Blu
We Have Met the Enemy, and he is Us
Show Notes
- Android News
- Blu is back with a bunch of new budget phones, including a $179 phone that supposedly runs for 4 days on a single charge.
- New Platform Distribution Numbers, Kit Kat is now at 39%, Jellybean 46%, ICS 6.7%, Gingerbread 7.8%, and Lollipop is not even on the charts
- App News
- Google app introduces Now Card settings and card history.
- Reddit Sync facing suspension for impersonation even though it answered this charge to Google 2 years ago.
- Google Play’s policies are a source of concern for developers and enforcement seems arbitrary and inconsistent.
- Google+ hits 1 billion installs, Play Games and Drive reach 500 million.
- Microsoft Office for Android now in open preview
- In Other News
- Google catching up to Facebook on social logins. Google is now at 40% to Facebook’s 43%
- An update to the 1999 classic, the Cluetrain Manifesto, has appeared.
- Only 25mbps and up will qualify as broadband under new proposed FCC definition.
- Gogo has been issuing fake SSL certificates of companies like Google, as part of what it claims is an effort to restrict streaming video.
- Aircharge to add Qi wireless charging to 600 McDonalds locations across the UK.
- Sling TV announced, for $20 a month you get 12 top networks, $5 per month for extra packs.
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