Guru and Jere receive a voicemail.
Show Notes
- In Other News
- N. Joseph Woodland, the inventor of the barcode, passes away.
- International Data Roaming is broken, is the solution MVNOs?
- Dropbox buys streaming media company Audiogalaxy…could Dropbox be making a further move toward streaming media?
- Amazon adds Instant Video app to iPhone, after release for iPad. Where is the Android app?
- Last Monday, Google honored Ada Lovelace, the first computer programmer, on her 197th birthday. She invented the first computer algorithm at age 27.
- How My Smartphone Emptied My Pockets
- Platform News
- Google Winter Cleaning – discontinues Google Sync, which allows access to Google Mail, Calendar, and Contacts via the Microsoft Exchange protocol.
- Google introduces confirmed clicks into mobile ads.
- Ant crawls under screen and dies…this is how the term bug came to exist.
- Google News gets better tablet experience.
- Amazon offers push messaging system, as its Android forks do not include same provided by Google.
- Google revamps in-app purchasing…simplifies implementation, local caching, product information and more.
- Apps News
- Google+ updated, adds community support, viewing of photo spheres, hangout bandwidth, etc. (Play Link)
- Those who want the older version of Astro File Manager, it is offered for download on the developer’s site.
- Google Calendar updated, adds location features to appointments and more.
- Deep Sleep Battery Saver….turns off sync and other features while you sleep, then returns them to function and resyncs before you wake up. (Play Link)
- BBC iPlayer app updated if you live in the UK. (Play Link)
- Facebook 2.0 released, completely rebuilt as a native app. (Play Link)
- Google Currents updated, adds new widget, sidebar, and improved UI. (Play Link)
- Sound Search Widget now available. (Play Link)
- New York Times app updated, adds tablet specific UI. Separate tablet/phone apps no longer available. Complaints about auto-login not working for paid subscribers. (Play Link)
- Yahoo releases new Android app as part of revamp of Yahoo Mail. (Play Link)
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