Plus, Apple’s move from Samsung to TSMC for making their chips, and MIT’s optical transistor research.
Download #92c: Yahoo’s purchase of BigNoggin and their overall strategy
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93: Watching CEOs and Silicon Manufacturers
Douglas Engelbart lead the way on creating the mouse. Today, companies are pursing touch interfaces and wearable computing – especially watches.
We also talk about Yahoo’s purchase of BigNoggin and their overall strategy, Apple’s move from Samsung to TSMC for making their chips, MIT’s optical transistor research, Zynga’s new boss and the first solar-power transcontinental flight.
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- Yahoo bets big on fantasy sports, acquires one-man startup Bignoggins
- Marissa Mayer has been on a shopping spree at Yahoo, but is there any sign of a strategy?
- Best Buy apparently set to sell Pebble smart watch beginning this weekend
- Almost every major consumer electronics manufacturer is now working on a smart watch
- The stock market likes the new Zynga CEO, but it’s wrong. Here is why
- Twitter Wants to Start Tracking You on the Web, Here’s How to Opt-Out
- Google Flights
- Samsung bought Boxee
- Apple Turning to TSMC for chip production
- Douglas C. Engelbart Dies
- MIT develops an Optical transistor
- Solar Plane completes transcontinental flight
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91b: Bad idea turned good: Microsoft 180s on it’s DRM and online stance
Now if they can just figure out the $100 price difference. That’s a lot of money!
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91: Bad Ideas
This week, we explore 3 bad ideas. 1) Xbone’s DRM policies 2) Yahoo’s email release and 3) Facebook’s Vine clone.
We also talk about Feedly’s attempt to be the #1 Reader replacement, Teslas’s super chargers, LG’s flexible display, TapAd’s cookie work-around, and Google’s Project Loon.
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- The End of Cookies and the beginning of Fingerprints
- Microsoft reverses XBone DRM policies
- Your Feedback Matters – Update on Xbox One
- LG to mass-produce flexible displays
- Yahoo’s Very Bad Idea to Release Email Addresses
- Feedly Launches a Standalone Webapp, No Extension Necessary
- Facebook Adds Vine to Instagram
- Facebook Announces That It’s Out Of Ideas
- Instagram Video Vs. Vine: What’s The Difference?
- Is Mark Zuckerberg the new Bill Gates?
- Tesla Supercharge station will be able to do battery swaps
- Nissan announces electric car for Le Mans endurance race
- Project Loon’s biggest Obstacle is Politics
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88d: Yahoo wants to sell you based on data
In order to get data, they need to have services. Hence the buying spree.
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88: The Unbearable Lightness of Advertising
We managed to almost completely ignore D11 this week. Though, we did stick in a couple stores about Apple and Mary Meeker.
We also talked about light canceling fiber optics, the 49er’s new stadium, HTC’s advertising problem, Yahoo’s strategy of buying a ton of companies, Freescale’s ant-sized SoC, Apple’s new iPod Touch, Sony’s electronic loses, the Sun-Times photographer firing, and Intel’s new Haswell chips.
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- Sony loses money on electronics
- Noise Canceling fiber optics
- HTC can’t win, even with the best phone
- Why Yahoo! is becoming an internet portal again
- Ant-Sized Computers
- Mary Meeker Peers Into the Future of Mobile, Wearables and Facebook
- The unbearable lightness of what Tim Cook says
- Fewer people pirating Arrested Development
- Apple Launched the Cameraless iPod Touch
- New, high-tech stadium for the San Francisco 49ers will be ‘software-driven’
- Intel Launches Haswell Processor
- Bad News for Peter Parker: Chicago Sun fires Photo Staff
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87a: Google is shutting things down while Yahoo is opening things up
I never thought that would happen.
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87: Episode One
The new Xbox will be called the Xbox One despite being the 3rd iteration. So today’s show is called Episode One despite being the 87th.
We also talk about the death of Google Buzz, Yahoo buying Tumblr while fixing Flickr, an amazing gun scope, Amazon’s new bio-dome, Samsung’s crazy bid to take over Android from Google, and Microsoft’s commercials vs Apple’s.
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- Tumblr. + Yahoo! = !!
- Your World, in Full Resolution
- The future of aiming
- Amazon.com wants to build a massive biosphere in Seattle (perfect for workers and mature trees)
- Visual recognition in Google+
- xBox One
- XBOX ONE REVEALED by Wired
- Xbox One Offers Voice Controls, New Kinect, Original Content, TV Integration, NFL Partnership
- Live TV on the Xbox One: Microsoft learns nothing from Google TV’s mistakes
- Pre-owned fee for xBox One
- Wii U sales collapse pre xBox One announcement
- Samsung’s strategy to deal with fragmentation: Get developers to make Galaxy specific apps
- New iPhone Commercial
- In contrast: the Surface advert
- Google Buzz is Shutting Down
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82e: The confessions of a Kickstarter addiction
Listen to the sordid details of a man who just couldn’t get enough Kickstarter board games. Will he wreck his family? Probably not after they start playing the board games and having a TON of fun!
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82: The Next Wearable Tech: The Thunder Belt
Wearable and interactive computing is all the rage on this week’s podcast. Companies and coming up with more and more ways to meld our digital lives with our physical lives. It’s an exciting time! Great examples include the Oculus Rift Omi Treadmill, Google’s Glass, Pebble’s Watch, and Leap Motion’s integration with HP PCs.
We also discuss Netflix’s switch to HTML5 video, Microsoft’s next steps with Windows 8, Funny or Die’s iSteve movie, David’s adiction to Kickstarter board games, and James’ crush on Yahoo’s new weather app.
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- Virtuix hooks up Oculus Rift to its Omni treadmill, shows off ‘True VR’ (video)
- Glass Explorer Edition gets unboxed, photographed
- Steve Jackson raised almost $1 million to create the ultimate board game, and that was a problem
- Turn a Printed Page Into a Touchscreen With This Brilliant Concept
- HTML5 Video at Netflix
- Microsoft’s Windows 8 Plan B(lue): Bring back the Start button, boot to desktop
- Leap Motion and HP to embed gesture controls in PCs
- Funny or Die’s Steve Jobs Movie ‘iSteve’ Now Available Online
- Google Glass not fully functional when used with iPhone
- Yahoo Weather for iOS May Be the Most Beautiful Weather App Yet