We are entering an age of technology where no just wonder if we CAN do it, but have to ask ourselves if we SHOULD do it.
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81: Pardon The Disruption
Disruptions are everywhere this week! Solar panels are disrupting the energy market, Google is disrupting the ISP market, Microsoft is disrupting the PC market, Bitcoin is disrupting the currency market, and Facebook is disrupting the mobile phone market. It’s a world gone crazy!
We also talk about 3D printing, the FBI’s surveillance tool, MIT’s DNA-patterned graphene, Samsung’s superior global Galaxy S4, Blackberry’s horrible Z10 sales, shallow texters, Foursquare’s $41 million investment, Internet Explorer vs. Murder Rates, Google’s inactive account manager, iPhone’s India sales, an attack upon WordPress, and regulated commercial drones.
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- 3D printers in the operating room
- Tiny wires could be a breakthrough for cheap solar panels
- US electric utilities predict their own downfall—thanks to solar panels
- Secrets of FBI Smartphone Surveillance Tool Revealed in Court Fight
- AT&T announces 1Gbps internet coming to Austin… to compete against Google Fiber
- MIT using DNA to pattern graphene, eventually hoping to make Integrated Circuits
- Global version of the Galaxy S4 is way faster if you buy the global phone
- PC sales plunging, Microsoft’s Windows 8 to blame
- Bitcoin value plunges 40% in a few hours
- This Trippy Video Explains Bitcoin in Under 4 Minutes
- Yahoo Stock rebounding finally
- Z10 doing terrible, Returns exceeding sales
- You’re shallow if you text more than 100 times per day
- Foursquare Gets $41 Million Investment, Time to Grow
- Internet Explorer vs. Murder Rates
- Google’s inactive account manager
- Hours in, Facebook Home suffering from poor Google Play reviews as 48% of users award it 1 star
- iPhone sales in India skyrocket
- Major brute force attack on WordPress
- Eric Schmidt wants government to regulate commercial drones
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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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Confessions of an Apple Fanboy
Episode 51! BlackBerry proves that things can get worse, GoDaddy attempts to kill the Internet, Apple announces the iPhone 5 plus new iPods & iTunes, Google buys a ridiculous number of Intel chips & picked a horrible city to launch Google Fiber. Microsoft seeks a patents for a surround displays, researchers create laser drug injections, and IBM takes a boring photos of atoms.
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- The Pluto Switch: Insight into Google’s burgeoning empire
- A little more insight into Google Fiber
- Intel Confirms: HP, Dell and IBM on the decline. The new up and comer? Google
- Many mobile retailers sold ZERO BlackBerrys last month, says analyst
- GoDaddy’s DNS server goes down, bringing down a good chunk of the internet
- Microsoft seeks patent for ‘immersive display experience’
- Apple Event Bullet List Of What They Shared
- Some think that no NFC on the iPhone 5 is no big deal. They’re wrong
- iPhone 5 vs. Samsung Galaxy S III vs. Droid RAZR HD vs. Nokia Lumia 920
- Why the iPhone 5 won’t do simultaneous voice and data on Verizon and Sprint
- People need to get their heads on straight about the dock connector
- iPhone 5 Sells Out In 60 Minutes
- No More Needles: ‘Painless’ Laser Injects Drugs
- IBM takes pictures of the atoms in a Molecule
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King’s Tech Table and Other Terrible Analogies
Episode 38! We start talking about The Oatmeal raising $100K for charity, and Xbox 720 documents getting leaked. Then that Apple revealed the new Retina MacBook Pro, iOS 6 & Mountain Lion, Twitter introduced expanded tweets, and the Facebook CTO stepped down.
We also talk about Verizon’s new data plan, kogan.com’s IE7 tax, why bank robbery is a bad idea, Apple Store tilted screens, Microsoft’s secret event, Nokia’s job losses, Google+’s loss of key game partner, and a potentially new iOS podcasting app.
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- Fully loaded with a 2.7GHz Quad-core i7, 16GB of RAM, and a 768GB Flash HD will set you back $3,749.00
- Is someone suggesting we’re one step away from murder?
- Google’s map gets replaced
- In less than a year Verizon has gone from $30/unlimited data to $50/1gb
- Passbook is Apples “iWallet” & Apple has 400 active credit/debit card numbers, 4x that of Paypal
- MacBook Pro with Ret Display is the least serviceable laptop ever
- Cartoonist turns lawsuit threat into $100K charity fundraiser
- Kogan.com to add a 6.8% tax on IE7 users
- Economists demonstrate exactly why bank robbery is a bad idea
- Apple store purposefully tilts their screens at a poor angle
- Microsoft Is Doing Its Own Tablet. How Do You Like Them Apples?
- Nokia to cut 10,000 jobs, credit rating gone
- Twitter’s expanded tweets are a double-edged sword & The Official Announcement
- Google+ loses key partners as PopCap, Wooga pull games
- Xbox 720 document leaked
- We’re getting our own app!
- Facebook CTO Bret Taylor Departs (For Start-Ups Unknown)
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No One Will Survive 10 Years
Episode 32 and there’s lots of news to cover this week. We talk about why Google & Facebook might be gone in 5-8 years. Why Moore’s law will be done in 10 years. The amazing Samsung Galaxy S III, Yahoo’s Disgrace, and AT&T’s biggest regret.
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Featured
- Why Facebook and Google might be gone in 5-8 years
- Moore’s Law is collapsing. It’s about to get fun again
- Samsung Reveals Galaxy S III & Demo Video
- The Disgrace of Yahoo
- AT&T’s biggest regret, and why Skype/iMessage Keep them up at night
Monday
- Rumor: Hulu Will Soon Require Viewers To Have A Cable Subscription [Update: It’ll Happen, But Not “Soon”]
- Start-Ups Look to the Crowd
- Google Wave reaches zero amplitude
Tuesday
- Rumor: Digg to be acquired by The Washington Post [Updated: site will remain, tech team transfers]
- HP reclaims top spot in PC sales, market as a whole climbs 21 percent
- Twitter’s big problem: It still needs better filters
- Apple CEO-in-waiting Scott Forstall sold 60,000 shares for a cool 38 mill
Wednesday
- Where Klout Meets Kickstarter: Wahooly Lands Angel Round
- EA to throw kill switch on Rock Band for iOS on May 31st
- BlackBerry offers $10k to developers
- Tectonic shift away from BlackBerry in the US Federal Government
Thursday
- Zynga’s New Ad Pitch for Draw Something: ‘Draw This Brand’
- LinkedIn to acquire SlideShare
- Target to Stop Selling Kindl
- 37% of internet users ages 12-17 participate in video chats
- Verizon pushing Android 4G hard over iPhone
Friday
- Draw Something Hemorrhages 5 million users after Zynga buyout
- The Father of disruption is concerned about Apple
- Google may pay more than $10 million fine
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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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The Best CES Coverage. Period.
It’s CES week! We talk about Ultrabooks, Search + Your World, Why MG Hates Android, TVs, HUDs, tablets, phones, Comcast disrupting SOPA, PCs vs Tablets and MUCH more! Check out all the links for videos, summaries and more.
- HP, Dell Targeting Apple’s ‘Fashionista’ Buyers With New Ultrabook Laptops – What’s next? Superbook? Captainbook? Batbook?
- Why I Hate Android
- Search, plus Your World with some Anti-Trust and Privacy Concerns
- Comcast Rolls Out “AnyPlay”
- Next Gen iPad Spotted at CES?
- Samsung Shows Off 55″ OLED Screens
- Is it Time For a .Data TLD?
- Sony Demos 24 and 46 inch Glasses-Free 3D TVs
- Panasonic’s New TV Remote – Not really a big deal in and of itself, but says a lot about where they think the industry is heading
- Microsoft Tops Yahoo in Search Results
- Golden Eye Head Mounted Computer – 2.5 G’s
- Verizon Says Almost (Except Prepaid) All Future Phones/Tablets Will Be LTE
- Eye Tracking GUI
- See Through HUD
- OLED Interactive Window – this is awesome
- VISA Certifies NFC Equipped Android, BlackBerry Smart Phones for payWave
- Motorola Smart Controller for Remote Control of Your Tablet For When Your Touch Device isn’t Around You… Motorola, you’re doing it wrong.
- AcerCloud, a Free P2P Cloud Type Thing – Pretty Cool Tech
- Monster and Beats By Dr. Dre are Splitting
- LightPad G1 Bluetooth Keyboard & Pico-Projector – Clever idea… not sure it’s a great execution
- Synaptics Demos 10-Finger Touch Tablets
- Vuzix Augmented Reality Glasses, not ready for prime time, but maybe in 2013
- WebOS Gets OTA Update
- $79 Novo7 IceCreamSand Android Tablet
- Google Announces Design Standards For Ice Cream Sandwich A guideline, not a mandate. XKCD on standards
- Porche Teamed Up With BlackBerry to Design a Sweet Looking, Yet Dead End Luxury Phone
- Microsoft Patent Agreements Now Cover 70% of All Android
- SpareOne, a Cell Phone That Last 15 Years
- Comcast Network Upgrades Disrupt SOPA
- Dish Network Bought 500 Blockbuster Locations… and They’re Now Closing Them. – What’s the plan here?
- Motorola Rolls Out Ice Cream Sandwich for Xoom
- PC vs Tablet Shipments: Fun With Data
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Furlo Bros Giveaway: Bob The Autographer Shirt
This week we talk about leadership and why it matters, Facebook buying Gowalla, how Crocs = iPads, Quadcopters, laggie Android phones, Molybdenite IC, 3D Memory Cubes, the new Netflix on Xbox, Verizon family data plans, A social Excel, and WebOS becoming open source.
We are also holding our very first content: The Furlo Bros Giveaway! We’ll be giving away a couple random Bob The Autographer shirts to a couple random people. How do you get the shirt? It’s easy, just do 2 things:
- “Like” our Furlo Bros Facebook Page
- Then do one of the following:
- Retweet this post (see the button below, getting the title and link is important)
- Or leave us a comment below telling us what excites you the most about our podcast.
The contest starts now and ends Saturday, December 17 at 8pm. We’ll choose the winner at random and contact them. This giveaway is for the US only.
Good luck!
- Leadership Matters – Comparing Ballmer to Bezos and Lesson You Should Learn
- Facebook Buys Gowalla Team
- Crocs Laid the Path for Apples Current Patent Defense’s
- Quadcopters Building Big Structures
- Want To Make The Enterprise Social? Learn From Excel
- Why Android Phones Are Laggie and Always Will Be
- Molybdenite IC, a Potential Silicone Usurper
- 3D Memory Cube Could Be a Huge Game Changer
- Netflix Unveils New Xbox 360 Experience
- Verizon Family Data Plans Coming in 2012
- HP To Contribute WebOS to Open Source and Could Make A WebOS Tablet in 2013
Am I BIG DATA, or am I a Muppet?
This week, week 10(!), we sing a Muppet song in between talking about iOS AirPrint, AT&T/T-Mobile Merger, Verizon wanting more Spectrum, Apple’s master mobile plan, Office for iPad, Hacked HP Printers, the new Google Bar, Senseg touch feedback, HP’s acknowledgment of Apple’s success, XBox 360 hotcakes, Chrome browser success and BIG DATA for landlords.
Here’s what we talked about:
- The list of printers that support AirPrint grows (The solution to the iOS peripheral problem)
- AT&T/T-mobile merger may lie in the results of the 2012 election
- Verizon to AT&T: You Want More Spectrum? Here’s How You Get It
- Apple’s Master Mobile Plan (You heard it on Furlo Bros first!)
- Microsoft developing Office for iPad
- Millions of Printers Open To Devastating Hack Attack, Researchers Say
- New Google Bar Design
- Senseg (sense-egg) a touch feed back technology
- HP’s Meg Whitman Acknowledges that Apple could Surpass HP in 2012, but 2013 is HP’s
- XBox 360 Still Selling Like Hotcakes
- Chrome overtakes Firefox globally
- Landlords using BIG DATA to set rent rates and commentary against it
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