Gadgetory

hi I'm Hollywood and welcome to the buzz report and now for the gadget of the week the gadget of the week is the t-mobile Sidekick 3 now this is the follow-up to the hugely popular sidekick 2 which is a favorite of party people and celebrities everywhere most notably Paris Hilton huge sidekick user the new version has a smaller design a 1.3 megapixel camera bluetooth high-speed data a built-in music player and even a mini SD card slot it's crazy but seriously aren't you just gonna get it cuz Paris Hilton probably will I mean who doesn't want to be like Paris Hilton right or wait no are we not doing that anymore well I wonder what phone Reese Witherspoon carries and now for the news now we're all still getting used to the news that Bill Gates is going to be leaving day-to-day operations at Microsoft and I actually sat down with Bill all by myself and we talked one-on-one about those changes here in a special buzz report interview is mr. Bill Gates thanks so much for coming in bill now Steve Ballmer is going around telling everyone that you're retiring what's up with that I'm not leaving Microsoft really that's um not really what I'd heard I'm not leaving Microsoft okay wrong information I got it well then let's talk about some other things how about your personal life obviously Melinda your wife is a huge impact on you tell us a little bit about how you wooed her using the same approaches we use at Microsoft ok so ruthlessly crushing the competition got it the dynamic is exactly the same now how have those long hours over the years affected your relationship with Melinda I'm not as not as necessary out I know how that goes well I don't really but anyway mm-hmm are you sure you're not leaving Microsoft um you're working as hard as I ever have during these next two years the next two years gotcha bill well you do seem really relaxed as you head into this transition and you look good your hair maybe your waistline mm-hmm I've had to lighten up in both of those areas I thought so so let's talk a little bit more about Microsoft are you worried about turning things over to Steve Ballmer I mean he seems a little crazy are you gonna try to get him on some meds or anything before you go Steve and I have had this dialogue understood well now that you're headed for retirement bill when you start kicking it with the hoochies in the bling-bling starting immediately and one last question does this mean Steve Jobs wins no comment well thanks so much for being here bill and good luck with everything that was a nice of him to come in like that don't you think now back to the news after a Massachusetts man contracted the measles in May the state health agency attempted to alert workers in the huge high-rise building where the sick man had been employed in order to spread the word the health agency used a podcast unfortunately the measles ended up spreading a lot faster than the podcast now obviously I'm a huge fan of high-tech working here at scene that and everything but in this case couldn't you maybe gone with like a sign on the door I mean you could have printed it in color if you really want to be tricky it's like maybe a little tape and now for the second ever installment in the editorial series that I like to call the high horse let me climb on up here okay the net neutrality battle is heating up and representatives from the telecommunications industry are launching a PR campaign to convince consumers that net neutrality legislation will be a terrible thing that would cause higher taxes this lower internet and a dearth of online innovation and you know their campaign is really frustrating because it's basically political fear-mongering that doesn't admit that it's the telcos who started this whole thing by proposing a tiered internet structure that would make content providers pay more to have their content delivered reliably and they definitely don't say anything about how companies like Verizon and AT&T are creating their own internet-based television content and so while they're making Google and Yahoo pay more for reliable access they'd be reserving bandwidth on their own pipes for their own competing content and they don't even try to deal with the question of whether the telecom industry itself is competitive enough thanks to government regulation decades of subsidies and more and more mega mer to give consumers legitimate alternative choices in the advent of widespread dissatisfaction with a tiered internet structure I just wish that someone would get into the meat of the issue instead of making everything into a bunch of partisan PR unfortunately I can't really do that on this show it's just not that funny I'm Molly wood and this has been the buzz report thanks for watching