Gadgetory

hey everybody I'm hollywood welcome to the buzz report the show about the tech news that everyone is talking about this week amazon is in fuego with the new kindle lineup iphone 5 is oh so close and Facebook is just creepy and annoying like an ex who won't go away on Facebook but let's begin with the gadget of the week the gadget of the week is the amazon kindle fire amazon finally announced its long-awaited tablet this weekend at first blush i gotta tell you it seems like a winner the fire is a 7-inch tablet running an Amazon style of Android it has Amazon's big content library behind it a dual-core processor to handle video and music streaming a pretty nice-looking multi-touch IPS display whispersync free Amazon Cloud storage and integration and a whole new Amazon browser called silk that they say is super fast because it does half of its work in the cloud oh I'm sorry am I burying the lead the Kindle Fire costs 199 dollars yeah for real it's shipping November 15th so this holiday season when your friends and your family and your spouse's are looking at you with tears in their eyes begging for streaming video facebook Angry Birds all on one little tablet the answer is just two hundred dollars away so I'm just saying look out apple onto the news which is more amazon news as if the fire wasn't enough amazon also announced three e-ink kindle readers this week there's a new top-of-the-line version a touch screen kindle with 3g for an ad subsidized price of a hundred and forty nine bucks then there's a Wi-Fi touchscreen kindle for 99 bucks with ads and a new basic kindle with no touch screen that will cost just $79 with ads which by the way only show up when your kindle is asleep so yeah amazon had a pretty freakin good week I'm also expecting a good holiday season for them actually we'll see if we're still talking amazon this time next week we finally have a date for apple's big iphone event Tuesday October fourth all the months of speculation about the iphone 5 will end for a few weeks until start speculating about iphone 6 it's like a new American tradition rumors suggest a new design for the iphone with a sleeker shape more like the ipod touch possibly speech-to-text a faster processor an 8 megapixel camera possibly a world phone and also possibly two iphone models a regular iphone 5 and then a cheaper model aimed at may be developing countries or prepaid users and I got to say after the happy reception for all those cheap Kindles if I were Apple I'd be super glue in some gorilla glass to a couple of gum sticks and showing off the iphone light prototype that's shipping sometime next quarter Pocket Books just ain't what they used to be in quick updates this week Microsoft released the windows phone 7.5 mango OS update this week with its 500 tweaks and changes go check that one out before the week ends an iphone 5 gets announced and ruins it for you because it's actually pretty cool also as Facebook jumping the shark Spotify users are furious that the music service now requires a Facebook account before you can sign up plus it's nagging current users to cozy up to Facebook so that spot if I can post updates in the ticker showing every single song that you and your friends are listening to and that's just the beginning imagine what it will be like when every movie TV show book and web articles showing up there too along with all the privacy invading comments the likes that dislikes the photo tags from the people who aren't even your friends god I hate the ticker also Facebook admitted this week that a bug was causing its cookies to continue to track your web activity as you browse even if you log out of Facebook ok I love that they will cop to like every other privacy invasion on earth but they say the cookie thing is a bug that is not a bug come on facebook actually speaking of Facebook let's have a look at what's clogging the tubes now when Mark Zuckerberg tried to sell us on the new timeline facebook profile it was kind of cool kind of confusing maybe a little creepy but then Eric least mashed up the facebook timeline concept with a scene from Mad Men and has Don Draper selling it to us instead have a look Teddy told me that in Greek nostalgia literally means the pain from an old wound to twinge in your heart far more powerful than memory alone this device isn't a spaceship it's a time machine comes backwards forwards takes us to a place where we ache to go again Oh Don Draper so dreamy so smart so sad okay I'm sold timeline me Facebook do that thing with the cookies do I don't care all right that's the buzz report for this week everyone I'm mollywood and thank you for watching