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CNET: The Buzz Report: A Microsoft Christmas Carol

2008-11-20
now from the number one on air and online information source for the digital age hi i'm molly wood and welcome to the buzz report this week a fond farewell to jerry yang the iphone 3g comes to the masses and cats team up with robots but first it's the gadget of the week the gadget of the week is the blackberry storm yes finally we've been waiting for this phone forever if there's one that looks to be a true iphone killer it could be the storm big touchscreen with a clickable on-screen keyboard a 3.2 megapixel camera that takes video its own blackberry application store a nice sleek design 3G data speeds which is rare for a blackberry and of course all those really high-end corporate email features and here in the US it's about two hundred dollars with a two-year contract yeah I said the same thing damn we got ourselves a game now sports fans in the big news of the week yahoo CEO jerry yang announced that after presiding over share price drop from almost thirty dollars to ten dollars the rejection of a 33 dollar per share purchase offer from microsoft a yahoo shareholder revolt that ended in a shake-up of the board the failure of an 800 million dollar a year search deal with google and the layoffs of more than 2,400 people he's going to go ahead and step down as CEO yeah i think that sounds like a plan in other news a boy genius report says walmart and sam's club will start carrying the iphone 3g on december 28th we don't know why it's coming three days after Christmas but we do know that the news cause early adopter iphone snobs everywhere to check their phones into the nearest river and start looking for a phone that's not so everywhere perhaps a blackberry storm moving on microsoft this week announced price cuts to its flash-based zune players the 4 gigabyte model is now just ninety nine dollars while the high-end 16 gig version is 179 down from 199 the company said it hopes the price cuts plus new ads for the zune software will hopefully let them have a good holiday season that is sad like sad sad zoom zooms for sale help Microsoft have a happy holiday zunes try an iPod alternative 38,000 farthings guess he will zoom how about you mum Abba zoom so cold and finally let's have a look at what's clogging the tubes I was trying hard to stay away from the cute little animals this week but no one could escape the viral onslaught of the cat riding a Roomba they have transportation now next thing you know they'll be ordering their own food they don't even need us anymore and that's the buzz report for this week everyone I'm Mollywood and thank you for watching
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