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CNET Buzz Report: Droid X takes on iPhone

2010-06-24
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 the new iphone of course also a billion future Facebookers tweets in russian and unicorns but first it's the gadget of the week the gadget of the week is not the iphone 4 as everyone might expect it turns out there are other gadgets out there in the world I know right who knew actually we'll get to the iphone later but for now the gadget of the week is the droid x verizon very cleverly held an announcement on wednesday the day before the iphone 4 launch to give details about the next droid and it is a beauty it's kind of like verizon's version of the evo but not with 4g it does have a 1 gigahertz processor a 4.3 inch display hdmi out an 8 megapixel camera that takes 720 p high-res video and like the evo it can act as a hotspot for up to 10 devices for an extra fee and it goes on sale in mid-july but come on why wouldn't they announce it today you can't blame them for trying to steal some of that iphone thunder and speaking of which it's iphone 4 weeks some of the folks who managed to get a pre order through got a nice surprise a phone in the mail as early as Tuesday jun 22nd in fact a couple showed up here on wednesday the 23rd but of course Thursday was the day of i phone lines interestingly best buy and ATT both said that they would not have any phones in stock on the 24th and then Apple said the white version won't even be available into the middle or end of July yeah way to draw out the buzz with the summer long lines there Apple marked the iphone 4 reviews are in not surprisingly they are all pretty positive but then of course all the reviewers are in San Francisco or New York so most of them are saying that the biggest problem with iphone 4 is you guessed it 18 th may be of some tech reviewers set up shop in Omaha I would be like a whole different story also in the news this week in case you were wondering social networking is kind of a thing russian President Dmitry vanov is in San Francisco this week and among his stops Twitter headquarters he stopped by for a sit-down with Evan biz and while he was there he sent his first tweets I was all excited to follow him and then I remembered I don't read Cyrillic speaking of Russia Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg confidently declared this week that is almost a guarantee that Facebook will reach 1 billion users in the next three to five years they've just got to get Russia China Japan and Korea on board those are apparently the only four countries where Facebook is not the leading social network I kind of wish duck was exaggerating about the 1 billion but he's not because this is the new internet people get used to it and now for a new segment on the buzz report that we are calling lawyers gone wild thinkgeek.com got a 12 page cease and desist letter this week from the National Pork Board because thinkgeek described a product on their site as the new white meat the pork board said that infringe on its trademarked slogan the other white meat but here's the thing the new white meat in question here it's canned unicorn meat and it's from a listing that was an april fool's joke yes the pork board sent thinkgeek a 12-page cease and desist letter over in April Fool's joke about unicorn meat that didn't even say the other white meat it just said white meat how much did this cost the pork Farmers of America and legal fees oh and here's the kicker the National Pork Board is actually planning to ditch the other white meat slogan completely they don't like it anymore but i guess the lawyers still plan to use it because once a cash cow always a cash cow or cash unicorn in this case and finally let's have a look and what's clogging the tubes obviously that kesha song tik tok was begging to be mashed up with the original Star Trek I mean who couldn't see that coming wake up in the morning feeling like the door I'm gonna hit this city so I leave brush my teeth with a bottle and Jake is gonna leave for the night ain't coming back I'm talking try not all up clothes clothes boys blowing up my bones bones whoa that is some good editing and actually way more watchable than that super yucky actual video yuck and that's the buzz report for this week everyone I'm mollywood and thank you for watching get a little bit fine we see the plan the body you
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