Gizmodo: walt

Walt Mosspuppet: "Gizmodo Makes Me Want to Vomit in My Mouth!"

Dan Nosowitz — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:15:00 EDT

The latest Mosspuppet video, featuring Muppet Mossberg, includes a not-so-friendly Gizmodo shout-out and more from the sock puppet version of the WSJ's senior tech columnist, Walt Mossberg. [Rant Puppet via Fake Steve, edited-BL]

Walt Mossberg Reviews GoGo In-Flight Wi-Fi (Verdict: Fast, But Not Fast Enough)

Benny Goldman — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:18:07 EDT

Walt just tested GoGo, the in-flight Wi-Fi service, on a bunch of laptops and smartphones during a flight from San Francisco to Denver. The service distributes, via Wi-Fi, a high speed cellphone data signal pointed at airplanes, which Mossy rated at around 600kbps down and 250kbps up. This was quick enough for Walt to browse the web, send emails with iPhone rumor attachments, and talk on IM to his ladies, but it couldn't keep up with streaming video on ~~Xtube~~ Hulu. Also, VoIP is blocked, and cell calls aren't possible either. Still, Mossy thought it did well enough for someone who can't stay off the grid for a few hours. GoGo costs $10 for flights under three hours, and $13 for longer ones. It'll begin rolling out in the next few weeks on American Airlines, with Virgin soon to follow. [AllThingsD]

Walt Says 3G iPhone Coming in 60 Days

Haroon Malik — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 13:49:08 EDT

Walt Mossberg has confirmed what AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega already hinted at CTIA: the iPhone will be 3G-capable "in 60 days." Mossberg said it 6:53 into this Beet.tv feature. Knowing that it's going to be one year after release, what De la Vega said, and the fact that Walt gets his mitts on the goods way before anyone else, it's only logical to think he is right. We will discover it around June 4.

[9to5mac—thanks Ted]

Gates and Jobs to Share Stage at WSJ's No-Holds Barred Tech Conf

Louis Ramirez — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 16:51:57 EST

Mark your calendars folks, cause on May 30th hell is gonna freeze over. That day Microsoft hotshot Bill Gates will sit down with his holyness Steve Jobs to talk tech at the WSJ's D5: All Things Digital Conference, an "unscripted" and "informal" gathering of the tech world's big shots. And sitting in between the two giants drilling them with questions will be none other than the WSJ's, Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher, both co-hosts and co-founders of the conference. The conf will take place in Cali's Four Seasons Hotel Aviara, half an hour north of San Diego (where else would you hold an informal tech conference). So what do you think, guys, will Jobs and Gates go at it from the start? Will Mossberg have enough fastballs to throw their way? This is sounding more and more like the tech world's pay-per view event of the year. – Louis Ramirez

Press Release [via CrunchGear]

Sonos 2.0 Plus Rhapsody = Joy for $10 bucks a month?

Brian Lam — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 00:30:32 EDT

Both WSJ Gadget Curmudgeon Walt Mossberg and BoingBoing's Ukulele-Obsessed Mark Frauenfelder are living blissfully with their Sonos 2.0 systems, streaming Rhapsody/happiness into their hearts and homes. Come again? Real Network's Sucktastic Rhapsody music service? Really? Walt says:

there's a substantial minority of folks who have neither the time, knowledge, nor inclination to do all this downloading and ripping. They don't want to fool around with any PC software just to hear music. [Hell Naw!]

I'll tell you something, I'm all for it. I'm somewhere stuck between being too cheap to buy tracks on iTunes for a buck, and too lazy/impatient to bother stealing it. So in the age of the 1-second hit, buffet-style music download is looking mighty appetizing.

I'm still not sure I need to spend $1000 bucks on Sonos gear to subscribe to Rhapsody, but for those who want to do it PC-free, I think I understand you. And Sonos is the way to go when it comes to room to room streaming with a bad ass remote and iTunes integration.–Brian Lam

PS, Mark. Cory is going to get a little cranky when he finds out you've fallen in love with some DRM/Real ware.

Sonos + Rhapsody = happiness [BoingBoing]
Rhapsody Uses Sonos For a PC-Free Entry Into a Trove of Music [WSJ]
Sonos [Sonos]

Walt Mossberg Tests High Tech Pooper

Brian Lam — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 08:15:01 EDT

The WSJ's esteemed Walt and Katie testing digital toilet seats? What's the scoop? The Brondell Swash 800 is a toilet seat cover that gently washes and air dries your tushy, and has a heated seat to make your duty (heh) more bearable on cold mornings. So, what does the world's most respected gadget journalist say about poop tech?
"Most people use toilets more often than iPods..."

Walt, that's totally up for debate. I want a fact check on that one, Walt.

And for his verdict: "We found that the heated seat, which can be set to automatically turn off or on at certain times of the day, was a great feature. And the warm water — once we got the temperature right — was also a luxurious twist on the normal bathroom experience. But, while the water was nice, the dryer was awful. It works only at one temperature and speed, and it didn't do the trick for us."

Didn't do the trick? Does he mean the dreaded swamp butt? Good to know before we dropped $800 on the Brondell Swash.

One more thing... who took notes during this assignment? And were those notes on toilet paper? Diagram of the seat, after the jump.– Brian Lam

Brondell Swash 800 [via Walt and Katie of the WSJ ]
[Photoshopz courtesy of Ray Wert!]