Episode 76 - Twas the Night of Boxing Day

In this holiday week episode, Jere and Guru chat some more.

Show Notes

Jacob E. Goldman, founder of Xerox PARC, passed away at the age of 90. Goldman convinced Xerox to start a laboratory dedicated to research. The PARC facility originated landmark technological breakthroughs including the first personal computer, object-oriented programming, the graphical user interface, the Ethernet network, laser printing, and the first commercial mouse. The PARC GUI was demonstrated to Steve Jobs, who was heavily influenced by it.

Samsung releases Android dual-SIM smartphones – Dual-sim is used in many countries for people to share a cell phone, but is particularly interesting as a potential use for businesses, where you can add a work number into a phone coexisting with your personal number. This, if the release of Android is customized to keep your work and personal information separate on the phone, could eliminate the need for some people to carry a work and personal phone.
Android is the New Windows – Bloatware, frequent rebooting for stability, etc.
Should Google merge Talk and Messenger into one app? How about News and Reader?
No ICS for Galaxy S and Galaxy Tab due to Touchwiz?
Low prices boost Android’s tablet market share to 40 percent
Distimo determines 65 percent of revenues for the top 200 Android apps are from in-app purchases.
Mobile will take 15 percent of global ad spend by 2016.

Any.Do: To Do List (Market Link)
Swiftkey X Keyboard (Market Link) and its Tablet version (Market Link)
Fooducate Shopping Scanner (Market Link) – translates nutritional information found on food packaging into plain English, and offers a letter grade as to how healthy or harmful an item can be.
Path (Market Link) – “Path was designed with the people you love, your close friends and family, in mind. Share in a trusted, intimate, environment like the dinner table at home.”
Lightbox (Market Link) – Another photo-blog/sharing app
Airdroid (Market Link) – lets you wirelessly manage & control your Android device from a web browser Over-The-Air.

Waze named top Turn by Turn navigation app by Lifehacker (Market Link)
Engadget Distro (Market Link) – Weekly wrap-up of the best gadget, electronics and tech articles from Engadget – curated content in magazine form.
The classic Oregon Trail game is now available for Android. Complaints regarding the pay to play design. (Market Link)
Official Papa John’s App Now Available (Market Link)
Google Currents updated, improving data sync performance
As mentioned last week, WordPress app updated, much more useful. Adds tablet support, full post editor, dashboard, and more.
Nuance buys Vlingo to become the big power in mobile voice recognition and interaction.
New version of Dropbox app, adds favoriting, bulk upload, renaming, improved gallery view, upload from and export to external storage, etc.
SBNation App released, if you like sports. (Market Link)
Watch the Ball Drop with Official Times Square App (Market Link)

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