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CNET Buzz Report: Dell Adamo and Twitter backlash

2009-03-19
I am Hollywood and welcome to the buzz report the show about the tech news that everybody's talking about this week iPhone news Twitter lunacy and unicorns but first it's the gadget of the week the gadget of the week is the dell adamo it's dell's new high fashion ultra-thin laptop it's got a 13 inch screen a brushed metal lid and keyboard tray a very modern design and a two-thousand-dollar price tag it even ships in this kind of lucite case that makes it look like a museum piece and you can kind of imagine that Dell wishes that they had a time machine right now because between the chief netbooks and the collapsing portfolios this is the laptop that just kind of screams I just got my bonus check from AIG it's really pretty though and now for the news this week it's Twitter backlash now that it seems like literally everyone has discovered Twitter everyone hates it and here's why George Stephanopoulos gave us an object lesson in how to ruin a cool thing by trying to interview John McCain over Twitter 140 characters per question-and-answer presidential debates have more substance than this twitter is becoming a threat to jury trials because jurors are posting updates not only throughout the trial but in one case after they've decided on a verdict but before the judge has announced it that one might end in a mistrial the coach of the Milwaukee Bucks had to ask his players not to Twitter from the locker room during games after forward Charlie Villanueva sent a note during halftime about how he was going to try to toughen up in the second half and then of course there was the story about how David Prager of revision3 twittered and live streamed while someone broke into his apartment instead of calling the cops what is the deal does Twitter turn you into a crazy person is Twitter a public menace should we have a crackdown will we start seeing Twitter free zone signs everywhere we go here's my theory you know how alcohol makes people act like a holes because it's like all of a sudden their inhibitions are gone and there aren't any barriers between their social facade and their real terrible idiotic or narcissistic personalities that's Twitter it's the long island ice tea of the internet just don't tweet and drive that's not safe and the other big news this week came from Apple who else buzz report correspondent Mollywood was on the scene so I'm standing here at the apple campus of Cupertino I'm actually practically in the street because they threw a press event and instantly kicked us out of it but I'm not bitter anyway we got a look inside iphone 3-point oh let's check it out so we're adding search to all of these applications but we didn't stop there we're adding support for mms push notification in-app purchase cut copy and paste yeah you know you're drinking the kool-aid when you're clapping and cheering for copy and paste but once the software comes out and the phone finally does all the stuff that's supposed to do plus all these extras I think you can all stop dithering and just go get one fine my soul is dead iphone take over a complete okay let's have a look at what's clogging the tubes it's cornified calm cornified calm is the number one unicorn and rainbow service worldwide giving websites Sparkle around the world check it out it will make your day it's just easier to read all that bad news with unicorns and rainbows everywhere sparkly and that's the buzz report for this week everyone on Mollywood and thank you for watching
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