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 Apple App Store shenanigans the rotting of children's brains and the problem with iPhone bars not iPhones in bars but I'll explain later first though it's the gadget of the week the gadget of the week is the amazon kindle DX now with a lower price tag and a pearlescent graphite finish and the same old black and white ink that's right the bigger badder kindle is now down to three hundred seventy nine dollars looks way prettier and it's shipping now I say go ahead and get one for your museum exhibit on the time before tablets or school I guess it's good for textbooks and now for the news so many people write programs for apple's app store what can a lesser-known developer do to stand out well according to Apple one out-of-the-box thinker found a way hack other people's itunes accounts and make it look like bajillion zuv people bought your apps alas this technique is in technical terms illegal so Apple brought out its trusty banhammer how'd they catch the developer well like most criminals he got a little greedy over the July fourth weekend the Vietnamese developers book apps suddenly accounted for 42 of the top 50 books by revenue subtle very subtle in other news iphone 4 owners are experiencing slow 3g uploads on the AT&T network in some cities this week but wait don't pause it's not what you think ATT says the problem is actually a software bug in 3g wireless gear from alcatel-lucent and alcatel-lucent said yep that is true are bad please do not blame AT&T for this one just this one time also not 18 tease fault apple says it has made a stunning discovery the iphone 4s reception problems are actually happening because the phones miscalculate the way they display signal bars all iphones do it actually it's a bug so like that thing where you drop a call when you thought you had five bars well you didn't actually have five bars you only had to the phone messed it up you feel better now right and that other thing where you hold the iphone for a certain way and then you drop two bars well you probably never even had those two bars to start with this all better makes sense no word on when you will actually stop dropping calls or get to hold the phone however you want are these people for real okay in other news this week a new study from iowa state university has found that TV and video games cause attention problems for children the study was published this week and that oh go go I'm sorry what was I doing sad news for the Internet it's dead according to Prince he told UK newspaper the mirror that the Internet's completely over and all these computers and digital gadgets are no good they just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you and hey weirdly free CDs of princes new album 2010 will be distributed in Saturday's paper edition of wait for it the mirror of the stunt prince said I really believe in finding new ways to distribute my music yeah so everybody be prepared for his next album which will be released on Betamax and packed in boxes of Cracker Jacks and finally let's take a look at what's clogging the tubes this week is the octopus that predicts world cup winners Paul the Octopus lives in Germany and has been predicting the outcome of the German soccer team's matches since 2008 Paul has correctly predicted the outcome of all five of Germany's world cup game so far including this week surprising defeat by Spain bought in here actually come to think of it i think spain better send in an underwater rescue team for that little guy otherwise the germans are about to enjoy some fufu a la plancha and that's the buzz report for this week everyone I'm Mollywood and thank you for watching you