What an action packed week for tech! Matthew gets his new iPhone, VW gets in trouble with the EPA, Smule sues some former employees, Oculus held their developer conference, Pebble came out with a new watch, Microsoft released Office 2016, and Apple’s App store got hacked. Check below for all the details and links.
Matthew joins us after running a Tough Mudder and getting virtually zero sleep the day/night before. Still, we soldier on and cover all of Facebook’s latest plans to take over the Internet. The crazy part: we think it just might work.
This week we talk about Interstellar, Google updates to material design with Inbox, Calendar, Maps and Lollipop, Flite Test makes a hellicarrier, Taylor Swift pulls her music from Spotify, Microsoft releases Word, Excel & PowerPoint on iOS the way it should be, Core Gamers are now mobile gamers, Amazon Prime allows unlimited photo storage and the ability to buy Echo on discount, Nest updates and goes free in Ireland, Apple Pay drives Google Wallet usage, OnBeep enables 2-way communication over wi-fi, and Mark Zuckerberg puts on an AMA.
Download #163: Excelling at Selling Albums
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One clear path to growth is to buy another company and integrate them into what you’re already doing. This week included many interesting acquisitions: Disney bought Maker, Intel bought Basis Band, and Facebook bought Oculus.
In other news, Microsoft brought Office to the iPad, Apple wants to bring cable TV to Apple TV, Google might let Oakley and Ray-Band design their glasses, and Tesla continues to fight the state-by-state car selling fight.
Download #131: Accusations of Acquisitions
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Download #126c: Turns out that streaming music is bad business
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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.
Download #126: Music, Messaging and Mobile… Printing
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Episode 59! Office for iOS & Android, DC Comics for Kindle & iBooks, self-driving cars for D.C., *Big Data win for Obama, *Orca fail whale for Romney, and Windows Phone 8 for Matthew.
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It’s episode 42 fellow hitchhikers! It turns out that HP’s parts are worth more than the whole, NYC begins upgrading pay phones to wi-fi hotspots, Deron Williams signs his $100 million deal on an iPad, it might only cost Google $152 to make the Nexus 7, and Digg officially gets sold.
We also talk about Microsoft buying Perceptive Pixel, Nokia’s path to bankruptcy, Microsoft’s new chassis design for Surface, Apple’s EPEAT debacle, Steam’s new Greenlight & their summer sale, Amazon’s potential new smartphone, RIM’s amazing Twitter campaign, and finally we pine over a potentially new Office suite.
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Episode 36! It’s all doom and gloom this week. We start off talking about the end of the Milky Way galaxy, and RIM’s downward spiral. Then we talk about the (new) Chrome OS, the Flame Virus & Stuxnet. We attempt to be positive by talking about Google+ Events and Google’s win over Oracle. An attempt!
Other things we talk about include: Amazon’s instant video on Xbox 360, Facebook’s picture vs Google’s vision, the computer’s ability to assess emotions, prepaid iPhones with Leap Wireless, Apple’s inventory turns, how Samsung’s new mini-computer looks identical to the Mac Mini, Facebook Pages administrative roles, Windows 8 Preview with crippled Flash, SpaceX Dragon awesomeness, Office for iPad coming after the Windows 8 launch, Google’s Map event/joke, NanoSIMs and Ping. Done.
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Episode 22! Pinterest’s relationship with copyright law is complicated, why Apple will bring Siri to Mountain Lion, Microsoft hates Google Apps, RIM has no motion, America has a spectrum problem, a man gets served on Facebook, there might be an Office for iPad, HP has a tough Q1, there might be a market for core gaming micro-transactions, Google Music struggles, and Matthew bought Minecraft.
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