Huge news day today, with Google’s I/O presentation packing about a day’s worth of news into a single hourlong presentation–and this is just the first day. We wonder whether Honeycomb, Ice Cream Sandwich, and Chrome OS can exist in the same world, and whether the music labels will ever again get a seat at the …

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Comcast and TiVo’s long-running negotiations (think five years, people) to bring TiVo software to Comcast’s set-top boxes is now officially dead. As are TiVo’s hopes, as far as we’re concerned. Also, CNET may have tipped off Sony to yet another planned attack this weekend, and good news! They stopped it! Bad news: PSN and Qriocity …

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Wilson Tang from the 404 joins us in studio to hack away at all the tech news along with host of the week Mr. Brian Tong. Hackers are threatening a third attack on Sony which may cause consumers to think twice about adding their credit card information onto any site in the future despite the …

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NASA proves Einstein is still a genius, just in case you forgot. Anonymous officially denies being involved in hacking the Playstation Network, Facebook and Google want Skype, and we’re getting even closer to a world of digital distribution. Apple and EA are going to make sure of it. Buzz Out Loud episodes are released in …

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It’s National Star Wars Day and we celebrate with someone who loves space, Brian Cooley! Spotify sets its sights on iTunes, but its still only available in Europe. The Department of Justice is taking a deeper look at the AT&T/T-Mobile merger deal, and DO NOT rent a laptop from Aaron’s unless you want someone spying …

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Every company can be hacked, but we didn’t expect Sony to tell us that an additional 24 millions users and over 12,000 credit cards were acquired. It’s not looking good for you guys.Microsoft and RIM are new BFFs in the mobile space and they need each other, plus new iMacs! Just like we predicted. Buzz …

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Twitter shines in another moment for citizen journalism and the internet. And then there’s that guy who live-tweeted the whole raid, without knowing about it. Sony officially apologizes for the PSN outage and they’re giving back to the users, but is it enough? And we Like what the BOL Menu is serving. Buzz Out Loud …

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It turns out that no matter how technologically savvy we get in the world, we could always be betrayed by the meat puppets behind the servers. Thanks for that one, Donald. And human error does appear to be what happened to Amazon, and also the Yankees. DSLReports, on the other hand, just plain got hacked. …

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Dear every company on earth who’s apparently selling our data to anyone who will buy it and/or collecting it in fat, juicy databases that are like candy to hackers: can you just, like, try to be a tiny bit more careful? And maybe we will, too? Ok, thanks, great. Verizon’s LTE service is creeping back …

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Sony comes clean about six days after its network intrusion and admits that its hack attack actually led to the reveal of tens of millions of usernames, addresses, dates of birth, and maybe even passwords, security questions, and credit card numbers. So, that’s a pretty bad day over at Sony. Also, Apple comes clean on …

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