Episode 136 – Chrome Covered Android

Gur and Jere return for another week.

Show Notes

• Guru sells a Chromebook
• In Other News
  • Dalek Designer Ray Cusick passes away.
  • AT&T-Mozilla “Webphone” – using WebRTC support. Text messages, calls, and video calls could all be made from a browser. This could decouple a full range of telephony services without requiring a phone. Everything would be data.
  • Google unveils the Chromebook Pixel, the first Chromebook that officially supports dual booting.
  • Could the ability to run Android apps come to ChomeOS?
  • White House must respond to cellphone unlock law as petition reads 100,000 signatures
• Platform News
  • Google releases a full changelog for Jellybean
  • Is YouTube planning to add Pay to View Channels?
  • Droidifi is a project to bring custom firmware based on Android to your router. Why?
  • Samsung offering HomeSync Media Streamer, an Android based media streamer
  • Sonoma Wire Works finds fix for low latency audio in issue on Android. Google has not addressed this issue, but addressed latency issues for audio out in JB. They are looking to license it to hardware manufacturers.
  • Motorola puts up new update support page.
• App News
  • Relax and Sleep II, a free app that offers 50 ambient soothing relaxing sounds. (Play Link)
  • Another app sidebar…called Sidebar. Sidebar Pro/Lite.. (Play Link)
  • SuperSU updated to finally support multiple users (Play Link)
  • Google Voice extension now available for DashClock. (Play Link)
  • Skype Wifi, Skype gets into paying for public paid hotspots using Skype credit by the minute. (Play Link)
  • Falcon Pro Twitter Client reaches token limit…
  • Material (Beta): Yet Another social news reader. (Play Link)
  • Floating Youtube Popup Video creates a floating window for a video that can be on top of any app. (Play Link)
  • Beautiful Widgets updated to version 5.1 with new widgets, including a 6×1 and 6×2 barebones tablet widgets, options to switch weather providers, and an optional beta channel. (Play Link)
  • New York Times app updated with a night mode and customizable widget. (Play Link)
  • HBO Go and Max GO apps updated to add HDMI support.
  • Newscover is an intelligent news aggregator (Play Link)
  • Google Drive updated, supports video streaming. (Play Link)

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