a second Lenovo Toshiba and Fujitsu recalled their laptops but wait usually though only Dell is actively recalling batteries or even investigating and in fact HP went so far as to say it's a Dell problem here we are today mm-hmm here's looking at you HP this week antivirus companies McAfee and Symantec ganged up on Microsoft over the Windows Vista operating system the companies are miffed that Microsoft has locked them out of the Windows Vista kernel they say that makes the operating system fundamentally insecure because if there's a serious flaw that affects the kernel McAfee and Symantec can't create a patch for it Microsoft on the other hand says that opening up the kernel is what's so dangerous in the first place and they have to close it off so that they can make sure that Vista is secure ok you know what first of all all y'all aren't doing that good a job at stopping Windows viruses so maybe you could have a little sit-down with dr. Phil get all your little issues worked out and start fighting the hackers instead of each other do I have to do everything this week it was widely reported that the United State is loosening its grip over I can which is the body that controls Internet domain names European nations and others welcomed the move which they see as a step toward the u.s. no longer controlling the Internet but I don't know I mean basically what happened is the u.s. said it would stay in control of ICANN and then in 2009 they would think about loosening their control over I can maybe the US should just rename I can I can't let go in a Capitol Hill bombshell this week congressman Mark Foley resigned after it emerged that he'd sent sexually inappropriate instant messages to a high-school-aged congressional page authorities were able to obtain transcripts of the instant messages that the congressman sent to the sixteen-year-old page see now that's why I use trillion it has built-in encryption that way when I send dirty I am 16 year old boys no one can read oh isn't that right Justin I'm Molly wood and this has been a bus port thanks for watching
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