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 mark zuckerberg takes over the world some more the Gawker hack that ruins christmas and then yahoo ruins christmas even more but first it's the gadget of the week the gadget of the week is my choice for the top tech pick of the holiday season a lot of you have asked so i'm here to tell you it's not an ipad or a droid x or a new router no no if i had to buy a tech gift for everyone of my list this year geek or not it would be a roku box it's a hundred bucks or less it offers streaming netflix amazon VOD hulu plus pandora and more and it is dead simple to set up so unless somebody in your family is that annoying person who refuses to watch TV the Roku is the perfect tech gift for just about everybody and there you have it you're welcome happy shopping and now for the news time magazine named facebook co-founder mark zuckerberg its Person of the Year love him or hate him you cannot deny that he's made facebook into a world-changing juggernaut that both terrifies and delights hundreds of millions of people he's worth six billion dollars on paper and he's done all of that at the tender age of 26 wow that's amazing I mean he's only a year older than me haha what have I been with my life also this weekend gadget reported that android 2.2 and the android market might be coming to the nookcolor early next year that would be amazing and would turn the noke into like a full-fledged tablet without you having to root it awesome well not to spit your Cheerios but seeing its own ereader expert david carr noite called shenanigans on the report no literally i call shenanigans he says Barnes & Noble is committed to the nuke developer program they're not putting the market on the nook and do not hold your breath for downloading the kindle app on the nook without some serious hacking buzzkill logical but buzzkill in other news this week Gawker got hacked and the aftermath is seriously messing up the interwebs a group calling itself gnosis says it hacked Gore because they're arrogant jerks granted but really you are taking it a little far aren't you gnosis stole usernames and passwords of the entire staff and one and a half million users and the password breach was then used to launch a Twitter spam attack noun on Gawker sites are sending out reminders to their customers to change their passwords actually Blizzard went one better to protect its World of Warcraft folks and just did a blanket password reset that's a big deal and come to think of it it's smart because one of the more interesting things to come out of this debacle is finding out the top passwords that people used for the Gawker sites the top 50 password list has at number one 123456 followed by password it lists gems like QWERTY let me in and fu and also monkey cheese and Michelle seriously monkey alright my next cnet password is going to be monkey cheese but don't hack me Yahoo laid off four percent of its staff this week almost 600 people and that's cold right before Christmas but the tech community has responded with offers of Bree beer and jobs at sketchy startups for Yahoo viens who want to get laid off this time again next year but enjoy the beer no actually I'm sorry guys that sucks send us your resumes Facebook and Twitter released a list of their top trends for the year which are informative and also designed to make me feel old again the fastest growing meme on Facebook was the use of HMU or as I might say if I said such things hit me up you kids get off my lawn also in top trend news linkedin busted users with its top ten overused profile buzzwords including extensive experience and fast-paced really tho no synergy week and Twitter put out its list of the top ten most retweeted tweets three of which were about Justin Bieber and one was by him Oh last up in headlines the US Army wants to give its soldiers a choice of smartphone either iPhone or Android go android and also man i totally want to see some custom army games for these guys like angry Kurds I know right it's so wrong I'm sorry and finally let's take a look at what's clogging the tubes there's nothing like a good movie mashup but when the movies in question are yogi bear and the assassination of jesse james by the coward robert ford well that's just inspired don't that poster thirsty you see now he's deader than the average bear haha no that is messed up don't you people know it's Christmas and that's the buzz report for this year everyone don't worry we have our annual blooper show the best of the buzz and then after that a long nice winter's nap before we see you back at CES happy holidays and Happy New Year I'm Hollywood and thank you for watching