Episode 238 – Hey Murph

By | February 16, 2015

Guru and Jere try to improve audio. Jere orders a new headset.

Show Notes

  • Radio, TV, and Voiceover Personality Gary Owens dead at 80. (Youtube Outtakes)
  • Android News
    • Why Android Wear shipments aren’t surprising…Canalys estimates 720.000 Wear shipments in the last half of 2014, which was also the first six months of the product.
    • Android 5.0 Lollipop less prone to crashes than iOS 8
  • App News
    • Flickr updated with tagging, better photo organization, and more. (Play Link)
    • Google launches WebView Beta in Play Store.
  • In Other News
    • Sirius permitted to take pre-1972 copyright case with The Turtles to Appeals Court.
    • YODA(You Own Devices Act) reintroduced to make sure that software licenses can’t be used to restrict resale/transfer of hardware if necessary to operate.
    • Vint Cerf warns all our digital documents may someday be lost. Looking for a way to preserve digital data for generations.
    • Mathematicians state they finally know how many licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop(1000).
    • HTTP/2 to replace SPDY in Chrome.
    • Google Maps is 10 years old.