We’re always welcoming new discovered talent with Jon Quach from Tech Waffle being the first introduced.  This time, Jon Rettinger introduces to YouTube, TechnoBuffalo’s newest member! Matt’s Macintosh provides users reviews and videos about the latest and greatest tech as well as the old, vintage Apple products. Please give him your warmest welcomes in a future

It seems that the formerly monolithic Blockbuster video chain is finally ready to go into Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, something that has been predicted for months, if not years, at this point. According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, the Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection filing could come as soon as today, or some

Is it possible to love a service? I think it is – I’ve been using Shuffler.FM all weekend and I totally dig how it translates the channel surfing tendencies of the restless television viewer to music listening online and blog discovery. Since I help musicians with social media over on Uptown Uncorked, among other things,

The folks over at the infamous 4chan, known for banding together not only to bring us memes, be internet tastemakers and occasionally shock the masses with some truly down and dirty pr0n and other prurient interests, but to take on perceived internet foes on behalf of the everyman, are at it again. This time the

Adobe reported that they released a fix today for a critical hole exploited in Flash Player, at least a week earlier than anticipated. The company had warned users of the vulnerability a week earlier and they said that a fix would be released by September 27th.  The vulnerability which allowed attackers to take control of

Let me be clear, I think spec work is a bit evil. I think it devalues the work of artists (and writers, etc) and drives prices down, hurting all artists, not just established ones. I think the internet gives us a level playing field where we no longer need spec work – an enterprising artist

If the information coming out of analysts and electronics retailers is correct, Apple’s iPad isn’t just racking up great sales, it’s tearing apart other existing markets, some of which I don’t think anyone could have predicted. According to an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Best Buy believes that the iPad has cannibalized upwards of 50 percent

It would seem that the days of packaged media is definitely coming to an end if the latest announcement from retailer Best Buy is any kind of measure. Best Buy for years has had large portions of its retail stores dominated by racks of CDs and DVDs, but during a conference call this past Tuesday,

It would appear that T-Mobile is tired of its customers receiving these Twitter direct messages via text, or those alerts from your bank about your account being low on funds.  How do you stop this terrible invasion of a company network?  Simple, you start charging businesses to send those texts on their network to help

In a post about backing up Google Calendar and Google data, I promised you a follow up list of tools to back up your social presences. This is what I use to back up everything for @leslie, Uptown Uncorked, Film POP! and all of my other social accounts. I hope you find it helpful! Backupify

Claiming your business online has become all the rage lately. Most location enabled or location based web sites make this process easy, but not Microsoft’s Bing. Microsoft feels the need to go old school with their verification. Fitting for a company who continues to bring us iterations of Internet Explorer year after year. What happens

After increased concerns that Craigslist is facilitating child prostitution, a representative of the ex-personal listings site Craigslist confirmed in remarks prepared for hearing in Congress that it will not be reopening the “adult services” section on its site. Craigslist’s director of customer service and law enforcement relations, William Clint Powell said in a hearing that

Is this you? Do you, like me, have an Android phone and use Gmail for all your email, Google Calendar for all of your events and tasks, all because it offers such easy synching and a nice online access point you can take anywhere? You are not alone. More importantly, you are not immune to

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The Boxee Box set-top box is now available for pre-order, after several months of delay. The device is set to ship in November and when it does, it’ll sport new chips inside which according to Boxee, was responsible for the delay.  Instead of the previously announced Nvidia Tegra 2 chipset, the oddly shaped set-top will

After what seems like an eternity of rumors and false starts, YouTube is finally testing its live streaming video capabilities today with a handful of its partner accounts. Don’t get too excited, though as this truly is just a “test”. For today and tomorrow YouTube will be doing live streaming shows with its partner channels Howcast, Next

There has been a lot of discussion over whether or not a digital version of a newspaper will ever replace its printed brethren.  This commercial for the Newsday app pretty clearly demonstrates that there is one major function of a newspaper that the iPad can never hope to replace.  It also made me immediately think of

There has been a growing trend amongst employers in the United States to drop by a perspective new employee’s Facebook profile and see what they can learn about them. While some have felt this was beyond the scope of what an employer should do, the human resource departments of larger companies have said it is

Court documents filed on Tuesday morning indicate that Hewlett-Packard is suing Mark Hurd, the former CEO, accusing the former CEO of breaching their contract and misappropriation of trade secrets. Currently, Hurd is the co-president of Oracle, one of HP’s major competitors. HP said in a statement on Tuesday morning saying that ”Mark Hurd agreed to and

Once again rumors are circulating that Google is actively working on a music service, and now we’re hearing it may launch as soon as Christmas time this year. According a report from Reuters, VP of Engineering Andy Rubin, the man who oversees development of Android for Google, has been engaged in talks with the major

We hope you all have a safe and happy Labor Day, and take a look at the History Channel produced video above to learn what the day is all about.

Join BuffaloBuzz host Winston Sih as he details the week’s technology headlines.; This week: Jon Rettinger joins me as we dissect and analyze the Apple Media Event on September 1st, 2010 including all the new iPods. Share your opinions! What did you think of the event? Leave your thoughts below or send us a voicemail.

While the company has thus far been silent on the matter, it appears that popular classified ads website Craigslist may have finally given into mounting pressure in the United States to remove its controversial “Adult Services” section. For years now people have pushed for Craigslist to remove its “Adult Services” section that was popular with prostitutes and

Announced Thursday, Google and AOL announced that they will be extending and expanding their global partnership. The two web giants have signed a renewal for five years that will foresee Google and the continuation to offer its search services to AOL’s ”content network and properties.” Google will also continue to provide AOL with its advertising products

Join BuffaloBuzz host Winston Sih as he details the week’s technology headlines.; This week: ; I give you my predictions of the upcoming Apple Media Event on September 1st.  I predict a new iPod touch, iOS 4.1 on iPad, iPod touch and iPhone, etc.  As well, I let you viewers sound off. Share your opinions!