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Buzz Out Loud 813: Gonads: It's a science word

Quit laughing. This is serious business, related to cell phone radiation and sperm motility and viability. Also today, we talk about the new, NEW Microsoft ads (again), EA backtracking on its unpopular decision and Mark Zuckerberg sticking with his, and whether weather will make a difference in PlayStation 3 sales. Our bet: no. With guest host Jeff Bakalar! Listen now: Download today's podcast EPISODE 813

New Microsoft Commercials Are Live http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/18/new-microsoft-ads-are-live/

EA Relaxes Rules on Installing ‘Spore’ http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122178384121054773.html http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10046288-16.html

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EIC Squared: Financial gyrations, hacked e-mail, and Web 2.0 aging

On this week's EIC Squared podcast ZDNet's Larry Dignan and I talk about the gyrating, uncertain financial markets. Larry says that consolidation in the financial sector could result in an IT spending decline, but notes that Oracle's latest quarterly results were solid.

We also discuss the hacking of Sarah Palin's Yahoo e-mail account, and Web 2.0 reaching middle age.

Social engineering cracked Palin's e-mail account

Details describing how someone hacked into Sarah Palin's Yahoo Mail account emerged on Thursday, and it appears to have been done with little more than social engineering, the process of acquiring personal information through social manipulation.

Meanwhile, the Knoxville News Sentinel is reporting that a 20-year-old University of Tennessee student has been contacted in connection to the federal investigation of the break-in. Further details are not known.

Since Tuesday, anonymous posters using a forum on the 4Chan.org Web site have been circulating password-protected zip files containing the contents of the now-deleted e-mail account once belonging to the Republican … Read more

Buzz Out Loud 812: No, we have no politics today

Yes, we talk about politicians, and we crack a couple of non-jokes about politics, but we're definitely not talking about politics. Because we want us all to get along. Natali Del Conte joins the Buzz crew today to bid a (fond?) farewell to the Gates-Seinfeld ads, talk about Mark Zuckerberg and all his money, and whether Windows 7 can save the day.

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EPISODE 812

Latest Microsoft Vista ad defends “I’m a PC” guy: Seinfeld out http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/007763.html http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=2639

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The 404 187: Where we're tickling the Bonch

We finally get our hands on the much coveted Bonch aka Bonnie Cha, Senior Editor for CNET.com. No, we don't grill her on the latest cell phones at CTIA or the proper way to make a Superman cape. Instead, we try to guess Sarah Palin's e-mail password, run through a list of Jeff's mancrushes, do the Cha Cha on the air, and take a visit to the Sex Museum, aka Wilson's cellar.

Wow, did someone open up a tank of nitrous oxide in here? Today's show is literally 40 minutes of constant laughter, and we owe that to our special guest, Bonnie Cha! She's a Senior Editor of mobile phones at CNET and one of the first people I ever met at the San Francisco office. Please don't be operating heavy machinery while listening to today's show! We do taint, tarnish, and otherwise frack up Bonnie's "innocence" by explaining the science behind "Supermanning that ho," which goes over surprisingly well with her. We also debut a service called Cha Cha that allows you to text or call a 24/7 concierge service that will literally answer any inquiry, such as "Is the 404 going to be taken off the air tomorrow?" or "Why is Bonnie's nickname The Bonch?" Of course, all of these questions can be answered using another service; here in 2008 we call it Google. Furthermore,why would I use the Cha Cha when I know Wilson will always be within arm's length of a computer? The man is physically tethered to the Internet. Finally, we take a look at the NBC fall lineup and Bonnie asks the question that's on all of our minds: Jeff, how can you like Sex and the City and still urinate standing up?

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If Palin's e-mail can be cracked, yours can too

Putting aside the rectitude of using a public e-mail service like Yahoo Mail for government business, as Alaska governor and U.S. vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has done, if her e-mail was so easily hacked, how private do you think yours is?

The answer? Your only hope may be to keep so low key that no one cares about hacking your e-mail.

I'm willing to bet that most public figures keep Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail, etc. accounts, though most probably don't use them for public duty. Is it really as easy as wanting to crack them to … Read more

Feds probe hack of Palin's e-mail account

Now we know the real reason why John McCain doesn't use e-mail.

Hackers have broken into the Yahoo e-mail account of Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin. And, as you might expect, some snippets have appeared on Wikileaks.org in a convenient ZIP file.

"This is a shocking invasion of the governor's privacy and a violation of law. The matter has been turned over to the appropriate authorities and we hope that anyone in possession of these e-mails will destroy them," the McCain campaign said in a statement on Wednesday.

It's still unclear exactly what happened, … Read more

Sarah Palin winning the Wikipedia popularity contest

Updated at 10:50 a.m. PDT to clarify that Michael Phelps' career gold medal tally hit 14 in August. He won eight golds in the 2008 Olympic Games.

Sarah Palin's Wikipedia page underwent thousands of edits the day her vice presidential candidacy was announced--and it received an equally overwhelming number of hits, unsurprisingly.

Nearly 1.2 million people read Palin's Wikipedia page in the first 36 hours after Republican presidential candidate John McCain announced she was his VP choice, according to Web analytics company Compete.com. Palin's page was the most popular Wikipedia page for all … Read more

Carla Fiorina's mouth, meet Carly Fiorina's brain

Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina's gift of glib gab backfired on her Tuesday when she became too candid for her own political good.

Fiorina, an economic adviser to Sen. John McCain, was asked on KTRS Radio whether she thinks Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has the experience "to run a major company like Hewlett-Packard."

"No, I don't," Fiorina said. "But you know what? That's not what she's running for."

So she doesn't have the chops to run a company but can handle the role of president of the United States? … Read more