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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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111: How Much Is A Retweet Worth?
We provide a semi-technical analysis of Twitter’s IPO and compare them with other companies not making money, like Blackberry.
We also talk about Western Digital’s 6TB hard drive, teens living Facebook, watches vs glasses, Blockbuster’s death, Mavel’s deal with Netflix, GT’s sapphire deal with Apple, wireless power collection, and Organovo’s 3D-printed liver.
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- BlackBerry stays open for business
- Western Digital announces 6TB drive
- GT spikes on sapphire deal with Apple
- By 4 to 1, Early Adopters Pick Wearable Watches Over Glasses
- Blockbuster to close all corporate stores
- Blockbuster’s Death Scene Won’t End the Video Rental Store
- Twitter Flies On Its First Day As A Public Company: Shares Pop 74% On First Trades, Debuts At $45.10 And $31.8B Valuation
- Twitter’s Market Valuation Suggests Wall St. Sees Huge Growth Potential
- Twitter’s stock closes at $44.90 a share, up 73 percent on its first day
- Marvel creating four superhero shows exclusively for Netflix, premiering in 2015
- Teens are leaving Facebook
- Breakthrough in wireless power collection
- Organovo Makes a 3D printed liver that lives for 40 days
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110: Android’s Game
With KitKat, Android looks to win this fight, and all other fights in the mobile phone market. This is one game, nobody can afford to lose.
Specifically, we talk about Google new Glass hardware, Kumu Networks fast network, Motorola’s Project Ara with Phonebloks, Android 4.4 KitKat and the Nexus 5, Cisco’s battle to make H.264 the video standard, Netflix’s big screen idea, the FAA’s relaxed rules on using devices, the badBIOS, Intel’s acceptance of ARM, and using the Kinect for sign language.
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- Motorola reveals ambitious plan to build modular smartphones
- Netflix Flirts With a New Idea: “Big” Movies at Your House, the Same Day They’re in Theaters<
- Google shows off [UGLIER] second gen Google Glass w/ mono earbud coming later this year
- Google adds location sharing, animated GIFs to Hangouts, integrates SMS
- Doubling mobile Bandwidth: Another reason for me to study noise canceling headphones
- Mozilla will add H.264 to Firefox as Cisco makes the codec open source
- Intel to start manufacturing ARM chips
- Android for all and the new Nexus 5
- Nexus 5 launches
- All the New Stuff in Android 4.4 KitKat
- Android 4.4 KitKat and Google’s quest to take over the world
- Google Play Services: How Google has defragmented Android
- BadBIOS
- New FAA Guidelines Permit More Device Use, All The Way From Take-Off To Landing
- JetBlue and Delta Now Let Passengers Use Gadgets During Takeoff and Landing
- The Kinect is bring a voice to the voiceless
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104: The Award Winning, Life Saving, Automated Episode
This week contained highs and lows. Life is good if you’re Apple, Google, Rockstar and HP. Life isn’t so good if you’re Nintendo, Blackberry or Microsoft. We dissect each reason why.
We talk about the new Scout alarm system, Hiroshi Yamauchi of Nintendo passing away, Apple’s 64-bit processor, Blackberry’s death, Google’s new health company called Calico, robots building cars next to humans at BMW, HP’s new Android/Windows tablets and their new laptop with Leap Motion control, Grand Theft Auto 5’s record sales, and Matthew’s unfortunate experience with multi-path TCP.
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- Samsung May Have Lost the A7 months ago.
- The A7 Might have Been The Reason For the Downgrades
- 64-Bit Samsung Phone will be the ultimate “Hoax-64 Bit”
- Scout is like Lockitron for security alarms: easy, cheap, and smart
- BlackBerry To Cut up to 40% of workforce
- Well, At Least It Wasn’t A Billion
- Google announces Calico, a new company focused on health and well-being
- What Is Calico, And Why Does Google Think Its Mysterious New Company Can Defy Aging?
- Miranda Henely has Cut The Cord
- Soldiers develop relationships with their robots
- Robots working side-by-side with humans in BMW factories
- HP fills out its tablet lineup with four Android slates and two Windows models
- HP’s new gesture-control laptop is the first with Leap Motion
- Nintendo visionary Hiroshi Yamauchi dies aged 85
- A Short Story About how An Apple Engineer Got Me Back
- Grand Theft Auto 5 hits $1 billion in three days, sets new record
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101: Thinking Outside the Incipient Chip
In order to keep pace with innovation, you sometimes need to get creative: when everyone else is looking left and right, you look up. We’re on the precipice of something big.
To that end, we learn about dirty little secrets thanks to a Reddit thread, we celebrate Pandora’s limitless music, we make fun of Champagne, we marvel at the possibilities of graphene, we question Nintendo’s 2DS strategy, we marvel more at Samsung’s multi-layered NAND, we predict the merge of Twitter and Facebook, we mention Betaworks & Instapaper’s new look, we watch Keven Spacey talk about the future of TV and movies, and we finish with Hugo Barra leaving Google’s Android team.
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- The Graphene March Continues With New Composites
- Samsungs 24 Layer 3D NAND Flash Memory
- The tech industry’s dirty secrets (à la Reddit)
- Apple to recreate the silent disco
- Nexus 4 dropped $100
- Nintendo Announces 2DS
- Nintendo in Motion
- Instapaper gets complete redesign after Betaworks purchase, new mobile apps soon
- Why Twitter’s new Conversations view is a big deal and why it matters for its IPO
- Facebook Tests “Trending” Section in News Feed
- Google+ Hangouts goes HD as it switches from H.264 to VP8. Next up, WebRTC.
- Vadafone to sell stake in Verizon
- Hugo Barra Departs from Android
- Kevin Spacey urges TV channels to give control to viewers
- The new iPhone shouldn’t be called Champagne
- Pandora Removes 40 hour weekly limit
98d: Print was dead in 2012, but now it’s back for Jeff Bezos
At least, that’s what he seems to be saying by purchasing The Washington Post.
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98: Live Audio
Given our interest in technology, it should be no surprise that we experimented with new technology that brought audio to life in our podcast. Enjoy the new sounds!
This week, we talk about Microsoft’s price cut of the Surface Pro, the 40 Days of Dating blog, the new Her movie, Bill Gate’s comments about Project Loon, Computer-Brain research, Samsung’s attempted ban of Apple’s iPhones, Jeff Bezos’ purchase of The Washington Post, Nokia’s new commercial poking fun at Apple, Netflix’s crazy algorithm for deciding what movies you like, and Blackberry’s impending doom.
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- Computer-Brain Interfaces Making Big Leaps
- Obama’s Veto and how the ITC got wrong
- The administration’s message: Enough’s Enough
- Jeff Bezos on Post purchase
- Bezos In 2012: People Won’t Pay For News On The Web, Print Will Be Dead In 20 Years
- Jeff Bezos Bought The Washington Post
- Facetime Everyday Commercial
- Nokia strikes back with their own pictures commercial
- Microsoft cuts price on Surface Pro by $100
- Facebook continues to make Zuckerberg’s newspaper metaphor a reality
- The Science Behind the Netflix Algorithms That Decide What You’ll Watch Next
- 40 Days of Dating: A Love Story?
- Bill Gates says Google’s internet balloons are ‘not going to uplift the poor’
- Trailer: ‘Her’ – Nov 20
- Bad News Bears For BlackBerry
96a: Earnings calls adds a little wiz-bang
Can we even call them “calls”? They’re more like videos, or shows.
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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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