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Dialed In 125: Down on Kin (podcast)

Bonnie finally reviews the Microsoft Kin phones, and let's just say it isn't too positive. We also discuss the recently announced Android phones--the T-Mobile MyTouch 3G Slide and the LG Ally--plus a few other cell phone news items this week.

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News T-Mobile MyTouch 3G Slide makes official debut LG Ally officially announced with May 20 release Samsung goes simple with the Stride Aliph adds A2DP to the Jawbone Icon Boost Mobile introduces free 411 calls 4G coverage expands

Reviews Kin One (Verizon Wireless) … Read more

Buzz Out Loud 1203: The potato radius (podcast)

Pluto's in danger of insult again, as scientists decide that anything bigger than a potato should be a dwarf planet. Or something like that. We also dig into why Apple would suddenly disqualify any third-party compilers from being used to make iPhone apps. And the long-awaited iPod Nano scratch lawsuit is settled. Our national nightmare is over.

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Buzz Out Loud Podcast 1176: F1 is now FU

Microsoft's latest security measure involves telling everyone not press F1. Well that's reasonable. If you read everything Microsoft says. Also the juiciest weirdest firing ever happens to the developers of the most successful video game ever.

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RIAA in pickle over Jammie Thomas ruling

The music industry will have to make some very tough choices within the next week about file sharer Jammie Thomas-Rasset.

The Recording Industry Association of America wants to put the Thomas-Rasset affair behind it. The Brainerd, Minn., mother--who refused to settle with the RIAA for $5,000 over copyright infringement allegations, instead fighting it out in court--has been found liable of willful copyright infringement by two different juries and was ordered to pay damages of $222,000 in her first trial (a decision later thrown out) and $1.9 million last June in her retrial.

On Friday, Michael Davis, chief … Read more

Buzz Out Loud Podcast 1133: The Web not-as-exclusive-anymore Episode

Ho Ho Ho. Enjoy this compilation of some of the best moments from the pre and post show discussion from our live show in 2009.

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Dialed In Podcast 104: Visit from Asia

We have special guest Damian Koh from CNET Asia joining us on today's show. He answers our questions about the cell phone market in Asia, and surprisingly, he tells us he actually envies us for the phones that are available only in the U.S. We also discuss the Motorola Droid, Verizon's AT&T-bashing ads, Samsung's Bada, and more.

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News Initial Motorola Droid sales look good New Verizon ad calls iPhone 'misfit toy Verizon reveals Casio G'zOne Brigade T-Mobile to phase out MyFaves Samsung launching its own mobile OS… Read more

Dialed In Podcast 102: We've got the Droid

Yes, we actually have the Motorola Droid in the house, and we couldn't be more excited about it. We dish about Verizon's new Android phone and what it means for the Android platform in general. We also talk about the latest Sony Ericsson phones and go over the week's reviews.

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News Motorola Droid live review Verizon, Motorola unveil the Droid Motorola Droid specs Droid Eris: Verizon's other Android phone Google releases Android 2.0 SDK T-Mobile unveils new contract-free specs Palm Pixi arrives November 15 for $100 … Read more

Dialed In Podcast 99: CTIA madness

Bonnie and Kent are in San Diego this week covering the CTIA wireless trade show, so Nicole roped in Jason Howell and Donald Bell to cover all the week's news. We talk about the new Android phones, Windows Mobile 6.5, new phones for AT&T and Verizon, and of course, this week's reviews.

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News CTIA Fall 2009 Two Verizon Android phones in 2009 T-Mobile introduces Android-powered Samsung Behold II Samsung Moment revealed as Sprint's second Android phone T-Mobile rolls out Android 1.6 Donut to G1 and MyTouch 3G … Read more

Inside CNET Labs 52: Professors in girls

This week we have a very special guest, Mr. Ariel Nunez. Ariel is the guy who composed our intro and outro music. We've been meaning to talk to him for a a while, but as you'll hear he's quite a busy guy. That, and I'm kinda lazy.

Anyway we talk about everything from music, girls, the iPhone, and browsers to the definition of life. Yep, we roll deep in this episode.

Stick around after the podcast for a preview of Ariel's music, including his full "Sweet Dreams" track.

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Buzz Out Loud 1,000: Do we have to do 1,000 more of these?

Because if we do, awesome. Today is our 1,000th episode and we are so grateful that so many people came together to celebrate. Tomorrow we get back to regular tech news, but bear with us as we take several trips down memory lane, and entertain many well wishes from various folks.

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Scattered reports of iPhone OS 3.0 update problems http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10266635-1.html http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/06/iphone30/

Bill would ban unfair data plans, even … Read more