Gadgetory

hi i'm molly wood and welcome to the buzz report this week scrabble wars kids these days and a possible google killer but first it's the gadget of the week the gadget of the week is the iphone huh okay no it's not really the iphone it's the iphone as vehicle for this new urbanspoon iphone app okay now urbanspoon whatever competitor to chow which we owned so don't go to the website but the iphone app is unbelievable ok first you use the phone's GPS to figure out where you are and then you put in some review criteria like restaurant cuisine type and then price and then you shake the phone and this little slot machine type business finds you a restaurant and then you can lock down things like let's see I'm in soma lock that South of Market I only want two dollar signs because I'm cheap and then I shake again and it finds another one this right here is the only reason I want an iphone well that in the lightsaber game do you think I could get those for blackberry come on and now for the news the scribe euless scrabble battle is gripping the nation first Hasbro and Electronic Arts released the official scrabble version for facebook then they sued the makers of Scrabble asst and then scribe euless promptly disappeared from facebook obviously then hours later the official scrabble game went down was it a sudden rush of users no apparently forces loyal to scribe euless hacked the ruling regime and briefly toppled it but the ragtag rebels couldn't stamp out the scrabble elite and the official rulers are now firmly back in power hey you know what all you scrub euless fans can do get back to work a new study shows that girls mature faster than boys when it comes to cell phones the multimedia intelligence study found that ninety-one percent of 17 year old girls have a cell phone while just seventy eight percent of 17 year old boys have one dear 17 year old boys would you like to get a date get a cell phone and speaking of the youth of today we've got a new segment here on the buzz report kids these days The Wall Street Journal reports this week on a new breed of job applicant kids who can't even spell anymore apparently some recent college grads are emailing thank you notes to prospective employers that include text message style abbreviations multiple exclamation points misspellings and even the horror emoticons let's take a look at an actual correspondence from a real college student hey thanks for the info the other day great to meet you hope you'll give me the job smiles think I'd be pretty good at it and get lots of raises real fast route LOL kthanksbye hiring managers say letters like this are usually deal killers because they're you know stupid and unprofessional so if you're a college kid and you're watching this trust me don't do that I'm not just saying that to be uncool and finally let's have a look at what's clogging the tubes the internet is going crazy for the new google killer cool it's spelled CU IL but it's pronounced cool clever write this out of left field search engine has a former search architect at Google on board 30 million dollars in funding and more than 120 million pages indexed it could be stronger faster and smarter than Google go try it out cool is a joke the search results are barely relevant to anything and the pictures don't match the results look at thinks I'm either this lady or natali del conte or I've launched the urban cartoon version of the buzz report and that name is the stupidest thing I've ever heard you can't pronounce it and you can't spell it the internet hates cool cool should never have even been born and that's the Internet in a nutshell sorry cool stick around though we might forget all about you and then fall in love all over again but I'm just FYI I look like this I'm Hollywood and this has been a buzz report thanks for watching