CNET: The Buzz Report: A Microsoft Christmas Carol
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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