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CNET: Buzz Report: Vista vainly vies for cool

2007-02-02
hi I'm Molly wood and welcome to the buzz report and now for the gadget of the week the gadget of the week is the Nokia and 800 internet tablet now this little job II is following the latest trend of packing everything into a single gadget let's let Bonnie cha break down it's actually just a mobile device that lets you browse the web on the go and also can make VoIP calls and instant message and also has some multimedia capabilities also they built in this little kickstand so you can set it on the desk it also has an RSS news feeder there's also a media player music and video it's also not a cell phone still high it's not right it's like low carb bread it just doesn't make any sense why can't I have everything I want all the time and now for the news if you hear only one technology news story in 2007 it'll be this one Windows Vista is finally here and Microsoft is putting on the full-court press to promote the latest version of its operating system or to promote all 19 versions of its latest operating system anyway not surprisingly security experts are already poking holes in vista reporting various bugs and crashes and I'm sorry to say that Windows Vista has already claimed its first victim around 5 million people downloaded it that's right they go they in essence have stolen your that's the beta version what does the beta version is that will that in any way make them sterile well how does the how does the beta version work oh no Windows Vista crashed jon stewart's it's so awkward no you know actually it was pretty weird and sort of painful to see bill gates on The Daily Show certainly everybody was talking about it plus Microsoft has put up this kind of funny little guerilla marketing site with comedian and Daily Show correspondent Demetri Martin take a look I just handed me this piece of paper it says say Windows Vista okay Windows Vista Vista or Vista as Vista beast is dead Spanish version yeah so you guys are trying pretty hard here huh but here's the thing um it's Windows we're gonna buy it but there's no way you're gonna make it cool okay a 16 year old boy who's being sued by five record labels represented by the Recording Industry Association of America is fighting back Robert Santangelo says that the labels are in collusion with each other violating antitrust laws and that they use extortionate threats in order to force defendants to pay settlements instead of taking their cases to court in a statement the RIAA responded exactly oh wait is that bad you may have heard that this weekend is the Super Bowl and this year there's a chance that some geeks will actually be watching because rumor has it that there will be a big new Apple announcement in the form of a Super Bowl commercial well we here at the buzz report have gotten an exclusive first look at that very commercial and here it is we don't we saw On February 24th Apple will introduce a new Beatles Edition iPod and you'll hear why 2007 will sound just like 1967 Wow yay for 1967 right of course Apple is hardly the only company doing the Super Bowl shuffle this year get it bears Super Bowl shuffle oh yeah sorry geeks I don't know what I was thinking several technology companies are spending big bucks on commercials this year including hewlett-packard and Chevy is taking another stab at user generated advertising by holding the Chevy Super Bowl college ad challenge of course in hopes of avoiding another debacle like the thousands of user generated ads making fun of the Chevy Tahoe last time they tried this this time the company will screen all the applicants choose a winner and then remake the ad using a professional advertising agency smart plus at this point if I see any Chevy ad that doesn't feature that freakin John Mellencamp song I will probably buy a Tahoe myself okay that's just kind of my issue huh I'm Hollywood and uh suspend the buzz report thanks for watching
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