Gadgetory

hi I'm Molly wood and welcome to the buzz report and now for the gadget of the week the gadget of the week is the Motorola Q but no no this is not a fake out check it out here it is that's right the Motorola Q has arrived you can order it online starting May 31st and it will be in stores for real on June 5th and it only cost 199 bucks with a two-year contract Wow look at that I can't believe it's real and I'm over it it's just so much better when it was a myth and now for the news the big news on Wall Street this week was the Vonage IPO the internet phone calling company has never been profitable has four hundred fifty five million dollars in debt and has admitted that it may never be profitable and in its first full day of trading bondages stock dropped almost 14 percent see the dot-com days are over today's investors are looking for four hundred fifty five million dollars in profit and also a business plan new rules manage catch up and now let's play our new favorite tech industry game Microsoft beat the clock in our last round Microsoft lost one point by announcing that Windows Vista would miss 2006 entirely and would ship to consumers in January 2007 score one o'clock this week Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer steps up to play for Microsoft he now says that Windows Vista will ship quote in early January late January February we are on track for shipping early in the year hmm score one o'clock and there's a new player this week semantic joins the game with an exciting new intellectual property lawsuit Symantec has asked a judge to stop the development sale or further distribution of Microsoft Vista which could delay it even more and possibly forever so folks at the end of an exciting round the current tally is Microsoft 0 'clock infinity I really don't know why anyone would want to play this game and now for the latest in the fight against music piracy a German state prosecutor claims that authorities have raided a hundred and thirty homes all over Germany and identified 3,500 suspects in a crackdown on illegal file sharing so how did they find the suspects well German authorities are using a server that acts as a distributor on the edonkey file-sharing Network in fact in addition to collecting names for raids the German prosecutor says his Nina and Kraftwerk collections are hugely popular and finally in Fitness news Nike and Apple have teamed up to create a running shoe that will use your iPod Nano to show you how far you've gone and how many calories you burn you can even get Lance Armstrong's voice in your ear to offer encouragement if you start to slow down in fact I am hard at work right now working on a plugin for the iPod Nano which I hope Apple will adopt it's sort of a motivational alarm clock nice right it really works I'm Molly wood and this has been the buzz report just one more mile man just one more mile