Gadgetory

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 corporate takeover of our legal system some more the dislike button you will in fact dislike and the Twitter movie but first it's the gadget of the week the gadget of the week is the epic 4g it's Sprint's second 4g phone and it is hot as hell it's got a 1 gigahertz processor a 4-inch amo LED display that our reviewers called mesmerizing a front-facing camera the ability to act as a hotspot for up to five devices and and a slide-out QWERTY keyboard plus the 4g it is unquestionably an outstanding bit of kit but is it epic and are you may be setting yourself up a little bit if you call your phone epic and actually is it okay if we just stop saying epic now because I'm over that also epic fail can we stop that to thank you neat phone though I like that and now for the news fun story from the RIAA and national association of broadcasters this week they're pulling a google verizon and putting out a little proposal for congress specifically they want Congress to mandate that all cell phones include an FM radio because they do music and music can only continue to exist on the radio and the radio can only continue to exist if cell phones have radios in them by law oh i know i was also stunned into silence they're smoking crack luckily this will never go anywhere not because our lawmakers will finally stand up to companies and tell them they're not allowed to write laws for us no that's never gonna happen but that thing won't happen because once Steve Jobs finds out that someone's gonna try to force him to put an FM radio and iPhone he's going to explode the universe so we're all good speaking of companies writing laws 18t put up a blog post this week saying they are totally in favor of Verizon and Google's net neutrality proposal that would exempt wireless broadband networks from any regulation or consumer friendly rules it's just so funny because it was a tease former CEO and Whitaker who actually launched the net neutrality debate back in 2005 when he said that like Google wasn't going to get to use his pipes for free even though Google paid for them but he's gone now although his adorably kooky and vaguely confused legacy apparently lives on oh so hey you know that dislike button you've been seeing all over Facebook lately the official Facebook dislike button hooray it's finally here don't click it it's a scam I know bummer right it's not super dangerous but it's a spam scam and it's actually likely to be the most successful Facebook scam of all time assuming you don't count farm bill it's kind of the modern version of the naked Britney Spears pictures emails that you know infested computers worldwide with a nasty worm back in ancient history you know the kind of ancient history when people still wanted to see Britney naked poor thing and now let's have a look at what's clogging the tubes by now you've probably all seen the uber dramatic trailer for the social network the movie about the history of Facebook directed by david fincher you're going to get left behind move it faster than any of us ever get behind shoot him in federal court and because this is the Internet it took roughly sixty three seconds for the parodies to start rolling in mostly from the same place first there was this YouTube one this is happening faster than any of us imagine we don't have enough videos of adorable laughing babies and find more this is my shot you mean our shot and now Twitter does that Twitter is strict you to only 140 words close characters 40 characters they're saying that Twitter is nothing but a bunch of idiots and celebrities talking about what they had for breakfast I know what it says it true I know right it's so good also the music and that Twitter one is done by the gregory brothers who also did that's right the bed intruder remix i totally want them to play my next birthday party those guys are good and that's the buzz report for this week everyone i'm molly wood and thank you for watching as for the charges I believe I deserve some recognition from this board for what I'm gonna you know let the way happy