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164: The Difficulty of Making Hard Decisions
Matthew is in Disneyland participating in the Avengers Half Marathon this week.
We talk about the Flux 3D printer on Kickstarter, The ESA Rosetta Mission and the Philae successfully landing on a comet, the latest of the Net Neutrality debate, Microsoft’s focus on Windows, Office and Azure while letting things like .NET free, Google’s new tune, Sony’s new Internet TV and Sharp’s new display.
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- Microsoft’s CEO Gave Us The Clearest Vision For The Company We’ve Had In Years
- Microsoft Has 3 Products: Windows, Office 365 And Azure. Everything Else Is A Feature
- Microsoft pushes its dual-use vision with $199 Work & Play Bundle
- Microsoft’s first Lumia defines Windows Phone’s future
- Obama’s plan to save the internet draws bold reactions
- The hypocrisy of Republican opposition to net neutrality
- SURPRISE! WE AGREE WITH THE PRESIDENT’S PRINCIPLES ON NET NEUTRALITY
- Politics Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things. Like The Internet.
- Google Music Purchase Increase, After Launch Of Streaming Service
- Music Key’s Shifting Definition Of Music
- Flux’s 3D Printer Is Also A Scanner, Laser Engraver And More Thanks to A Modular Design
- So, Yeah… We Landed On A Comet
- Microsoft Will Take .NET To OS X And Linux After Open Sourcing It
- Visual Studios Goes Freemium
- Sony To Launch It’s Own Internet TV
- Sharp Demoed A 736ppi Screen
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139: Apple v Google
Spoiler: They’re on the same team.
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- We’re Not The Only Ones Wondering If Glass Is Dead
- Returning Google Glass
- Google Glass Doesn’t Have a Privacy Problem. You Do.
- Survey says: Comcast, Time Warner Cable customers are still the angriest
- Microsoft Unveils Surface Pro 3
- It’s Not Meant To Compete With the iPad, It’s Meant to Compete With the Macbook Air
- Microsoft Is Trying to Think Different
- Microsoft Surface Pro 3 review
- Google Dethrones Apple As The Most Valuable Brand
- Nest Recalls 440,000 Nest Protect Smoke Alarms
- California Will Start Granting Licenses for Autonomous Vehicles
- … And It Could Lead To Crippling Law Enforcement Budget
- The Plan for WWDC
135: Soap Operas and Other TV Shows
In this episode we Segway effortlessly to the opera side of the tech world: Lawsuits, purchases and people leaving. Yep, we’re talking about Pandora, Aereo, Net Neutrality, Google+ and Nokia.
More specifically we talk about: James’ experience on a Segway, Graphene going into mass production, Pandora surviving the music industry, the FCC’s weird definition of net neutrality, Aereo’s fight for survival, Google+’s fight for survival, Nokia’s lost fight for survival, Apple’s massive stock split, Weight Watcher’s purchase of Wello, and HBO GO on Amazon.
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- Wello Being Bought By Weight Watchers
- Why the music industry is trying—and failing—to crush Pandora
- Pandora reports Q1 loss, guidance hits sour note again
- Large Scale Graphene Manufacturing
- Apple Takes A Swing A Samsung In Full Page Ad
- Apple Will Do A 7 To 1 Stock Split In June
- HBO GO on Amazon Prime
- Is net neutrality dying? Has the FCC killed it? What comes next? Here’s what you need to know
- The FCC’s new net neutrality rules will kill Aereo, even if the Supreme Court doesn’t
- Microsoft Completed Nokia Acquisition
- Nokia’s Hardware Division To Become Microsoft Mobile
- Google+ Is Walking Dead
- Minus Its Leader, What’s Left at Google+?
131: Accusations of Acquisitions
One clear path to growth is to buy another company and integrate them into what you’re already doing. This week included many interesting acquisitions: Disney bought Maker, Intel bought Basis Band, and Facebook bought Oculus.
In other news, Microsoft brought Office to the iPad, Apple wants to bring cable TV to Apple TV, Google might let Oakley and Ray-Band design their glasses, and Tesla continues to fight the state-by-state car selling fight.
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- Apple Is Putting Together A Team Of Cable Insiders To Negotiate A TV Deal
- This Dude Doesn’t Think It’ll Happen Because There’s A lot of Cost And No Upside For Comcast
- Disney Acquires Maker
- Google Inks Deal With Oakley and Ray-Band for Glass
- Facebook Bought Oculus VR
- The Hardware Land Grab Is On
- The Creator Of “Doom” And “Quake” Now Works For Mark Zuckerberg
- Facebook has Failed To Own The Mobile Gaming Market, Oculus VR Will Help Them Catch The Next Wave
- Notch Cancels Mincraft For Rift
- The Deal Happened Over The Course Of 5 Days
- Facebook Missed Making a Mobile OS, They Won’t Miss The Next Opportunity
- Valves VR Expert Jumps Ship To Oculus After Facebook Acquisition
- Sony’s VR Advantage
- Intel bought Basis Science Maker of the Basis Band
- Microsoft Launches Office For iOS
- The First Quick Review
- Tesla Strikes Agreement in Ohio To Sell Teslas
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126c: Turns out that streaming music is bad business
If your goal is to make money, look elsewhere.
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126: Music, Messaging and Mobile… Printing
James shares the product he’s been working on for HP.
We also talk about Apple’s SSL bug, Facebook’s purchase of WhatsApp, Pandora’s profit problem, the next steps for Google Fiber, BBVA’s purchase of Simple, playing Zelda on the Oculus Rift, the Comcast and Netflix agreement, and the disappoint that is Microsoft Office 2013.
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- HP 1200W NFC/Wireless Mobile Print Accessory
- All Music Subscription Services Are Losing Money… And There’s No Clear Roadmap to Solvency
- Official Press Release: Facebook to Acquire WhatsApp
- Zuck’s Official Announcement
- Whatsapp and $19bn
- Mobile in the ‘pre-pagerank’ phase
- The Focus On And Of WhatsApp
- Why Facebook Dropped $19B On WhatsApp: Reach Into Europe, Emerging Markets
- Google Plans to Expand Fiber to 34 Additional US Cities
- Banking Startup Simple Acquired For $117M, Will Continue To Operate Separately
- The Apple Bug
- Zelda VR: Only For Oculus Rift
- Netflix Deal To Send Traffic Directly With Comcast
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125b: Comcast dials up Time Warner Cable’s number
Now there’s one call we really hope doesn’t connect.
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125: Help Us Google Fiber, You’re Our Only Hope
This week we try to come up with ways to become a monopolistic utility so that, just like Comcast, we can charge ridiculous prices for horrible service.
We also talk about the genius of John Lasseter and visionary leaders, Crunchie winners: Oculus Rift and Kickstarter, VISA and MasterCard’s smart card, the Comcast and Time Warner deal, the new A4WP alliance to bring us wireless charging, and Google’s takeover of Moffett Fields Hangar One.
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- Oculus Rift Takes Home Chrunchie for best Hardware Startup
- Kickstarter wins Chrunchie for best overall Startup
- Google to Lease Moffett Field, Restore Hangers
- Wireless Power Partnerships Are Forming, Standards Are Developing
- What Are “Smart” Credit Cards, and Why Are They Coming to America?
- Comcast To Buy Time Warner Cable Tomorrow
- $45 billion deal brings 30 million customers under one roof
- Netflix and Apple Users Should Hate This
- Comcast and Time Warner Cable: Forget TV, it is all about broadband
- Here’s Why the Biggest Cable Company in the Country Thinks It Can Get Bigger
- The Broadband Market’s Problem, Summed Up In One Quote
- Silk Road 2 “Hacked” 4,000 Bitcoins Stolen
- iWatch Will Use Optoelectronics to Monitor Vitals
- IBM Labs Break A Speed Record for Data Transmission
- Google Promises 10 GPS fiber Network
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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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