Gadgetory

hi i'm molly wood and welcome to the buzz report and now for the gadget of the week actually before we start with the gadje of the week i want to introduce a new buzz report feature i call it fanboy points see many of you email me and accuse me of being biased against either Apple or Microsoft now I try to be objectively snarky so I decided to put a little ticker up here and every time I make a joke about one of them will award some fanboy points okay here we go the gadje of the week is the microsoft zune digital audio player now people are calling this a possible ipod killer it's 30 gigabytes it works with Windows Media Player 11 and it's got one cool feature built-in Wi-Fi so if there's a song you like you can actually share it with another zune user so that they can listen to it a couple times and decide if they want to buy it now that is the cool feature except for the part where everyone in the world has to have a zune now if you could send them to an ipod now you're onto something bring them up boys there we go start your count now and now for the news the University of Westminster has turned its London Student Union into the most high-tech bar in history you can order drinks remotely using RFID equipped touch screens that actually send your order over Ethernet to the bar and then someone brings you a drink university administrators say the technology is the best way to cut down on huge lines at the bar hmm yeah if only there were some other cheaper time-honored method for you to place an order at your table and then have your drink brought to you a judge says that DirecTV can be sued over its lower quality high definition TV broadcasts Pieter Cohen originally filed a lawsuit against the satellite provider in 2004 when the company allegedly turned down the bitrate on their HD TV broadcasts the result is a lower quality picture often referred to as HD light so if you're watching me now on directv let me help you out a little bit this part is my hair and this is where my ears are this all looks probably normal but what you can't see is this little blue hanging on my nose right here see upgrade your bitrate so the big news here at cnet this week is the ever-evolving HP scandal now you may remember that the chairwoman of the hewlett-packard board of directors hired an outside investigator to look into leaks that were going from the board to cnet news com and other reporters and then things start to get pretty Nixon the investigators apparently spied on the personal phone records of our news com reporters may have physically followed some of them send a fake email tip to a news com reporter that contains spying software and now it looks like HP also considered placing spies in both Cena and Wall Street Journal offices possibly posing as fake cleaning crews now I know this sounds totally crazy but we here at the buzz report have obtained secret security footage that shows that this infiltration actually happened let's take a look yeah yeah I'm talking about HP mm-hmm okay Oh tell me more oh that's very interesting information okay now can we just go over this one more time I want to make sure I have it all right okay wow that's a really great insider tip thank you so much ok I'll try rebooting it right now and we'll see if that fixes it Thanks crappy HP computer and there you have it good plan HP I'm Molly Wood and this has been the buzz report thanks for watching