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 the dangers of texting while driving laws internet wiretaps and a singing doggy but first it's the gadget of the week the gadget of the week is the rim playbook sweet specs people the PlayBook is a very cool looking 7-inch tablet it adds a front-facing and rear-facing camera a dual-core one gigahertz processor multitasking and HDMI port with full 1080p support hot and integration with blackberry enterprise servers and devices plus no wireless contracts required I love it however there was no real demo of the device no specific ship date other than the first quarter of 2011 and no price given huh the specs you've always wanted with none of the details does that come pre-loaded with duke nukem forever or wait maybe it'll be bundled with the directv TiVo yeah no that was delayed again this week too yeah until 2011 maybe you felt the disturbance in the force as though a million direct TV subscriber voices suddenly cried out and were suddenly silenced and now for the news a study out this week finds that bans on texting while driving are not working in fact in three of the four states surveyed there were actually more crashes reported since the bands went into effect now I assume that it's because instead of texting like this people are now texting like this dangerous or it could be that even if people stop texting you still have plenty of them out there who will try to read the paper shave put on makeup hopefully that's not the same person all while driving our solution exploit the technology voice activated services hands-free systems that don't make you look like a dingleberry self-driving cars we get the picture seriously self-driving cars it's the only way moving on the US government wants to make it easier to wiretap the Internet the Obama administration wants social networks VoIP services even p2p services to change the way their technology works so that federal agents can with warrants intercept decrypt or even tap into communications now the government says terrorists and other criminals are using new technology to communicate instead of traditional phones or cell phones that could be tapped now obviously that would open up a ton of privacy concerns not to mention the fact that hackers would probably use any technology backdoors even more than the government would then again it's true that it's harder for law enforcement to catch the bad guys when they can just hide all their chatter in the cloud it's a complicated issue and I don't pretend to have all the answers but maybe we could just send all the terrorists a cute puppy would a terrorist hurt a puppy speaking of puppies let's have a look at what's clogging the tubes it's been a while since we had some YouTube gold especially the kind that combines cute animals and autotune witness Mishka the talking husky singing she's on iTunes yeah seriously the auto-tuned dog is on itunes there's your beautiful technology future come true people not quite how you envisioned it was it and that's the buzz report for this week everyone I'm Hollywood and thank you for watching the texture that dog is not a good singer I could auto tune sing way better than that dog sure you are a little promo okay