Gadgetory

hey everyone I'm Hollywood and welcome to the buzz report the show about the tech news that everyone is talking about this week my gadget pick for the entire year Verizon poisons the Galaxy Nexus before it even launches whenever that might be and paypal applies to be the biggest Grinch of 2011 but first it's the gadget of the week the gadget of the week is a little pimp for our cnet Holiday Gift Guide holiday cnet com for all our recommendations including our top gift picks tech under 50 bucks tech gifts for wise asses all kinds of good stuff now last year I chose my number one gift pick for the entire year and it was Roku this year if there's anyone on your list who doesn't already have a Roku here's my gadget of the year the gift that you can give just about anyone and make them happy and that catch it is the macbook air I know I've gone up and cost a little bit here but I personally have found the 11-inch MacBook Air to be basically the perfect laptop for casual around the house use travel photo video and music management and just daily use the newest models are fast they have amazing battery life and they started a relatively affordable 999 bucks I love mine so much that I go to bed with it most nights although that's probably a personal problem and now for the news Verizon continues it's slow and steady hit job on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus we had expected the phone might come out this week after being released in November in Europe now there are reports that it's been delayed even though it never had a launch date to start with and I'm just saying didn't I tell you this was going to happen back when it was announced sketch II and to make matters worse even if the Galaxy Nexus does come out it apparently won't have google wallet on it even though it has a built-in NFC chip for mobile payments Verizon apparently asked Google not to include the Google Wallet feature they cited security and user experience concerns also the over Eisen as part of a group called Isis consisting of Verizon t-mobile and AT&T which is trying to establish a competing mobile payment platform how convenient what I really find amazing though is that Google apparently agreed to take its wallet feature out of its flagship pure Android phone that was supposed to get mobile NFC payments off the ground and give us a japan-style mobile phone payment system for the future grow a pair of google another verizon news the company is launching a movie and TV streaming service that would compete with netflix it would be web-based and not limited to just 50 subscribers and it could launch sometime in 2012 and okay maybe then Verizon could like block Netflix apps from its phones or maybe keep the website from working for fios subscribers you know just if they really want to be evil because after all you have to work harder when you're in second place AT&T was just rated the worst cell phone carrier for the second year in a row by Consumer Reports customers continue to complain about poor voice service and terrible customer service over the phone and actually 18 tease ratings were slightly lower than they were last year although to be fair all the major carriers saw lower scores this year and the top three finishers in the Consumer Reports survey were all small MVNOs or regional carriers kind of like the credit unions of the mobile phone world continuing on in our Grinch theme paypal stole christmas from a bunch of poor kids this week or almost in regret c-calm that brilliant site that makes fun of bad crafts on etsy held the secret santa fund raiser to buy toys for needy kids but apparently they used the wrong paypal button it said donate instead of by now so obviously paypal froze the regretsy account kept all the transaction fees and then apparently got a little bit AT&T with the customer service when they spoke with regrets the operator April winch oh it's all blogged in great detail on the regretsy site my favorite is the part where they tell her that she can use the donate button to raise money for like a sick cat but not poor kids good show paypal so you know how this story goes blog post twitter outcry internet smash story shows up on CNN paypal issues apology roughly 48 hours later and offers to make a donation to regret see and of course unfreeze the accounts and then drin get toys was all that really necessary paypal children toys and now let's take a look at what's clogging the tubes this week it's a cannonball smashing through the burbs okay Mythbusters the popular Discovery Channel show that scientifically test common beliefs to find out if they're true accidentally missed their target while firing a cannon at a firing range the Cannonball overshot some water barrels meant to slow it down went through a cinder block and then bounced into a residential area where it punched through a bedroom bounced off the roof of a house and then went through the window of a minivan where it finally came to rest incredibly without hurting anyone turns out cannonballs hard to control I hear they built those houses way too close to the firing range anyway though so we got your back Mythbusters and that's the buzz report for this week everyone I'm Hollywood and thank you for watching grow a pair of Google oh if the O's doze kick it bigger ah grow the O's grow the O's they don't watch this