A new Nexus 7, Jelly Bean 4.3, and a games app plus much more!
Download #96c: Google showers the world with updates
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96: Incremental American Improvements
Incremental (adjective): of, relating to, being, or occurring in especially small improvements.
That’s what we featured this week. Incremental improvements in earnings calls, Samsung’s TouchWiz UI, Google products (Nexus 7, 4.3 Jelly Bean, Play Games App and even their Chromecast). We also talk about the potentially new Ubuntu Edge, and manufacturing in America.
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- Earnings Calls Take On Whiff of Showbiz
- Ubuntu Edge dual-boots Android
- Samsung to host their own dev conference in SF
- Google Calendar API Push notifications: don’t call us, we’ll call you
- Google announces thinner, lighter Nexus 7 with higher-res screen, arrives July 30th for $230
- Google launches Android’s answer to Apple’s Game Center: The Google Play Games app
- Google Unveils the Chromecast, an HDMI Stick for Streaming Video
- Google’s Official Announcements
- Mounting Disappointment About Chromecast
- Made In America
- Samsung Dethrones Apple as Profit winner
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95: The Next Microsoft Plan
This week we talk about Elon Musk’s birthday present to Matthew, the big Telecom’s quick upgrade programs, the trouble with Microsoft, the future of the tablet and Apple’s future products.
Download #95: The Next Microsoft Plan
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- Wearable Robot
- Elon Musk Is Going to Reveal the Hyperloop for my Birthday
- iWatch Could Have Batteries Embedded in the Flexible Wrist Wrap
- AT&T Unveils it’s “Next” Upgrade Plan
- Verizon Looks to Edge Out Competition With Six-Month Upgrade Program
- Verizon’s Edge Phone Upgrade Plan is the Same Bad Ripoff as AT&T Next
- That Settles it, I’m Waiting for the iWatch
- Microsoft Blames Weak PC Sales for Shortcomings
- Microsoft Hurt by Surface RT Sales
- Bill Gates Lost Like a Billion Dollars Today
- Nokia and Microsoft Are Doing Miserably
- Microsoft Was Wrong: Tablets Are Not PCs. So Now What?
- Two Versions of the iPhone Cheap
94: A Well Organized Collusion
Both Microsoft and Apple struggled this week. One announced a massive re-organization in the midst of troubling PC sales. The other gets accused of colluding to hurt customers.
The down pour continues with nowcasting from SkyMotion, Google’s experimental nature that leads to shut-downs, and the creation of CTRL+ALT+DEL to help recover from crashes.
Download #94: A Well Organized Collusion
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- Windows RT Might Be Finished as Nokia Cancels its Tablet
- Microsoft officially ending support for XP
- Five Consecutive quarters of sliding PC sales
- Microsoft’s Latest Reorg
- Apple guilty of price fixing books
- The Impact of it
- Apple’s Court Loss Could End the Book as we know it
- Downpour expected: How the rise of nowcasting will change our lives
- Why Google Does What it Does
- Nokia Lumia 1020: A 41 megapixel Windows Phone
- The History of CTRL + ALT + DELETE
92d: Zynga gets a new boss [level]
Plus, the first solar-power transcontinental flight.
Download #92d: Zynga gets a new boss [level]
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93: Watching CEOs and Silicon Manufacturers
Douglas Engelbart lead the way on creating the mouse. Today, companies are pursing touch interfaces and wearable computing – especially watches.
We also talk about Yahoo’s purchase of BigNoggin and their overall strategy, Apple’s move from Samsung to TSMC for making their chips, MIT’s optical transistor research, Zynga’s new boss and the first solar-power transcontinental flight.
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- Yahoo bets big on fantasy sports, acquires one-man startup Bignoggins
- Marissa Mayer has been on a shopping spree at Yahoo, but is there any sign of a strategy?
- Best Buy apparently set to sell Pebble smart watch beginning this weekend
- Almost every major consumer electronics manufacturer is now working on a smart watch
- The stock market likes the new Zynga CEO, but it’s wrong. Here is why
- Twitter Wants to Start Tracking You on the Web, Here’s How to Opt-Out
- Google Flights
- Samsung bought Boxee
- Apple Turning to TSMC for chip production
- Douglas C. Engelbart Dies
- MIT develops an Optical transistor
- Solar Plane completes transcontinental flight
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92a: Microsoft tells us how awesome IE11 is
They love IE so much, yet somehow it comes off an non-genuine.
Download #92a: Microsoft tells us how awesome IE11 is
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92: James And Matthew Discuss Apple, Microsoft, Blackberry And Overly Descriptive Titles
Good-bye Google Reader, you will be missed. But that doesn’t mean news stops happening. If anything, there’s more news than ever! In some ways, news never sleeps, and neither does Matthew on an airplane. Listen to this week’s episode with Matthew in the UK.
Microsoft tells us how awesome IE11 is, Tesla treats North Carolina lawmakers to a test drive, 10 influential leaders share their favorite books, Apple and Google ruin developer’s summer, BlackBerry effectively kills the Playbook and we get a BREIF introduction to plasmonics.
Download #92: James And Matthew Discuss Apple, Microsoft, Blackberry And Overly Descriptive Titles
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- A breakthrough in plasmonics
- From The Team Behind Branch, Potluck Is A New Link-Sharing Service For The Internet’s “Lurkers” Who Don’t Tweet Or Blog
- The Books That Inspired Tech’s Most Influential People
- Introducing IE11: The Best Way to Experience the Web on Modern Touch Devices
- iOS buying time for Apple or Stealing time from Android
- How Apple and Google ruined Summer Vacation for Developers
- Apple may have opened Pandora’s box
- iOS 7 will be hard target for copiers to hit
- Apple Spaceship May Not Happen In Cupertino
- Law to prevent sales of Tesla Cars fails on North Carolina
- Tesla has competition from the Fiat 500e
- Death Knell for BB Playbook
- BB stock plummets with flop of touch screens
- Flipboard adds support for Instagram videos
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91b: Bad idea turned good: Microsoft 180s on it’s DRM and online stance
Now if they can just figure out the $100 price difference. That’s a lot of money!
Download #91b: Bad idea turned good: Microsoft 180s on it’s DRM and online stance
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91: Bad Ideas
This week, we explore 3 bad ideas. 1) Xbone’s DRM policies 2) Yahoo’s email release and 3) Facebook’s Vine clone.
We also talk about Feedly’s attempt to be the #1 Reader replacement, Teslas’s super chargers, LG’s flexible display, TapAd’s cookie work-around, and Google’s Project Loon.
Download #91: Bad Ideas
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- The End of Cookies and the beginning of Fingerprints
- Microsoft reverses XBone DRM policies
- Your Feedback Matters – Update on Xbox One
- LG to mass-produce flexible displays
- Yahoo’s Very Bad Idea to Release Email Addresses
- Feedly Launches a Standalone Webapp, No Extension Necessary
- Facebook Adds Vine to Instagram
- Facebook Announces That It’s Out Of Ideas
- Instagram Video Vs. Vine: What’s The Difference?
- Is Mark Zuckerberg the new Bill Gates?
- Tesla Supercharge station will be able to do battery swaps
- Nissan announces electric car for Le Mans endurance race
- Project Loon’s biggest Obstacle is Politics
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