Show Notes
- Android News
- Android vs iOS debate turns violent in Tulsa when one side bashed the other on the head with a beer bottle. It is unclear whether the beer bottle was wielded by the iPhone or Android user.
- EU charges Google with violating Antitrust, investigating Android.
- Play Services updated adds new user interface for Trusted Places, and makes the Android Wear notification dismissable.
- Google gets a Trusted Voice option.
- Play Store to get Designed for Families label. Developers would submit apps for review against the new standards for this label.
- You can now find your phone from a Google search box.
- Google updates Material Design guidelines with additional sections.
- App News
- New version of the Groupon app brings major design changes. (Play Link)
- Field Trip now has Android Wear support. (Play Link)
- Meerkat Live Video Streaming coming to Android as invite only beta.
- Any.do 3.0 released with material design, list sharing, tablet support, etc. (Play Link)
- DuckDuckGo is beta testing an updated material design for its Android app.
- Google releases Handwriting ‘keyboard’ app. (Play Link)
- Google’s Android for Work app hits Play Store for phones below 5.0. (Play Link)
- Opera updates its Mini browser, aims for 275 million users by 2017. (Play Link)
- In Other News
- Ikea has made it easy to add Qi charging to your furniture. They will not only be selling Qi furniture, but a drill bit adapter/kit to add it to existing furniture.
- FBI can’t cut internet and pose as cable repair to search property.
- Verizon FIOS’s releases new customizable packages. This violates its contract with ESPN. ESPN must be forced upon all users. Estimates states that ESPN costs about $6 per subscriber, with a rise to over $8 by 2018.
- Google to propose its QUIC protocol, which is HTTP over UDP, become an internet standard.
- Walmart Family Mobile, powered by T-Mobile raises data on its inexpensive plans.
- Netflix to secure video streams with HTTPS.
- Sprint will bring a new phone to your home and set it up for you.
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