Month: April 2012

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New Storage, New Glass, New Format

Episode 31! We tried a new format this week. We lead off with “brief” observations of the news this week (See the list below). Then finished off with a deeper look at a few topics. Those topics included using Codea to build iPad apps, Google Drive (vs. Dropbox & SkyDrive), what’s next for the smart phone market, why electronics are manufactured in China, and the glass ceiling of technology.

 

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Technology’s Amazing and Nobody’s Happy

This is episode 30! Unbelievable! We talk about hydrogen fuel cells, Windows 8, supercomputers as brains, Louis CK’s Internet money, and IKEA’s new HDTV. Then we discuss moving beyond social and mobile, NBC’s Olympic portal (which is awesome), what would happy to RIM’s data if they died, and Android’s importance to Google. We finish up on Verizon’s iPhone sales, Liquidmetal, LED bulbs, and lessons from Bill Gates.

 

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Lawsuits, Narcissism, & Instagram

It’s episode 29! This week Facebook buys Instagram for $1 billion, plus breeds narcissism. OSX requires as SSD & Tim Cook will be at D10. SpaceX wants their own spaceport, a new non-profit ISP will protect your privacy, Google+ looks new, ebook publishers got sued, Nokia laid an egg last quarter, B&N Nook Simple Touch Looks awesome, and Amazon overstated their number of movies & TV shows. We finish up talking about game level design, the Flashback Trojan fix, and the 5 most over-hyped “Future of TV” topics.

 

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The Hunger Video Games

Episode 28! Does core gaming have a problem? Hopefully you’re hungry to find out! Plus, kids should code, Oracle & Google are going to trial, whereas Apple & Google may settle, iOS controllers may be coming, Piper Jaffary thinks smarts phones are 2 horse race… doesn’t include 37 year old Microsoft, Google’s Project glass looks awesome, Yahoo lays off 2,000 employees, FreedomPop wants to disrupt TeleComs, Macs get a Trojan, and we go on a Facebook always-sharing-reading-app requirement rant.

 

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No Fooling Around

Episode 27! James is back from Mexico. Matthew is still around. Tech talk ensued… April fools! Oh wait… Tech talk did ensue… Movie streaming is growing fast, Twitter has a better business model, more prime spectrum is available, 3D memory chips!, OpenStreetMaps is gaining momentum, the New iPad is a memory hog, self healing plastic, Android is losing momentum yet still killing it, Best Buy closing stores, RIM is losing money, Google makes 8-bit maps for April Fools.

 

 

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