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CNET Buzz Report: Zombies, sweatshops, and monster moths

2006-06-16
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 new music gremlin digital music player now even though this thing is clunky and kind of huge and it costs $299 for 8 gigabytes of storage the music gremlin is cool because it's got built-in Wi-Fi and its own subscription service for downloading songs now you can use this player to connect to unsecured Wi-Fi hotspots or even security enabled ones except you know good luck entering your 26 digit hexadecimal web key with this input device a British newspaper has alleged that Apple iPods are built in Chinese sweatshops the report is titled iPod City and it says that female workers toil 15 hours a day for $50.00 a month and then they're trapped living in dorms where no visitors are permitted now this is a rapidly evolving story and we here at CNET have uncovered exclusive pictures of those sweatshop dorms well at least they've got that Apple style in a related story there's news this week about a secret Google Data Center being built in Oregon our man inside reports that thousands of servers are being forced to slave away 24 hours a day seven days a week in hot unventilated conditions so evil Google in other Google news the company released Google Earth for this week the new satellite mapping program is so detailed that Google says 30 percent of you will be able to zoom in and see your house in 3d and the other 70 percent will also be able to zoom in and see your house in 3d seriously people wear pants when you're gardening sheesh Microsoft says that zombies are the biggest threat to Windows and also to brains scientists say they've created a hybrid butterfly its colors and genes are blended from two other species to which I say yeah that's not really gonna create a huge box office buzz no on my idea across Mothra with that flying dog dragon from the neverending story and now you got a hit on your hands I'm Hollywood and this has been the buzz apart thanks for watching our man inside reports that thousands of servers are being forced to slave away 24 hours a day seven days a week Oh Christmas Buddha's ring Oh your luck is run out
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