Gadgetory

I am Molly wooden welcome to the buzz report the show about the tech news that everyone is talking about this week it's texting help to Haiti the iPhone saving lives literally fun with office 2007 and oh for pete's sake the Apple tablet again but let's begin with the gadget of the week the gadget of the week is the iPhone see this American filmmaker named Dan Wooley was trapped in the rubble of his hotel in Haiti after the earthquake there on January 12th and he used an iPhone first aid app to treat his broken leg and his head wound and to keep himself from slipping into shock and then after 65 hours he was rescued and now he's back at home with his family so really his iPhone and of course the rescue team that found him saved his life and that is pretty freaking phenomenal also do we believe this because whose battery last 65 hours and now for the news speaking of Haiti technology is saving lives in other ways as you've probably heard this week text-based fundraising campaigns raised more than 27 million dollars in relief aid for that country and the carrier's after a few stumbles started waving text fees for donations and forwarding money directly to Haiti without waiting for billing red tape so that's all a lot better use of your texting time than like voting for American Idol and we have posted a list of websites and ways that you can help if you haven't already at blog dot seen at tv.com do what you can okay moving on to tech news and stupid jokes Apple finally sent out invitations to its tablet or whatever event saying only come see our latest creation and then the invitation is covered with paint spatters so I'm thinking it's obviously gonna be some sort of a screen easel that lets you paint doing multi-touch gestures and then you upload your creations to the newly created AI canvas social network right Oh fine I guess it's just probably good to be the tablet but I'm actually so bored with those rumors that I'm hoping that it's something totally different really mostly more than anything that would just announce the darn thing already so I can start talking about how silly it is instead of talking about how silly it's going to be just kidding I'm sure it's gonna be awesome speaking of Apple there were fairly unfounded reports this week that Microsoft and Apple might be in talks to make Bing the default search engine on the iPhone like Microsoft and Apple would team up against Google and then you would end up banging on your iPhone that just does not feel right rumour Microsoft did say this week that it has created a new game to make the frustrating and often baffling task of using office 2007 a little more fun they introduced a game called ribbon hero that rewards you for figuring out how to do things in office seriously Microsoft's program manager for office said the idea came from quote watching office users take ten steps to do something that could be done more easily in one or two but maybe I mean I was just thinking instead of like a funny game that you make just get rid of eight to nine steps and then let people get some freaking work done moving on Bill Gates is now on Twitter and I for one am thrilled it's about time we got some real celebrities up in this joint and finally let's have a look at what's clogging the tubes this has never happened on buzz report before it's clogging the tubes the sequel that's right everyone the shiba inu puppy cam is back with the new batch of puppies and the productivity of a nation is once again at a standstill so but if I like the puppies and I want there to be more and I like supporting an Internet puppy mill because this could really start to feel wrong in a hurry and that's the buzz report for this week everyone I'm Molly wood and thank you for watching