Gadgetory

hi it's Brian Cooley in from Hollywood and this is the buzz report first the gadget of the week Intel showed off a new kind of mini computer this week dubbed for a lack of a better name the mid mobile internet device smaller than a laptop bigger than a smartphone it's an internet tablet mobile television gps nav device voice over IP phone and of course does email web and I am but it won't really replace your cell phone kind of too big for that and it won't replace your laptop it's not big enough to do that so what are we supposed to do here Intel embrace a third device in our mobile lives I suspect Intel may be a major investor in either a company that makes wall adapters or one that makes belt clips or hallucinogenics now the news will they'll be launching a device to tackle apple's iphone digit times says that may very well be the case with this new dell device possibly arriving later this year dell just recently got out of the PDA business though so this makes for a rather odd turn around doesn't it I suspect dell realize they've got a lot to offer the handheld market you see where I'm going yep its top five things that Dells thingy can do better than Apple's iPhone thingy number five make you wait 11 business days while it's configured just for you number four support it from another continent number three make it run Windows barely number two load it up with crap where and number one make it tacky looking come on folks we both know that the real life dude you're getting a Dell dude will be getting an iphone from the Apple dude dude a blackberry outage in the news this week nothing major just the users in the western hemisphere the outage wasn't too long though roughly 12 hours but when they got the system back up the volume of pent-up email was so huge the network kept farting and sputtering as it tried to get back up to full speed and as of today people are still reporting some of their BlackBerry's now can't access the web now eight million people currently use a crackberry and their utter lack of preparedness for these occasional failings really concerns me so here's a proposal I say they should all be required to spend two hours a month using a trio just to keep their coping skills sharp and finally while US regulators just recently said no to the idea of cell phone use in flight Qantas is about to become the first airline to allow texting in flight on the thumb board of your very own phone you bring with you that's a hell of a lot better than listening to somebody talk for hours in that little small cabin and once again we'll see the Australians sweep the thumb puppet category at the next Olympics I'm Brian Cooley this has been the bugs report thanks for watching