But they have a plan to fix that. Say hello to Windows 8.1.
Download #86a: Microsoft is blue over Windows 8
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86: The End of Google As We Know It
Listen to our in-depth review of Google IO. Somehow we manage to condense a 3-hour keynote into a 2-hour show. We cover Google Search, Music, Education, Hangouts, Google+, Maps, super computers and Larry Page’s comments. We also managed to fit in Windows Blue and BlackBerry’s BBM.
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- Windows Blue (Now dubbed 8.1) Will be a free upgrade
- BBM for iPhone and Android coming summer 2013
- As of today, every major mobile competitor… also makes apps for iOS
- Google Launches streaming music, only $9.99 a month
- Google announces the end of search as we know it
- With Google Play For Education, Google Looks To Challenge Apple’s Dominance In The Classroom
- Google unveils Hangouts: a unified messaging system for Android, iOS, and Chrome
- Google+ Gets a Bit More Pinteresting
- Google+ Photos Can Now Automatically Create Animated GIFs, Panoramas, HDR Images And Better Group Shots
- Google+ Gets Amazing Photo Selection and Auto-Enhancement Features
- Google previews next version of Google Maps for iOS and Android, including an iPad app coming this summer
- Google Versus
- Google is giving a free Chromebook Pixel to all I/O attendees
- D-Wave has now sold to Google, NASA and Lockheed Martin
- Google no longer looking for just a high GPA
- Google vs Samsung
81e: Blackberry lives in a world where return rates can actually exceed sales
The crazy part is we all wonder how it’s possible instead of flatly rejecting the statement as false.
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81: Pardon The Disruption
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.
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- 3D printers in the operating room
- Tiny wires could be a breakthrough for cheap solar panels
- US electric utilities predict their own downfall—thanks to solar panels
- Secrets of FBI Smartphone Surveillance Tool Revealed in Court Fight
- AT&T announces 1Gbps internet coming to Austin… to compete against Google Fiber
- MIT using DNA to pattern graphene, eventually hoping to make Integrated Circuits
- Global version of the Galaxy S4 is way faster if you buy the global phone
- PC sales plunging, Microsoft’s Windows 8 to blame
- Bitcoin value plunges 40% in a few hours
- This Trippy Video Explains Bitcoin in Under 4 Minutes
- Yahoo Stock rebounding finally
- Z10 doing terrible, Returns exceeding sales
- You’re shallow if you text more than 100 times per day
- Foursquare Gets $41 Million Investment, Time to Grow
- Internet Explorer vs. Murder Rates
- Google’s inactive account manager
- Hours in, Facebook Home suffering from poor Google Play reviews as 48% of users award it 1 star
- iPhone sales in India skyrocket
- Major brute force attack on WordPress
- Eric Schmidt wants government to regulate commercial drones
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71c: RIM… Err… Blackberry touches on their new mobile OS
Do you hear that? That’s the sound of nobody caring.
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71: You Can’t Win ’em All, Though I Don’t See Why Not
Episode 71 comes after a rough loss for the 49ers. Of all the horrible things to happen in the week, this was the worst. But we pull ourselves together to talk about technology. Here’s what happened.
Elon Musk offers to help Boeing with their battery problem, Microsoft reveals that you’ll only get to use 23gb of the 64gb Surface Pro, Apple introduces a 128gb iPad, RIM changes to Blackberry along with a new mobile OS, researchers figure out how to print 3D moon bases, Newegg defeats Soverain to saves the Internet, driverless cars are closer than you think, and Nintendo announces they’re going to lose money this year.
This year… Sigh… We’ll get them next year… Go 49ers!
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- Newegg beats Soverain over Shopping Cart Patents
- Elon Musk offering Space X Li-Ion batteries to Boeing for use in the grounded 787
- Apple announces 128 Gig iPad
- It’s about moving the goalpost
- Reminding Wall Street that the iPad is more than a consumer toy
- Microsoft’s 64GB Surface Pro will only have 23GB usable storage
- Blackberry Stunned As Alicia Keys Terminates 200 Employee On First Day As Global Creative Director
- RIM changes name to BlackBerry
- The problems with Blackberry 10
- Only 1 in 8 would consider a BB10
- Top 7 tech jobs of 2013
- Nintendo to post unexpected loss as Wii successor falters
- Next gen play station annoucment coming on Feb 20th
- The next frontier for 3D printing: Moon bases?
- What Intersections Would Look Like in a World of Driverless Cars
- Time frame of the Driverless car revolution
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70h: Lenovo might buy Blackberry
If they did, that might be a mistake.
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70: A Very Controversial Episode
We attempt to create some controversy in episode 70 because clearly it’s working for Kim Dotcom’s new Mega site. Microsoft also creates some controversy over their poor Windows 8 sales, Twitter creates controversy with Facebook over finding friends in their new Vine app, and Apple’s stock goes down it has too much cash.
On the positive side, Simplenote got bought by Automattic, H.265 got approved, we’re experimenting with storing data with DNA, and the new Moves iPhone app can help track your steps.
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- Now witness the firepower of this fully ARMED and OPERATIONAL MegaUpload!
- Microsoft Surface Pro on sale February 9th in the US and Canada, starts at $899
- THQ will be broken apart and sold to Sega, Ubisoft, and others
- Simplenote supercharged
- Moves: An iPhone app that tells you exactly how lazy you’ve been today
- Twitter officially announces Vine, a ‘new way to share video’ on the iPhone
- Vine hands-on: Twitter’s game-changing take on social video
- Facebook Cuts Off Friend-Finding Access to Vine
- Storing data in DNA
- Some good old fashion drama: Who’s to blame for Windows 8
- Microsoft won’t break Surface sales out from overall Windows 8 sales
- Lenovo a potential BlackBerry buyer
- Apple’s Stock plunge: What the heck happened?
- Apple made a ton of money last quarter
- Suddenly, Apple’s iPhone 4 Is a Major Point of Interest
- Some good old fashion rumor mill: the iPhone Plastic and the IGZO iPad
- Next-Gen Video Format H.265 Is Approved, Paving The Way For High-Quality Video On Low-Bandwidth Networks
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Confessions of an Apple Fanboy
Episode 51! BlackBerry proves that things can get worse, GoDaddy attempts to kill the Internet, Apple announces the iPhone 5 plus new iPods & iTunes, Google buys a ridiculous number of Intel chips & picked a horrible city to launch Google Fiber. Microsoft seeks a patents for a surround displays, researchers create laser drug injections, and IBM takes a boring photos of atoms.
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- The Pluto Switch: Insight into Google’s burgeoning empire
- A little more insight into Google Fiber
- Intel Confirms: HP, Dell and IBM on the decline. The new up and comer? Google
- Many mobile retailers sold ZERO BlackBerrys last month, says analyst
- GoDaddy’s DNS server goes down, bringing down a good chunk of the internet
- Microsoft seeks patent for ‘immersive display experience’
- Apple Event Bullet List Of What They Shared
- Some think that no NFC on the iPhone 5 is no big deal. They’re wrong
- iPhone 5 vs. Samsung Galaxy S III vs. Droid RAZR HD vs. Nokia Lumia 920
- Why the iPhone 5 won’t do simultaneous voice and data on Verizon and Sprint
- People need to get their heads on straight about the dock connector
- iPhone 5 Sells Out In 60 Minutes
- No More Needles: ‘Painless’ Laser Injects Drugs
- IBM takes pictures of the atoms in a Molecule
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The Best CES Coverage. Period.
It’s CES week! We talk about Ultrabooks, Search + Your World, Why MG Hates Android, TVs, HUDs, tablets, phones, Comcast disrupting SOPA, PCs vs Tablets and MUCH more! Check out all the links for videos, summaries and more.
- HP, Dell Targeting Apple’s ‘Fashionista’ Buyers With New Ultrabook Laptops – What’s next? Superbook? Captainbook? Batbook?
- Why I Hate Android
- Search, plus Your World with some Anti-Trust and Privacy Concerns
- Comcast Rolls Out “AnyPlay”
- Next Gen iPad Spotted at CES?
- Samsung Shows Off 55″ OLED Screens
- Is it Time For a .Data TLD?
- Sony Demos 24 and 46 inch Glasses-Free 3D TVs
- Panasonic’s New TV Remote – Not really a big deal in and of itself, but says a lot about where they think the industry is heading
- Microsoft Tops Yahoo in Search Results
- Golden Eye Head Mounted Computer – 2.5 G’s
- Verizon Says Almost (Except Prepaid) All Future Phones/Tablets Will Be LTE
- Eye Tracking GUI
- See Through HUD
- OLED Interactive Window – this is awesome
- VISA Certifies NFC Equipped Android, BlackBerry Smart Phones for payWave
- Motorola Smart Controller for Remote Control of Your Tablet For When Your Touch Device isn’t Around You… Motorola, you’re doing it wrong.
- AcerCloud, a Free P2P Cloud Type Thing – Pretty Cool Tech
- Monster and Beats By Dr. Dre are Splitting
- LightPad G1 Bluetooth Keyboard & Pico-Projector – Clever idea… not sure it’s a great execution
- Synaptics Demos 10-Finger Touch Tablets
- Vuzix Augmented Reality Glasses, not ready for prime time, but maybe in 2013
- WebOS Gets OTA Update
- $79 Novo7 IceCreamSand Android Tablet
- Google Announces Design Standards For Ice Cream Sandwich A guideline, not a mandate. XKCD on standards
- Porche Teamed Up With BlackBerry to Design a Sweet Looking, Yet Dead End Luxury Phone
- Microsoft Patent Agreements Now Cover 70% of All Android
- SpareOne, a Cell Phone That Last 15 Years
- Comcast Network Upgrades Disrupt SOPA
- Dish Network Bought 500 Blockbuster Locations… and They’re Now Closing Them. – What’s the plan here?
- Motorola Rolls Out Ice Cream Sandwich for Xoom
- PC vs Tablet Shipments: Fun With Data
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