On today's show, we counted up all the times AT&T is making you pay them to deliver various bits, and frankly, we're mad as hell and we'...

From the desk of the big man himself: tablets are gonna be huge. Thanks for that one, boss. Also, iPhone 4 shipments are delayed again, ...

It has a blue ball on top. And the ball changes colors. And an ergonomic design. Stop us if we've covered this before ... it's the Sony ...

Flicker.com has finally joined Flickr.com in the Yahoo stable. Also, good luck pre-ordering an iPhone 4 -- AT&T can't keep up with Apple...

AT&T continues to perfect the art of apologizing without actually apologizing, wherein Goatse blames them right back. Some sporadic ...

On today's show, size matters. You're going to hear that a lot. So, apologies in advance. Also, we have a great interview at the top of ...

On today's episode, we discover that frenemies make for great collusion, everyone at the White House is suddenly sorry they bought all t...

AOL says it's hiring hundreds of journalists, which they seem to do all the time, and then they're never heard from again ... hmm. In ot...

On today's show, Podfather Adam Curry joins us for gloves-off battles about everything from whether Apple should put out the iPhone for ...

After two solid hours of live coverage of the Steve Jobs keynote at WWDC, we dissect the announcement and offer you all the takeaways. O...

You're going to have to listen to the show to understand the evolution of our favorite new phrase, "mucho bogo." Speaking of evolution, ...

Poor Mark Zuckerberg has an almost-literal meltdown on-stage at All Things D and it makes us wonder: is it time for a grownup to take ov...

Now that the Facebook "Like" button is all over the darned Internet, it's turning out to be both a privacy nightmare (shocker) and a sec...

If Google told you to jump off a bridge, would you do it? And if you did it, would you seriously try to sue Google for telling you to do...

On today's show, it turns out flies are getting smell-o-vision before we do. Whatever. Also, the next Apple TV is coming, and you won't ...

Our verdict on Facebook's privacy retool: well ... we're tough graders. Also today, will Steve Ballmer show up at the WWDC keynote? Palm...

Facebook rolls out its new privacy changes live during our show! How nice of them. In a nutshell, near as we can tell, everything is goi...

If you don't like broad patents on potentially world-changing scientific developments like scientific genomes, well, then, build your ow...

Rafe hits us with the best Facebook analogy yet: it's like a nude beach that you have to go to, and also, it rips your clothes off. Also...

We have synthetic life! Craig Venter's new bacterium is alive and is blue... because that's what it's programmed to be. Also, Google say...

Apparently, Australian border guards can now search your laptops for porn when you enter the country. Um. Ok. As a protest, we suggest e...

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The indignities start with problem in the New York studio that keep Molly from being visible on today's show, and then end with the rea...

Did Paramount actually issue a DMCA takedown to some people who filmed "Transformers 3" while it was being filmed outside their window!...

As promised in Episode 1228, here is the unabridged montage of Tom's best moments on BOL. If your podcatcher only downloads the most re...

The Buzz Crew gathers into the small studio to roast and toast Tom on his last episode of Buzz Out Loud. You will be missed by many, si...

We just did that to blow out your pun sensors. It's Tom's next-to-last show, and we have a big announcement: Rafe Needleman will be tak...

In the Soviet Union oil leaks get nuked. That's not a Yakov Smirnoff joke, it's apparently history. So we discuss whether we should d...

We hear some pretty bad scare stories about Facebook in this episode. Yes, we know, how could they top the ones you've already heard? ...

There's all kinds of vibrating on today's episode. from the server farm I imagine sits in Rafe's bedroom, to the oscillations of molec...

Our theme for today's show? Somebody's watching you, and it ain't just the Police. It's also Facebook and Google, and apparently some p...

When backed into a corner, the FCC acts less like a bear and more like a kitten ... which is probably a good thing for the Internet ove...

Phrases are coined left and right on today's show, from our plans to unbumble the Internet to the chat-room created phrase "gestApple,"...

On today's show, we discuss the coming of the IPv4 black market, throwing more nanodots at the solid-state storage market, and we've go...

The folks who built the Internet are thinking it could be a great idea if flying cars were available in military zones to help extract ...

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Steve jobs picks a digital beef, or digibeef, with Adobe over Apple's holdout on Flash, Palm and HP get married, we talk about the Sony...

Between the legal drama playing out in the South Bay (Gizmodo raid! Dubious warrants! Potential counter-suits!) and the latest developm...

Dun DUN! Police break down the door of a Gizmodo editor's house looking for evidence of some sort of crime involving the lost iPhone pr...

Natali Del Conte joins us in the studio to discuss really important issues such as boobquake day, cartoons, and violent video games. Oh...

Is this the ultimate early adopter penalty? If you buy more than two iPads to send to your friends overseas or give to your family, you...

On today's show, a perfectly innocent-sounding caller makes a terrifying suggestion, McAfee bricks a whole lot of computers all at once...

Adobe says it's taking its ball and getting off that dumb old Apple platform altogether. Apple says, hey, we super totally don't care b...

Ubisoft is doing away with paper manuals, which means gaming n00bs will be forever stuck in virtual corners trying to figure out the ri...

The HTC Droid Incredible is available for pre-order, and no lie, we drooled a little bit over it. We also uncover the Google conspiracy...

We tried so hard to enjoy various good news items today, like how the DirecTV TiVo is coming in 2010, Sony is climbing up the game cons...

Warning: contains strong language (that will be bleeped by the time you hear this), but we frankly couldn't help ourselves when we saw ...

You would not believe the rants in this episode ... coming out of Tom. No, seriously. Something about AT&T's ongoing attempts to have t...

Today is just baffling, frankly, for all of us. Twitter has a business plan, Opera Mini has been approved by the Apple App Store, the m...

We're encouraged by several things about Microsoft's messaging phones, but the name isn't one of them. Especially naming a button on it...

Pluto's in danger of insult again, as scientists decide that anything bigger than a potato should be a dwarf planet. Or something like t...

In today's episode, we follow the Apple live-stream for earthshattering iPhone OS additions like multitasking (woo!), an interactive ad...

Alternative "Big Ole" titles include "Big Ole Podcast," "Big Ole Bite of Intel's Giant Robotic Hamster," and so on. In the actual news,...

On our 1200th episode, we give you special, unprecedented access inside the inner workings of the show. Or, put more accurately, we scr...

We didn't hit you with the iPad talk right off the top, because there's interesting news from Google, iPhone OS news, and a Microsoft m...

With Molly out covering the iPad launch for your local CBS stations, we're free to make wanton puns about knot theory. And we do. Plu...

Once again this year, we've had it with April Fool's jokes. Except for one. You'll see. If you're more tired of iPad than you are of Ap...

We talk a bit about the iPad and Rafe reveals that his iPad is in quantum indeterminacy. He has it reserved but he hasn't paid for it....

It's our five-year anniversary today, and wow, is that a long time. We've been here longer than the iPhone (rumors of a Verizon phone a...

The show's a pretty well-controlled train wreck right up until we start talking about the underwear that texts when it's, um, moist. No...

Today's show opens with a not-unexpected rant about AT&T trying to sell you a $150 MicroCell to "supplement" the "coverage" you already...

We accidentally besmirch the reputation of Danica Patrick, come up with some reasons why Bing might actually work (except for how it ap...

On today's show, there's tech news, but there's also the new Sprint Evo 4G, and that's kind of all we can think about. Its big 4-inch s...

Announcing our very first not-even-remotely sanctioned by the legal department video creation contest: make us an awesome video in whic...

Google and China's war heats up a bit. Amazon is apparently not going to war against the iPad. But the most compelling news of the day...

Turns out, according to some developers, that the only way to get your hands on a prereleased iPad is to build it a special sealed bunk...

Apparently some auto dealers sell cars to folks with bad credit if those folks agree to allow a box to be installed in their car that g...

If 3D is the chicken and the Avatar DVD is the egg, somehow we should all get free chickens or 3D is DOA. Or something like that. We've...

Veronica Belmont and Ben Huh join us on stage to talk about the brewing war between Apple and Google, pay walls on the web... and we al...

Today's BOL happened before a live studio audience at SXSW in Austin, TX. Cali Lewis and Nicole Lee joined us on stage to discuss the s...

Patent wars reignite, the Internet is nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize, and multitasking may be coming to the iPhone. It's an epic sor...

We've utterly given up the concept of "on-topic" today, as talk of Apple's Developer License Agreement suddenly turns into a conversati...

The European Parliament is, somewhat unexpectedly, riding the the world's rescue by demanding that the super evil ACTA agreement be neg...

Weren't the folks who ordered an Intel Core i7 surprised when they got a Styrofoam fake instead? Well, yes. But we still haven't heard ...

On today's show, a special interview with Adam Sadowsky, president of Syynlabs, the OK Go video, "This Too Shall Pass." Turns out makin...

On today's show, Apple wants to wipe all HTC phones from the face of the earth, apparently because Steve Jobs is just grouchy about thi...

We stayed on the rails pretty well in this episode, but there's a whole long thing about cake toward the end that the chat room dubbed ...

Microsoft's latest security measure involves telling everyone not press F1. Well that's reasonable. If you read everything Microsoft ...

New music stars are finally being told to social network buy the record labels and now they're throwing a fit. Benito thinks they're ju...

In and amongst our fights over Facebook patents, TV spectrum and the reasons for the decline of music, we find time to agree on one thi...

It was a fantasy trip on Buzz Out Loud today, wherein fairy dust and unicorns are the new power generators of the future (Bloom Box), M...

Talk about a sentence custom-designed to send a chat room off the rails. But the actual topic of discussion was the massive insecurity ...

The pants meme is strong in this episode -- so strong we can't even pinpoint it to a certain topic. Google Buzz is pants, Microsoft may...

In today's show, more unbelievable details from the top-secret Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement leak out, and we determine (again) t...

Today on Buzz Out Loud, fun kills and companies kill fun. Apple kills all the good boob stuff in the App Store, Google's building its D...

We have two awesomely inexplicable voice mails today, we discuss the rise of Zeus (the botnet), and Ubisoft's new DRM scheme sends us i...

Well, ok, 3D might not make you go blind, but we think the issue warrants further study. At least, Molly and Rafe think it warrants fur...

Spoiler: it's Veronica! Also, gambling prostitutes. Ms. Belmont joins us today to talk about Google's abject apologies and speculate ab...

The rumor mill has it that Amazon wants to give its Prime subscribers a free Kindle. Like, all of them. We think that fails the sniff t...

We think, due to the magic of search-engine optimization, that this episode is about to become our highest-rated ever. P.S. Attention, ...

When botnets do battle for your desktop, you lose. But we still find it kind of cool. Google Buzz on the other hand, we're not so sure ...

Google rolls out its new Buzz feature and all we can say is this: don't even THINK of calling your new text-to-speech chat feature "Buz...

Today's BOL ushers in the dawn of ... a new drinking game! Whenever you hear us say "definitely" on today's show -- and it's going to b...

We cover Amazon's capitulation to another publisher, and Google's book deal comes under assault from the Department of Justice. Jeff Zu...

We discover that the Internet is just as dangerous as outside, which means you need to wear clean underwear. Natali also invents the I...

Nexus One gets multitouch but the rest of the Android universe is left out in the cold. Plus, Motorola's not using the "Droid" name for...

On the Internet, the only thing harder to fight than frivolous copyright infringement accusations is comment trolls. Nevertheless, we'r...

On today's show, Amazon gets called out on price-fixing, even though Macmillan wants to charge too much for e-books. AT&T redefines "un...

While every woman on Earth universally thinks the name iPad is stupid, Fujitsu still wants to own it. We'll tell you about the Fujitsu...

Yes of course we rehash the Apple iPad. We find out how to pronounce it properly in Boston. And we determine that it is the fundament...

We recorded right after Steve Jobs finished his 90-minute announcement of the Apple iPad, Apple's new tablet computer. It's variably i...

The FAA has asked Boeing to prove that its new connected airplane isn't so connected it can connect hackers. We also discuss why folks...

Amid the news of China picking a fight with the U.S. over Google, and Jammie Thomas-Rasset getting her fine reduced, we've got a goldmi...

The FCC is coming for the schools and churches just like that crazy guy on the corner told you! On June 12, it'll require anybody usin...

We had the pleasure of chatting with Jared Cohen, Senior Adviser to Secretary Hillary Clinton today. He gave us some more insight into ...

Breaking news during the show has Verizon admitting to cutting off the Internet access of people accused of illegal downloading. But he...

Though Apple has officially announced an announcement, we don't know what it is, so we speculate anyway. Sue us. Will you pay $2 for a...

The Google China drama continues with some startling revelations about an Internet Explorer 6 vulnerability. And Tim from Kansas has an...

The Google-China drama continues as China makes a veiled response that only law-abiding companies are welcome in the People's Republic....

Due to some Gmail attacks, Google has said it will remove its filters and possibly pull out of China altogether. There's definitely a ...

Google apologized to China for miscommunication over their scanning of books. But that didn't stop them from scanning the books. Or e...

We discuss the winners of this year's Best of CES awards, and make our very own picks as well. But the most important news of the day h...

A new technology from Zyxio allows you to control your PC by breathing. Obviously this is good for accessibility, but it could also me...

Though the conference opens for the public today, this is our second live show from CES 2010. Leo Laporte joins us on stage to discuss ...

You'll know we're recording this episode from the stage before the show has actually begun because of the loud machinery crunching away...

We are on our way to CES in Las Vegas so there will be no new episode today. Instead, here is an excerpt from episode 1131 where we pre...

So, Bono has been listening to his manager and soaking up the idea that the Internet needs to be locked down before it ruins the video ...

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At the beginning of 2009, we made a whole bunch of predictions about the next year in the technology space. Turns out, we are really ba...

This year's best of show is made up entirely of clips sent to us by listeners. We selected and edited them to make a good-flowing show,...

This year's best of show is made up entirely of clips sent to us by listeners. We selected and edited them to make a good-flowing show,...

This year, we bring Stephen (aka Darthweef), Joanne (aka Engnr_chik), Tom Merritt (the doppleganger from the UK) and Phil Barter onto t...

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Breaking new right at the top of the show as Microsoft loses its appeal and the court rules they have to stop selling infringing copies...

Verizon explains its early termination fee reasoning. It turns out it's just trying to help the poor. You see, when they charge these ...

Google is in talks to buy Yelp and it may finally be pushing the line over what's too big. Sure, a lot of you thought it was too big a...

Rumors are that next year Google will add a Netbook brand along with its phone branding, and possibly begin a line of consumer electron...

So the European Union and Microsoft have finally settled their differences and will begin the browser ballot with no less than 12 brows...

Among the news of new URL shorteners and Australian Internet filters comes one of the darkest moments in microblogging: Microsoft has p...

Some enterprising hackers have rooted the Barnes & Noble Nook, giving them unrestricted access to the underlying Android operating syst...

So, Apple bought Lala, and Ars Technica thinks it has a source who knows what Apple's going to do with it-- it's going to make a Web si...

A new service uses the power of 400 virtualized computers in the cloud to test the security of your WPA WiFi password. They only charge...

AT&T announced they're going to help San Francisco and New York with data coverage, but then blamed the children for all their bandwidt...

Yahoo has a new program to spread kindness. But Cooley hates it. Why? There's no app for that. We also discover the true meaning of hol...

Microsoft cancels its family licensing program and Molly decides it needs a lesson in economics. Stop focusing on dimes, Microsoft! We...

Google is offering a public DNS service (DNS is the address book for Internet domains) that will resolve the domain names you type into ...

Turns out Dell says it never deleted complaints from its forums about throttled processors, and it is working hard to fix the issues wi...

Facebook's changing its privacy policy, and Molly and Rafe predict there will be groups. I don't think anyone cares about regional gro...

Yahoo and Google have released their top search terms of the year and--no surprise--it's full of pop culture icons and references, whic...

One thing Droid users can lord over iPhone fanatics is the new porn app. Yes, with no Apple adult minding its app catalog, Android us...

A new survey shows the messaging behavior of men and women on dating sites. And it leads Natali to the inevitable conclusion that you ...

New Netbook chips promise to increase battery life, which sends Molly into a tizzy about battery life. But battery life does not keep ...

Microsoft is apparently willing to pay Rupert Murdoch to block Google from indexing any of his company's Web sites. Are we headed towar...

Why the long Face...book? A woman battling depression put some pictures of herself having fun privately on Facebook. Somehow the insu...

The rumors about the Apple Tablet are getting crazy and special guest Cali Lewis nails it when she calls it a unicorn. We also get the...

IBM is working on an artificial brain they think they'll have done by 2019. And we figure once that happens, the robots will rise and w...

No, no, fellow residents of southern Illinois, not tractor pulling--tracker pulling! The Pirate Bay has pulled out the trackers, but t...

The Podcast awards are on, and we're up against TWiT again, so we had to get drastic. We will no longer protect your chicken from Dokk...

Turns out when we blew up the moon a few weeks ago, we found water! Yay! The bottled water companies are presumably planning their tri...

I'm very pleased that LegalTorrents.com has come along to prove that I'm not crazy when I say there are plenty of legal reasons to use ...

Bing has taken over MSN video and it has videos from every network. Why isn't Microsoft trumpeting this? We also get really confused b...

A new law in Europe protects all citizens from the evils of cookies. Instead of relying on people to operate their own browsers, Europ...

We get an email telling us our podcast RSS feed is now blocked in China after talkign abotu the dispute over World of Warcraft between ...

Apparently the Large Hadron Collider is doomed. It can't even survive a bread bombing by birds. The Droid arrived on the scene though,...

The European Commission has decided that every citizen has a right to the Internet, but still made it fairly easy for the media industr...

Leaks from the secret negotiations of the ACTA treaty allege that ISPs worldwide would be required to lose safe-harbor protections, imp...

The mystical city of Argleton in the U.K. appears on Google Maps but presents a face of green empty fields to people in person. What i...

Over at BlueBeat.com, the best MP3-selling Website you've never heard of, has got it all for your listening pleasure, the entire Beatle...

Turns out those terahertz scanners in the airports are mostly safe, but they do a little unzipping of your DNA. Derek says it's nothing...

Amazon's trying to compete with PayPal with a new service that brings one-click shopping into the rest of the non-Amazon world. We also...

Rafe is being drawing in to a love story with the new Motorola Droid. Dare we call it a Dro-mance? It's certainly a flashy new phone f...

MySpace and Facebook are hooking up? In a way. Maybe. But the real meat of the news today is all the e-book hype. Barnes and Noble will...

Bill Keller from the New York Times let slip he's been working on a version of the New York Times for the Apple Slate. Great! What the...

So the French have passed a three strikes law that will disconnect your Internet if accused three times of piracy. At least there's so...

OK yeah, we talk about Windows 7 and it's lovefest but it's so over. Time to get into the rumor mill again for the Windows 8 release. W...

Molly and I go off on the Net neutrality debate, not so much about what the meaning of it is, but more on why you shouldn't use lies to...

New technology allows organic brain cells to control robots, leading us to conclude that eventually we'll all be brains in a data cente...

Have a Google Voicemail account? Have some voicemails in there? I may have listened to them today! Thanks to some leaks in the Googl...

Mozilla is upset about the browser ballot screen because it's alphabetical, left to right, by manufacturer. That means Apple gets the ...

Amazon announced same-day delivery for certain areas today, although we're not sure if you can buy wines by the glass. We also cover th...

Calculator hackers have figured out how to run independent OSes on TI calculators. Unfortunately TI wants to stop them. Why? We have no...

Yes, Nokia launched a new Netbook, and yes, Twitter fought the law and won. But it wasn't until the end of today's show that we finall...

First, apologies for the song that will be stuck in your head for at least a week. Blame the chat room. In the news today, the T-Mobile...

Rafe wonders what could possibly go wrong with Comcast monitoring its users to protect them from malware. In the process, Rafe makes a ...

NASA is sending a rocket into the moon Friday morning to study the composition of lunar material. But really, you stopped listening whe...

There's a little panic over the fact that Bing's market share dropped last month, but you have to remember, folks, Bing is young. Rafe ...

Viacom may have found a smoking gun in their billion-dollar case against YouTube, but on the other hand, we speculate YouTube may have ...

An analyst from Morgan Stanley asserts that Apple would sell more iPhones if it offered the phone on more carriers. Really? Wow. We ...

In the U.K., you don't have to be in the presence of someone to serve them with legal papers. So now Twitter has become a way to get se...

Or perhaps we should call it OLPC. One laptop per criminal. The idea of letting prisoners use computers is good, but fraught with per...

While the Apple Tablet is much more fashionable to hype, the Microsoft Courier turns out to be very hype-worthy. We also find out, once...

A Google Android mod received a cease and desist for including Google apps in the mod. Seriously? Google may not be a walled garden wi...

As AT&T tries to accuse Google of violating Net neutrality, Molly wonders if they really just want to be seen as a villain. Also while ...

Twitter trades hype for a huge cash infusion, Windows 7 attempts to create hype with a spectacularly awfsome video, and we cover all th...

Microsoft shows "Pink" (sort of), MMS disaster, er, feature about to launch on iPhone, Wii gets price cut, Archos new Win7 tablet looks...

We're not real sure about the iRex reader, Microsoft's Courier is a lot of smoke, Palm gets told to sit down and be quiet about iTunes ...

AT&T let's you pay for its network holes, Chrysler puts auto manuals on DVD (and how are you supposed to use that in the car?), MySpace...

A listener reports that NFL.com subjected him to a 75-second pre-roll ad. Not funny, NFL. In the news today, the FCC proposes codifying...

We finally get to the bottom of why Apple rejected the Google Voice App, how not to get caught for being a thief over Facebook, and we ...

The new DreamScreen tablet from HP looks like what everyone wants from Apple at first glance. Until we dig deeper and find out it may b...

That beautiful silvery comet you saw in the sky recently was actually astronaut urine. No joke. We also avoid talking about pee for m...

Lots of stories with buzz today, including a new Archos Android tablet, the launch of Zune HD, and voice chat on Facebook. Of course, ...

T-Mobile's parent company is considering buying Sprint Nextel, meaning we'd have only three big cell phone companies in the US. But in...

Natali has an internal Twitter dialogue about whether to let the world know that the last pumpkin scone has been sold. The Zune HD will...

A 4GB file can traverse 60 miles in 2 hours by pigeon, but that gets you only 4 percent of the file over the South African Internet. W...

Apple announcements were a little mundane. The One More Thing was an iPod Nano with a camera. We were more impressed with the fact th...

We realize the problem with an operating system installation party is there's nothing to do. We also warn you about the great iPod came...

The monkeys are running the zoo: Rafe Needleman, Brian Cooley, and Brian Tong, with producer Lynn Fu, cover the iPhone finally getting ...

Ok, but just to be clear, when I say it's time for me to get a pimp, what I MEAN is that it's time to get a PMP -- a portable media pla...

3D TV? Augmented reality in your contacts? The world is getting awesome. Unless you have an Xbox 360. But it's birthday season too. fo...

A judge has determined that violating terms of service is bad, but it's not tantamount to unauthorized access of a computer system. Go...

Sure Apple has made their September 9 announcement official, and yeah Disney is buying Marvel and will soon own Spider-man. But we're m...

I'm not sure why I mentioned an actual piece of horse, but it had to do with trojan horses and mysterious laptops showing up at Governo...

Yes. Snow Leopard reviews are out, and I have my favorite. But the more interesting story is Mozilla finding out that people didn't wa...

We discuss the developing story that the 4GB RAM limit in Windows is nothing but a license maneuver. Say it ain't so, Microsoft? Also A...

Monarchy, mercantilism, and Talmudic tech are on the table today. We get a little obscure in our references...at least I do...but Leo a...

Apple's letter to the FCC makes some pretty incredible claims about what Google Voice does to the iPhone's phone functionality. TechCru...

Rafe and I get in a fight over Windows 7's loose activation policy. Brian suggests we hug out. Rafe and I seem to prefer stabbing it ...

LG announced that Orange in the U.K. will have the exclusive rights to sell the watch phone. But will anyone who isn't a d-bag want on...

A new study shows that Internet Explorer 8 is the most secure browser in the world. Who paid for the study? Guess. We also uncover the ...

Palm's adding more apps to a commercialized app store. It's calling it the app catalog, which got us thinking about all the different n...

A caller wonders what happens to the Chevy Volt if you have the gas in there too long. Does the gas go bad? Well, it could get gummy....

We learn that not only is a botnet using Twitter to store some of its data but that botnet follow Veronica. Who is a bot herself. We ...

The Zune HD is coming in colors. But none of them are brown. And do you really care? We also talk about the ePub format. Will it cha...

The i4i Chairman Loudon Owen joins us to talk about why his company is suing Microsoft to prevent selling Word as it is currently. Sou...

We started by reporting on the amazing technology that allows pacemakers to wirelessly transmit diagnostic info to a bedside device mak...

So at one time before February 2008, you could get a domain name for life if you signed up for Microsoft's Office Live. Today Microsoft...

I don't know. It must be the low blood sugar but I called us the podcast of indeterminate lake. But we still were able to talk sensibl...

So, Twitter has had a hard time staying up today because of a denial of service attack. But we think we have the answer. And it's ava...

CNET's Donald Bell previewed the Zune HD and it brought him tears of joy. But the rest of us think it's about three years too late. W...

Radio Shack, as we mentioned yesterday, is changing to The Shack. But a good restaurant in Connecticut is also called The Shack and has...

Federal CTO Aneesh Chopra drops by to chat with us about the technology policies of the current US administration. We ask him our own ...

We could have talked about yet another Apple tablet rumor but the chat room vetoed it. The chat room rulez! We do discuss Google's CEO...

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The Microsoft Yahoo hookup finally happened and now all their friends are glad the drama's over. But they're not getting hitched. Micr...

Today, we hear how the Del Conte's deal with their enemies, find out what kind of deposit Tong makes when he visits a bank, wonder why...

On today's episode, we invent a new word that we hope will show up on a show like "The Hills" sometime soon. Plus, we get fired up, mak...

Teflon Don reveals that he is well, entirely coated in Teflon. But we still don't know if the iPhone 3GS is. So if you know, tell us. ...

Zappos has been acquired by Amazon, meaning Amazon will have even more shoes to sell, but also a new corporate culture to integrate wit...

We're very happy to welcome you to our 1,024th episode, which as we know means we will no longer to count the shows in binary on two ha...

Supposedly, we will get finalization on the 802.11N wireless standard in September. Of course, we've been waiting for that for years n...

On the 40th anniversary of the moon landing, we sadly report on the state of the broken toilet in the International Space Station. It m...

While Yahoo and Microsoft are flirting again and video game sales are plummeting, it doesn't matter. We are all going to be eaten soon...

Who has the most perfect balls in the world? Metrologists. No, seriously. They do. You should see the pictures. This is serious science...

Bill Gates wonders why Google would want to make a browser-based operating system. In fact he wonders what exactly a browser is anyway...

Bing's June bump won't be enough to take significant share from Google according to JP Morgan analysts. Of course, analysts will say a...

Natali has some tips for secure password hints that involve her armpits. You'll just have to listen. We also give our thoughts on Offi...

The monarchy comes to Twitter, but of course the Queen doesn't sully her fingers on the keyboard, she has a royal twitterer do that. W...

We all get in a big argument over whether all-in-one devices are more convenient than discrete devices. Cooley thinks discrete device...

On today's Buzz Out Loud, Natali and Molly form a new Amazonian society in advance of the development of artificial sperm. But in much ...

Just like the LG Watch, we are a 21st century product for the 21st century consumer. Which means we exist now for people who exist now...

Well, you don't really need to totally disregard this episode, but that is what 10-12 means in CB radio talk. And the news is light. ...

CNET's U.S. offices are closed today, but we have a special episode for you. We had so many great submissions to our 1,000th episode th...

On today's show, we discover that Microsoft is a fine American company that thinks nothing of shafting its highest-paying users or subj...

As the new owners of the Pirate Bay take over they will have to eventually change things and sell out. So Rafe has dubbed them as Crui...

China has delayed required installation of Green Dam Youth Escort, but we find out it does a better job blocking pork than porn. Whew....

NASA may have found the lost moon tapes and our best hope is for some kind of remix. Also, Molly tells us all to beware the sticky dea...

Artists are developing robots that can consume flies and rodents. That means they'll get a taste for flesh. What could go wrong? They ...

Bill Gates is part of a team that has patented a new beer keg. Sure it could be used for other things. But the point was we're pretty...

Dr. Kiki from This Week in Science joins us to talk tech and science and we realize that we will all soon wear solar-powered Gundam sui...

OK, not really. Although she did admit to it. But it had to do with Intel getting into Nokia phones somehow. Or did it have to do wit...

Without Rafe and Brian Cooley on the show, we felt it was safe to have French tech podcaster Patrick Beja on the show to talk tech. Don...

Bozeman, Montana, has decided they need everyone's social network log-ins and passwords to conduct background checks on prospective emp...

Because if we do, awesome. Today is our 1,000th episode and we are so grateful that so many people came together to celebrate. Tomorro...

Natali got a little flustered when we learned that AT&T is changing the subsidy so that folks who thought they would have to pay more m...

Chinese filtering software has been criticized for having holes. The solution? Fix it. How communist. We also give you a hack for g...

Vic the Texas Rancher pilot wrote in, but somehow in the twisted mind of Molly Wood his name became Tex Ranger Panda. And now she can'...

Tonight the land rush begins for Facebook usernames and URLs. We'll tell you all about that. Also, Microsoft gets petulant and remove...

Should you do a prepaid broadband card? What if it costs you more for the convenience? What if your payments expire after 10 days if yo...

It's all girls and me today, which leads to hilarious consequences including an outbreak of Simlish. We also figure out the solution t...

We are almost done talking about the Pre and iPhone, but not quite. We do talk about the Nokia N91 and Qik streaming on all Nokia phone...

We recap all the announcements from Apple's WWDC keynote, especially ruminating on what the tethering app will cost for AT&T customers....

We wrap up coverage of the Palm Pre but are too early for the WWDC. Don't worry. We'll cover those announcements in a separate episod...

But the question is, who's the lumberjack? (Psst, it's Shankland. Watch the video version.) We also discuss chain-mail Ziploc bags, w...

Sure we talked about how Brian Tong rents his shoes, and got some insight into Rafe's love of Mila Jovanovic, but the big news is the f...

We discover a great way to make omelets in a Ziploc bag, as well as rename the Netbook Guggenheimer and discover the cattle prods will ...

Brian Cooley goes all Noel Coward on me when we ask if he wants to share viewing over the Xbox 360. We also talk about the Project Nat...

We have a crazy call from Dwight suggesting Palm and Apple are hooking up. OK that's just crazy, but entertaining. Most entertaining w...

Natali brings our discussion of the MEMS-based accelerometer technology to a screeching halt when she suggests it be used in bed. This...

We were pretty shocked to find the announcement on Reuters that Verizon will get the Palm Pre in six months. Color us shocked. Also, T...

The Jitterbug phone was supposed to make it easy for anyone to call 9111. Seems they left out the people in remote rural areas. Oh, we...

Microsoft may change the name of the Kumo to Bing, which makes us wonder what the past tense of Bing would be. Bong. Also Last.FM is u...

It's Memorial Day in the United States, and to celebrate the more literal definition of Memorial, we all share a personal tech-related ...

Pope Benedict XVI has embraced Facebook but it's just an app. So you can't write on the pope's wall or poke him. We also are excited fo...

Well, according to one listener, you can't get away from underwear in Japan so the Google StreetView cameras shouldn't try. Also if you...

Microsoft just got a patent for disabling your operating system until you pay an "agreed-on sum of money." Also we find out that the Pa...

But you can point north if you wear a belt of a dozen or so magnets all the time. We'll explain. Also Palm Pre is coming for $200 and...

Apparently cash is still king in Spain, according to one listener. And here I thought it was Juan Carlos. We also notice how Craigslist...

We discuss a computer algorithm that can determine if photos are pretty or not. I guess hot or not is going out of business. We also l...

Well, actually, people are made of black holes. But I couldn't do a Soylent Green reference if I wrote that. We also talk about Natal...

We learn that Donald is a one-man polka band, Twitter people are never satisfied, and it may be getting slightly easier out there for p...

According to the Office 10 Twitter account, Zune lovers will be happy in June. If that wasn't weird enough, they also warn you not to ...

AT&T unveils its new prepaid plan, which we think only Jason Bourne could love. Also, analysts say Android is poised for 900 percent gr...

Cooley needs a cigarette after a personal moment related to the wonder of band printers and the glory of dot-matrix. Who knew? We also ...

It's a-hole Thursday on Buzz Out Loud today, as we regale you, the listening audience, with tales of cyber-douchebaggery on Wikipedia, ...

On today's show, we have a lot to apologize for, but don't hold your breath because it ain't happening. (It's all just a desperate plea...

We speculate even more on the rumored large format Kindle, and get the announcement date wrong right from the start. What, we're suppos...

On today's show: thoughts on a bigger Kindle made for reading newspapers (fail), Sprint's earnings report (fail), whether Microsoft wil...

On today's show, Molly, Rafe, and Brian Cooley take over for Tom, Natali, and sanity. Between ISP censorship in Minnesota, Faceook phis...

Natali's out, and Jason and I are joined by Donald and Brian Tong, making for a fun-filled episode in which Tom says stupid, guy things...

We're not sure that Barney Frank gambles in his pajamas, but he's fighting for your right to do so in the United States. Also, Verizon...

Brian Cooley gets mad at the Swiss and the Dutch in this episode and takes up the defense of Microsoft. We also decide to pitch IBM aga...

IBM is creating a computer that will go to battle against contestants on Jeopardy, and we envision that it will be something like an In...

We get taken to task today for our segues, which, we admit, can be quite forced sometimes. So, we show some examples of the good and t...

One of our listeners is stunned that you can buy a song from John Cage in the iTunes store that is 4 minutes and 33 seconds of silence....

Scientists have simulated a part of the brain, molecule by molecule, and may possibly be able to simulate an entire brain soon. This h...

One of our listeners is upset that Pizza Hut is hiring interns to Twitter for them. We try to show the difference between astroturfing...

Macs infected with a new pirate-induced botnet are launching denial-of-service attacks! Do you have your zombie botnet preparedness kit...

Today's show may be held together by duct tape and super glue, but Jeff Bakalar was kind enough to help us cover the day's news. Time W...

Maggie Reardon from News.com joins Natali and me to talk about a host of cell phone news, including new iPhone patents, legislation aro...

Don't walk slowly and then stop abruptly if you are on the sidewalks of New York City; Natali might show you a new type of road rage. A...

NBC and the cable companies are teaming up to make it really annoying for you to watch the Winter Olympics onlione. Brian Cooley sums ...

In this case it refers to Jeff Bakalar's face, but it could also refer to Amazon, Steve Jobs, and Skype. Well at least in part. Find ...

AT&T had an outage yesterday morning in the bay area due to fiber-optical cables being cut. This didn't just affect landlines, but cel...

There is a lot about pants in today's episode. I mean, the French Parliament killed the Net piracy bill, Conficker started adding a key...

Seeing how the cyborg is real and the mutants are not, I think the cyborg will win this. Yes the cyborg is real. He's a filmmaker with...

The DS has a new add-on that includes a pedometer to help you measure your walking. We don't know if it will slim down the Mii that got...

Rafe and Molly take over the show today (because of travels by Tom and Natali) and, not surprisingly, geek out and argue a lot about t...

Turns out surfing Facebook at work has a name and it's good for your productivity. A study shows that 20 percent of your time spent Wo...

We're not talking about a team of dancing zombies; we mean a team of friends to form her Zombie Preparedness task force. Because it is...

The whole world was fooled into fearing a huge storm of worminess that never happened. Was it because we were prepared or because it r...

A new scanner developed by Kaminsky and friends can help find Conficker infected machines. We're so drenched in Conficker news at this...

The Streamy awards made me think of how Hollywood and the video bloggers are starting to come together. It made Natali think about uri...

Rafe coins a new name for a port of the iFart application for the BlackBerry. But really the show is much more about variable pricing c...

While Twitter has announced a sort of a business plan, President Obama is ripping off Digg for an Internet town hall meeting, and Windo...

Ron Richards from iFanboy joins us as we finish today's show with a discussion of Geek vs. Nerd and decide Dork is the next wave. We al...

We actually talk about Jennifer Aniston's relationship problems today, because she allegedly blamed them on Twitter. I think Twitter h...

Playboy opens up their back catalog of magazines to the world of the internet for free, and we're all at a loss of words. Tread lightly...

We have finally hit on an appropriate term for very small lightweight laptops: the Buttbook, as in small enough to fit in your butt poc...

Apple is apparently suing the maker of an iPhone dock called the Podium because the product name has the word pod in it. Really? So i...

A bat hitched a ride on the space shuttle Discovery and I think it's going to be a long long time till touchdown brings it down again. ...

The 3.0 version of the iPhone firmware is coming in the summer and will feature copy and paste, MMS, search, and more. All things a ch...

The Lenovo Yoga isn't a Netbook; it's a ripoff of the HP Jornada. It also apparently fits in a pocket, but it's a little long for all ...

Blasted XP didn't warn me that my hard drive was full! Therefor, half of the podcast didn't record. Thankfully, I was able to salvage y...

Somehow we packed a conference room with more people than we had chairs for here at South by Southwest. Special guests Caroline McCarth...

Justin Yu is not a virgin, but he plays one on this podcast. And that's just the kind of thing you get when you have a member of the 4...

Firefox is trying a new blank tab feature that gives you some links but leaves the focused middle area blank to go easy on the floveal ...

We get a call from a person in Chicago directly affected by the idea of Craigslist shutting down the erotic section of its service. We ...

We get tricked into supporting Robot teams we don't know anything about, plus we talk about Pluto's pimps, also known as the Illinois A...

Riding an electric motorcycle can make you smarter, but as Molly points out, it can also kill you. So six to one, half a dozen to the ...

A company says it has made a virtual reality helmet that will give you sights, sounds, temperature, and even smell. Which makes us wond...

Brian Cooley aptly describes YouTube as hot and junky video today. And that, my friends, is why the president has moved his video off ...

Yahoo is trying to fight off being accused of low morals by protecting some user data from being subpoenaed in Europe. We also have a c...

The authors Guild might be afraid of the robotic voice of the Kindle, but Wil Wheaton sure isn't. Neilsen lays a bombshell with the ne...

So, in Florida they're taping magnets to crocodiles heads to keep them from moving back to suburbia. It's also last call for Vista, wit...

Within 15 years, cars will be made of seaweed, but will they be edible? That's your next task, auto industry. We also make book recom...

Brian Tong is here today, but even so, we STILL hate on the new Safari beta and even Snow Leopard...just a little bit. Plus, Tom drops ...

Natali opens with some rage against Verizon Fios over a billing problem after she canceled the service. She feels somehow, well...Jaso...

This is a long one folks. We get a little yelly about online video, The Pirate Bay, and HDTVs in hotels. When we get to the space-based...

In this episode we find out that Hulu might be getting stomped, the government is spying on you through DTV boxes, and Natali prefers w...

A new medical wiki will tell you why you shouldn't have painted your sister's toes purple, but apparently all online medical advice pag...

That and other important questions are answered in today's show, where we're joined by John C. Dvorak in dissecting the new Facebook Te...

It's a flashback to an almost-Presidents Day from three years ago. Molly is out for the day, and Tom and Veronica decide to start numbe...

Nintendo is smashing the competition in game consoles and Rafe thinks he knows the reason why. The G/D ratio will probably become a new...

We debate the proper pronunciation of WebOS from Palm. Does it rhyme with Huevos? In any case, Palm has killed the old Palm OS, so may...

While I got a little steamed at the Author's Guild, and Natali essentially admitted she's a runaway bride, the big event in this show i...

To avoid a trademark problem should we call it gnetbook, pnetbook or knetbook? Cooley thinks all the ideas are pretty. Google wants t...

Once again we find something that Natali can't cook: mummies. But she does suggest they be used as jerky. Don't worry, we also have l...

We learn that, among other things, Rafe is trained in psychology and yearns to order mice. But we also kick around the meaning of secur...

We were really thinking about calling this episode something to do with prehistoric snake. Because Natali is very into the prehistoric...

While there are stories about Windows 7, the FCC investigating Cox Cable, and the Palm Pre launching in March, you really need to liste...

While we inadvertently promote a chain restaurant's free luncheon, we also talk a lot about space. Which annoys Brian Cooley to no end...

Let's be clear: we don't know how to cook a Mammoth. But Natali would like to know, because apparently she eats her pets. That is not...

Our resident nasal storage expert Rafe Needleman is on the show to explain some quantum physics to you. Rafe also schools me in why lat...

Today's show is full of zombies, Hollywood agents, hungry, overeating robots, and cloned dogs. What's not to love? We also find out a h...

An app for Google Android is allegedly wiping SD cards clean, which has some folks shouting malware! Stephen Shankland points out it's ...

Aye mateys, it is a tale sad and full of woe. It is about Natali Del Conte and the pictures she takes of the unsuspecting public. How ...

Oh snap, as they say. Palm has decided to get all vague in Apple's face about patents. Molly's back and she's hazelnut brown. And we d...

Scientists have redone the math and found that black holes created by the Large Hadron Collider might last a little longer than they tho...

We continue to debate the idea of moving the Digital TV transition in the US and Brian Tong comes close to ripping on old people. Which ...

Ryan Block joins us from gdgt.com to talk about the high-trafficked Inauguration Day, the SEC investigation into Steve Jobs health, and o...

We're all predictably aghast at Belkin's fake user reviews, but at least they apologised. Cooley and Tom think netbooks are done, but Ve...

We flash back to August 2005: Veronica speaks up, Vista has a virus before it's out and here Apple comes to save the day! Listen now: ...

After much thought and discussion, we here at BOL have decided to change the focus of the show from technology to carpentry. We think you...

Leo Laporte joins the cast today to discuss, of course, Steve Jobs' medical leave of absence, the problem with filters (yes, it's the pro...

Yahoo's got a new chief, AT&T is spamming Idol fans and non-Idol fans alike, and the Storm Worm has been cracked. That's all big news, bu...

It's a flashback to CES 2006. We're in front of a live audience and discussing some of the new toys at that CES. New episodes of Buzz Out...

It's our last show from the CNET stage at CES 2009 in Las Vegas! We compare the battery charging solution for the Palm Pre to a smorgasbo...

Palm releases a hot new phone and we ask ourselves if the Palm Pre is the company's saving grace or just destined for failure. Also, Ford...

CES has officially begun and we discuss a slew of offerings from the show floor, as well as the Steve Ballmer keynote. Also, Tom is offe...

We're coming to you from CES 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada and it's all about Netbooks today. I'm sure we'll get more buzz about 3D TVs and ...

How about a little preCES prediction? We talk about the things we expect to see at this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. L...

In today's episode, Natali offers her hormones to help out Steve Jobs, but she doesn't do it on the actual show, so we have to tell you a...

The JaMoTo Analysts throw down a healthy serving of tech predictions for the new year. Are you ready to rumble? Listen now: Downl...

We take a look at our predictions for 2008 and see how many of them didn't come true. Much to our surprise, we actually didn't do half b...

If there's one thing about doing a daily podcast in 2008, it's this: Clips galore! Check it out. A BIG thanks to all of the listeners th...

Finally, we get to bring you, the listener, on to the show and tell you how cool you are. Today's co-hosts: Fordo, RogueTess, Gknee, and...

You thought we got rid of all of your unplayed calls all year. It turns out, we keep the very best for a show we like to call Cutting Ro...

There is usually a moment in each podcast that defines the title that is created for every episode of BOL. Get ready to hear them all, pl...

Finally, we get to bring you, the listener, on to the show and tell you how cool you are. Today's co-hosts: Frank the Patent Lawyer, Chr...

The RIAA has given us the greatest gift of all this holiday season, a promise not to sue you. However they are enlisting the ISPs into t...

On today's show, we have a couple of awkward moments discussing the latest Andy Samberg clip on YouTube. There are giggles. We also attem...

On a very special Buzz Out Loud, we discover that we, much to our surprise and chagrin, are the cause for the ongoing economic crisis in...

Listen all the way to the end of the show in order to understand what this title is all about. Wow, it's been quite the week here at BOL....

It's a racy Buzz Out Loud as Natali Del Conte and Molly Wood double-team Jason Howell. Yes, by the way, that was the most blatant click-b...

In today's show, horrible ship-related pun-crimes are perpetrated and we learn that in Russia, emoticons wink at you and try to charge yo...

On today's show, we discover that "scareware" is a thing (that never should have been) and that you can tell a bad business idea by the b...

A high school teacher finds it inconceivable that any software could be free. I wonder if she uses Internet Explorer? We also talk about...

We rename Google's boring-sounding Native Client project to let you know what it really is: Java from Google. You know, Joogle. Also, HP ...

It is a tale told down throughout the ages. Google's Internet access is a large jar of peanut butter, and As Natali reminds us, you don't...

Important revelations on today's show: cigars smell like dog poop, Facebook Connect is going to win, the NFL looks awesome in 3-D, and Ba...

Tom and Jason have an ape-like bonding moment on today's show; Brian Tong calls "bull" on rumors of a $99 iPhone 3G; we find out that Goo...

In today's show, Molly gets a new favorite metaphor, Apple deletes the very thought that you should run antivirus on a Mac, .Tel gets our...

News of the Yahoo demographic's searching habits arouses a sudden love for space in Brian Cooley today. Also, the Nokia N97 gets a chilly...

Today's title is an example from Natali's mind of some tags you might put on a video with Yahoo's new video tagging game. I would like ...

We've got a host of Black Friday news today, like Apple retail stores matching online promotions; Sony still refuses to lower the price o...

On today's show, we learn that there's little difference between nuclear war and horseshoes, at least in the "close enough" department. A...

Rafe and Molly square off over the reuse of air conditioning technology, the fail whale sinks a deal between Facebook and Twitter, Gmail...

So we talked about a lot of serious news today including the Justin.tv suicide, the new Google wiki search, and the unauthorized access ...

In today's show, we find out that the demise of humanity is imminent (or that all of our robot mythology is fundamentally rooted in self-...

We discover a fun new tautology on today's show (you know, competition...for the win?), have a fun time goofing off with Brian Tong, rai...

On today's show, Brian Cooley announces that he's made the switch...I mean, the big switch. He bought an iPhone. The world briefly stoppe...

We thought about calling this podcast graves in space, or delicious Yak, or Jason makes the earth move. But soup_n_salad in the chat room...

On today's Buzz Out Loud, sage dating tips from a bunch of old married people. Meanwhile, Microsoft launches an online store where you ca...

Turns out a lot of people are all too happy to hand over their password to some unknown Web site just to find out if they're popular. Oh,...

Social networking finally reaches its most underserved niche: the hobos. Look for Tom to officially join the Hobo Nation any day now. In ...

We try to get all sentimental about the demise of the Mars Phoenix lander, but Brian Cooley ruins it with his outlandish assertions about...

A friendly member of Buzztown calls up to tell us how he named his Dungeons and Dragons characters after the core Buzz team. It all seem...

We're getting Windows 7 at the end of 2009! Although Microsoft won't make that official. We're getting USB 3.0! Though not until 2010. S...

The U.S. Army prepares to test and deploy ghost soldiers in MMORPGS and possibly also the real world. They may be decoys, folks, but reme...

Think you've seen the worst of the global financial collapse? Well, you haven't. Microsoft's dipping its toe into subprime software lendi...

Hey, here's a thought: a free, open-source video codec that could be universally portable and playable. I'd vote for that, wouldn't you?...

First if you're a U.S. citizen, then go vote on Tuesday. Second, feel the pride of what we suspect to be our country's lead in space junk...

We asked. You answered. Our listeners provided not seven, not eight, but nine real legal legitimate uses for BitTorrent. Plus Apple's get...

Google has joined the OpenID crowd, but just like Microsoft and Yahoo, you can't use the OpenID on Google, but you can use Google credent...

Microsoft is putting Office online. No time soon, but it will happen. Also Netflix will stream movies in HD. Not until mid-November. And ...

Hey, this sounds like a good idea! Create an artificial intelligence that's the incarnation of pure evil and immorality. You know, just t...

What? What's wrong with you people? We're talking about Netbooks. Dell has a new "Mini" Note, but it's a 12-inch laptop. So, the question...

On today's show, it appears that the person who caused Apple's stock to drop like a sto...

Comcast offers faster Internet speeds, but doesn't raise its data transfer caps; studie...

It looks like Wii Fit will outsell Grand Theft Auto IV this year, Apple's already sold ...

Several organizations, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation (aka EFF), sent pub...

There's a new smartphone from LG called the Cookie. It has a little more juice than the Palm Centro. But Natali doesn't like juice in he...

Anything that nerdy had to come from Tom. And it did. Rafe Needleman joins the cast today to discuss waiting for Windows 7 (Steve Ballmer...

In today's episode, Patrick Norton joins the gang for a rant-a-thon, IMDB turns 18, we're surprisingly not mad about the Android killswit...

Tom couldn't decide whether to go with the "marginalized whackjob" wall paint, or just get a marginalized whackjob fringe. Vote? In other...

Steve Jobs delivers: he delivers one fewer button, an all-new proprietary display port, annoyingly glossy screens, and a paltry $100 pric...

On today's show, the world of anonymous chatting gets even more confusing, thanks to the increasing numbers of computers passing the Turi...

Financial markets will collapse, venture capitalists will cause a run on start-ups that will lead to even more financial collapses, compa...

Natali Del Conte joins us today for a discussion of quantum mechanics, Apple laptop pricing, super satellites, click-jacking, and crowd-s...

That's the dog-sized Bluetooth headset you can buy to go with today's real news item, the new BlackBerry Storm: announced but not release...

Apologies in advance for the slightly dirty word toward the end of the show. Now you'll all listen, won't you? In other news, Ford wants ...

In today's show, featuring co-host Dan Ackerman, we discuss the benefits of being an independent musician (Dan says it's a great time!), ...

Whence comes the sad trombone, and other questions of great worldly importance dominate today's discussions, but there is, in fact, other...

Stuck with a stinky new Mac Pro? Good news: it might be toxic! (No proof of toxicity has been determined.) Also, Tom Merritt reveals hims...

On today's show, a big, fat present for long-time listeners (and Veronica Belmont fans): Veronica Belmont joins us! In the news, Real's p...

Richard Stallman says anyone who puts their data in the cloud is stupid. Cooley thinks he's right about some things, but finds other par...

Natali says she giggles when she sees guys using the tiny little Eee PC. But she doesn't question their manliness. Engnr_Chik thinks Net...

It's an "in the wild" sort of show today: love on the bus, Zune-style; a Tesla in the wild; an anecdotal Netbook in the wild; and wild as...

It's an exciting time to be in the market for a confusing incremental upgrade to your wireless broadband speeds, especially if you're int...

I bet you think this podcast is about you. Don't you? Don't you!? On today's show, we learn how easy it is to spot a narcissist on Facebo...

The introduction of the G1 phone (the HTC Dream) is very nearly overshadowed by the marketing decision to destroy perfect innocent words ...

On today's show, we get schooled about how cell phone 911 works, we school the music industry on its consistently terrible ideas regardin...

Quit laughing. This is serious business, related to cell phone radiation and sperm motility and viability. Also today, we talk about the ...

Yes, we talk about politicians, and we crack a couple of non-jokes about politics, but we're definitely not talking about politics. Becau...

Whether it's the BlackBerry, the Internet, CNET TV, or hilarious jokes about the Large Hadron Collider, it's a good bet that someone eith...

If both of them get you free Wi-Fi, which one would you rather have? Also in the news today, Google's Street View team doesn't care for a...

Don Reisinger joins the cast today for a rousing discussion that goes something like this: "Best Buy bought Napster." "Really?" "Yeah, I ...

In today's show, Rafe joins us for a discussion of useless video blobs, the implications of, uh, Internet "shopping," the NPD numbers tha...

In the midst of the debate over the rising cost of text messages, Microsoft finds that you actually sell more stuff if you lower the pric...

On today's show, we reveal a huge spoiler: Monk is the 12th Cylon. (Apologies to any of you who don't watch that show.) This is vaguely r...

The Large Hadron Collider comes online tomorrow (Wednesday, September 10), so we're just kind of assuming we'll be here for tomorrow's sh...

The evil power of Dr. M is even greater than we thought...strong enough, in fact, to tarnish the shining reputation of the long-awaited S...

If a robot has a firm handshake, does that mean its creator is a stand-up guy, or just that he programmed his robot to have a firm handsh...

Tom thought he made up a word, but upon further review, slaver turns out to mean to smear as if with saliva. Ew. But we also talked furt...

In a world where browser tests show all kinds of things but seem to agree that Chrome is fast, where 58 percent of adults don't know what...

Well, OK, we won't have arrived until someone gets Kevin Rose to blog about how The Beatles are totally coming to iTunes on September 9, ...

Comcast comes clean with its bandwidth cap: it's coming, it's coming in October, it's 250GB, and they won't give you any tools for monito...

It's a tortured analogy sort of day, including some confusing stuff about water and water bottles and then a whole long thing about a san...

Today's BOL Theory of the Day: the RIAA's constant crackdown on sites and services that ought to be fair use is creating cockroach-like, ...

In today's show, we're introduced to the concept of the "banana phone" (complete with drawings), China tells GoDaddy to Go Away, a Scotti...

In the news today, NBC fails to medal in its online streaming of the Olympics, but Google never fails to meddle (by driving up and down y...

In today's show, Brian Tong fills in for Tom Merritt, Molly chews on the inside of her cheek to a painful (and accidental) degree, and we...

In today's episode, we learn that Facebook's targeted ad system was apparently devised sometime in 16th century London. Also, a new PS3 b...

In the news today, eBay is going all fixed-price, Intel is going all Atom, hackers are all over the Chinese Olympics scandal, and U.S. co...

We're joined today by special guest Wil Harris from ChannelFlip.com, in what he chooses to call "British Invasion" and we choose to call ...

Natali Del Conte joins us today for a discussion of whether it's more difficult, these days, to get FIOS installed, get a Netflix disc de...

Veronica's back with us today as we record from the New Media Expo in Las Vegas. We talk about the woes of the modern Web, and specifica...

Stuck in a side hall in the Las Vegas Convention center, using borrowed equipment and sharing two power outlets among four power hungry d...

Brian Tong fills in for Tom Merritt in today's show and it's just as awesomely fun and crazy as you'd expect it to be. Granted, there's s...

Congress learns all about cookies (not the delicious kind...but maybe the deli.cio.us kind), Gmail goes down, and Google proves to be a t...

We tried to give NBC the benefit of the doubt when it comes to Olympic streaming, but then we tried it. And it's ridiculous. Also, we won...

In the fine tradition of subject lines that tell you nothing about the show or clue you in to the fact that this is, in fact, a tech show...

Why buy the Lordship when you can just choose the title from the drop-down? Also on the show today, Black Hat 2008 shatters our faith in ...

You can lead a cow to the dance-hall, but you can't make him two-step. Unless, that is, you've got a dollop of artificial intelligence an...

OK, we mean it's 'reborn,' thanks to a U.S. Court of Appeals, which reversed charges that Cablevision's remote-storage DVR violates all k...

Details are leaking out about a post-Windows OS from Microsoft, code-name Midori, that would use virtualization and the cloud to manage y...

Here at Buzz Out Loud, we are shamelessly attempting to launch a meme, based on the awesome Twitter ramblings of a guy stoned off his gou...

According to Google, there's no such thing as complete privacy. And while we tend to agree, we don't necessarily think that should mean G...

On today's show, we discover that it's hard to stand out in an orgy, only about a quarter of things Molly says are words, and EA poops al...

The wisdom of the crowds turns out to be simple mob rule, as Dark Knight fans not only mod up their new favorite movie but start modding ...

On today's show, we learn how we, too, can purchase an extreme cooling machine, we test out the new Cuil search engine, which is apparent...

That's sarcasm, I'm afraid. Lots of bad news today, including the tragic end to the Spam King escape story, the cell-phones-and-cancer de...

UPDATE: We just learned that the escaped Eddie Davidson, the "spam king," was found dead after having apparently murdered his family. Obv...

We debunk yesterday's story about how the studios are going to develop new 3D standards. That is, we like the standards idea, but we know...

Oh man. Molly is out for one day and look what happens. Well the Monster story comes form the cable makers attempting to sue the makers...

Go ahead, tailor that song with awesomely geeky lyrics vis-a-vis the Large Hadron Collider and the Higgs Boson. Tom did. Actually, Tom wo...

When graphene meets a diamond, what will happen? Ragnarok? We explore that and other matters of scientific interest, such as whether the ...

You never knew you had so many reasons to love Windows Mobile 7, but you'll find out a few of them today. Also, Amazon offers on-demand m...

Sad news for CNET: Rafe and I are about to quit and go start our new search engine, which filters results by snobbery. There's a market f...

This is the show where we learn, once and for all, what we always suspected. Apple can do anything it wants to you, and you'll sit there ...

I'm so sick of saying the name of that darn phone, but the fact of the matter is, people want to hear about it. So we do one more day abo...

On the first day of the iPhone 3G massive amounts of fanatics went home frustrated. Activation problems meant a lot of folks couldn't go ...

By average people we mean, mean people. As we have learned that mean and average are indubitably the same thing. However, we also learne...

At least in Taiwan, the Linux version of the Asus Eee PC is very popular among housewives and students. Meanwhile geeks want the Windows...

No, not death, but close to it. The race is on for who has the most expensive iPhone plan in the world! Plus Microsoft finally gives us...

We've offered more than 99 pennies in reward money as a challenge to the first person who can make some e-salt that will stop the snail r...

And that, my friends, is how we get you to listen all the way to the end. But in actual news of the day, a judge ordered Google to expose...

The rotten corpse of the Microsoft-Yahoo merger has apparently reanimated itself and is wandering down Wall Street, munching on the brain...

Big thanks to one of our callers today who offers some much-needed perspective on Vista and...well, everything, really. Also, Netflix sav...

You know how sometimes the punishment fits the crime? In this case the criminal fits the crime. GoDaddy's VP of domain auctions, appropri...

Thorny gender issues arise on Facebook, Bill Gates takes his leave, Sony announces movie downloads without any movies but their own, and ...

ICANN approves its plan to totally overhaul the Internet domain structure, but all we can do is make fun of the name "Winklevoss." Hee. "...

OK, now this is weird: the music industry is trying to undermine the way the music industry distributes and promotes music and has always...

There's no way we'd bait the International Olympic Committee like that, knowing how notoriously aggressive they are about controlling the...

Black holes from the Large Hadron Collider? No worries. Mac OS X Trojan in the wild? Minor worries. Total top-level domain overhaul? Worr...

On today's Buzz Out Loud, why "your stupid face" works to get you to install malicious software, why eBay just flat out isn't for small s...

Netflix inspires nothing but rage in Tom, Molly, Jason, and Natali with its announcement that it will not only get rid of profiles, but a...

Somehow today's show suddenly turned into a poetry slam, replete with economic gloom, the devastating hackery of coffee pots, and the slo...

It's Firefox Download Day! In bummer news, Mozilla's site was down by at least 10:12 a.m. (about the time we started our show). So, that'...

On today's episode, Molly issues a blanket un-curse to all who have suddenly discovered that Firefox has trouble with Flash. (But really,...

Microsoft and Yahoo are dead, over, done, in the ground, and Yahoo has moved on to Google, and that's the end of it. Or is it!? Also toda...

Firefox 3 comes out June 17, and that's all we have to say, except we hope it fixes Molly's Flash problems so she doesn't have to get a M...

Today's show is a bit of a tongue-twister. Really, the entire show. We just can't get the words out. And in other news, the whole Interne...

In the great cycle of technology, today is the day-after-Jobs-keynote when we are bummed about the morsels that were dished out the day b...

All the iPhone and App Store news you can shake a stick at. Plus, RIM and Palm say they're thrilled about the new iPhone. Huh. Us, too! B...

How to get to the top of the iTunes podcast list--we think. We'll let you know Monday. Also, breaking news! Amazon goes down midshow! Was...

Microsoft finds that we're all in increasing RSI pain thanks to laptops and mobile devices ... which they continue to support with mobile...

Rumor has it that there will be code details about OS X 10.6 at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference next week. Bold prediction, consi...

Oh, come now, we mean in a search on Goosh, the command-line search interface for Google. What were you thinking? Meantime, the Internet ...

Facebook comes under attack by Canadian privacy groups, but everyone's already moved on to Plurk. Er...maybe. Also: self-destructing DVD...

Paramount is dropping sounds out of your movies; Canadian customs guards might be rifling through your laptop for ripped CDs; and aliens ...

Revision3 goes down under a massive DDOS attack that apparently originated with a company that the entertainment industry hires to poison...

That is, sadly, the new name for the International Space Station, where astronauts have a real problem to contend with, unlike the New Me...

An amusement park in the U.K. thinks you'll have more fun if they confiscate your smartphone. I think I would not go to that amusement pa...

Funeral services for DRM will be held this Saturday. FYI. Send flowers. Also, a tiny gun can still hurt, but not in Canada, and apparentl...

We're sorry to inform you that Tom has been kicked off Buzz Out Loud for being 37 years old, because you just can't tell by looking. Well...

It's all cell phones all the time: The FCC might make early-termination fees less of a problem, rural carriers want less exclusivity (and...

Today in "we have actual tech news to report" tech news, Netflix's new box hits the price sweet spot, Napster is offering 6 million DRM-f...

Actual tech news today! For example, Microsoft is re-wooing Yahoo, Nintendo is stomping through the console market like Godzilla in Mario...

Somehow today's show ended with Jason Howell challenging Paul Shaeffer to a duel at Shalin's suggestion. We don't know. It's Friday. In o...

In today's episode, Leo Laporte drops in (and out) to discuss the future of CNET, the future of Yahoo, and lack of future we'll all have ...

It's episode 724, wherein we argue, but in a happy way, MySpace wins a $234 million antispam judgment they'll probably never collect, and...

The military has proposed creating their own botnet to help combat cyberfoes. Kevin Poulsen at Wired thinks this is idiotic. We think th...

In today's show, we learn that the future lets us print our own drugs, and robots will drive our sailboats for us. Sailboats? Sailboats. ...

Plus old PowerBook power supplies are sparking up a storm. It's scary legal day today between the Pro-IP act and the Los Angeles County c...

Announcing the launch of our new dating podcast, Lovin' Out Loud! Also, Microsoft may or may not build content filtering into the Zune, b...

There's a lot of storage headed your way in the coming years. A lotta, in fact. We'd even go so far as to say it's a yotta. Byte. In othe...

We could tell you not to worry, but then you'd email us and tell us why you should. So, new rule. Always worry. And the HTC Touch Diamond...

Yo' momma is so fat. How fat is she? She's so fat she has two Wiis, one for each ... ok, never mind. In other news, Microsoft walked out ...

There's still time for us to strike entrepreneurial gold, we talk "malicious circuits," and Microsoft blah blah blah blah. Also, Popcorn ...

As in, stick a fork in the Pidgin forking controversy, because it's forking ridiculous. Also, iTunes Store gets same-day DVD releases and...

Somehow, DR. M has proven himself so diabolically clever that we kind of love him. In other news, will the next iPhone be unlocked, sell ...

We unveil the MMORPG to end all MMORPGs: Chore Wars. Cleaning the kitchen has never been so epic. Also, iPhone comes to Canada and we go ...

Dell, HP, and Lenovo will offer Windows XP as a "pre-downgrade," as a convoluted way to get you out of having to buy Windows Vista. Hear ...

Brian Cooley fills in for Molly and Jason ( tall order). We also meet his kitten Moneypenny, unfortunately she doesn't say much. Even whe...

Ok, the Internet, that was pretty cool. But molten jets of metal hurled through space to destructive effect? I mean, is someone keeping a...

We explain Live Mesh, the Ninth Circuit tries to explain why customs can search your laptop without any reason at all, and eBay (yawn) su...

Mii parades, Sony Home, and growing new limbs. Slow news days make for the best shows of all. Oh, and FCC Chairman Kevin Martin says evid...

The Russians have canceled their space tourism program, because space is too serious to monetize. Also, Skype offers unlimited long-dista...

AT&T threatens that the Internet is going to run out by 2010, and apparently, it's because everyone's watching Gossip Girl online. Luckil...

In the news today, Safari saves your bacon with a hole-patching update, and NASA says it's better at math than teen-agers (which we ferve...

I have never had so much fun reading a legal response than I did the note from the head of Blue Jeans Cables to Monster Cable. See the e...

If Flickr's not buying doughnuts for the world, then Tom's not buying. But he's in San Francisco, so he won't have to buy his own doughnu...

Yes, Microsoft has come clean and admitted that they design User Account Control, the little popups that happen when you install software...

Flickr-haters get free donuts. If that's what you get for hating, sign us up! Also, Gartner hates on Windows, and no one gets any donuts ...

Yahoo and Microsoft bring Google, AOL, and News Corp into the ring for a pretty awesome merger-mania that we sincerely hope involves the ...

It's episode 699, in which we coin a new phrase, "swang pong." You figure it out. Also, video on Flickr and bad news about promotional CD...

Today, Buzz is on your side, with such gems of wisdom as "don't shop at Staples," "bacon will kill you," and "how to opt out of Beacon." ...

In the news today, men are scamming and being scammed online, Jerry Yang (Yahoo) and Steve Ballmer (Microsoft) are getting nasty (in a le...

Happy frakkin' Friday! BSG is back, we're recording in a studio other than our own, and Madonna sleeps with her BlackBerry. Ew. Also toda...

Happy frakkin' Friday! BSG is back, we're recording in a studio other than our own, and Madonna sleeps with her BlackBerry. Ew. Also toda...

It turns out that if you give a rabbit enough coffee, it won't get dementia. And neither will you! Long story. We'll explain. In other ne...

It's zombie-preparedness day, and may we suggest you also prepare yourself for a barrage of rumors of the eBay and Blu-Ray variety. Also,...

Except for this one part right at the end, but other than that, this is a strictly joke-free experience. Well, we make a couple of bad jo...

Chumby is the wave of the future, Shine is ... shiny? And tomorrow is Molly's Day Without Google--and maybe yours, too. In other news, if...

In the future, we will love the cockroaches, because they bring the WiFi. Sadly, autonomous death-bots will make life unliveable, and tha...

The combination of foolish corporate admins and folks who don't read very well actually helps save animals. It's a story about do not rep...

Please, someone, make a Mousetronauts show. We're begging you. In other news, cell phones on airplanes appear to be coming to European ai...

I like that photo of you that you posted on Facebook. You know, the private one? Yeah. I saw it. It was pretty cool, although I'd never w...

I think we're going to have to call WiMax dead. After all, the CEO of a WiMax network said it's a "disaster." Ouch. In other news, Sony d...

Veronica's back, and we do spend quite a bit of time talking about DRM, patent law, the 700 MHz wireless spectrum auction winners and oth...

HTC has subtly referenced Phil Dick by naming their forthcoming Android phone Dream. But is it a replicate? We'll never know. And of co...

Dell heard the supposition that they might have a high rate of returns on solid state drives and came out swinging. Nuh-uh! sums up thei...

Well we did something we may regret. We allowed a caller to propose on the show. It was sweet, but then we found out it wasn't even the...

TiVo copy protection strikes at the very heart of CableCARD ... and, uh, TiVo. So, maybe they should reconsider going along with that who...

Today is 3/14, also known as Pi day, and all we can think about is celebrating by eating large amounts of apple pie. Verizon seems to be...

Rafe Needleman joins us today for a rant on the MPAA, an explanation of basic economics, musings on mergers in the videogame industry, an...

Hackers have figured out how to hack devices implanted into human hearts. This makes us think, nee demand, that a Jonathan Coulton song ...

Hulu's coming Wednesday! Ars Technica says it's lame. Beatles on iTunes! Michael Jackson says no. Sprint's super-fast data! For HTC Mogul...

HD VMD is making its mainstream debut as the next NEXT-generation high-def DVD format. We're tired of war. But we like the low prices, ye...

We try to cool it on the proselytizing, while also keeping the iPhone SDK hype to a minimum. Both tasks are incredibly hard. In other new...

Microsoft considers switching its bid for Yahoo to all-cash. Because they have a lot of cash. Bill Gates, on the other hand, is practical...

On today's episode, we have a tiny little misunderstanding vis a vis the French language, and also there's some tech news. Specifically, ...

Google Gears is the project that allows online apps to be used even when you don't have an internet connection. Microsoft is apparently m...

Jeremy Jaynes has been sentenced to nine years in prison for trying to sell you Viagra. OK I really don't know if it was Viagra, but he ...

Windows Vista may be maligned, enterprise-unfriendly, and seemingly without compatible drivers, but hey, at least it's cheaper! In other ...

We nuked Yahoo Live. That's it for that. Anyway, what's the fuss with Google Sites and yeah, when WILL the iPhone get more business frien...

Wikileaks gets some serious legal firepower to help in its domain-name-takedown case, and Comcast is in trouble for hiring seat-fillers. ...

A "three-fer" means there were three stories about ISP filtering. THREE. Which means ISP is turning into an epidemic, which isn't very co...

Electronic Arts isn't taking no for an answer from Take-Two, and Pakistan gives us an object lesson in why censorship is bad: in an effor...

Just in time for the devil's episode, the Elmo doll from hell makes the news today. Also, Microsoft's SP1 accidentally possesses some PCs...

What's the only thing worse than Vista? Vista SP1. In other news, we wonder what the world is coming to, as Microsoft and Sprint both mak...

In today's news, we adopt a turtle, you should send some money to Larry Lessig (or a turtle), and PC gaming lives on! In your brain! No, ...

Blu-Ray wins, we try to exorcise our studio of its many demons, and speaking of demons, the digital photo frame infestation turns hellish...

Follow my logic here. The only thing keeping you interested in high-def DVDs might be the format war. What if a war ends and nobody care...

Rush Limbaugh is asking Steve Jobs for help with his Mac Pros. Hey, Rush, give us a call! We'll help! In other news, Microsoft is teachin...

Not like, @acedtect, pack up your stuff. More like, poor Yahoo folks are getting pink slips this week, and we're totally reliving it with...

In the news today, Microsoft says no to Yahoo's no, Verizon says there's no need to degrade P2P traffic, and Bill Gates says no to 8,000 ...

Perhaps the tech giants of the world are all hopped up on the Clear, and that's why they're trying to create MicroHoo/GooNet super-teams....

By the time you read this, Yahoo--and the world--may know it's fate. However, Steve Ballmer, who likely would call it destiny, says Yaho...

Sometimes there's just no news. And sometimes there's just rumors of news. Today is an example of the latter. Half the stories today a...

Now, we hear that a fifth Internet cable has been severed in the Middle East. One cable is fine. Even two is not that unusual. But five...

The RIAA does what it does for the artists. That's why it sues their fans. It's just trying to help out the artists. Like songwriters....

Nintendo says cigarette ash is causing problems with the gameplay of "Super Smash Brothers Brawl." Funny, I would have thought that would...

What to name a company resulting from the merger of Yahoo and Microsoft is probably the least of their concerns right now. First, Yahoo ...

Serious news today: A cut submarine cable damages Middle East Internet access, Amazon acquires Audible, and we rail against "super duper"...

Rounding down to zero? Don't be ridiculous. Forcing ISPs to monitor and filter Internet traffic in order to guarantee that music artists ...

According to one scientist, the world is most likely to end due to asteroid impact or a black hole, but either way, we'll be reading book...

BOL can now predict, based one early returns, Blu-Ray will win the high-definition format war. But tune in tomorrow, there's still a clos...

Deletions happen, people. Would you rather look out for crazy employees (like the one who deleted $2.5 million worth of architectural rec...

Leo LaPorte sits in today, and the next thing you know, the four of us decided to write a novel together. On Twitter. Yeah, we're not all...

Our good friend Matt Mullenweg (did we mention he's handsome, too?) just got $30 million in venture capital funding! Hey, buddy, can we b...

In the news today, NBC and Apple are kissing and making up--so, is "Heroes" coming back to iTunes or what? Also, we find out how to get k...

Steve Jobs says Robbie Bach must be drunk if he thinks the Zune is a worthy competitor to iPod. You know what we say? Old Mad Dog should ...

This is why we like technology: You can now just think about your robot servant getting you a beer and it will happen. If you're a monke...

So the state of South Carolina wants to put a freeway through Aaron's grandpa's house. Sound like Hitchhiker's Guide to anyone? Well, y...

Steve weirded us out a little when his Jobs-note ended without "one more thing," but dudes, we totally called the MacBook Air! Well, OK--...

Forget the Mac rumor sites, the mad speculation, and the patent filing drawings. Just listen to Buzz Out Loud! We're quite sure we've man...

Normally, you'd be hearing Buzz Out Loud, but instead we're giving you a sneak peek at the latest CNET podcast launching next week, The 4...

We stole our title directly from Caroline McCarthy's Crave blog post, because, really, it says it all. The Queen plays Wii bowling. Video...

Veronica Belmont and CNET TV U.K. host Nate Lanxon sit in with us today, we save the U.S. dollar by changing our national currency to the...

You'll get most of a really great podcast today, just not quite...all of it. First day of CES jitters mean we sort of lost the first 10 m...

The war...is...over! (We think) Warner announced it's going over to the Blu-ray side, meaning HD DVD has an almost impossible road if it ...

The latest Macworld rumors have nothing to do with ultraportable notebooks or iPhone upgrades. It's apparently been "confirmed" that Appl...

It's our first show of the new year, and we've already uncovered the core conspiracy of our time: the secret rule of the industrial baggi...

Thanks to our listeners, we were able to scour the past year's episodes to come up with a collection of bits that you might remember from...

Allow us to take a look in our future-telling snow globes and share with you everything notable that's to take place in 2008. Now you ca...

We get a lot of voice mails every day. Most don't make it on the show. This episode is dedicated to the good, the bad, and the ugly!

We recap our predictions for 2007 and see how they panned out over the course of the year.

In our second round of listener interviews, we try to pack in as many calls as possible. Today, we speak with Shalin, Tim the rocket sci...

In this listener cohost episode, we talk tech with Alex from Miami Beach, Dave the psychologist, Remy the postman, and Lisa J.'s voice ma...

Yes, I have been outed as a fan of the Principia Discordia and the number 23. In other news today, we have a champion who will fight for...

So CBS decided to lay off the

So, there we were, just innocently chatting along when we suddenly identified the fact that our current economic order essentially mandat...

Today's news was not bereft of serious content. Facebook has decided to open up its app platforms to other social sites. Opera is suing ...

In today's episode of Buzz Out Loud, we replace sweatshop workers with robots, the record labels allow DRM-free MP3s on Imeem, NBC might ...

Get Windows for free, and get your martinis from Asimo robots. Both are a vision of a terrifying future that we're strangely OK with. Mic...

"Not safe for work" is a combination of words found very useful when sharing links across the Web. One of my favorite Web sites, Fark.co...

Hey, man, watch where you're putting that boot.ini! If you find yourself typing it, and you're also not familiar with backslash vs. forwa...

Best metaphor yet for DRM sparks hilarious podcast title (if we don't say so ourselves). You'll see what we mean. Also, Facebook is reall...

Is Apple working to enable native Windows app compatibility in Leopard? Probably not. But that would be sweet. In other news today, Niels...

Wow, it turns out this Beacon advertising thing is really messed up, y'all! Now Facebook has admitted that the ad service would track you...

Rumors of DRM's demise heat up as Wal-Mart and Amazon both issue demands for DRM-free tunes. That pretty much, at least to us, signals a ...

Today, we're reminded that the Air Force is setting up a CyberCommand in order to deal with online threats. We have two questions: can we...

The EFF says Comcast is lying about BitTorrent blocking, users say they're lying about the digital cable switchover, and we're just all f...

A judge throws 46 people in jail after no one will 'fess up to a ringing cell phone. Well, that's certainly understandable. In other juri...

Alternate titles: "Pigs fly: Verizon's new open network." "Hell freezes over at Verizon: Any app, any device by 2008." That's right, big ...

We got into a series of debates on today's show about eBooks, DRM, the reliability of the 700 MHz spectrum, and most interestingly, how o...

It's Thanksgiving in the US, and instead of reflections of praise or thanks, we plan on exposing the biggest tech turkeys of the year!

It turns out the iPhone isn't really tracking your every move. Just most of them. OK, some of them. It's not a big deal, trust us. In oth...

Is Prince having the Pirate Bay administrators followed? Maybe chasing them around himself in a funny purple cloak? Also, is Sony finally...

Oh, boy, kids. No, really. Get fired up. Amazon's e-book reader, the Kindle, may be arriving on Monday! I know, right!? Breathe. In other...

Drop the price, introduce a cheaper version, and your little PS3 starts selling like hotcakes! Plus, Leopard: huge in Japan, the first la...

House Democrats propose a bill that would force universities to implement technical barriers to file-sharing or risk losing federal finan...

Today on BOL, Android hits the streets, Google pays for Android apps, and Androids may soon be dancing with...each other. It's a big Andr...

Revisit an interview with Professor Lawrence Lessig about Creative Commons.

In today's episode, the Buzz army (European forces) mobilize to fight back against the rampant generalizations of Brian Cooley. Oh, and h...

TiVo plans to give advertisers detailed personal info about you, but it's also offering lifetime service packages. Hmm. Stalemate. In oth...

Prince. You dear, sweet, funny, crazy, purple little man, you. What are you thinking? Why would you try to force your fan clubs offline b...

Either Android--Google's phone platform--will take over the world, or the robots befriending our toddlers will. Either way, we're headed ...

Was there other news today? Sure, there's a little news, but really, the only thing happening is the Google phone. Which is not a phone a...

It's official: you are now allowed to buy yourself an HD-DVD player. It's true. They're cheap enough now ($99 at Best Buy!) that as long ...

Wal-Mart has gone crazy, selling a $98 Toshiba HD DVD player. We'll talk about whether this makes HD DVD the winner over Blu-ray. Also,...

Halloween questions abound today: Is Jason in fact horribly disfigured and that's why his face cannot be seen on the pages of CNET? Is Au...

There's a new piece of malware that strips for you. Don't give in.

The reports on Leopard include the usual new operating system pitfalls. Some things don't work right, and hilariously, some upgraders re...

The signs and portents have arrived, and they point to seven more years of tax-free Net access. And home page e-email. Apparently, that's...

Would you get a chip implanted that would let you access the Internet from your brain? Of course you would. Otherwise, we couldn't connec...

OK, so, IBM files an application for the ultimate patent--the one that crushes all other patent wannabes, including trolls and, OK, anyon...

Touche, Tuesday. You have beaten us again! No, actually, it's just that you, dear listeners, have once again proven that you're smarter t...

It's Monday, we're tired, and we can barely keep it together to get through today's morasse of Zune news, Toshiba-box 360 rumors, AT&T do...

This is just our way of warning you that we might possibly have been a little harsh in re: a plan by Universal, Warner, and EMI to sell m...

After all these years, it only seems fair to tell it like it is. We love you guys, too. Except the creeps who think it's like, super l337...

It's not your fault you're a pirate. You've just been trained to download songs from illegal BitTorrent sites, sort of like how you can t...

Google unveils its new YouTube antipiracy tool, which those ungrateful media companies instantly pan as not good enough. Apple announces...

Sure Universal Music is taking on iTunes, and the iPod Touch got jailbreaked, but we're more concerned with robot love.

Rest easy, friends. You'll never have to agree to another EULA again. We've uncovered one that, with enough wiggle room, could potentiall...

One mother's brave crusade against Windows Vista leads to a dramatic showdown with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. Or something slightly les...

Could an artsy-fartsy plan to release music on an "almost obsolete format" turn out to be the surefire DRM scheme the RIAA has been waiti...

Ok, apparently Microsoft is now back-porting the good parts of Vista (like kernel security and easier product activation) into Windows XP...

I realize that the MacBook isn't really Scottish, but that's no reason Steve Jobs couldn't wear a utilikilt at the next MacWorld keynote....

Pants on fire; now that's a headline for you. Too bad the story's your basic lithium-ion battery blah blah blah. In bigger news of the da...

Breaking news: Reply-all epidemic spreads, hits Homeland Security. Nation at risk. Further updates as events warrant. Sports and weather ...

The head of litigation for Sony BMG says ripping CDs is essentially stealing. Well, that makes me wonder if playing CDs is also stealing...

In this extra special interview edition, we talk with Grooveshark CEO Sam Tarantino.

It's hard to find just the right PMP. Auditioning candidates, trying them out on the street, looking for something that won't dole out to...

AT&T has changed its terms of service to say that it can cancel your service if, essentially, you say bad things about the company. So, y...

Luckily, the folks at Doubletree didn't mind us setting up our podcast studio in the front lobby.

In New Zealand, YOU write the laws (but in Russia, the law write you!). Meanwhile, New Zealand is putting one of its laws up on a wiki fo...

A Chinese MMORPG refuses to allow male players to play as female characters, which (a) is ridiculous, and (b) sparked Tom to confess that...

Why do you have to be so mean Apple? The company issued a statement Monday saying their next firmware update will likely break unlocked i...

Get your cookies and milk ready--you'll need them for standing in line. Halo 3 comes out at midnight tonight, and thanks to Shalin, I'll ...

ICANN is having a bit of trouble with the .su top-level domain. Seems they want to retire it, what with the dissolution of the Soviet Uni...

NBC has introduced a free, ad-supported Web site where you can download some of its shows after they air on television. See, we thought ...

Stop the presses: there's news from the Zune camp! New Zunes dropping October 16! Or, you know, you could continue to drool over all thin...

If your dog loses a leg, you don't take him out and shoot him, do you? Neither does AMD. In a move that's both clever and ecofriendly, AM...

Yahoo, ever on the cutting edge with hip new ideas and clever, totally not overused naming concepts, has just introduced a new social net...

We've already seen lawsuits over skipping commercials on television via VCRs and DVRS. Is the humble pop-up blocker next? Legal experts s...

The standard kilogram apparently has lost a few micrograms of weight. Not such a bad thing I suppose, but it makes all the other kilogra...

Don't worry, Tom and I are actually feeling quite chipper today. We're referring to the darkness of Vista's new antipiracy technique, the...

Apparently, turning off an iPhone isn't as easy as, um, pressing the power button. But could it be as easy as HTC teaming up with Google ...

All that Apple talk giving you upset? Soothe yourself with a nice, eco-friendly Linux story.

There should be a law against this. Apple, Net neutrality, and fair use, all in the same day. As you can imagine, we had some things to s...

Steve Jobs says he had to take your $200 in suckers' rent, because the holidays are coming and he can't move the holidays. Wall Street sa...

Apple unleashes a whole slew of new iPod gadgetry just in time for the holidays. Meanwhile, Tom dials in from an old phonograph machine,...

We get to the bottom of the idea that we're all living in a simulation with the source of the theory himself.

Molly's amazed by Steven Jobs Softcon keynote, while Tom is taken with a new 1200 baud modem.

Just when you thought NBC was calling the shots, Apple comes along and says it will not carry any of the fall season! As they say, "ob-la...

NBC is not being cool in several ways today. First, they apparently tried to get Apple to let them charge $4.99 per episode for TV show d...

That's right. AT&T has finally pulled the ultimate fast one on us and killed time itself. OK, calm down. Its discontinuing the "call for ...

DMCA absurdities; an upcoming Apple announcement (new iPod, natch); no drunk pilots on NASA; patent trolls; and the hot, hot, hot new Nok...

Buzz Out Loud is so comfortingly familiar today. There's Molly, there's Tom, and there's a Sony rootkit to talk about. It's just like the...

A gigantic robotic hand has been built that will eventually mean our doom. Plus, new iPods coming soon?

Reports say Google will release a phone in two weeks. We don't think so.

We explore the meaning of the new term bacn and hear from one of the originators. We also get the opinion of bacon-expert, Veronica Belmo...

iPhones set to hit Europe and companies ban Facebook as a time waster.

The FCC spectrum auction is set and Google's refunding your money for Google video.

We get under the hood of the Internet and find out if it will really crash.

No, I'm not insulting the Danish. The great 1980s band Dodo and the Dodos won a court case against Sony BMG. Plus, guest host Caroline M...

Brazilian newspaper compares bloggers to monkeys to get attention; Molly doesn't care. British ISPs ask for a two-tiered network; U.K. re...

We're feeling very existential today, because we might not actually exist. Is that a contradiction in terms? I guess it doesn't really ma...

It was all going so well. Leo was our guest for the day, we were chatting happily about the dangers of batteries, unlocked iPhones, AT&T ...

Are you one of the millions of people who still need an object lesson in why DRM sucks? How about this: Google is nuking all the videos y...

If at first you don't succeed with your nudie-site lawsuit, try, try again. Perfect10, the site that unsuccessfully sued Google for index...

Now that we've been tipped off that we're floating in a dangerous bubble, we can't stop looking for signs of leaks. Today, we've got Bloc...

Man, Google--so brazen. They're going to let newsmakers comment on news stories right on the Google News results page. Doesn't that make ...

Google's YouTube purchase is turning into even more of a lawsuit morass than predicted. Sure, we figured Google would get sued, but we ne...

Oh, snap! OK, rule 1: Don't go around thinking you're smarter than the folks at Defcon. You're not, and you're not going to fool them by ...

Congress is asking the FCC to apply the V-chip to everything. That pretty much means the Internet, but where does it end? Will I have to ...

Apparently law enforcement careers are as close as you can get to superhero living. That's the only explanation for why a raid targeting ...

With Molly gone, we actually had three people who would definitely go to space on today's podcast. Jason Howell, Bonnie Cha, and myself a...

Is a YouTube video with a talking snowman an unseemly way to go about the democratic process? Apparently it is, per Mr. Romney. He and Ru...

What's a more serious threat to national security than BitTorrent? Well, it's either Microsoft or pants, depending on whom you believe (...

It turns out Microsoft Windows is a lot like McDonald's hamburgers--over a billion people served, and a surprising number of them feeling...

Apparently, the button people go crazy and gum up gadgets and computers with an almost unbelievable number of unusable and unattractive b...

Well, OK--we were totally in the dark Tuesday during a rolling power outage in San Francisco that took out roughly half the Internet. But...

If Monday night's Democratic presidential debate is any indication, it actually could! There were, like, concise and hard-hitting questio...

As state mottos go, it's not the best we've heard, but that's what Nevada gets for not only failing to reset the password for the governo...

Wow! It's my last official episode of Buzz Out Loud (in the studio, at least)! I hate long good-byes, so just let me say that you're the ...

Buzz Out Loud is making an official statement regarding the attempted unveiling of Fake Steve Jobs: Leave him the heck alone! We'd rather...

According to a study, the U.S. isn't as "well-endowed" with broadband as other countries because we're poor and not very bright. Gee, tha...

If I had a little more time here at CNET, I'd do a 'Pancakes vs. waffles' Prizefight. But as it stands, I alone had to defend pancakes ag...

We're ragging on the Zune today like it's 2006! But hey, it's always fun to revisit old jokes, at least when it's done so tastefully. Oh,...

It's proven! If you carry a small, electronic device on you, you're more likely to get hit by lightning. Now that's a total "shocker"! He...

An interview with Jim Louderback, CEO for Revision3

Hey, remember the Sony rootkit? Well, Sony's hoping it can soon rebrand it as MediaMax's rootkit. They're suing the company for developin...

A vicious rumor cropped up on the Internet yesterday, claiming that our very own Veronica Belmont would be leaving CNET and Buzz Out Loud...

AT&T has sponsored new research to show that a non-neutral Internet would require (gasp!) twice the bandwidth of a tiered Internet! The h...

The race to unlock the iPhone has truly begun, but what we really want is for someone to let us use the T-Mobile SIM card with the iPhone...

Microsoft is not having the best week--it's footing a $1 billion bill for extended warranties on the Xbox 360. But at the same time, it f...

Truly, the best way to convince people to use your service is with an ice-cold 12-pack of beer, right? At least, that's what two competin...

AllofMP3.com has finally closed its doors, but never fear! Another site has magically appeared to fulfill your quasilegal music needs. Yo...

The future is now, and it's full of tiny robots on wheels packing 50,000 volts. That doesn't sound dangerous or anything! Oh, and more iP...

I have to wax my hot yak, study my frozen goldfish, and move my sneaky hamster. I know, excuses, excuses.

Yeah you know me! According to Tom, it's better to wait and see if anyone takes advantage of Net neutrality before we make any legislatio...

When we first heard about WiiWare, we were sure it was a hip, new Wii-inspired fashion statement. As it turns out, it's actually a new so...

In protest of the new fees from the Copyright Royalty Board, Web radio is having a day of silence. Obviously, we don't fall into that cat...

Someday, in the not-to-distant future, the battle for the remote control will reach a new level of sophistication! Will your brain be rea...

Apple is being accused of using models with enormous hands to make the iPhone look smaller. Gizmodo has a pretty good comparison of two p...

Rafe just doesn't understand. He thinks the Nokia N95 phone is just as ridiculously priced as the iPhone. That's because he hasn't touc...

For the 500th episode of Buzz Out Loud, we celebrate 500 years of the podcast. Has it really been that long?

Google and Apple? Yahoo and MySpace? The world is going topsy-turvy with buyout rumor news! Even if none of it ever comes true, it's fun ...

Yes, it's going to be one of those days. We discuss Yahoo, gorillas, guerrillas, secret DSL plans, and the oldest EULA we've ever seen.

Hah! Where's your 3G iPhone now, Europe? Apple is having a hard time finding a carrier for the iPhone across the pond. Fortunately for th...

The PS3 might finally get a price drop, but does that mean it will catch on in a big way in time for the holiday season? I doubt it.

We're totally sick of talking about the iPhone, but what can we do? IT'S EVERYWHERE!! Today is a podcast full of the Big Three - Apple, G...

We have some tips today for securing an iPhone of your very own, just like Walt Mossberg did! Except he got his from Apple, weeks before ...

Google is up in arms over the search features in Windows Vista, saying that they're anticompetitive and difficult to turn off. We wonder ...

Today was WWDC, and while we weren't overly impressed, there were still a few cool things to talk about. For example, Safari for Windows....

Big changes in the mobile industry could be on the horizon! Cell phones using the Qualcomm semiconductors will be banned from being sold ...

Oops! Sorry everyone, we were totally punked yesterday. But let's move on to real news, like porn losing money over user-generated conten...

Former AT&T CEO Ed Whitacre had some choice words about Net neutrality as he made his farewell speech--please, Ed, tell us how you really...

Tom was so mad today, you could hear the anger radiating off of him, even when he wasn't talking. Trust me, I saw the whole thing. It bur...

Google can tell that a face exists on an image search result--just not whose face it is! That might be a good thing; it already knows too...

Perhaps we're putting too much pressure on NAND memory here, but the idea of instant boot time is pretty compelling. We also look into t...

An alleged top-10 spammer has been arrested for fraud in Washington. Have you noticed the reduction of spam yet? Didn't think so. We al...

The waiting is over! The EMI DRM-free tracks are finally available on iTunes today, and Steve Jobs says that he hopes half of all iTunes ...

The future of fuel could be found right in your grocery store, in the form of delicious starch! Also today, our DRM-free tracks on iTunes...

It's the dawn of a new era, with all three of us in the studio today, as well as new podcast producer Jason! It's Lawsuit Friday, so we h...

So you know we couldn't last tax-free on the Net forever, but the ax is coming sooner than I thought. This fall we could see it formalize...

Joost will be working with Creative Artists Agency to bring new content to the service. What will this mean for the middleman? And how wi...

Should it be against the law to use Wi-Fi in the comfort of your car? One fellow in Michigan learned the hard way that it is--at least in...

No, we're not talking Transformers! But it is an awesome keyboard that changes, depending on your needs. Say, for example, that you want ...

Microsoft is coming out with a very Web 2.0-style product called Popfly, and it's in alpha testing right now. That makes it even more coo...

Engadget's posting of an internal Apple e-mail caused quite a stir in the blogosphere--and the stock-o-sphere--yesterday. Listen in to fi...

Amazon is going to offer DRM-free songs from 12,000 labels in the future. We're hoping that more major labels other than EMI will hop on ...

Today is another day about patents and copyright, so if that bores you then you might want to skip to all the new product announcements! ...

Microsoft is taking on open source, but we're not entirely sure why. Could it be jealousy, or the innate need to crush all competition? T...

You can call DRM whatever you want, but it's still the same thing--seriously, it's not an "image issue." Stick around for the end of the ...

We don't have fiber (unlike some people), but if a certain senator gets elected, then all that might change! We'll just continue to whine...

The game 'Spore' is clearly a representation of what's going to happen when our bacteria land on a habitable planet. Too bad we won't kno...

The state of Florida wants to require you to present an ID and a fingerprint in order to sell your used CDs! I don't know what kind of op...

AT&T, why do you have to be so mean to your customers? Taking away their VoIP, but not letting them give forwarding numbers and not helpi...

Could the news be true? Is there really going to be a $50 billion merger between these two tech giants? It's frighteningly possible!

An editor from PC World has resigned over ad pressure--it's sad that it came to that, but we're happy he stood up and kept his integrity....

Digg complied with a takedown notice and suffered a hex code deluge. Meanwhile the Xbox 360 Elite has some data transfer problems.

Dell has picked the Linux distro that it's going to offer in its computers, and it's Ubuntu! Lucky for us, because that's definitely the ...

We have one of our favorite guest hosts back today, Leo Laporte of This Week in Tech! Very strange stories today, Leo Laporte of This Wee...

Congress may have the final say on the rate hike from the Copyright Royalty Board, and it seems to be a lot easier on Internet and small ...

Gosh, I feel like it's been months since we've had a battery recall! Acer steps up to the plate this time, and once again the Sony batter...

What is the world coming to today? It seems that MySpace could pick the next presidential candidate. We've seen voting like this go very ...

The list of the nation's "bloggiest" neighborhoods wasn't compiled from every area of San Francisco (as I was expecting). In other news, ...

Maybe that wasn't the biggest story of the day, but how could I possibly pass up a title like that? However, if you have cash on the mind...

By popular demand, Dell's getting the band back together. Six Dell computers will now sell with Windows XP. That's right. Bad news for...

For some reason, the theme of zombies plagues this episode. It has nothing to do with the Google phone, the Zune phone, or the iPhone. ...

It may have only seemed like the world was coming to an end last night, when RIM suffered a major meltdown and service to BlackBerrys cra...

How much control should your workplace have over your e-mail? Let's take it a step further: should company officials be tracking your mov...

Could bees be dying off because of cell phone usage? Boing Boing has the story, though it could be a hoax. But if they hear your annoying...

Because of the iPhone, OS X Leopard will not be out unti October. This really messes up new laptop purchase plans.

Tom has finally found his favorite link! It's a simple Web app that makes another Firefox browser window within Firefox--over and over an...

Who doesn't have $3K set aside for an animatronic polar bear? Maybe you're more of a robotic collie kind of person? They're perfect for b...

The discussion today is heavily weighed on by Battlestar Galactica and its noticeable lack of energy weapons. I know I should suspend my ...

The Internet is a wondrous place. Need to find an Indian restaurant in San Francisco? Ask Google over the phone. Can't find a bathroom in...

If you look closely at the Apple TV box, apparently there is a shout out to the National Nuclear Security Agency. Is the little streaming...

It will only be a few short years before my city in the clouds is complete! No, you say? This is only a proposition for a new way to harv...

Verizon, you'd better quit trying to split hairs with this "unlimited data" for your EV-DO service! If you assume that everyone is a crim...

We're fans of Serenity as much as anyone, but a better movie than Star Wars? Now, that's stretching it a bit much. Also today: is there a...

Well, Tom was finally right about something from his 2007 predictions: a major label has it dropped digital rights management, for iTunes...

That's right folks, we have a confirmed date from Cingular for the iPhone! Now if only they would get around to releasing Leopard, we rum...

We interview two guests with very different opinions about the recent royalty increases for streaming radio than most bloggers: Barry Mar...

I knew those people over at Google had a sense of humor, but did they really think they could fool us into swimming to Ireland via France...

Robots are joining the fast-food industry, but not as cooks or servers. They'll be in the back office telling everyone else what to do. M...

Blogger Kathy Sierra has canceled appearances and stopped blogging after several vicious postings and death threats appeared on the Inter...

Risking life and limb, Veronica overcomes a possibly explosive cell phone battery to report on the latest from CTIA. Meanwhile Google de...

OS X Leopard may be delayed until October. Cablevision lost its network DVR case. Molly's on maternity leave and Veronica's off to Disne...

As podcasters, we feel compelled to promote this movement to get an independent artist recognized on iTunes, but we won't tell you how to...

Tom takes pride in his productive messiness, while Veronica marvels that Tom didn't know Ligers were real. Meanwhile Microsoft goes open ...

I never thought I'd be a supporter of any action taken by Clear Channel (also known as "Killer of Small Independent Radio Stations"), but...

We're back! Luckily, we didn't miss too much news while we were gone, but here's a quick rundown: Viacom sues YouTube, YouTube hits back ...

Tom shares with us his trials and tribulations of finding videos of Stargate online!

What the heck does "Web 2.0" mean anyway? We're not entirely sure of the exact definition, but here are some of the services that we find...

Travel back in time with us, as Tom and Veronica check out the latest innovations from the 1980s.

Insert hilarious intro by Veronica here!

We interview writer Regina Lynn about how pornography will not be the deciding factor in the HD DVD vs. Blu-ray format wars. FYI, we do t...

I guess it was only a matter of time before MySpace jumped onto the social news bandwagon. Will its sheer numbers be enough to beat the D...

Sorry for the late podcast! We're so busy running around at different conventions and conferences that the podcast had to (gasp!) take a ...

Sony has released some new advancements for the PS3, and one of them is a Second Life-like feature called Home! Fortunately (unfortunatel...

According to Apple, if you got your phone for free, well, you got what you paid for. That means the $600 you will spend on the iPhone is ...

Patrick Norton and Roger Chang drop by the studio (unexpectedly) and school us on a number of topics. Most terrifying is the thought that...

It's so clear to us why Sony recently made a big deal about the "rumble" feature in its controllers: it was the old "patent dispute" shti...

The dynamic duo of Stephen Hawking and Richard Branson are teaming up to someday send the brilliant physicist into space! In other, less ...

Adobe is planning to release a hosted version of Photoshop that you use online. How cool is that? We're one step closer than ever before ...

It's day two of piling on Apple TV. Yesterday there were no cables thrown in with the unit, and today we learn that it'll be yet another ...

Bad news day: Apple TV has no cables that come with it, EMI won't be going DRM-free after all, and Vista and Firefox are not playing nice...

How come Sony is making a different version of the PS3 for Europe? Is it to make more money, or is there some other reason we haven't yet...

SETI was put to good use this week, finding a stolen laptop thanks to the quick-thinking husband of the victim. Contrary to popular belie...

That Steve Ballmer is one sly fox! He's keeping those Linux people on their toes by gently reminding them that he could sue at any time. ...

It's a deal-making day! XM and Sirius are planning their big merge, but will the government let it go any further? And Viacom made big ne...

There's almost nothing cooler than bionic implants, and this new eye is right out of Star Trek! Of course, we see some room for improveme...

Why is this guy still trying to make laws for the Internet? Hasn't anyone sat him down and said "Listen, Ted, I know you really like maki...

It's another Y2K! Everyone run for the hills! The shifting of daylight savings time to a much earlier-than-usual March 11 will wreak havo...

We're not sure which came first, the cracked or the delusional. But the truth of the matter is that the HD DVD and Blu-ray encryption has...

Well, the votes are in! We've selected our Photoshop BOL winner, and you'll have to check it out! In news today, there's a lot going on w...

People love the Nintendo Wii so much that they're making up gadgets that would go with it! From Wii phones to Wii weights, the collection...

iPhone? Call me when it's ready! The Samsung F700 is launching at 3GSM next week, and it's definitely competition for the iPhone in the l...

iPods are a hazard to our health, according to one politician: he says you're more likely to get hit by a car in a crosswalk if you're pl...

From the mind behind the iPod comes a rant about DRM: Steve Jobs writes on Apple.com about his "thoughts on music." It's an essay about w...

The dueling Apples have finally reached an agreement! Does this mean that soon we'll see The Beatles on iTunes? In other settlement news,...

Sing that title to the tune of "We Built This City" by Starship, and you'll get our terrible, terrible humor. Anyhow, we're lobbying our ...

Finally, we get to bring you the "mindsticker" commercial from yesterday that never made it into the final version of the show. Sony is h...

Suffice to say, we had some technical difficulties today. But that doesn't stop this podcast machine from rolling! Listen in awe as Tom e...

We're feeling a little more secure today for a couple of reasons: Bill Gates is letting everyone know that Microsoft Vista is going to be...

YouTube is not only adding commercials, but they're going to start a revenue-sharing program for creators of original content. That's gre...

The new operating system doesn't come out until Tuesday for home users, but we've been playing with Vista and it has some drawbacks. We ...

Just kidding! But it is Opposite Day, so be prepared for some wackiness. The big news is that researchers are predicting that universal d...

Norway has an ombudsman who seems to understand the Internet and how digital socity differs from real society. That's bad news for Apple...

Microsoft is already anticipating its first Service Pack update for the new version of Windows--which is pretty funny, considering Vista ...

Apparently, everything we knew about snowflakes is wrong. And if that weren't big enough news, it seems there's a shift happening in the ...

We know the iPhone is going to be pretty expensive, but now Apple wants us to pay two whole dollars to upgrade wireless to 802.11n! Could...

We're having our second Photoshop contest, so stay tuned until the end of the podcast for all the details! In other Photoshop news, we're...

Even though Moore himself said that his law isn't accurate anymore, HP is still determined to beat it. That means chips will have faster ...

The Pirate Bay, a Swedish file-sharing Web site, is considering the purchase of their very own island to call home: Sealand, an itsy-bits...

We're on vacation, so it's Generic Podcast Day!

If we have low expectations, it can only go up from there, right? That's what people in Denmark are thinking, anyway! We know a lot of pe...

We're here at CES once again, but the big topic of the day is Macworld! We've got the Apple phone, the wide-screen iPod, and a tabletlike...

His Gatesness announced yesterday that the XBox 360 will be able to play IPTV in the future. Of course, you'll need to subscribe to an IP...

It's day one of Buzz Out Loud at CES! Not only that, but you get a very special Sunday edition. There's a lot of cool stuff coming out th...

We were expecting to hear about cool new things next week for sure, but Samsung got the jump on us by developing a new chipset that allow...

Amazon is going after Yahoo with their new answer page, called Askville. The citizens of BuzzTown wonder why people couldn't just Google ...

It's not too often that all three of us become embroiled in an argument, but if you're into that kind of thing, today is your day. Who is...

We're so glad to be back! There's a lot of news that we need to go over today, but more importantly we want you to know that aliens may b...

A 12 minute whirlwind tour of the event sof 2006 as heard on Buzz Out Loud.

Tom and Veronica comment on last year's predictions show and judge who did best in predicting the events of 2006.

What will be big in 2007? Find out now! Maybe.

No, seriously. It makes me physically ill. We redesigned CNET for a reason, folks! Just kidding. Anyhow, today is a day of class action l...

Could it be the end of the Internet as we know it? Yes, if certain people (who just don't get it) in Australia have their way! Linking to...

We've got phone rumors up the wazoo today! First, the iPhone isn't exactly what we were anticipating. At all. Second, Google and Orange a...

Maybe we'll get a little more excited about the format wars now that there's a third competitor: DivX. Hopefully its version of high-defi...

Oh, you read right. Bill Gates thinks you should just buy CDs and rip them! I'm liking this guy more and more every day. Speaking of whic...

Toasting really does make everything taste better, doesn't it? Today, Skype is really cranking up the deals and services, hopefully to st...

This episode really shows what I know about controlling spacecraft (which frankly, isn't much). But the real news of the day is that Ted ...

A special "thank you" to everyone who wrote in and called this past week; it means a lot to us. But the tech news continues, starting wit...

Our dear friend and colleague James Kim passed away this week. In his memory we're rerunning an episode of Buzz Out Loud he co-hosted 9/...

Luckily, if all goes wrong on Earth after the year 2020, we might have a base on the moon available. Maybe someone will even take my advi...

It seems as though we're closer to an inevitable MMORPG tax. It probably won't affect your average player, but anyone making real-world m...

The MPAA says that they're allowed to make an illegal copy of a movie, because, you know, they're the MPAA. And they're keeping it in a v...

We interview Gary Shapiro, President to the Consumer Electronics Association.

Granted, some people may think you're a loser if you're on a social networking site. We won't judge you for that (glass houses and all). ...

We talk DRM with Fritz Attaway, Executive Vice President and Special Policy Advisor of the MPAA.

It's easy to get distracted by naked people, but the real news of the day is the Russian government ousting AllofMP3.com. However, the mu...

Google says that someday your iPod will hold all the media in the world! We're not sure if they've included Apple in this idea, but how c...

The Beatles may finally allow their music to be sold digitally on iTunes, which would possibly end their long-standing feud with Apple! O...

The Buzz team gives thanks.

On this day before Thanksgiving, we're very thankful to have Leo Laporte on the show! We talk about more Sony PS3 news, and how the rumor...

We usually try to stay out of Bill O'Reilly's way, but now he's gone and really offended us. Apparently, he's never actually "talked to t...

A little bit of the LOTR nerd died in me today when we learned that Peter Jackson won't be directing the Hobbit movie or any prequels. Wh...

Put a bunch of people in a line (perhaps in bad weather), add a superhyped gaming console, and throw in the fact that the stores are comp...

Twelve million: you can't really argue with that, right? I mean, maybe if it was, like, 10,000--then I could see how it would be a less r...

I don't believe it either, but apparently the Internet is only 1 percent porn. What could possibly make up the rest of that content? I'm ...

The Zune has come into the world, and the reception hasn't been so great. The usual suspects are at its throat, like Walt Mossberg and Da...

You can be labeled a criminal for a lot of stuff these days. According to Universal Music, anyone who owns an iPod is a criminal, because...

Speed kills. In this case, YouTube's ability to instantly post videos from users is what made the site so much more popular than Google V...

Despite the fact that you were snarky, and that you may have actually turned people away from switching to a Mac with your attitude, we'l...

Talk about most disturbing title ever. Anyway, there's a lot of product news today for the holidays: Vista has been released to manufactu...

Microsoft is having a pretty good week. First, its announced that Xbox 360 will allow you to download movies and TV shows (some in HD) to...

Science tells us that mice live longer when they have a lower caloric intake and a lower body temperature. Personally, I'd rather live my...

We know you're listening to the show, Mr. Jobs, because Molly wanted an 8GB red Nano, and then it happened! While you're out there granti...

The US elections are only a few days away and it's becoming clear that in many corners of the country, electronic voting could prove to b...

CNET may not have the fanciest Halloween parties (like Google) but at least we haven't been attacked with a bomb (like PayPal). But lucki...

Happy Halloween! The treat today is that Slingbox is now available for Macs, and the Shuffle is finally shipping. The trick is that you m...

Can you ever stay at the top of "cool?" People are now wondering if MySpace is in it's slow decline. Sure, it's a couple of kids from a W...

We've grown tired of pirates vs. ninjas, so we've moved on to vampires vs. werewolves. It's a little more seasonally appropriate. But in ...

There are rumors afoot that Digg might soon be purchased by News Corp. We're trying to figure out what a MySpace/Digg mashup would look l...

The Firefox team got a nice surprise this week when the IE team sent them a nice congratulatory cake for shipping Firefox 2! And no, pois...

Technology is a wonderful thing. It helps us connect with people across the world, encourages business growth and opportunity, and keeps ...

The X Prize Cup has been in full swing for a while, but it seems like more people are being disqualified, or having their projects explod...

If you can't see us, that's because we have a cloak of invisibility. You also can't see us because YouTube nuked 30,000 videos. Just kidd...

We could call it growing pains, or we could just say that sadly, we're not surprised. IE 7 came out today, and with it its first vulnerab...

Windows users, get into your emergency bunkers: the iPods are coming for you, and there's nothing we can do to stop them! That's right, s...

I've been thinking about getting more into Second Life, but now I'm worried, not so much about losing all my time but losing all my money...

I knew there was a romantic in there: Steve Jobs says that if you want to impress the ladies, share your earbuds. Apparently sending trac...

Friday the 13th is a lucky day for Veronica as she gets the day off. That leaves us to deal with the new iPod, restrictive Vista license...

We never said our titles had to make sense. It seems that China is taking steps to open up the Internet to their citizens. It's unblocked...

We couldn't resist that subject line. Anyhow, ICANN says it can't comply with a court order to delete Spamhaus's domain name, not because...

We're not pointing any fingers, but there were definitely a few people wrong about the Google/YouTube deal announced yesterday (one hint:...

We just found out that Google is going to buy YouTube. We didn't know that at the time of the recording, but we did make some predictions...

Someone has to buy YouTube eventually, right? Well, the rumor mill is churning today, and people are saying that Google is the most likel...

You heard it right! Tom and Molly are all excited, because ATT is doing away with its DSL contracts. That's the good news today. The bad ...

So now robots are learning from us how to play music? What's stopping them from learning emotional cues so that they can better blend in ...

We've learned today that it doesn't always take a lithium-ion battery to make a gadget explode: Hello Kitty has recalled its bed-warming ...

Sorry, they're just not that into you. Anyhow, browser developers are scrambling to fix their products for security flaws. Some, like Mic...

I know our title sounds alarming, but we thought it was important for you to know that there are 150-foot-long earwigs roaming the German...

See what happens when you get all high and mighty, Lenovo? Yeah, your laptop batteries start exploding. We tried to warn you, but I guess...

We all know that at Microsoft, they're creatures of habit, so we were a little surprised that they actually released a security patch out...

Surgery...in space! I guess we have to figure it out at some point, but do we really need to test it in 30-second intervals? That's going...

Wal-Mart is continuing to throw its weight around with the movie studios about underselling it for DVDs. Steve Jobs even gave the retail ...

When I heard that the Census Bureau had lost 1,137 laptops in the past few years, it got me to thinking: where did they all go? Did they ...

OK, we're not actually

We're hanging our heads in shame today for accusing the Zune of terrible, horrible things like being more expensive than the iPod and wra...

Arrr, did you know today is Talk Like a Pirate Day? 'Tis harder than ye think. More batteries be explodin', the Zune's price was leaked b...

The battle for video online continues! Warner Music gets onboard with YouTube for music videos, but they can also watch for copyright vio...

Nintendo shocked the console world when they announced that they planned on making money off of the Wii! To us (and Nintendo, obviously) ...

We interview Steve Wozniak about the recent Segway recalls and Apple announcements.

Wii are getting way too excited over Nintendo's console news today. Wii can't believe that Wii're getting it before Japan is, and poor Eu...

You'd better tell your grandma to stop downloading copyrighted embroidery patterns, or she's getting sued! In fact, we have a lineup toda...

Lots of news from Apple today! We have a redesigned Shuffle, color Nanos, a revamped iPod, movies on the iTunes store, and last but not l...

Apparently all you have to do to get out of an RIAA lawsuit is fight back! When someone did, they said "Uh...we need more time to gather ...

We've never seen Tom this mad about something! This Amazon situation has really gotten him worked up. It almost works like spyware, which...

Microsoft needs to get its priorities straight: When there are major security holes, it waits for its precious "Patch Tuesday" to fix thi...

Once again, there won't be enough overpriced consoles to go around this holiday season: Sony is producing only 400,000 units of the PS3 f...

Apple is about to make a big announcement, or so we hope. Will it be the new movie store? Probably, considering the invites say "It's Sho...

There's nothing we love here at Buzz Out Loud more than a good smackdown! Apple's forthcoming movie store might match Wal-Mart's low pric...

Verizon has dropped their DSL surcharge; obviously it's because we talked about it. I mean, they had to have felt the pressure we were pu...

It seems that no one can keep a secret these days: an ex-Lockheed Martin employee is whistle-blowing on YouTube, ATT got hacked and lost ...

The whole "fun with cracking DRM" situation is still going strong today with no end in sight, and now Universal is backing another new su...

Three hundred shows! Wow. Just yesterday it seems like we were talking about the launch of the PSP, the release of Opera 8, and the begin...

It was really only a matter of time before someone broke Microsoft's DRM. The creators of the program, called FairUse4WM 1.1, state that ...

We thought we knew what the top story was going to be today...but we changed our minds when we got to work. An hour later, we changed our...

Today we realize that computer programs are, in fact, much more hilarious than we initially suspected. Henceforth, all jokes on Buzz Out ...

Microsoft and Firefox, sittin' in a tree! Ewww, they're totally in looooove! Maybe not, but we do know that Microsoft has invited the Fir...

We've got some breaking news about the CTO of AOL "resigning" because of the data leak. Man, I guess someone had to take the heat! At Del...

We're all tired of these snakes! Actually we're also just tired from attending the San Francisco late-night premiere of the number one mo...

Tom, Molly, and Veronica report on location from the movie's first showing. Did it deserve all the buzz, or did it leave 'em hissing?

We know that HDTV can be confusing, and now some hardware companies are recognizing this fact. If they don't clear it up enough for you, ...

Apple wants to ban the use of the word pod, because it doesn't want consumers to have brand confusion. So henceforth, because not everyon...

"Dude, get a Dell" is turning into "Dude, don't let your battery explode!" Dell is recalling 4 million batteries, so if you've got one of...

Microsoft is putting the power into the users' hands: first, by letting them design games for Xbox Live, then by designing a free blog-ed...

It's a day of achievement here on Buzz Out Loud: IBM celebrates its 25th birthday, Pluto finally gets the official recognition it deserve...

I'm baaaaaaack! I can't believe how out of the loop I am on the news. Molly was trashing Apple, and there was no one here to defend them!...

In a victory for obsessive time-wasters everywhere, the courts ruled Major League Baseball doesn't own baseball statistics. Fantasy spor...

It's one thing when robots run amok across the countryside, but they should never mess with a man's car. I'm no robot apologist, but app...

It's day three without Veronica, and, well, she didn't miss much out of WWDC. All the wild rumors of televisions and iPhones and video iP...

The Apple WWDC rumours are starting to get boring. Which means they may be true. Plus AOL lays off 5,000 customers. Ah the price of fr...

Apple rumour mill has begun to heat up and the big rumour is the iPhone. Or is it the iChat Mobile? No one but Steve knows for sure. A...

Veronica's leaving for a week, and she's already making me write the intro. Molly had to get her hair done, so we're late recording. Me? ...

So E3 isn't dead after all! It's just a small, invite-only press event. Great, I couldn't go when it was open, and now it's invite-only?...

Could this be the end of E3 as we know it?

Does a law blocking social networking sites do more harm than good?

If you have TWC, don't expect to get a TiVo Series3.

Has our White Knight come to beat down the MPAA?

Is YouTube singing their swan song?

AMD buys ATI, and Internet TV keeps making more news.

TV had a bad week, and apparently e-mail is passe. I hope the new Microsoft iPod competitor turns out to cheer us up.

Things could be looking up for consumers in terms of DRM, and Yahoo is leading the way!

Download movies, and then burn them to DVD. Finally!

Nothing is more exciting than lawsuits, right?

Tiny chips with massive storage.

Exploding laptops! Frozen pigs! It must be Friday.

Sony puts foot in mouth over release dates. Hah!

Oh, and not like we care or anything, but Rocketboom is back.

Microsoft leaves 50 million out in the cold!

A possible solution to the format wars could be upon us!

Sometimes things are just too easy

Could Sony be in trouble?

Is Bubble 2.0 about to go "pop"?

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