Disruptions are everywhere this week! Solar panels are disrupting the energy market, Google is disrupting the ISP market, Microsoft is disrupting the PC market, Bitcoin is disrupting the currency market, and Facebook is disrupting the mobile phone market. It’s a world gone crazy!
We also talk about 3D printing, the FBI’s surveillance tool, MIT’s DNA-patterned graphene, Samsung’s superior global Galaxy S4, Blackberry’s horrible Z10 sales, shallow texters, Foursquare’s $41 million investment, Internet Explorer vs. Murder Rates, Google’s inactive account manager, iPhone’s India sales, an attack upon WordPress, and regulated commercial drones.
Google Glass is getting closer and closer. That means the popular kids are starting to get them and governments are starting to freak out over them. Personally, I can’t wait until I’m cool enough to wear some Glass.
We also talk about the Harlem Shark, China’s war on Apple, the biggest DDoS attack in history, T-Mobile’s new phone plans, Facebook’s new phone, and summly.
This weeks episode is missing a little something extra: James. That’s right, it’s his annual “leave Matthew the steering wheel trip”… I don’t think it went too bad. We had a few special guest and tech talk. We talked about EA, the state of the video game industry (a little more about SimCity, I promise we’re almost done) The future of jobs, a lot about Google and a little about BlackBerry. And if you missed James too much, don’t worry, he’ll be back next week.
Computers are showing up all over the place. I’m not just talking about tablets and phones, but also unexpected places like HDMI cables. This is the future: computers everywhere. The only real question is going to be how much it costs us.
This week Andrew Mason gets fired from Group, Corning confirms iWatch, HP releases Sate 7, Firefox announces their phone OS, Matthew searches for 3D glasses, Netflix watches you, SpiderSense helps you feel what’s coming, iPhones HDMI is a computer.
We then round up the show with a bunch of really short headlines.