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.

• 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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