Loaded: Bond, James Bond Video

Loaded: Bond, James Bond Video Transcript

>> The iPhone gets a much needed firmware update. The Blackberry Pearl launches in Chile, and a new phone that will help you look like James Bond.

>> It's Tuesday, August 5th. I'm Natalie Del Conte, and it's time to get Loaded. ^M00:00:11 [ Music ] ^M00:00:14

>> The iPhone got a firmware update late on Monday night. iPhone 2.0.1 updates all iPhones as well as the iPod Touch.

>> It's a 249 meg download. This update is suppose to solve all the buggy bugs [inaudible] the new iPhone such as crashing OS, crashing apps, choppy scrolling, who knows, maybe I'll actually get my calls and voicemails now. The Blackberry Pearl is reported to have launched in Chile. MoviStar has become the first carrier to offer the new phone in its Chilean outpost. And Gadget [phonetic] points out that it's a bit expensive, around 588 dollars, or 299 thousand Chilean Pesos. Americans want see this phone until September. Time Warner is expected to announce the separation of its AOL dial up unit this week. This is obviously been an unprofitable sector of it's AOL acquisition for a long time now. Time Warner will now prune [assumed spelling] the tree a bit, and make AOL less of an ISP and more of a content company like Yahoo or Google. We don't have many details just yet; the Wall Street Journal predicts a formal announcement on Wednesday, when the company announces earnings. Thailand is pulling copies of Grand Theft Auto from shelves after a teenager confessed to robbing and murdering a taxi driver, claiming that he had been influenced by the game. The eighteen-year old reportedly wanted to see if committing the crime in real life was just as easy as it is in the game. He's now in custody and faces death by lethal injection if found guilty. Thailand's Culture Ministry has been pushing for tougher regulations on video games. But this is definitely one of those gray areas where there's no clear-cut method of preventing something like this. The games are notorious for being extremely violent, and this is the second murder allegedly inspired by the game, so I don't exactly think they're jumping the gun on this. Lenovo has thrown its hat into the small and cheap laptop market with a new IdeaPad S10 notebook. The laptop starts at 399 dollars, has a ten-inch screen, and a keyboard that's 85% as big as a regular notebook keyboard. It'll have between 80 and 160 gigs of hard drive space, and between 512 Megs and 1 gig of memory. It comes in black, white or red and will be available in October. The BBC published an interesting article on Microsoft's Midori project this week. Midori is not a drink, it's Microsoft's research project in which they are reinventing the Window's operating system. In theory, Midori would be a more virtualized workspace where users could rely on their Internet connection to move work projects from computer to computer. Window's is great, but it marries you to just one computer, which is really not the way people work anymore. Midori would be an answer to virtualization software that threatens Microsoft's OS stronghold. I feel very encouraged by this project. So far I haven't heard of Apple or Linux working on any conformable [assumed spelling] programs, but we're probably not too far from that, seeing as desktop computing is the way of the past. Sony announced a new James Bond themed rock band phone. This is a limited edition, Titanium silver C902 cyber-shot phone that will be released in November, which is when Quantum of Solace comes out. The C902 is the phone that Bond uses in the film. This model is already on sale, but the James Bond version will also have a spy game. It has a five-mega pixel camera, and a 160 Megs of memory. Sonly failed to release pictures of what the limited edition Bond phone will look like. I guess it's a mystery and you have to be a Double O to figure it out. The Electronic Frontier Foundation is not exactly an organization I'd call neutral, but nevertheless they have a new software program called Switzerland. This is an open source, cross platform program designed to help you measure your broadband in your home. It tracks your package and determines if your ISP is throttling your connection to torrent, VoIP and other legal high-bandwidth consuming communications. Switzerland is in alpha release, and not the easiest program to use, you have to compile it yourself. But unlike other measurement software out there, it isn't tied to any host program. So as www.news.com points out, the open source license could have serious ramifications for combating false promises of net neutrality from ISP's, like Comcast. The Olympic games are set to launch in just a few days. We already knew we could see coverage on NBC's website, but now YouTube has announced that it's in on that game as well. YouTube has a deal with the International Olympic Committee to broadcast three hours per day of exclusive content from the Olympic broadcasting service on a dedicated channel. Google can sell ads around the videos on the channel but they have to be official Olympic Game Sponsors. The coverage will include highlight reels and daily wrap-ups, but not live coverage. No one watches anything live on YouTube anyway. Before I sign off today, I want to mention an email I received yesterday from Chris. He says his dad Eric is having a birthday. Apparently, they watch Loaded today, so I hope they're watching today, Eric, I'm wishing you a very, big Happy Birthday from myself and the Loaded crew. Those are all your headlines for today, but I will be back tomorrow with more. Thank you for watching.

>> I'm Natali Del Conte with CNET TV, and you've just been Loaded. ^M00:04:46 [ Music ]