In this week’s show we wade deep into the Corporate Opera waters with Peter Thiel and Gwaker. Then we emerge to talk about Pebble’s new products, automation, and Google’s fair use win of Java’s APIs. We round out the show with Microsoft decision to shut down their phone operations, and new VR roller-coaster (which looks awesome), Yahoo’s slow death, what3words new mapping idea, and color ePaper displays. Check out all the links to the articles below.
69c: Listen to Matthew cry as he realizes Java needs to die
If you love something, let it go. If it comes back, let it go again.
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69: Search, Security and CNET
Good news! AT&T expands FaceTime to everyone, a man outsourced his job to China, CBS tries to downplay Dish’s “Hopper” by calling attention to it, Facebook introduces Graph Search, Java exploit is bad, and Google tries to re-engineer the password.
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- CBS forced CNET staffers to remove Dish’s “Hopper” from the best of CES
- Introducing Graph Search Beta
- Facebook Announces Its Third Pillar “Graph Search” That Gives You Answers, Not Links Like Google
- Facebook reveals how its new Graph Search feature works with your privacy settings
- Java should go the way of the Dodo… and Flash
- The exploit that started the conversation
- AT&T Expands FaceTime Over Cellular Support to All Tiered Data Plans
- Man outsourced his job to China
- Google’s trying to re-engineer the password
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Lawsuits and Lost Directions
It’s episode 33! This week we broadcasted using Google+ Hangouts On Air. Thanks for viewing and all your comments. We’ve embedded the video below for your viewing pleasure. We covered a lot of news this week. Some of the news we talked about was the Oracle/Google trial over Java who are still debating what constitutes “fair use”. We discuss how HP lost its way with all the sordid details. We finish up talking about Mozilla complaining about Microsoft being anti-competitive for only allowing IE as a browser in Windows RT. Is a tablet a computer?
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Featured
- Google Infringed on Oracle’s Java Copyrights
- How Hewlett-Packard lost its way
- Microsoft Hit With Anticompetitive Complaints – Beware of the paywall!
Monday
Tuesday
- Sony E3 press conference will not be televised (but it will be streamed)
- Flattr Works with Instacast
- Facebook Social Readers Are All Collapsing or Not
- What’s behind the drop in Kindle Fire Sales?
- HP Exec: Apple May Like to Think They Own Silver, But They Don’t
Wednesday
- Google+: a mobile app with sense and soul
- Facebook Introduces Their Own App Center
- Is Wall Street Ready For Facebook… ‘s hoodie?
- Google to create a GameCenter Clone
Thursday
- Update: Pebble smartwatch tops $10 million in Kickstarter pledges, sells all 85,000 watches
- Game Of Thrones on Track to be most pirated show of 2012, pirates beg for legitimate means to get show
- Facebook Co-Founder renounces US citizenship before FB IPO
- Official: Digg Engineering Team Joins SocialCode
- The Bible App by YouVersion Now Installed on 50 Million Mobile Devices
- Apple’s marketing – unpaid product placement
Friday
- Circle: If Highlight And Path Had A Beautiful Ambient Location Child
- No More Breasts, Elephants, or SOPA: How Warren Adelman Is Saving Go Daddy’s Soul
- iOS 6 is going to finally move beyond Google Maps
- According to Apple, the Lumina 900 is the best Smartphone
Weekend
- Dropquest II: The Future is Now
- Exclusive: Yahoo’s Thompson Out; Levinsohn In; Board Settlement With Loeb Nears Completion
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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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- Can we panic now? – Core gaming has a problem
- Why all our kids should be taught how to code
- When Code Is Hot
- Android vs. Java, Google and Oracle are going to trial!
- Tim Cook like to end “Thermo Nuclear War” and settle over Android
- Controller support maybe coming to an iOS device near you
- Piper Jaffary RIM going out of business, Smartphone a two horse Race, Apple and Samsung
- 37 years ago today, 2 men started something that changed the world
- Project Glass
- Apple and Facebook Should Be Terrified Of Google-Tinted Glasses
- Google’s Sergey Brin takes Project Glass into the wild
- Yahoo Lays Off 2,000 Employees – 14 Percent of Workforce
- FreedomPop wants to disrupt the TeleComs
- More than 600,000 Macs infected with a botnet Trojan
- Trojan-Dowloader
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