Episode 132 – Nuts

By | January 29, 2013
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Another slow news week.

Show Notes

  • Guru reflects on a week with a Chromebook
  • In Other News
    • New H.265 standard approved, will allow for high quality video at half the bitrate.
    • Belkin to purchase Linksys.
    • German Court rules Internet is an essential part of life
  • Platform News
    • 30% of Mobile Devices Shipped in Q4 were made by Samsung.
    • HTC Mini…a NFC/Bluetooth device that is bundled with 5 inch phone.
  • App News
    • Amazon Cloud Drive Photos updated to match Dropbox photo features…offers automatic uploads. (Play Link)
    • Lightning Browser, a simplified interface for the native browsing engine in Android with a small footprint. (Play Link)
    • Hushed for Android generates throw-away numbers. (Play Link)
    • SF Launcher Alpha for Android, based on Google Now design. (Play Link)
    • Deer Reader, another nicely designed Reader app. (Play Link)
    • Big News, a simple widget pulls in news stories from Reader to provide news stories. (Play Link)
    • G Cloud Backup backs up files, folders, SMS, contacts, SD card contents, call logs, etc. Root access not required, and uses Amazon S3 for storage. (Play Link)

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