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 more CEO scandal the almost complete erosion of your electronic liberties and search that reads your mind but first it's the gadget of the week the gadget of the week is the samsung galaxy tab on paper it looks like the best ipad competitor yet it's a 7-inch slate with a high res display android 2.2 with flash support and the android market 16 or 32 gigs of ram gps a 3.2 megapixel camera on the back that takes video and a front facing camera for video chat it's got Wi-Fi 2.5 g and 3g wireless capability and a stated seven hours of battery life so you know it's the sex pricing has not been announced and it's making me nervous reports say it will go from anywhere from 200 to 400 dollars with a contract or a thousand dollars without and if it's a thousand dollars point ipad come on samsung don't screw this up and now for the news good drama in tech exec land this week first oracle CEO larry ellison went ahead and offered his buddy mark hurd a co-president job there at oracle just a few weeks after HP booted him over doctoring expense reports to cover up the most sexless affair in history apparently one board sin is another boards competitive opportunity but then HP sued heard saying look buddy we paid you millions of dollars to go away quietly not say a word about our corporate trade secrets and now you're planning to go give them all to oracle hell to the no in response oracle said that HP was just making it really really hard for them to work together what with all this hostility in the wild accusations it's just not cool Oh rich white guys you should totally get a Bravo show the real rich white guys of Silicon Valley every thursday at nine eight central every x Bravo's watch what happens in other news this week Google showed off a new feature it calls instant search instant so when you type Google predicts what it thinks you're looking for and it pops up searches until you find what you need and it is amazing and it's clearly a super incredible technological feat to serve that many results pages one after another in real time as you type I mean wow but admit it are we all just waiting for the Easter eggs where you're typing a little innocent thing and then you get a super dirty results page i know i am in more serious news this week the ACLU wants a federal court to make it unconstitutional for border guards to search your laptop's phone electronics for any reason whatsoever ya know they are currently totally allowed to do that the border searches are an exception to the Fourth Amendment which would otherwise require some sort of suspicion or reason for a warrantless search the exception has been around since 2008 and it's being fairly definitively abused so that's working its way through the courts now go ACLU hey unrelated note you guys know all about truecrypt and creating hidden encrypted partitions on your computer's right okay just checking speaking of warrantless searches an appeals court said this week that the FBI and police agencies do not need to get a warrant to use your cell phone to track your location or to get records from your cell phone provider about where you've taken your phone in the past the court agreed with the Obama administration which said that you have no expectation of privacy when it comes to um where you are Wow what has happened to you America it's enough to make me go off the grid if it weren't for the fact that i'm kind of like one of these college kids in this university of maryland study they took away their cell phones and their social media for a day and most of the students reported actual withdrawal like symptoms like anxiety in the shade I know I totally understand it's gonna be okay can I actually borrow your cell phone though because we've been taping in here for a while and haha yeah no reason I just was haha that's the buzz report for this week everybody I'm Hollywood and thank you for watching somebody get me a droid come on samsung don't screw this up the pad looks awesome the tab looks awesome actually no we can cut it after don't screw this up okay note to Sarah yeah cuz that was like a lot of tech specs I don't want to read again mm-hmm okay