Oh BlackBerry… you make it too easy…
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92: James And Matthew Discuss Apple, Microsoft, Blackberry And Overly Descriptive Titles
Good-bye Google Reader, you will be missed. But that doesn’t mean news stops happening. If anything, there’s more news than ever! In some ways, news never sleeps, and neither does Matthew on an airplane. Listen to this week’s episode with Matthew in the UK.
Microsoft tells us how awesome IE11 is, Tesla treats North Carolina lawmakers to a test drive, 10 influential leaders share their favorite books, Apple and Google ruin developer’s summer, BlackBerry effectively kills the Playbook and we get a BREIF introduction to plasmonics.
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- A breakthrough in plasmonics
- From The Team Behind Branch, Potluck Is A New Link-Sharing Service For The Internet’s “Lurkers” Who Don’t Tweet Or Blog
- The Books That Inspired Tech’s Most Influential People
- Introducing IE11: The Best Way to Experience the Web on Modern Touch Devices
- iOS buying time for Apple or Stealing time from Android
- How Apple and Google ruined Summer Vacation for Developers
- Apple may have opened Pandora’s box
- iOS 7 will be hard target for copiers to hit
- Apple Spaceship May Not Happen In Cupertino
- Law to prevent sales of Tesla Cars fails on North Carolina
- Tesla has competition from the Fiat 500e
- Death Knell for BB Playbook
- BB stock plummets with flop of touch screens
- Flipboard adds support for Instagram videos
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71c: RIM… Err… Blackberry touches on their new mobile OS
Do you hear that? That’s the sound of nobody caring.
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71: You Can’t Win ’em All, Though I Don’t See Why Not
Episode 71 comes after a rough loss for the 49ers. Of all the horrible things to happen in the week, this was the worst. But we pull ourselves together to talk about technology. Here’s what happened.
Elon Musk offers to help Boeing with their battery problem, Microsoft reveals that you’ll only get to use 23gb of the 64gb Surface Pro, Apple introduces a 128gb iPad, RIM changes to Blackberry along with a new mobile OS, researchers figure out how to print 3D moon bases, Newegg defeats Soverain to saves the Internet, driverless cars are closer than you think, and Nintendo announces they’re going to lose money this year.
This year… Sigh… We’ll get them next year… Go 49ers!
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- Newegg beats Soverain over Shopping Cart Patents
- Elon Musk offering Space X Li-Ion batteries to Boeing for use in the grounded 787
- Apple announces 128 Gig iPad
- It’s about moving the goalpost
- Reminding Wall Street that the iPad is more than a consumer toy
- Microsoft’s 64GB Surface Pro will only have 23GB usable storage
- Blackberry Stunned As Alicia Keys Terminates 200 Employee On First Day As Global Creative Director
- RIM changes name to BlackBerry
- The problems with Blackberry 10
- Only 1 in 8 would consider a BB10
- Top 7 tech jobs of 2013
- Nintendo to post unexpected loss as Wii successor falters
- Next gen play station annoucment coming on Feb 20th
- The next frontier for 3D printing: Moon bases?
- What Intersections Would Look Like in a World of Driverless Cars
- Time frame of the Driverless car revolution
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The Annual Prediction Show – Part 2
It’s that time of year again… when it ends. So we’re back with a look at how our predictions of 2012 did, and with some new ones for 2013. It was such a long show that we split it into two parts. Look for the first from yesterday.
This part deals with the future: Our predictions for 2012. The first part looked at the past.
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The Annual Prediction Show – Part 1
It’s that time of year again… when it ends. So we’re back with a look at how our predictions of 2012 did, and with some new ones for 2013. It was such a long show that we split it into two parts. Look for the second half tomorrow.
This part deals with the past: The big events of 2012 and how our predictions did. The second part will look to the future.
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The Top 2012 Stories
- Yahoo got a new CEO from Paypal: Thompson
- Yahoo got a new CEO from Google: Mayer
- RIM Gets a new CEO from Within: Heins
- Facebook goes public
- Facebook bought Instagram
- Encyclopedia Britannica dies
- Digg Dies… kinda
- Google Wave Dies
- WebOS Dies
- Zune Dies
- The Daily Dies
- Neil Armstrong Dies
- Nintendo Power Dies
- Apple releases iPad gen 3 and gen 4
- Apple releases iPad Mini
- Apple releases iPhone 5
- Microsoft releases the Surface and Windows 8
- Google Teases Project Glass
- Google releases Nexus Tablets
- Google turns on the Fiber
- Amazon releases new HD Kindle Fires, Paperwhte ereader
- SOPA!
- Higgs Boson discovered
- Curiosity Lands On Mars, mostly watched online
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More News Than You Can Eat
Episode 60! It’s almost as if everyone tried to squeeze all of their news in between the elections and Thanksgiving week. All this results in more news than you can eat.
Search Gmail for large attachments, download MacX DVD Ripper Pro for free, AT&T CEO doesn’t like iMessage, HTC to pay Apple $8/phone, RIM’s CEO expresses confidence in BlackBerry 10, Steve Sinofsky leaves Microsoft amid tepid Windows 8 sales, Google Fiber goes live, Nexus 4 sells out, Google TV improves, Google starts talks with Dish Network to launch a competitive cell network, soccer refs try using a smart phones to better communicate fouls, NASA prints in 3D with metal, teleportation works!, AC electric motors work better, Facebook shares a little bit behind their newsfeed organization, and Nintendo releases with Wii U.
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- Find the Large Attachments Eating Up Your Gmail Space with a Simple Search
- MacX DVD Ripper Pro November Giveaway
- AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson is losing sleep over iMessages
- HTC settlement with Apple will cost HTC $8/phone, may be archetype of future settlements
- RIM’s Chief Is Confident of BlackBerry 10 Success
- How Steven Sinofsky changed Microsoft, for better and for worse
- Google Fiber goes live, real world speeds of 700 mbs
- Nexus 4 sells out in 50 minutes
- Google TV: Now faster and easier
- Google in early talks with Dish Network to launch a competitive Cellular network
- Today’s the first time a professional soccer ref will issue yellow and red cards with a smartphone
- 3D printing with metal aka why we need NASA still
- WORKING TELEPORTATION!
- The future of electric motors
- Windows 8 Sales Well Below Projections, Plenty of Blame to Go Around
- HP’s Todd Bradley: Surface is no competition to us
- Facebook opens the door to how it organizes your newsfeed
- Microsoft begs Web devs not to make WebKit the new IE6
- Nintendo Wii U review
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The Tablet World Series
Episode 57! MIT makes a bandwidth breakthrough using algebra, Bald Bieber fans reminds us that not everything on Twitter is true, Singapore start vertical farming, and Wikipedia struggles to keep editors interested. Oh yeah, Apple unveils the iPad Mini, and Microsoft releases Windows 8 and Surface.
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- A Bandwidth Breakthrough
- Apple’s iPad Mini will compete on price NEXT year
- James wanted it, Singapore is delivering it: The birth of vertical farming
- Tim Cook: ‘we would not make’ 7-inch tablet, iPad mini in ‘a whole different league’
- Surmounting the Insurmountable: Wikipedia Is Nearing Completion, in a Sense
- Bald Beliebers Remind Us: Just Because You Read It On Twitter, Doesn’t Mean It’s True
- Steven Sinofsky on How Windows 8 PCs Deliver Better Value Than Apple
- Sorry, Microsoft Surface Users: No Google Search App For You
- Hurricane Sandy Causes Google To Cancel Its Android Event [headlines]
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Moments with Matthew
Episode 53! One Year! Amazing! Google turns 14, Driverless cars get legalized in CA, Tesla secretly creates solar powered charging stations, printers print pictures of printers, the Clucks iPhone app gets advertising right, and smart phones are cheap to charge.
Also, MIT demos a mapping backpack (watch the video!), RIM keeps fighting with music videos, Apple apologizes for Maps, and Marvel creates an awesome second screen experience for Avengers.
Finally, we finish up with reflections about the past year and what we’re excited about in the next year. Thanks everyone for listening. We really appreciate it!
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- MIT introduces real time mapping in a backpack
- Tesla’s Revolution: Would you an hour to your 300 mile trip, if gas was then free?
- RIM CEO tells developers to hold on for BlackBerry 10: “We are fighting.”
- Driverless Cars Legalized in CA
- Your iPhone 5 cost only $0.41 per year to charge
- If You Had Remote Access To Your Neighbor’s Printer, What Would You Print?
- Clucks brings video to social gaming, complete with voice detection and celebrity guests
- Apple Maps not Most Powerful Mapping Service
- Google is not building a maps app for iOS, according to Schmidt
- A Letter From Tim Cook on Maps
- Google Field Trip
- Why Avengers super-fans should assemble for Marvel’s second-screen experience
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Buy Whichever Phone Makes You Happy
Episode 52! Apple releases iOS 6 and the world explodes off the maps! We talk about why it’ll be OK for Apple, and why Google will still be OK too. The only real loser is RIM, who suffered another outage while losing the lead in security. Facebook continues to be creepy by asking friends to snitch, AT&T continues to be a jerk.
We also talk about the possibility of a Star Trek like Warp Drive, Verizon CFO’s comments about Unlimited Data, Phil Schiller’s comments about wireless charging, and Sony’s redesign of the PS3. Finally, Matthew shares his experience completing the Tough Mudder.
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- Star Trek had it right, Warp Drive is totally possible
- HP smartphone showed up in Benchmarks under code name: Bender
- AT&T will be slapped with net neutrality complaint over FaceTime blocking
- Facebook testing mobile ads on third party apps
- Verizon CFO claims that “Unlimited” is just a word and doesn’t really mean anything
- PlayStation 3 redesigned again, launching Sept. 25
- Samsung manages to out-smug Apple
- The new Apple Maps App is awful
- Google has already submitted an iOS 6 Google Maps App- supposedly
- Phil Schiller: “As for wireless charging, the wireless charging systems still have to be plugged into the wall, so it’s not clear how much convenience they add.”
- Facebook wants you to snitch on your friends to get your real name
- iPhone 5 ad gets Dumb and Dumber
- RIM fixes blackberry outage that hit Europe, Middle East and Africa
- Security experts believe iPhone on par with BlackBerry
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