Tech News Today 292
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Episode 292 |
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Recorded: July 26, 2011 Published: July 26, 2011 Duration: 33:26 |
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Tech News Today 292: Cloud In The Basement
It's Mango Mania for WP7 (and news on BB OS 7) Wal-Mart enters the online video fray, Pirates are great customers, and more.
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Top Stories
- WP7 Mango Released to Manufacturers
- Windows Phone “Mango” – Released to Manufacturing
- Microsoft Finalizes Code for Windows Phone “Mango”; First Phones Due in Fall
- Microsoft to reveal Toshiba-Fujitsu Windows Phone Mango device later today
- Windows Phone development team officially signed off on the release to manufacturing (RTM) build of “Mango”
- Hand code to handset makers and operators for optimization of phone and network configurations
- Hundreds of feature improvements.
- MS will hold a press conference at 10AM Tokyo time on July 27 (which is about 2 hours and 30 mins from recording)
- Winrumors is reporting that we'll see MS unveil a WP7 Mango device today, LiveSide says it's the Toshiba-Fujitsu IS12T Windows Phone"
- Mozilla eyes mobile OS landscape with new Boot to Gecko project
- Announced experimental project Boot to Gecko B2G
- Standards-based OS initially targeted at phones
- Unlike Android, source code released as it is developed
- Start with existing code from Android then layering on interface and Gecko rendering engine. Intend to use as little Android as possible.
- Aims to identify holes in current standards and propose new ones.
- Nothing but a readme at repository on github. {https://wiki.mozilla.org/B2G wiki.mozilla.org/B2G for all info]
- Google revises Google+ real name management policy
- Bradley Horowitz post on G+
- Bradley Horowitz, Google’s VP of Google+, stated on a Google+ post that Google will be changing its naming policies “as soon as possible."
- Will give users a warning and a chance to change their name
- Can add nicknames and maiden names to the 'other names' portion of user profile
- "Please don’t misconstrue the product as it exists today (< 4 weeks since entering Field Trial) as the ‘end state."
- "it is a myth that “Not abiding by the Google+ common name policy can lead to wholesale suspension of one’s entire Google account...we’re looking at ways to improve the signup process to reduce the likelihood that users get themselves into a state that will later result in review." - Horowitz post
Discussion Stories
- Watch Out, Netflix. Walmart Now Streaming Vudu Video On Demand On Walmart.com
- Wal-Mart adds streaming video to its website
- Wal-mart bought Vudu 18 months ago
- Vudu service now available on Wal-mart.com (it was already available on Vudu.com)
- Available in 300 consumer electronics products, including Internet-connected television sets, Blu-ray disc players and the Sony PlayStation 3 game console.
- Walmart said it would stream many movies on the same day as they come out on DVD
- On-demand with rentals available from $1 to $5.99 and purchases starting at $4.99.
- Wal-Mart's website attracts about 40 million monthly visitors.
- YouTube responsible for 22% of all mobile bandwidth
- No wonder we watch: 48 hours of footage uploaded to YouTube every minute
- Report from network management vendor Allot Communications.
- 22% of all global mobile bandwidth is consumed by people watching YouTube 1H 2011 (up from 17% 2H 2010)
- YouTube now accounts for 52 percent of all global mobile video streaming
- Overall, video streaming now accounts for 39 percent of all mobile traffic
- File sharing, a distant second, accounts for 25% --- All in all, mobile data grew 77 percent over the past year.
- Over 3 billion videos are viewed each day on YouTube. The Pew Internet & American Life Project --- 48 hours of footage uploaded to YouTube every minute---- Parents are also 20 percentage points more likely to have used a video sharing site than non-parents.
- Ousted EMI boss: pirates are our best customers, suing is bad for business
- Story about Merrill being ousted
- Dr. Douglas C Merrill, who left his job as Google’s CIO to be EMI’s Chief Operating Officer of New Music and President of Digital Business, now a Los Angeles-based entrepreneur
- keynoting the CA Expo in Sydney when he said that LimeWire users were the biggest iTunes customers, and that the record industry’s strategy of suing downloaders “is like trying to sell soap by throwing dirt on your customers.”
- said EMI’s own research confirmed that P2P music downloaders were the label’s best customers.
News Fuse
- Brian Stelter of the New York Times just posted on Twitter that Fox may restrict Hulu episodes to approved cable/satellite customers for 8 days starting August 15th. This would be the first time this is applied to Hulu and interestingly applied to a broadcast network as well. Thanks to clindhartsen on Twitter for the tip-off.
- Connecticut's Attorney General wrote Facebook a letter saying the company compromised consumers' rights to privacy by using face-recognition for tagging photos. Facebook met with the AG and has responded by putting ads on Facebook users' home pages alerting them of the tagging feature and a way to opt out. The changes have pleased Jepson who said in a statement, that Facebook's changes "will provide... greater privacy protection to its users, not only in Connecticut, but across the country."
- YouSendIt, a service that helped people send large files to each other, is moving into more cloud services. Today, the company announced that you'll be able to keep files in sync via the cloud if you use its new beta desktop Windows-only app, mobile app or web app. YouSendIt also is offering a $15/month plan that offers unlimited storage amongst other services. The free version of the service gives you 2GB of space. Looks like Dropbox has some new competition.
- Amazon cruised by estimates with better-than-expected second-quarter results as the company said that demand for its Kindle 3G with Special Offers has been surging. No news on a tablet but Amazon did say the Kindle 3G with Special Offers, which was released just two weeks ago but has already become the company’s bestselling e-reader.
- A company called Jumio is trying to reinvent the way you pay for things online. Instead of having to input your credit card information or swiping the magnetic strip, you can just show your card to your webcam. After showing the front of the card, the shopper would have to input the CVV code via a mouse-controlled on-screen keyboard. Jumio patented the technology, so hopefully they patented a way to not fool the camera with color copies or feeding an image to the camera.
- Some news in the patent spat between Apple and HTC. After Apple won a couple of patent rulings with the International Trade Commission, the CFO of HTC Winston Yung said that the company is "We are open to all sorts of solutions, as long as the solution and the terms are fair and reasonable." Plenty of sites spun that news as a breakthrough, but This Is My Next's Nilay Patel summed it up very well on twitter with, "Sigh. HTC has ALWAYS been willing to negotiate a settlement with Apple. Everyone is always willing to negotiate a settlement."
- Verizon would like to introduce you to the BlackBerry Bold 9930. What's that? RIM hasn't officially announced it? That's doesn't matter. Verizon has apparently leaked an official video showing off what Verizon says is the thinnest BlackBerry available with a larger keyboard along with a touchscreen capable of pinch and zoom. The video is over two minutes long, so if you want an in depth look at the 9930, you can thank Verizon.
- Oracle says that Google infringed on Oracle's Java patents with the Android Operating System. Of course, Google denies this, but an interesting tid bit has popped up. A blog post from the CEO of Sun has been dug up and it was written at the time of Android's release. In the post, Sun's CEO Jonathan Swartz congratulated Google "on the announcement of their new Java/Linux phone platform, Android." Sun even built developer tools for the platform. The blog post has since been deleted by Oracle (which now owns Sun and its Java patents). So if Sun was okay with Google's use of Java back then, why is it that Oracle is suing Google? Inquiring attorneys are dying to know.
- That United Kingdom, they have the best stuff like tea time, spelling color with a u and now UK ISP Virgin Media has begun tests of a 1.5Gbps residential broadband service. This crazy fast speed is available for a very small portion of London. Spec-wise, download speeds reach up to 1.5Gbps, upload speed tops out at 150Mbps and this technology works via DOCSIS 3.0 and channel bonding (which is using more than one network interfaces on a computer for better throughput).
Randomizer
Calendar
- Motorola Xoom 3G Price has fallen down a well. it's gotten slashed by $200 As the tablet Market gets ever more crowded
- Microsoft OneNote for iPhone is no longer US only starting today. The app is now available in the UK, New Zealand, Ireland, Canada, and Australia.
- T-Mobile G2X finally receives Gingerbread today over-the-air
- T-Mobile's HTC myTouch 4G Slide is going to slide into home tomorrow July 27 for $200 on contract.
- 4G LTE Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 hitting Verizon on July 28th, starts at $529
- guess what's coming to Toronto on August 3rd? BlackBerry fan night! Contest running on Twitter where if you use the hashtag #BB7FANNIGHT until July 28 and you might end up winning Blackberry OS 7 devices. So... does that mean we get to see BB OS 7 August 3?
- sad little rumor for fans of the EVO 4G & the Epic 4G...they may be end-of-lifed in October; Sprint’s next blockbuster is... well we don't know yet.
"Hey Sarah,
This may be old news but I just heard about fluid pro. It let's you make apps from webpages. Not sure why that's impressive but the pro version does keep a separate set of cookies for each app. So you could have a app launcher just for your TNT google accounts and another for iPad today... This way you could have them all open in separate windows with separated cookies etc. Instead of incognito or what ever other tricks you use.
Anyways, the shows are great. Keep up the good work.
Daniel"
"Hi Guys,
I'll keep it short. I just wanted to pass on the latest episode of "This American Life" which discusses Patent Wars. I doubt I'm the first to mention this to you but I just wanted to make sure you knew about it. I highly encourage everyone to take the time and listen.
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/441/when-patents-attack
Thanks and keep up the great work, James"
"I was reading the hateful reviews of the iOS Kindle app this morning and almost all of them blame Amazon for the removal of the Kindle Store button. One even said he was switching to iBooks which is just silly since iBooks is owned by the company that got greedy and wanted the 30% cut from in-app purchases.
Amazon lists one of the changes to v2.8 of the Kindle App as being ""This update removes the Kindle Store button from the app."". Maybe they should have added ""because Apple wanted a 30% tax on all book purchases.""
Or maybe Apple edited that out before they approved the new version of the app.
- Andrew McDonald "
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