Matthew is in shock that Buzzfeed broke an tech news story. He’s in even more shock with the amount of views they get. We then move on to talk about the Philips Hue Camera, TAG Heur’s partnership with Android and Intel, Facebook’s next move with Messenger, Alibaba’s selfie payment system, Nintendo’s partnership with DeNA, Sony’s potential PS4 streaming issues, Telsa’s self driving car, and Youtube’s cards.
171: Predicting 2015 With Astounding Accuracy
This week we predict what we expect to happen in 2015. It’s all going to be 100% accurate.
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153: The Portal to Posting
This week we come up with 3 amazing ideas. You’ll have to listen to the podcast hear them One comes at the very end.
We talk about the Emmy’s, using Yo, Amazon by Twitch, Google’s new Wing program, battery less iBeacons by Ifinity, Google’s purchase of ZYNC to render video, Instagrams Hyperlapse app, Square Cash 2.0, Intel’s penny sized 3G modem, Nintendo’s “new” 3DS, and using the Oculus rift with roller coasters.
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- Amazon, Not Google, Bought Twitch
- Why it makes sense for Amazon to buy Twitch
- Batteryless iBeacons
- Google Acquired Zync, A CGI Rendering Tool For Their Cloud
- Hyperlapse: The New App By Instagram
- The Technology behind Hyperlapse from Instagram
- The Stand-Along App
- Square Cash 2.0 Adds Free Money Transfer By Text Message, Payment Notes And More
- Report shows Amazon has sold no more than 35,000 Fire Phones
- Thoughts On The Emmys
- Intel Made A Tiny 3G Modem
- Twitter Opens Its Nifty Analytics Dashboard To Everyone
- Where to Trade in Your iPhone for the Most Money Back
- Remember That One Time You Had An Idea That You Knew Was A Great Idea, But Didn’t Pursue It, Then Someone Else Did? Yeah… I Remember Too
- Leap Motion Might Have Found A Use
- Inside Google’s Secret Drone-Delivery Program
- Nintendo Announce A New Suit Of 3DS’s
- Space Mountain? More Like Space Battle Mountain
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149: The Grumpy Tenth Man
This week we talk about a bunch of things!
Cory Arcangel wrote a book about people tweeting about writing a book, Matthew bought a Philips Hue, the Vocca Light Switch is voice activated, Best Buy is seeing falling iPad sales but doing well overall, Samsung won’t be launching Tizen anytime soon, Zillow bought Trulia, the USB may not be safe anymore, HP unveils a pretty watch designed by Michael Bastian, Amazon need a 10th man for the Fire Phone, the NFL will start tracking players in real time with FRID, EA and Xbox team up to bring you older titles while Sony launch PlayStation Now to stream old games, Nintendo continues to lose money, HelloWorld gives you a way to share your location with friends, and the House of Lords in Europe agree than the right to be forgotten rule should be forgotten.
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- Advocating Against The Fire Phone
- Samsung Postpones Launch of Tizen Phone Indefinitely
- Zillow to Acquire Trulia for $3.5 Billion in Stock
- App Rot
- For $30 a year, EA Will Give You Access To A Bunch Of Last Years Games Today
- Here’s a book about people tweeting about writing their novels
- Right To Be Forgotten Rule Is Wrong
- Nintendo Post Loss Despite Wii Sales Tripling
- The Vocca Light Switch Is A Modern-Day Clapper
- Best Buy CEO Says Tablet Sales Are “Crashing,” Hope for PCs
- Is the iPad doomed?
- The Fundamental Break Of USB Security
- The NFL will track players with RFID for better stats in real time
- HP’s Fashionable Smart Watch
- PlayStation Now is a glimpse at the future of gaming — for a price
- Meet HelloWorld, An Easier Way To Share Your Location With Friends
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137: The Do’s and Don’ts of Disruption
Disruption is hard to do with physical products. This week we talk about 2 companies – ISI Technology and Mink – that are trying to do just that.
This week we talk about Alibaba’s IPO, Apple potentially buying Beats, TechCrunch Disrupt winners: Vurb, the ISI Technology Heatworks Model 1 & Mink, Greg Steinhafel stepping down from Target, Facebook inspiring Oculus investments, KickSat satellite problem, Nintendo’s horrible Wii U sales, Narendra Modi’s holographic presentations, Facebook killing Poke and Camera, and the taxis competing with Uber and Lyft.
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- Target CEO Steps Down Over Data Breach
- The Facebook Effect: “VC’s Are Now Investing In [Oculus] Developers’ Projects”
- Google’s Only Real Moonshot: Get Technology Out Of The Way
- KickSat’s Clock Reset
- China’s Alibaba files for IPO that could be tech industry’s biggest ever
- The Wii U is Crushing Nintendo
- They’re Using Holograms In India
- And The Winner Of TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2014 Is… Vurb
- My favorite: ISI Technology Reinvents The Water Heater With The Heatworks Model 1
- Disrupting Makeup
- CNBC Confirms Apple In Talks With Beats Music
- My First 7 Questions About This Apple-Beats Deal
- Competition Forcing Traditional Cabs To Improve
- Google Maps Integrates Uber
- Facebook Poke is dead
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121: A Somewhat Depressing Episode
This week, not only is James missing, but we talk about Google invading your personal bubble and privacy, the failure of the Wii U, the end of Net Neutrality and the Niners Losing. It’s seriously heartbreaking. We try to pep it back up with the future of e-wallets, next gen RTS’s, the exciting horizon of biomed and my friend Brandon Hill guest Co-hosting.
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- SimCity Will Get an Offline Mode
- Google Just Bought Nest Labs
- And Apple’s not Heartbroken About It
- The End Of Privacy?
- Next Gen RTS Lets You Control 5,000 Units
- Tesla Formally Recalls Chargers
- Courts Strike Down FCC Net Neutrality Regulations
- Google Adds Data Compression to Mobile Chrome
- The Blackphone: A Secure Smartphone
- Apple’s eWallet Solution Might Already Be in Our Hands
- Photoshop Adds 3D to Their System
- Google Introduces Smart Contact Lens Project
- Wii U Has Flopped, Slashes Sales Forecast by 70%
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117a: Memory Clean saved James $100
For the first time, our show is sponsored. Sure, they don’t know they sponsored us, but that’s OK.
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116a: Snapchat is better than Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Tesla and SpaceX
At least, that seems like a reasonable conclusion after you hear the trends we’re seeing.
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116: Princesses, Dragons And Technology
Matthew proposed to a princess and James sat in the front row of a theater. That about sums it up for the relative excitement in each other’s lives.
Other exciting new included comparing Snapchat to SpaceX, ITU figuring out how to get almost-Fiber into homes, Matthew’s new fitbit wrist band, Doctoc On Demand & HealthLoop’s attempts to help doctor-patient communication, the NYTimes 4th down Twitter bot, Square’s new card reader, NCTA’s horrible ads, the rise of MVPDs, Ubuntu Touch’s new hardware partner: Canonical, SteamOS going live, Oculus new funding, Tesla’s upcoming new car announcement, and a way to post away messages with Relaxed.
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- Awesome: A New York Times bot is second-guessing NFL coaches on Twitter
- Tracking Technology Sheds Light on Shopper Habits
- How Apple’s Lightning-Plug Guru Reinvented Square’s Card Reader
- The Worst anti cord cutting campaign of all time
- Why Nintendo Needs To Stay In The Hardware Business, Regardless Of The Wii U
- Doctor On Demand Launches To Bring A $40 (Virtual) House Call To Healthcare
- HealthLoop Lands $10M To Help Doctors Better Track And Engage Patients Between Visits
- Snapchat vs. SpaceX: Which gets more attention?
- Ubuntu Touch OS gets it’s first partner
- Big Media Companies Pave the Way For Cord Cutters
- 500 mbps over copper might solve fiber’s “last mile” problem
- Oculus rift raises $75 million
- Steam OS released to the world
- Model E slated for 2015 Reveal
- Google Bought Boston Dynamics
- Relaxed Sets Vacation Auto-Replies for Facebook and Twitter
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