Episode 35 – Squirrel!!!!

By | March 15, 2011
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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