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@ScrewYouSXSW vents at absent husband

AUSTIN, Texas--What's the phrase? "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned?" Well, now there's a Twitter feed for finding out just what that woman's thinking.

During the day Friday at the South by Southwest (SXSWi) festival here, the word started spreading across Twitter about @ScrewYouSXSW, a feed that purports to be written by a wife left alone on a particularly special weekend by a husband seemingly more interested in the goings-on at this geek-heavy confab.

Identifying herself as a Californian who is "One pissed-off wife," her bio says it all: "My … Read more

SXSWi: Emergency alarm evacuates convention center

AUSTIN, Texas--Was it caused by all the hot air?

The debate had just begun in a fourth-floor ballroom at the Austin Convention Center between billionaire Mark Cuban and Boxee founder Avner Ronen, where hundreds of people had showed up for their a highly anticipated panel at the South by Southwest Interactive Festival on Friday evening. Then the emergency lights started flashing and everyone was told by a voice recording to evacuate the room because "an emergency has been reported."

"Keep going!" audience members shouted at the pair of media execs, who were appearing onstage for the … Read more

Buzz Out Loud 1183: War and peace on the Internet (podcast)

Patent wars reignite, the Internet is nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize, and multitasking may be coming to the iPhone. It's an epic sort of show today. Also, PS3 gets in the game with a motion-controller, and employees like us knowingly violate IT policies like crazy people.

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Apple’s iPhone 4.0 software to deliver multitasking support http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/03/11/apples_iphone_4_0_software_to_deliver_multitasking_support.html

Verizon to have 4G phone by mid-2011 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703791704575114130970301388.html?mod=googlenews_wsj… Read more

Buzz Out Loud at SXSW

The Buzz Crew will be attending South by Southwest Interactive this year and as such, there are a handful of Buzz-related engagements! Here's a list of our appearances. If you are attending SXSW, make sure to RSVP for the events in advance. If not, have no fear. Most of these events will be streamed live as well so check it out online!

Buzz Out Loud/Squarespace Meetup ( click here to RSVP) Saturday, March 13, 2010 @ 5:00pm CT - Malverde ( 400 W. 2nd St.) No SXSW badge required to attend. Join us for a rockin' SXSW Buzztown Meetup sponsored … Read more

Buzz Out Loud 1181: ACTA: it's bad for the brand (podcast)

The European Parliament is, somewhat unexpectedly, riding to the world's rescue by demanding that the super evil ACTA agreement be negotiated in the open and that the three-strike ISP provisions be taken out. Well, hot damn! That's big news! I mean, that Cisco router is big news, too, but it just doesn't have the same sexy factor.

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Cisco’s big announcement was a really fast router; AT&T has tested it http://news.cnet.com/8301-30686_3-10466043-266.html http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/marketwire/0594332.htm… Read more

Buzz Out Loud 1179: The guy who makes OK Go go (podcast)

On today's show, a special interview with Adam Sadowsky, president of Syynlabs, the OK Go video, "This Too Shall Pass." Turns out making that video was as hard to make as you might imagine. Also, we discuss the pending smellpocalypse coming out of Siberia.

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Interview with Adam Sadowsky, president, Syynlabs OK Go – This Too Shall Pass – RGM version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybUFnY7Y8w

iPad coming on April 3, preorders on March 12 http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10464361-37.html… Read more

Austin meetup: Saturday, March 13

Molly, Jason, and I are headed to Austin, Texas, for South by Southwest festival again this year and, of course, we wouldn't miss the chance to have another meetup. This year, the folks at Squarespace were nice enough to offer to set it all up for us.

Meet us at Malverde at 5 p.m. Central Time for drinks, food, pictures, BOL stickers, and more. You can get all the details like directions and things at the official Eventbrite meeting invite.

BOL 1049: The Pirate Bay will never die.... and neither will SCO

Monarchy, mercantilism, and Talmudic tech are on the table today. We get a little obscure in our references...at least I do...but Leo and Brian keep us on track talking about the new Sony Reader, and how the Pirate Bay is unkillable. In bad news, SCO is back, and this time it's personal.

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Sony unveils three would-be Kindle killers--Pocket, Touch and now, 3G Wireless with AT&T http://paidcontent.org/article/419-sony-unveils-new-reader-digital-books-pocket-touch-and-now-3g-wireless/ http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=23187 … Read more

BOL 1048: Is Apple lying to the FCC?

Apple's letter to the FCC makes some pretty incredible claims about what Google Voice does to the iPhone's phone functionality. TechCrunch calls the claims misleading when they're being nice. To us, they sound like lies. We're also kinda taken with the Nokia laptop. Yes, Nokia is making a laptop. And, of course, the week of stars kicks off with guest host Patrick Beja.

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Apple answers the FCC's questions http://www.apple.com/hotnews/apple-answers-fcc-questions/ http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/21/the-simple-truth-whats-really-going-on-with-apple-google-att-and-the-fcc/ … Read more