Gadgetory

hi I'm Hollywood and welcome to the buzz report the show about the tech news that everyone is talking about this week the shocking news that the ipad 2 is a hit ie9 turns out to be kind of a hit and who's willing to let you pay for stuff with your cell phone but first it's the gadget of the week the gadget of the week is the robin to your batman the Gilligan to your skipper the t-mobile sidekick 4G just a few weeks after announcing that the sidekick was dead and kind of making us all 11 with a burning hot fire they announced this sidekick 4G which is even better than the original sidekick because it's 4g samsung makes the hardware and it's running android with a 1 gigahertz processor inside plus in true sidekick style it has these group texting features built in tons of media options even the ability to rent and buy movies right on the phone so yes you kind of got played by the whole oh it's dead and you want it but now it's back marketing ploy but really do you care and now for the news first the good news for Apple anyway analysts say the ipad 2 sold a million units in one day it's a monster hit seventy percent of the sales were two brand new tablet buyers so score Apple now for the bad news for you the ipad 2 is now sold out all over the united states the shipping delay is now four to five weeks and that's not even just for the white versions if you're planning on getting one of these as a christmas gift for someone now's the time to order it hopefully it will be there in time fingers crossed speaking of delays though analysts are also looking at how the crisis in Japan could affect tech supply chains for things like flash memory touch screens and mobile device chips short answer all of them will probably be affected flash memory prices will go up and ipad2 supplies in particular might be even more delayed but I think Apple spoke for us all in a way this week when it delayed the rollout of ipad 2 to japan and said hey let's just focus on getting that place up and running again okay we'll buy the tvs and the stuff later in other news that isn't so devastating in sad microsoft released internet explorer 9 this week and dude apparently it's like really good I know who do in some speed tests it's been performing faster than chrome or opera it looks a lot like chrome it's all stripped down and nice its standards compliant so it will load webpages and like Firefox for it includes a Do Not Track feature that's supposed to prevent third party cookies from following your surfing history across the web not bad Microsoft no I know I'm not going to use it either but my mom will and now for some tech headlines from the week Lumbergh reports that Google will test near field communication mobile payment systems in New York and San Francisco you know like the wave and pay with your phone thing Google will try it out on the nexus 2 which is one of the few with an NFC chip built-in that should make it a lot easier for the biggest geeks in those two cities to get the damn red ball already get the hell out I love it but while google is embracing a way to pay for stuff without using that dirty old money Apple made it clear that it will not embrace NFC technology and its new iPhones because of a lack of a clear standard across the industry yeah I bet Apple really rejected this because in order for it to work you have to waive the phone the right way that never gets old sorry to tell you soon fans or fan but Microsoft won't be releasing any new zune models do you think that thing would have been more popular considering you could share songs wirelessly from device to device with a feature called squirting oh no wait you can totally see why it never got popular and finally let's have a look at what's clogging the tubes it's simon pegg and nick frost Star Wars reenactment because Star Wars is always funny Simon Pegg is always funny and let's be honest british humor always funny how did we get into this mess we seem to be made to suffer it's our lot in life look believe me what nobody people is that we gonna do you gonna do it blah blah blah so he does in it now he makes a quizlet you like it communicates via a system of beeps and whistles he doesn't say bleep blap gonna this good please d to boot once again yes thinly veiled marketing stunt for the upcoming movie Paul once again do you care I don't I laughed and that's the buzz report for this week everyone I'm Hollywood and thank you for watching oh you can't hit me you've got no arms get me first yeah but c-3po King it does in the film you think what is that you can't do that it's not on topic Souchak shop how y'all screw this i'm off and don't let me catch you following me begging for help because you won't get it oh well good you big gold plated Nancy you know I don't think your extensive knowledge of air to Kevin protocol to help us much anyway in the desert