Another CES is over.
Show Notes
- In Other News
- Disney takes chainsaw to Star Wars expanded universe. Canon will now be determined by the Lucasfilms Story Group.
- Shoppers using Bitcoin spent $126,000 on first day Overstock.com accepted it.
- Google apologizes for Theodor Heuss Platz being temporarily renamed Adolf HItler Platz on Google Maps. The street had carried the name Adolf Hitler Platz…from 1933-1945. It was renamed Theodor Heuss Platz in 1963, after the country’s first president.
- Supreme Court to hear Aereo case.
- 58% of Americans still have a VCR.
- Look Project Ara, ZTE shows off a concept modular phone.
- Man blames Google+ for violating Ex Girlfriends’s Restaining Order by sending Invite.
- Pi be Damned, Intel debuts computer the size of an SD Card called Edison with built in wi-fi and bluetooth connectivity.
- Platform News
- Android version numbers for December: 1.4% KitKat, 59.1% Jellybean, 16.9% ICS, 21.2% Gingerbread
- Users on the Play Store giving one star reviews so the review will show up higher on the page. For example, Tülay Sahillioglu writes: “Good, a very good game! I gave 1 star so that my comment gets seen.”
- Facebook acquires India-based Little Eye Labs. It’s a suite of development tools for developers who want to keep tabs on their apps’ performance, giving them a suite of tools such as resource consumption trends, performance monitors, fine details about events and listeners, detailed reports and even a performance score.
- Google announces Open Automotive Alliance(OAA) to bring Android to cars. Members will include Audi, GM, Honda, Hyundai and Nvidia. The OAA will focus on optimizing Android for the built-in controls of an automotive system.
- Sprint introduces “Framily” Plan that gets cheaper the more people on it.
- App News
- Google Play Services 4.1 update, adds turn-based multiplayer gameplay to Android, preview of the new Google Drive API, Google Mobile Ads, and sharing with Gmail to your circled contacts.
- Gmail update pushing out, enables “Always Shows Images” setting.
- Yahoo buys contextual launcher Aviate.
- Light Flow – LED & Notifications (Play Link)
- Pushbullet (Play Link)
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