Guru activates his emergency backup personality for tonight’s show and attempts to be upbeat in honor of the end of March.
Show Notes
- In Other News
- IRS declares bitcoin property and subject to capital gains and losses.
- Microsoft agrees to stop looking through Hotmail and instead turn any issue over to law enforcement.
- Verizon asks FCC to not try to reimpose net neutrality until there is a threat to net neutrality.
- Monopoly debating the pros and cons on the game’s Facebook page to incorporate all into a special edition.
- Public Service Announcement: Study Finds Pee in Pool Water Yields Toxic Byproduct, cyanogen chloride, which is considered a chemical warfare agent
- Sprint plans to bring HD voice to the entire network by July. People make fewer voice calls than ever.
- Guru tries out the Meenova, the microSD card reader for Android devices, smaller than a quarter and designed to attach to a keyring. Discovers a competing product, the Leef Access dongle, that is not quite as tiny.
- Platform News
- Google updates Play Store policies to crack down on deceptive ads
- Study Finds Kit Kat to be Most Stabile Mobile OS Available, Gingerbread at most likely, the latest version of iOS nearly as bad.
- Google mandates “Powered by Android” branding on new devices during the boot process.
- Google reportedly focusing on improving enterprise security in Android
- HTC Follows Google and Motorola’s Lead with Software Updates and Adds Key Apps to Play Store
- Two men plead guilty to copyright infringement. The men were involved in two piracy sites which distributed Android apps
- App News
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