In this week’s show we wade deep into the Corporate Opera waters with Peter Thiel and Gwaker. Then we emerge to talk about Pebble’s new products, automation, and Google’s fair use win of Java’s APIs. We round out the show with Microsoft decision to shut down their phone operations, and new VR roller-coaster (which looks awesome), Yahoo’s slow death, what3words new mapping idea, and color ePaper displays. Check out all the links to the articles below.
What Will Happen In 20 Years
In episode 46: Why Apple doesn’t need holograms, Curiosity’s online success, a proper iAd, Meg Whitman’s visit with James, Google’s self-driving cars, and who is Bas Ording?
Also, Craigslist cuts off it’s search engine juice, Google & Oracle apparently pay bloggers, Google Search now includes Gmail, Starbucks signed up for Square, and we explain why Curiosity only has a 2 megabit camera.
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- This is how advertising is done, Facebook
- One of Apples Unsung Heros: Bas Ording
- Why Apple Will Turn to Holograms
- Craigslist cuts off its search engine to spite its face
- Google and Oracle order to reveal paid bloggers
- 3.7 million viewers for Curiosity on line vs. 1.7 on live TV. The tides slowly but surely change.
- People freak out about an awesome new Google Search feature: Search gmail directly from your omni-bar
- Starbucks Signed Up For Square
- Google’s self driving cars now safer than human driven
- Curious question: Why does Curiosity only have a 2 Megabit Camera?
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This Is The Way The World Ends
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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- Next step in the Chrome OS journey and a review
- Amazon Instant Video on Xbox 360
- Flame Virus, Made In America
- Confirmed, America & Israel created Stuxnet and lost control of it
- Picture vs Vision
- Computers Learn to Assess Emotions – Sometimes Better than Humans
- Leap Wireless To Sell Prepaid iPhones & AT&T to move to data only packages
- Apple Turns Over Inventory Every 5 Days
- The new mini-computer from Samsung looks pretty much identical to a mac-mini
- The end of the Milky Way galaxy as we know it?
- Spotted in the wild: Google+ Events feature on its way, with tie-in to Google Calendar
- Facebook Add Administrative Roles for Facebook Pages
- Windows 8 Release Preview: new apps, improvements, and Flash support
- SpaceX Dragon Successfully Returns To Earth
- Google vs Oracle Over. Google Wins Hands Down, Owes Oracle Nothing
- This Weeks RIM Update
- Office For iPad to launch Nov 10.
- Google to hold Maps event ahead of Apple’s switchover at WWDC
- NanoSIM follow up: Nokia says nanoSIM card is inferior, But they’ll still license essential patents
- What Went Wrong With Ping: The Genius of Mark Zuckerberg
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Lawsuits and Lost Directions
It’s episode 33! This week we broadcasted using Google+ Hangouts On Air. Thanks for viewing and all your comments. We’ve embedded the video below for your viewing pleasure. We covered a lot of news this week. Some of the news we talked about was the Oracle/Google trial over Java who are still debating what constitutes “fair use”. We discuss how HP lost its way with all the sordid details. We finish up talking about Mozilla complaining about Microsoft being anti-competitive for only allowing IE as a browser in Windows RT. Is a tablet a computer?
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Featured
- Google Infringed on Oracle’s Java Copyrights
- How Hewlett-Packard lost its way
- Microsoft Hit With Anticompetitive Complaints – Beware of the paywall!
Monday
Tuesday
- Sony E3 press conference will not be televised (but it will be streamed)
- Flattr Works with Instacast
- Facebook Social Readers Are All Collapsing or Not
- What’s behind the drop in Kindle Fire Sales?
- HP Exec: Apple May Like to Think They Own Silver, But They Don’t
Wednesday
- Google+: a mobile app with sense and soul
- Facebook Introduces Their Own App Center
- Is Wall Street Ready For Facebook… ‘s hoodie?
- Google to create a GameCenter Clone
Thursday
- Update: Pebble smartwatch tops $10 million in Kickstarter pledges, sells all 85,000 watches
- Game Of Thrones on Track to be most pirated show of 2012, pirates beg for legitimate means to get show
- Facebook Co-Founder renounces US citizenship before FB IPO
- Official: Digg Engineering Team Joins SocialCode
- The Bible App by YouVersion Now Installed on 50 Million Mobile Devices
- Apple’s marketing – unpaid product placement
Friday
- Circle: If Highlight And Path Had A Beautiful Ambient Location Child
- No More Breasts, Elephants, or SOPA: How Warren Adelman Is Saving Go Daddy’s Soul
- iOS 6 is going to finally move beyond Google Maps
- According to Apple, the Lumina 900 is the best Smartphone
Weekend
- Dropquest II: The Future is Now
- Exclusive: Yahoo’s Thompson Out; Levinsohn In; Board Settlement With Loeb Nears Completion
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The Hunger Video Games
Episode 28! Does core gaming have a problem? Hopefully you’re hungry to find out! Plus, kids should code, Oracle & Google are going to trial, whereas Apple & Google may settle, iOS controllers may be coming, Piper Jaffary thinks smarts phones are 2 horse race… doesn’t include 37 year old Microsoft, Google’s Project glass looks awesome, Yahoo lays off 2,000 employees, FreedomPop wants to disrupt TeleComs, Macs get a Trojan, and we go on a Facebook always-sharing-reading-app requirement rant.
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- Can we panic now? – Core gaming has a problem
- Why all our kids should be taught how to code
- When Code Is Hot
- Android vs. Java, Google and Oracle are going to trial!
- Tim Cook like to end “Thermo Nuclear War” and settle over Android
- Controller support maybe coming to an iOS device near you
- Piper Jaffary RIM going out of business, Smartphone a two horse Race, Apple and Samsung
- 37 years ago today, 2 men started something that changed the world
- Project Glass
- Apple and Facebook Should Be Terrified Of Google-Tinted Glasses
- Google’s Sergey Brin takes Project Glass into the wild
- Yahoo Lays Off 2,000 Employees – 14 Percent of Workforce
- FreedomPop wants to disrupt the TeleComs
- More than 600,000 Macs infected with a botnet Trojan
- Trojan-Dowloader
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Smart Phones. They’re Here. You Should Probably Get Used To It
Episode 20! We discuss Netflix’s new show Lilyhammer, Google HUD glasses, RIM’s App world, Amazon vs $15 text books, Google Chrome on Android, the App Economy, iTunes Match, Sony’s Playstation Vita, Kodak != cameras, Wolfram Alpha getting data crazy, Google’s mysterious device, Oracle buying Taleo, and Apply increasing touch accuracy.
- “Lilyhammer” Premieres Today
- HUD Google Glasses Are Real and They Are Coming Soon
- RIM claims their App World is more valuable than Google’s Marketplace
- What’s Amazon going to do about $15 text books?
- Google Chrome Is Now Available For Android (And It’s Fantastic)
- Nearly 500,000 “App Economy” Jobs in United States
- The first round of iTunes Match royalties pay out
- Everything You Need to Know About Sony’s PlayStation Vita Launch
- Kodak is getting out of camera game.
- Wolfram ALPHA about to be unleashed
- That Google Mystery Device? It’s Basically a Sonos
- Google’s Entertainment Device: The real reason they bought Motorola
- Oracle Buys Taleo in a $1.9B Response to SAP
- An Apple patent to increase accuracy with touch interface
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Data Mind Your Own Business
What you’ll find: Kodak inside, Siri is actually amazing, Facebook ID cards and data, HP and data, Oracle and data, get Dropbox, Motorola’s joke, and Microsoft’s future.
Umm… for those of you keeping score, we experienced a technical issue from week 3. It’s gone, but it was amazing. Trust me.
Recorded Oct. 23, 2011