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 you're perfectly serviceable home theater solution the entire future of the friggin internet and a sex scandal without any sex first up the gadget of the week this week that gadget is the super utilitarian actually kind of neat little thing gadget of the week that I really sort of one it's the Sony HTC t150 it's a sound bar home theater system that includes just the bar and a subwoofer cost less than three hundred dollars has three hdmi inputs and it sounds good right technology doesn't have to be confusing sometimes it's just what you want actually can we pick this show up again after i order that is it just me i love that thing and now for the news google and verizon have announced a modest proposal they're calling it a legislative framework for how net neutrality should work in the future they said the current wired internet should remain totally open non-discriminatory and scalable no pay for extra access just a wide open field of innovation then again that's the old wired internet that no one is really investing in anymore and that's running out of bandwidth so then there are two other areas of potential net neutrality regulation first wireless broadband networks like the one Verizon currently operates under Google and verizon's proposal those do not have to be neutral networks Wild West out there and then they have this concept of private networks which could be like premium content or medical networks or the porn channel and those could also be tiered and cost extra and be unnatural too so you know basically all the stuff verizon and Google can make lots of money on in the future should be totally free from consumer friendly regulation or rules nice thanks you guys I am super glad you're not officially in charge of writing laws so everyone email your congressional representatives would you and hope that there's nothing juicy about them on google street view what a world moving on let's talk about a sex scandal without any sex shall we it's strangely appropriate that Jodi Fisher is the soft course kinam actress I made that up because she's the woman who apparently brought down HP CEO mark hurd and both of them insist there wasn't even any nookie heard stepped down last week after reports that he patted expense reports in order to maintain a close personal relationship with Fisher and considering that he's a bajillion air and also didn't get any that would seem to make him kind of a double sucker and either HP is very very serious about its accounting policies or this guy was not as popular as HP stock price would suggest and in news that says stubborn as a herpe the verizon iphone rumors are back this week according to TechCrunch Qualcomm is making CDMA chips for Apple in large quantities the phone is expected to be announced in december and delivered in january and it will have a newly insulated exterior antenna you might even be able to get a white one I'm over it and finally a very special clogging the tubes senator ted stevens the man who gave us the series of tubes meme that inspired this segment was killed this week in a plane crash in alaska and the internet had kind of a soft spot for the corrupt old senator who totally didn't understand the internet so on that note we wish him a fitting farewell the internet is not the internet is not a big truck the internet is not something that you just dump something on the internet is not it is not a big truck the internet series of coalition yes and that's the buzz report for this week everyone i'm molly wood and thank you for watching