This week we take a look at:
1) The NEW Windows Mobile 7 comes out.  Details of the interface and more will be available in a more extensive coverage on TechnoBuffalo.com as well as the next edition of the BuffaloBuzz.
2) Google Buzz comes out.  We talk about the interface as well as the integration into Gmail for social networking.
3) Microsoft Office for the iPad? Is this out of the norm? Is this a bold move? We’ll explore that.
4) Twittering pictures from space via Japanese Astronaut Souichi Noguchi, we’ll show you that.
5) Brent Schlender of BNET interviews Bill Gates, and talks about what he thinks of the iPad.

For more information, take a look on my BuffaloBuzz Blog, http://technobuffalo.com/winston

This week on the BuffaloBuzz, we take a look at:
1) Amazon gives into Macmillan Books for higher pricing on e-books.  Will this move be effective when the iPad comes out on store shelves? We’ll have to see.
2) Apple tries to disguise the fact that the iPad does not support Flash, the standard used by many websites.  Either the device used in promotional videos were altered to support Flash or the videos themselves were altered.  Sneaky, sneaky.
3) The popular Google smartphone, Nexus One, currently available on T-Mobile USA maybe available on AT&T, Verizon and Sprint soon.
4) Facebook wants to steal your email with vanity emails similar to the available vanity URL’s.  Users will be available to send email via an “@facebook.com” email similar to Gmail or Yahoo Mail.
5) Stephen Colbert tries to promote the iPad by pulling out an iPad to announce the nominee list for Song of the Year.

Yes, the new Apple iPad is here!  This is the overview and introduction of its specifications and more is available on Apple’s website.

Specs:

• 9.7-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit glossy widescreen Multi-Touch display with IPS technology
• 1024-by-768-pixel resolution at 132 pixels per inch (ppi)
• Fingerprint-resistant oleophobic coating
• Support for display of multiple languages and characters simultaneously

• Wi-Fi model

  • Wi-Fi (802.11 a/b/g/n)
  • Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR technology

  Wi-Fi + 3G model

  • UMTS/HSDPA (850, 1900, 2100 MHz)
  • GSM/EDGE (850, 900,1800, 1900 MHz)
  • Data only²
  • Wi-Fi (802.11 a/b/g/n)
  • Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR technology

  Location

  • Wi-Fi
  • Digital compass
  • Assisted GPS (Wi-Fi + 3G model)
  • Cellular (Wi-Fi + 3G model)

Let me know how you feel.  Twitter me. Email me. Comment Below.  I will include interesting comments on my next BuffaloBuzz.

Citytv’s Breakfast Television featured my YouTube channel on Friday, January 22nd during their Internet Stars week.

A few weeks back, I was asked to write a blurb about myself and what I do on YouTube, and they passed it onto the Segment Producers of the production.  I never expected that I was going to be featured, but just that I was being considered.  As well, I thought that I would be contacted before being put on TV.  This however, was not the case.

I  was woken up by friends and family calling as well as Twitter and Facebook alerts on my iPhone and upon turning on my TV, I learned that I missed it.  Luckily it was featured online so I could see it after school, but no worries, I was greeted at school with it playing on the big monitors.  Now, everyone knows about my online endeavours.  Funny way of finding out but it opt to happen someday.

Special thanks to Kevin Frankish, Dina Pugliese and the rest of the Breakfast Television team for featuring me on the show and here’s to the show’s future (and my career, if that’s not too selfish!)

Attached is my video thanking the BT team and showing those who have not seen it, the feature.

On this edition of the BuffaloBuzz, we talk about:

1) The latest iSlate rumors, the possible announcement from Apple on their press event on 1/27, as well as their iPhone 4.0 rumors.

2) XBOX 360 may get ESPN streaming live on the console (Rumored to be called ESPN360)

3) Apple may partner up with HarperCollins, a book publisher to bring books to the rumored iSlate.

4) A new Apple Software update comes from Apple to provide Windows 7 support on Boot Camp

5) Bill Gates joins Twitter?

If you have any questions, please email me at buffalobuzz@winstonsih.com or leave a voicemail, (530) 502-TECH (8324)

Jon Rettinger, the president of TechnoBuffalo.com sat down to talk to me about the iSlate.  Above is the interview from the man himself.

Apple pulled a third-party iPhone app for Google Voice last summer which caused an FCC investigation into Apple’s reasonings.

Apple’s tough skin is not going to stop VoiceCentral and others from creating an alternative to the application to bring Google Voice back to the iPhone.  They call it “Black Swan” and the application is completely browser based but retains the look and feel of a regular app.  You can sign up for a private beta invitation here.

Google makes a call to your phone while calling the other party allowing you use the phone functionality of the service as well as read voicemail, SMS and more.  You can access your Google contacts, however, you can’t access your iPhone contact directory from the browser application which is a downside.  As well, audio plays through the speaker instead of the earpiece, but to resolve that, simply throw in a pair of headphones.

VoiceCentral will most likely be a paid application in the App Store.

Attached is the promotional video of the product.

BuffaloBuzz has signed up for an invite and will bring you the latest updates.

Yes, I will admit, I’m not perfect.  The process of making one BuffaloBuzz episode can take up to a week to make from researching, to script writing, to filming many takes, to editing, to publishing.  Through those steps, there are a few bumps along the road.  You typically don’t see them, but here’s some of my trip-ups through the journey.

Thanks for an awesome few months aboard the TechnoBuffalo Train everyone, cheers for 2009 and here’s for a great 2010 with the BuffaloBuzz!

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

Warning: There is some coarse language in the video which some may find offensive.  Viewer Discretion is advised.