Return to New York for Guru, Jere has an awesome wife.
Show Notes
- In Other News
- Platform News
- Google Now has an alarm that can wake you up to keep you from missing your stop on public transportation.
- Android 4.4.3 heading to Nexus, Google Play Edition, and Motorola devices all at once. The timing suggests coordination to release for multiple devices at the same time.
- Speaking of 4.4.3, it’s a big changelog of bugfixes
- Give me 260 Hryvnia or your data gets it…Ransomware comes to Android..not the Play Store.
- Firefox testing a Roku Casting feature in its pre-release of Firefox for Android.
- Rumor: Google Nearby would let other people, places, and things know where you were in relation to them? An iBeacon competitor?
- Google Now is ready for the World Cup.
- Google begins distributing the latest proprietary binaries for Nexus Devices as “previews” to stay in sync with AOSP master branch.
- Is Google Now killing 3rd party Android Apps? What about other Google core apps?
- Google adds permissions link in the web store and changes the permissions display in the Play Store app.
- App News
- Flickr Update 3.1 Adds Album Sharing, Tag Editing, etc. (Play Link)
- VLC Desktop and Android versions to get Chromecast support
- Netflix adds Post Play to Android app, helps with Binge Watching (Play Link)
- QuickPic Beta now available, introduces 500px and Picasa support.
- PowerDirector video editing software now on Android for 7 inch tablets or larger. (Play Link)
- Action Launcher 2.1 Beta Enables “Ok Google” Search Hotword and others.
- The last Hangouts update changes behavior, opens a contact card on contact photo selection, instead of Google+
- Nova Launcher adds “Ok, Google” hotword detection as well. (Play Link)
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