If done right, it might actually replace their current app, which would be a good thing.
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123: Flushing Away Nine Billion Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars
In the Superbowl of tech, Google punts on Motorola and Facebook goes for with their Paper iOS app.
We also talk about EVE Online’s massive battle, Naoki Hiroshima’s woes with his @N Twitter name, LEGOs Chrome experiment, Blackberry’s shutout and Pebble’s new store.
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- Google Acquires Artificial Intelligence Startup DeepMind For More Than $500M
- LEOGs in Chrome
- Lenovo nears $3 billion deal to buy Google’s Motorola unit
- Larry Page Official Post: Lenovo to acquire Motorola Mobility
- Nest is the Motorola replacement
- Why Google Was Smart to Sell Motorola For Just $3 Billion
- How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username
- PayPal denies providing payment information to hacker who hijacked $50,000 Twitter username
- GoDaddy accepts partial responsibility in social engineering attack of @N’s customer account
- Why Hasn’t Twitter Just Given @N His Name Back?
- There Was A $200,000 Dollar War Today
- Facebook Paper
- Facebook heard you like newspapers, so it decided to make a newspaper app out of your Facebook
- With Paper, Facebook just blew its own iPhone app out of the water
- Yahoo’s sleek News Digest app swims against the stream
- On BB 10’s First Anniversary, BlackBerry’s US Market Share Hits 0%
- Pebble Will Get it’s App Store for iOS
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117b: 2013 in Tech Review
We take a look back at what happened in 2013.
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117: The Uncanny Zeitgeist
This week we take a look back at 2013 tech trends.
We also talk about McLaren’s windshield force field, Console prices of Atari, Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft and Sega, the latency of Oculus Rift, Walt Mossberg’s look back at tech, Nielsen’s top websites, Google’s Zeitgeist, IBM’s 5 trends in 5 years, Cornell’s 3D printer, adding context to messages, Facebook becoming like Yahoo, Apple’s misunderstood commercial, Robinhood’s free stock trading app, Blackberry’s bad quarter, and Apple’s new Mac Pro.
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- Memory Clean
- McLaren to replace windshield wipers with a force field of sound waves
- The 3D printed speaker
- Getting the Oculus Rift out of the Uncanny Valley
- Text messaging will look boring after you try this app backed by Betaworks and Dave Morin
- Tiny Blog Prototype
- Console Launch Prices… adjusted for inflation
- Facebook will become Yahoo
- Top Products in Two Decades of Tech
- Tops of 2013 According to Nielsen
- IBM’s 5 in 5: In the future, everything will learn
- Google 2013 in Search: Heroes, tragedies and the Harlem Shake
- Apple normalizes the glow
- Study: People who take pictures of art remember less about the works than those who don’t
- Zoom While Taking Photos to Remember the Event Perfectly
- Robinhood App Will Offer Zero-Commission Stock Trades
- The new Mac Pro is a Status Symbol
- Blackberry is not doing too hot
- Friday was a bad day, but not a horrible day
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115: No Puns Intended
Here’s the trick: when you make a pun on purpose, say “no pun intended” anyways to point out to people that made the pun without directly telling them they should notice you made one. Works every time.
Amazon uses drones for PR only, Yahoo shares their top search results, Apply buys Topsy, LG shows off the G Flex, Apple inks a deal to sell subsidized iPhones with China Mobile, Apple also reveals that iBeacons is already in every phone, SmartCharge is a light with a battery, VASIMR makes plasma rockets cheaper to run, Homejoy gets $34 million to clean your home, Offline tries another iPad magazine business model, Medium updates to also become more magazine like, and the PS4 outsells both the Xbox and Wii U.
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- Apple bought Topsy. No one’s sure why.
- What did Apple Buy with Topsy
- Apple’s 2013 Acquisitions to date
- VASIMR and the 39 day mission to Mars… And Back
- The Amazon Drones: Brilliant PR
- Yahoo’s Year In Review Includes Top Searches For 2013 & First Ever Posting Of Top Tumblr Trends
- LG G Flex Hands-On: First Self-Healing, Flexible Smartphone
- PS 4 outselling xBox One 2:1
- PS 4 Killing xBox One in UK
- SmartCharge Wants You Not To Notice Power Outages
- China Mobile will offer iPhone 5S at the end of December
- Offline, A New Kind Of iOS Publication, Blends Text, Audio And Writer Empowerment
- Publishing Platform Medium Keeps Iterating With New Photo, Layout Tools And Collection Controls
- Homejoy Raises $38M As It Looks To Expand Beyond Home Cleaning
- iBeacons. Classic Apple
114: A Show To Be Grateful For
We have much to be grateful for in this show with crazy new technologies are plenty of rumors to keep us wishing for more!
We talk about Amazon’s Paper White, Obrital System’s Show, Apple’s purchase of PrimeSense, Microsoft’s Windows RT, Yahoo’s new news anchor Katie Couric, the GIF, PandoDaily’s acquisition of NSFWCORP, the Pawn Stars bashing of Chromebooks and Amazon’s Prime Air.
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- Microsoft releases automated.gif Looper utility
- Apple’s gesture based purchase: What’s it for
- PandoDaily Acquires Paul Carr’s NSFW Corp
- PandoDaily acquires NSFWCORP to double down on investigative reporting
- Mayer Confirms Hire of News Star Couric as “Global Anchor,” Calling Her the “Face of Yahoo News”
- New Paper white
- Young Adult Readers Prefer Real Books
- Microsoft has 3 mobile OSes. They don’t plan on keeping 3
- Microsoft New Ad: Can’t pawn off a brand new chromebook
- This Formatting Rule Determines Whether Your Followers See Your Tweets
- Can This Water-Recycling Shower Save $1,000 in Bills? iPhone 5S/C outselling Galaxy S4 in India
- iPhone 5S/5C made up three quarters of smartphone sales in Japan in October
- Amazon Prime Air
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100e: Yahoo becomes #1 again
Of course, unique visitors is only one measure, but it’s a start. Also, thank you to everyone for your support these last 100 episodes and thank you to David Parry and Avneet Chadha for joining us too. As a further thank you, if you re-share this post you could win some free swag from our brand new store: furlobros.com/store. Just re-share this on Facebook, Twitter or Google+, and we’ll contact you if you win.
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100: Triple Digits!
100 episodes! What a crazy ride! Thank you to everyone for your support and thank you to David Parry and Avneet Chadha for joining us too. As a further thank you, if you re-share this post you could win some free swag from our brand new store: furlobros.com/store. Just re-share this on Facebook, Twitter or Google+, and we’ll contact you if you win.
For this special 100th episode we talk about Ballmer’s future retirement and the future of Microsoft, the differences between Android voice search and Apple’s Siri, the Playstation 4 release amidst competition from Xbox One and Nintendo’s Wii U, Tesla’s impressive Model S crash test, and Yahoo’s unique visitor count.
Thanks again everyone for a great 100 episodes! We’re excited for the next 100!
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- Why Silicon Valley Funds Instagrams And Not Hyperloops
- PlayStation 4 launching November 15th in the U.S.
- Tesla’s Model S Breaks Roof-Testing Machine, Car-Safety Record
- Nobody Wants To Touch Windows 8
- Yahoo #1 Web Property Again In US, First Time Since May 2011
- The Voice-Off: Android vs. Siri
- Why Windows Phone Needs Skype, But Doesn’t Have It
- Steve Ballmer is Stepping Down
- Steve Ballmer was worth about $16 Billion… Negative $16 Billion
96a: Earnings calls adds a little wiz-bang
Can we even call them “calls”? They’re more like videos, or shows.
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96: Incremental American Improvements
Incremental (adjective): of, relating to, being, or occurring in especially small improvements.
That’s what we featured this week. Incremental improvements in earnings calls, Samsung’s TouchWiz UI, Google products (Nexus 7, 4.3 Jelly Bean, Play Games App and even their Chromecast). We also talk about the potentially new Ubuntu Edge, and manufacturing in America.
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- Earnings Calls Take On Whiff of Showbiz
- Ubuntu Edge dual-boots Android
- Samsung to host their own dev conference in SF
- Google Calendar API Push notifications: don’t call us, we’ll call you
- Google announces thinner, lighter Nexus 7 with higher-res screen, arrives July 30th for $230
- Google launches Android’s answer to Apple’s Game Center: The Google Play Games app
- Google Unveils the Chromecast, an HDMI Stick for Streaming Video
- Google’s Official Announcements
- Mounting Disappointment About Chromecast
- Made In America
- Samsung Dethrones Apple as Profit winner
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