Guru and Jere get extremely off topic, a trivia contest, the tip car, a possible spinoff and more.
Show Notes
- Platform News
- Hulu for Android coming to select Android 2.2 phones? – What DRM would be likely required?
- HTTP Live Streaming supported in Android 3.0, should help in adding video content to Android going forward. Supports dynamic bitrate streaming and support for open implementation.
- Motorola Xoom at Sam’s Club?
- Platform Press
- Sprint’s Dan Hesse Differentiates between unlimited and “unlimited” in latest TV Spot. “”The other day, I looked up the word unlimited in the dictionary. Nowhere in the definition did I see words like metering, overage, or throttling, which is code for slowing you down. Only Sprint gives you true unlimited calling, texting, surfing, TV and navigation on all phones.”
- Apps
- Angry Birds Rio launching exclusively first on Amazon App Store
- Flash 10.2 coming March 18th
- Google updates Maps Navigation…now routes around traffic, where traffic data is available.
- Google Music Sync working on Rooted Phones
- Version 1.0 of WinAmp released, adds streaming music, redesigned interface, supports Voice Actions
- Read It Later offers official app for 99 cents in the market (Market Link). App offers offline sync for all articles, as well as push synchronization
- Phone 2 Chrome (Project Homepage, Market Link) – Send links from your phone to your computer. Consists of a Chrome Extension, Android app, and Dropbox to sync the two.
- Beautiful Widgets reaches Half a Million Downloads
- Foursquare 3.0 released. (Market Link)
- Gowalla 3.0 released (Market Link)
- Developer’s Corner
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