We debate what the 17 year old found will do with too much money.
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79: No Texting While Spamming
Google Glass is getting closer and closer. That means the popular kids are starting to get them and governments are starting to freak out over them. Personally, I can’t wait until I’m cool enough to wear some Glass.
We also talk about the Harlem Shark, China’s war on Apple, the biggest DDoS attack in history, T-Mobile’s new phone plans, Facebook’s new phone, and summly.
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- West Virginia moves to ban Google Glasses while driving
- T-Mobiles new phone plans
- Google picked 8,000 winners who have to pay $1,500 now
- A PhD studied who won. Big surprise! It was mostly famous people on Twitter
- Summly sells for $30 million to Yahoo
- Facebook to have a “Welcome to our new home on Android” event on the 4th
- Could it finally change the landscape of open/closed architecture?… no
- How the Harlem Shake went viral
- China’s war on Apple
- The biggest DDoS in history
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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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Sound Advice
Episode 48! Instagram died for $300M cash & $700M in falling Facebook stock, Nintendo Power dies, Neil Armstrong dies, but software patents/copyrights will probably never die.
Marissa Mayer shakes things up at Yahoo, Apple’s expectations start to get lowered, Mac Genius ads disappear, Microsoft got a new logo, and we see how many fake Twitter followers we have.
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- Instrgram wasn’t bought for $1b cash, they were bought for $300m cash and $700b in pre-IPO stock
- Google, and I, want to have a sober talk about the most boring topic in the world: Copyright in America
- This Week in MarissYa: iPhones for All, Flickr Love and Management Musical Chairs
- Nintendo Power magazine to cease publication
- The annual lowering of expectations begins: no iPad Mini at the iPhone announcement in September
- The most expensive laptop you can buy has a major security flaw
- Apple has erased all their memories of the Mac Genius ads
- Oh baby! Microsofts new logo!
- Apple wins patent case against Samsung
- Jury awards more than 1 billion-less than the desired 2.5b-to apple
- Samsung doesn’t win a cent in countersuit
- Google requesting Samsung to make their devices less Apple-ish was what determined it to be “intentional”
- South Korea banned both companies from selling some devices, since they infringed on each other
- Find Out How Many Fake Twitter Followers You Have With StatusPeople
- Neil Armstrong, a video look back at a space pioneer
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The Yahoo Knight Rises
Episode 43! We start off talking about the NFL getting iPads & cloud data transfers and HP offering “The Cloud Thing”. Then we chat about Yahoo’s new CEO: Marrisa Mayer, how Microsoft squandered their $6.3 billion purchase of aQuantive, a chart that further points to an impending Mini-iPad, the formula for start-up messages after being bought by Facebook/Google, and the iOS/OSX in-app purchase hack (hint: don’t do it).
We round out, admittedly, another weird show by talking about Prezi’s new 3D presentations, laser powered bionic eyes from Second Sight, Matthew’s field trip to the set of Star Trek II: The National Ignition Facility, the state of the Apple vs. Android/Samsung lawsuits, and finally James reveals what space smells like.
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- The NFL and the iPad
- HP Offers ‘That Cloud Thing Everyone Is Talking About’
- Prezi adds a third dimension to its zooming presentations
- Laser Powered Bionic Eye
- A Yahoo Search Calls Up a Chief From Google
- After the writedown: How Microsoft squandered its $6.3B buy of ad giant aQuantive
- What Space Smells Like
- Tim Cook claims there will be no price umbrella for tablets… and one look at this graph should get you excited about what’s to come
- What to expect from your startup’s buyout
- While Apple is working on a fix for the iOS in app purchase hack, a new exploit for OSX is released
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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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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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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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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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