What a great week to be interested in tech! Google held their annual conference and showed off some sweet new tech that will be released… someday… Honestly, it felt more like an awesome TED talk than an actual product announcement, but it was still cool! Matthew also visited the Maker Faire and TechCrunch held their conference in New York. All the stories are below.
138: Moon Shots
Sometimes you need to take crazy bets. Sometimes those bets work. Sometimes they don’t.
Matthew shares his trip to the Maker Faire and talks about the products they’re developing, Twitter lets you mute people, cheap smart phones are going to take over the world, Monster’s CEO isn’t happy about Beat’s payday, Wearhaus will make silent discos more awesome, Jawbone gets bluetooth connectivity right, Microsoft unbundles the Kinect, Google Glass suffers a loss and the head EE head’s over to Oculus Rift, Uber puts the breaks on Breeze, and Formula E charges ahead with electric race cars.
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- Why Twitter’s Newest Tweetstorm Trend Must Be Stopped
- Another way to edit your Twitter experience: with mute
- Monster CEO Disappointed Over Beats Acquisitions
- The Silent Disco
- Jawbone Updates Jambox Mini With Some Cool new Features
- Microsoft Dis-Kinects
- Lead Google Glass EE Defects to Oculus VR
- And Google Replaced Him With Ivy Ross
- Uber deactivates drivers who rent their cars from Breeze, continues to push its own rival financing plan
- Formula E Cars Are Read To Go
- Don’t Diss Cheap Smartphones. They’re About to Change Everything
- Google’s Self Driving Cars Are Anything But Simple
- Apple And Google Put an End to Their Patent Battle
- Apple Must Be Furious With Xiaomi
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I Hope Zuck Had a Prenup
Episode 34, Facebook IPO week! We start out talking about the potential of Chrome for iOS and the intro of Google’s Knowledge graph. We then dive into the great Nano-Sim debate between Apple, RIM, Nokia & Motorola, why James quit Netflix, how to understand Silicon Valley speak, and the Maker Faire. Oh yeah, and we discuss Facebook’s IPO a little bit. Plus much more!
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- Google likely to launch Chrome for iOS in the next few months
- Googlepedia
- The great Nano-Sim debate
- Why I Quit Netflix
- How to Understand Silicon Valley Speak
- Source: Layoffs Are About To Hit HP
- Flashback makers missed out on their payday, Symantec says
- Samsung’s value drops $10B on talks of being dropped from Apple’s supply chain
- But that would be ridiculously hard for Apple
- Facebook vs. Apple
- The Facebook Offering: How It Compares [infographic]
- Amazon to Sell Ads on Kindle Fire Welcome Screen
- The WSJ announced the iPhone 5 will have a 4 in. screen.
- Apple’s secret plan to kill the cash register
- The Silicon Valley of Russia
- Facebook’s face plant
- Makey Makey’s control with anything
- Electric Choppers of Oregon
- Whenyouwish.com
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