Gadgetory

hi I'm Molly wooden welcome to the buzz report the show about the tech news that everybody's talking about this week it's the green damn delay a universal charger and burning burden iPhones but first it's the gadget of the week the gadget of the week is the Sony Walkman which is 30 years old this week can you believe that the seminal portable music player the gadget that launched a personal music revolution the icon of on-the-go listening is 30 years old that is like old I wonder if it thinks the music is too loud now and now for the news this comes as a surprise China pushed back its deadline for PC makers to pre install it's mandatory filtering software called green damp now all manufacturers were supposed to have the software pre-installed on PCs sold in China by July 1st but there were some serious problems with the software itself for example it apparently blocked images of say Garfield and cooked pork and Johnny Depp's face although let's face it that is porn but there were also of course all those international out cries and internet pressure and then an unprecedented joint letter from tech businesses around the world to the Chinese government the end result was that China decided at the very last second to delay the July 1st requirement whew but the news came too late for Sony which had already started selling computers with the software installed in fact it started a few days before the deadline and hasn't really said whether it plans to stop installing the software hey so China you're getting Adele in other news Europe will get a universal mobile phone charger by 2010 lucky ducks 10 of the world's biggest mobile phone makers have signed on to deliver new handsets by next year and of course the EU is hoping that the initiative will spread worldwide after that the phone makers on board include Nokia Research In Motion Motorola Sony Ericsson oh and you know who else Apple yeah remember back in February when the GSMA announced the universal charger spec and Apple refused to sign on I really think that it was the buzz reports logical cogent and well reasoned commentary that convinced them to change their mind most phones around the world will use the universal charger by 2012 except Apple phones Apple is not on board with this because they hate the earth they hate industry standards and they hate you I mean what else am I supposed to think you to Apple god yep you're welcome in other Apple related news reports are coming in that the new 3GS iPhone might have a little bit of an overheating problem one user posted a photo of a white iphone 3gs that had turned pink around the back reportedly from high heat in fact a PC world blogger said that her handset got so hot from constant use that she couldn't even put it up to her face this week Apple issued a support document that warned against leaving the iPhone in a hot car or using it constantly in direct sunlight or exposing it to extreme temperatures and the document revealed that the iPhone apparently has a temperature warning that lets you know if the device is overheating and needs a little break now les do you think that I'm gonna be totally snotty about this let's all please try to remember that the iPhone 600 megahertz processor used to live in something like this and it now lives in a gadget that is only slightly larger than my hand I mean computers get hot it's a thing cut him some slack seriously though it turns pink you think that's true cuz that's hilarious see that's why you don't make a white phone it flushes OH in ridiculous Twitter news of the week co-founder Biz Stone responded to Internet speculation with news that the company is indeed applying for a trademark on the word tweet a tweet as you know is what you call the actual message that someone Twitter's that is if you can bring yourself to say it with a straight face but apparently so many Twitter related businesses are being built with tweet in their names that Twitter's concerned there might be confusion over whose tweet belongs to whom Wow so first case on the docket 50 million Canaries next stop Tweety Bird when will it end and finally let's have a look at what's clogged in the tubes obviously this week it was only one thing Michael Jackson news of the king of pops death absolutely destroyed the Internet it broke Google which thought that a spike in news searches was actually some sort of virus or botnet attack it broke the LA Times it broke TMZ broke CBS news it broke twitter at broke Wikipedia broke a o L and of course it broke my heart the online frenzy also caused intranet douchebags everywhere to start making up fake stories about other celebrities who had died this week in terrible ways making the internet as usual the best and worst possible source of information to ever exist in the whole of human history oh and sorry Iran guess we're kind of over you now good luck with that whole democracy thing and that's the buzz report for this week everyone I'm Hollywood thank you for watching we'll have to hear the Robin go tweet tweet tweet crack and Robin tweet tweet lady rock and Robin tweet wait that's not fair you're rolling and I'm the only one on camera not cool I can really go rock