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 it's phones at the gym Facebook's new privacy settings again and the invasion of the Walmart people but first it's the gadget of the week the gadget of the week is the motorola droid shadow this little beauty looks to be basically the droid two and the rumors are that it can be headed to verizon this summer it has a 4.3 inch touchscreen which is huge like the evo an 8 megapixel camera that takes 720p video it's running the one gigahertz Snapdragon processor it has 16 gigs of internal memory and we know all these specs because supposedly a verizon employee left the phone in a company gym and the gym employee who found it knew enough to ask for the specs and then call a gadget blog yeah nice lost it in a bar left it at the gym I'm sure the next big phone coming down the pike will just be left in a taxi that's conveniently headed for cnet's offices actually could somebody make that happen that would be pretty cool we like a scoop and now for the news facebook rolled out its simplified privacy settings this week and now hopes that we will all just quit our bitching and go away please because they heard us we recognize that we've changed a lot of things so you've spent a lot of time reviewing your feedback so we could address your concerns the number one thing we've heard is that there just needs to be simpler ways to control your information we agree in a nutshell facebook's privacy settings are now all on one page so that's good you have more control over public information and facebook won't force you to make your interests part of a publicly available page anymore and you can opt out of all the applications and websites that might be sharing your information without your knowledge so you could just use Facebook as a way to communicate privately with a network of friends just like the original plan so here's how easy it is now you just go to this one page under privacy settings and then you can kind of choose from these presets so you've got an everything preset you have friends of friends settings super private friends only preset you have their recommended sharing settings or you can totally customize oh the application thing yeah that's just kind of a little text link like way down here because they don't really want you to turn that off we come on in other news this week the Department of Justice is reportedly looking into whether Apple unfairly threw its weight around the digital music business music industry sources say that Apple threatened to not promote songs if those songs were also promoted at amazon and since itunes controls seventy percent of the digital music market the DOJ is looking into whether Apple might have unfairly used its monopoly to squash competition which I would argue is the entire point of having a monopoly but I guess that's why we have laws it's a fine line also an apple and the new iphone is coming and they are clearing out the old ones the 16 gigabyte iphone 3gs is now ninety seven dollars at walmart with a new contract that's right iphones getting a rollback heck almost any Walmart shopper could probably afford one now also in preparation for the new iphone ATT raised its early termination fee on smartphones from $175 to a whopping three hundred twenty-five dollars to be fair verizon charges even more but somehow it doesn't seem so bad because of how if you have a verizon phone you can actually make phone calls and also get phone calls and send text messages stop me if you've heard this before okay but come on AT&T is trying the company set up a Wi-Fi hotspot in Times Square supposedly to relieve pressure on its network and to prepare for the flood of new iPhones that will stress that 3g network even more see but if the idea is that New Yorkers have a lot of iphones and they're gonna buy a lot of new ones and why put a hot spot in Times Square I thought there weren't any New Yorkers in Times Square maybe it's for the Walmart people and finally let's have a look at what's clogging the tubes this week it's the oh so clever BP global PR Twitter account no it's not a real BP account but if you're going to make jokes about a horrible ecologically disastrous oil spill this is the way to do it see but it's not just mockery those clever Devils also made t-shirts that they're selling for twenty-five dollars and the proceeds from the shirt go to healthy Gulf org and that's how you do it pretty slick guys I get it because of it ya know I'll just leave that to them and that's the buzz report for this week everyone I'm Hollywood and thank you for watching hi I'm Hollywood and welcome to the bus report the show about the tech news that everyone is talking about this week it's scurvy you bastard hahaha