Episode 35 – Squirrel!!!!

Guru and Jere get extremely off topic, a trivia contest, the tip car, a possible spinoff and more.

Show Notes

• Platform News
  • Hulu for Android coming to select Android 2.2 phones? – What DRM would be likely required?
  • HTTP Live Streaming supported in Android 3.0, should help in adding video content to Android going forward. Supports dynamic bitrate streaming and support for open implementation.
  • Motorola Xoom at Sam’s Club?
• Platform Press
  • Sprint’s Dan Hesse Differentiates between unlimited and “unlimited” in latest TV Spot. “”The other day, I looked up the word unlimited in the dictionary. Nowhere in the definition did I see words like metering, overage, or throttling, which is code for slowing you down. Only Sprint gives you true unlimited calling, texting, surfing, TV and navigation on all phones.”
• Apps
  • Angry Birds Rio launching exclusively first on Amazon App Store
  • Flash 10.2 coming March 18th
  • Google updates Maps Navigation…now routes around traffic, where traffic data is available.
  • Google Music Sync working on Rooted Phones
  • Version 1.0 of WinAmp released, adds streaming music, redesigned interface, supports Voice Actions
  • Read It Later offers official app for 99 cents in the market (Market Link). App offers offline sync for all articles, as well as push synchronization
  • Phone 2 Chrome (Project Homepage, Market Link) – Send links from your phone to your computer. Consists of a Chrome Extension, Android app, and Dropbox to sync the two.
  • Beautiful Widgets reaches Half a Million Downloads
  • Foursquare 3.0 released. (Market Link)
  • Gowalla 3.0 released (Market Link)
• Developer’s Corner

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