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 Twitter's business plan you're embarrassing status updates preserved for all time and a Molly rant in video form but first it's the gadget of the week the gadget of the week is the new microsoft kin line the company announced two new feature phones this week as a result of its pink project and that time it bought danger you know the ones who make the sidekick yeah now there's a lot to distract you from the phones themselves there's the weird name the kind of hilarious hipster website videos and then the fact that they have a social media sharing feature that they call the Kin spot which is just kind of bizarre but actually these are pretty cool little phones for the social media set it's super easy to share pictures and comments and messages with your friends and everything you do like text messages or say pictures you take with the kintu's 8 megapixel camera is all backed up in the cloud at the Kin studio website I mean they're neat in fact I might even want one if I spent more time at the beach or in clubs alas I am a grown-up and must settle for the Droid and now for the news twitter has a business plan it's spam I mean Promoted Tweets see their tweets that advertise something but at first they'll only show up as like sponsored results when you search for something or you might see them if you follow a specific company like Starbucks although I guess starbucks is whole twitter feed is kind of a sponsored tweet anyway twitter says it's thinking about maybe allowing these promotional tweets to show up in your regular twitter stream you know down the road but right now they just really want the ads to be contextual and organic and non-intrusive really it's just sort of the most half-hearted business plan you ever did here and it seems like if anything it's just to get pinched or capital guys to stop freaking out and keep giving Twitter money ya know Twitter you're a free service on the Internet it's time to face facts ad supported or bust literally in other twitter news everything you've ever twittered will soon be indexed and searchable on google so yeah thought that future employers searching for you on facebook was bad no you're drunk tweets and breakfast updates are now part of web history forever oh and Twitter just donated its entire archive of tweets to the Library of Congress because we need to have a historical record of that one time in history when everyone communicated their arbitrarily abbreviated but now thoughts to each other all day every day so that like our grandkids can use it to make fun of us this is gonna be so embarrassing in other news this week Apple has delayed shipment of the iPad overseas saying it has much higher US demand than anticipated like I said eBay right right and in other Apple news new rumors that the date of the next iphone announcement is jun 22nd and some screenshots surface this week that seemed to show traffic going to an iPhone app from a verizon iphone didn't I tell you not to sign a new contract with ATT didn't I and finally announcing a new segment on the buzz report Molly rants Ludacris hopefully you know about my new blog at news.com slash Molly hyphen rants the hyphen is its own rant fodder well some of you have been asking for it in video form so here goes this week a government watchdog agency reported that most estimates about the impact of piracy and counterfeiting on the economy are either totally made up or are simply wild assumptions with no basis in fact for example the FBI said in 2002 that US businesses lose 250 billion dollars a year to counterfeiting when the General Accounting Office asked the FBI where they got the number the FBI basically said we pulled it out of our but the business software Alliance said it lost nine billion dollars to piracy in 2008 the GAO said um that number also came out of their book the report also mentions the mpaa which has already been busted for totally lying about the number of illegal downloads happening on college campuses but keeps on making piracy look worse it is with numbers that you guessed it totally came out of there but now all of this fantasy based information is the kind that leads to really bad overly broad laws like the DMCA and it lets the RI double-a sue people into bankruptcy or just extort settlement payouts from them based on totally fictional claims of lost revenue or even better it lets our own administration continue to negotiate this crazy global anti-counterfeiting trade agreement in secret even though it's probably going to break the internet and who knows what else that is appalling some number producing but should seriously get spanked for that and that's the buzz report for this week everyone I'm Hollywood and thank you for watching