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 Netflix is sorry you feel that way iphone5 fever is bigger than Bieber and sweet sweet mangoes in the fall but first it's the gadget of the week the gadget of the week is the new macbook air I cannot tell you how many people have been I am Emil V week saying when is the new air coming please let Apple take my money well it seems like it was worth the wait the 13-inch model earned a coveted editor's choice award here at cnet it has a 1.7 gigahertz current generation Intel Core i5 processor a 128 gig solid state hard drive and it comes with OS 10 lion plus of course it's super thin and gorgeous and if just the performance and looks weren't enough Apple is doing its usual upgrade enticement by restoring the backlit keyboard that it took out of the original macbook air just to make you feel like a sucker yeah it's still kind of working though because it's so hot and now the news in its earning report this week sensitive little netflix says it just hates to upset its customers with that jagan dis rate hike and it understands that this decision will cause some of you to quit the service and Netflix is just really sorry although netflix says most of you won't quit and the extra money that Netflix rakes in from the hike will let it reach the magical goal of 1 billion dollars in revenue during a single quarter yeah so yay for Netflix and they're still totally tone deaf PR department also you're so welcome guys of course if you are a former Netflix customer looking to satisfy your fix for streaming video other companies are coming out of the woodwork to help even walmart remember how walmart bought online video rental store voodoo about a year and a half ago well now they're integrating voodoo into walmart com so you'll be able to buy or rent digital copies of movies that are available from voodoo streaming library although i checked and they don't have blood freak either come on Studios in Apple news this week it's looking more and more likely that the iphone 5 will hit this September according to MacRumors Apple will be bumping up its staff in its US retail stores early this fall and apples also bringing back former employees to work part-time and boy genius report said AT&T has been getting its employees ready for more foot traffic in September even incoming verizon CEO Lowell McAdam recently said that he expects the next iPhone to debut in the fall it's really happening people it's happening I wonder if it will also be available in white at the lunch what's wrong with me actually a new survey from pricegrabber finds that thirty-five percent of its customers are willing to buy the iphone 5 sight unseen if it's coming out they want it affects some of them are even in line now although they may want to wait just a minute because windows phone mango or seven and a half has been released to manufacturers and microsoft says it's coming this fall mango apparently has over 500 new features and according to some analysts even though you think you don't care about mango right now come 2015 it'll be the second biggest mobile OS in the world start caring people by the time they get to Windows Phone kumquat you are going to be hooked and finally instead of clogging the tubes a new segment that I'm calling the balls on China late last week it was discovered that five fake apple stores were operating the chinese city of kunming and now pc magazine reports that another fake store has been photographed in chengdu now they look exactly like Apple stores even down to the employee lanyards and t-shirt in fact some employees said they thought they were working at a real Apple store ok now this week two of the five kunming stores have been shut down could get this it's not because they were fake it's because they didn't have the right business licenses Chinese officials say that the Western media is over playing the issue I mean after all they say the apple stuff in the stores that they're selling is totally real what's the big deal also Chinese official said they're investigating whether Apple has filed the proper paperwork in China to have it store design and layout protected by their loss can you imagine Steve Jobs face I mean I know it's not right but dude the balls on China and that's the buzz report for this week everyone I'm Hollywood and thank you for watching you