This week’s podcast is mostly about follow up stories. SpaceX re-launches another rocket, Apple’s Macs are still old, Instagram will probably kill Snapchat, & smart locks aren’t very secure. Then there’s the new stuff: Tim Berners-Lee’s plan to take your data back, Facebook v AdBlock, LG’s awesome headphone jack, Amazon’s 1-click video purchases, and Sweden’s mechanized pot holes. All the links and details are below.
254: Apple Should Copy Instagram By Copying Tesla
In this episode we take a surprising twist and beat up on Apple for not updating their hardware. We also commend Instagram for copying Snapchat. What is wrong with us!? See below for all the stories and their links.
126a: HP’s new Mobile Print Accessory goes on sale
What’s the point of having your own podcast if you can’t talk about the awesome products you get to work on?
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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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Why Doesn’t Mark Listen To Us?
Episode 45 is a great one this week! The Daily lays off 70 people, Windows 8 Metro kinda gets a new name, NBC sets a new Olympic streaming record. We also talk about making apps irreducible, how Facebook can make more money, Facebook’s bot problem, iPhone secrets, and the future of social gaming. We also mention Twitter’s new $ tag, using a 3D printer to make a gun, the new new Digg, the Protean Echo Ubercard, Wahooly’s new CapLinked partnership, and the curious Mars Landing.
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- Twitter Launches Clickable Stock Symbols, StockTwits’ Howard Lindzon Says “Hey, We Already Do That!”
- Irreducible
- The Daily Lays Off a Third of Its Staff
- The Future of 3D Printing
- How Facebook Could Save Its Shattered Share Price
- The Protean Echo Reduces All Of Your Credit Cards To One Ubercard
- Wahooly Just Got a Little More Secure with CapLinked Partnership
- Facebook’s bot problem
- Windows 8 won’t be Metro Style
- Project Mayhem and the iPhone
- NBC Releases Olympics Streaming Numbers
- Zyngapocalypse Now (And What Comes Next?)
- Mars Lander To Touch Down
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Just In! Stocks Are Bad!
Episode 44! James rants about SimCity Social and reveals how much consumers spend on tech stuff each year, then Matthew shares the cure for AIDS. We then discuss how Waze can remain relevant in this new map world, Apple’s earnings & purchase of AuthenTec.
Then we give some non-paid promotions for Mint.com’s new trends feature and Hipmunk’s new premium accounts. Plus we talk about AppleTV outselling the xBox, YouTubes’s new Google+ integration, a scary NFC exploit, Google Fiber, the new OSX Mountain Lion, and the Olympics.
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- Introducing Mint.com’s Updated Trends Feature
- Hipmunk Launches Premium Accounts
- How Waze Can Beat Apple and Google at Realtime Maps?
- Apple official a failed company, missed earnings estimates
- People only look at two numbers, iPhone & iPad sales
- Within the Apple earnings report there are 7 positive trends
- iTV outselling xBox
- YouTube attempts to vanquish awful comments by using real names
- SimCity Social: Not The Game You Know And Love
- NFC exploit allows hacker to take over your phone by simply being near it
- Google Fiber
- Tokyo, Seoul, Pairs getting faster cheaper internet then US
- Mountain Lion launches without Facebook. Planned marketing campaign or continued disagreements?
- It’s brutal, but it’s seems to be a cure. Getting rid of aids requires cancer
- Gartner: Mobile spurs $2.1T in consumer tech spending, $2.7T by 2016
- Apple purchase Authentec
- An investigation for a class action lawsuit has already begun
- Google and Samsung might try to outbid Apple
- Bizodo Interview
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Technology’s Amazing and Nobody’s Happy
This is episode 30! Unbelievable! We talk about hydrogen fuel cells, Windows 8, supercomputers as brains, Louis CK’s Internet money, and IKEA’s new HDTV. Then we discuss moving beyond social and mobile, NBC’s Olympic portal (which is awesome), what would happy to RIM’s data if they died, and Android’s importance to Google. We finish up on Verizon’s iPhone sales, Liquidmetal, LED bulbs, and lessons from Bill Gates.
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- Hydrogen fuel cell breakthrough: Catalyst that increases speed of photosynthesis to be on par with nature
- Announcing the Windows 8 Editions
- Scientist to build a supercomputer to replicate the human brain
- Paramount believes Louis CK didn’t monetize his material. He only made $1,000,00 in 12 days
- Watch Out, Best Buy, Ikea Will Soon Sell Their Own HDTV System And It’s Awesome
- The Jig Is Up: Time to Get Past Facebook and Invent a New Future
- NBC’s Olympic portal goes live, ready to stream all 32 sports
- Android is Important, But Not Critical to Google
- Verizon iPhone sales drop 25%
- What is Liquidmetal anyway?
- Philips introduces a LED bulb that produces “soft” light, will last for 20 years for $60
- Apple vs. Google: Lessons from Bill Gates’ playbook
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