Episode 287 – Remember the Maine

By | February 15, 2016

Remember the Maine…February 15, 1898.

Update: Due to unknown technical issues, several minutes of the show was unknowingly not recorded. Have edited to remove the gap, replacing with a single tone. Could not recover the missing minutes. Losses have been rare over the previous 286 episodes. Will be checking system for possible reasons.

Show Notes

  • Android News
    • Android devices from 74 companies feature Microsoft apps.
    • Why aren’t more manufacturers using Intel in their phones?
    • Android has a new API for Contacts called the People API, which combines the older APIs for contacts and user profiles
  • App News
    • Latest Maps update allows disabling voice guidance when in a call.
    • Chrome 49 for Android will support physical web-enabled beacons
    • Google Clock updated with night mode, audio alerts for Android wear, and new animations.
  • In Other News
    • Qualcomm announces new Arm chips, LTE modem, and a wearable platform.
    • Google shutting down Picasa in May.
    • This USB-C problem isn’t going away any time soon.
    • Chrome to deprecate SPDY in favor of HTTP2 as well as the NPN extension to TLS on May 15th.
    • Happy Birthday will soon be public domain, lawyers vow to free more songs.
    • Amazon’s new game engine services cannot be used for safety-critical systems unless of a zombie apolcalypse.
    • Opera Software may be bought out by Chinese consortium.
    • Gmail will now advise users when they send or receive from email providers who don’t support TLS encryption.

7 thoughts on “Episode 287 – Remember the Maine

  1. wbogacz

    Don’t know if this was intentional to see if there were any alert podcast listeners, but your audio went out around the 27:00 mark, mid-sentence, returned approximately 2.5 minutes later. The conversation seemed oblivious to the audio outage, so maybe a loose cable, or defective switch?
    BTW – I like the 1/2 hour format, too.

  2. Android user

    Not to dis Guru’s efforts, but it’s not mandatory that podcasts have opening music. Just saying.

  3. Jim DeVore

    Not complaining, but just letting you know I’m listening — my recording had several dead minute toward the end. I actually thought it was and issue my phone at first as I’m accustomed to very high quality productions.

    RE: the format, I wouldn’t try to hold any arbitrary length. If it is a slow week, short is fine. If it isn’t, long is fine. I keep a backlog of listening material and prefer quality of specific lengths. Keep up the excellent work!

    -jim

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