Another week Show Notes In Other News White House agrees you should be able to unlock your cell phone. U.S Senator introduces bill to allow cell phone carrier unlocking. Platform News New distribution numbers, Jelly Bean is 16.5%, ICS is 28.6%, Gingerbread is 44.6, which means 4.0 and above now exceeed Gingerbread’s share of the platform. Google Play… Read More »
A representative of Droidifi shows up. Show Notes Droidifi Kickstarter Project Project Home In Other News Judge slashes Apple’s damages in Samsung trial by $450 million Chrome hits 17 month low, Internet explorer and Firefox up. Pandora caps free monthly usage on mobile to 40 hours. FCC to look into legality of unlocking cellphones, may not have grounds… Read More »
Gur and Jere return for another week. Show Notes Guru sells a Chromebook In Other News Dalek Designer Ray Cusick passes away. AT&T-Mozilla “Webphone” – using WebRTC support. Text messages, calls, and video calls could all be made from a browser. This could decouple a full range of telephony services without requiring a phone. Everything would be data.… Read More »
Guru and Jere get together a day late to recap the news. Show Notes In Other News A new startup working on a system that would make keys pop up on a touch screen and disappear when not needed. Researchers were able to dump the contents of an encrypted Galaxy Nexus’s RAM by freezing it. TruPhone, known for… Read More »
We have a special guest, Tyler Pearson of Stitcher Radio. Show Notes Reader Mail Darrell Bird – “I’ve been listening since that middle of last year on STITCHER, and I look forward to every episode. The casual banter combined with humor and relevant information makes for an easy, enjoyable listen. Keep up the good work and don’t change… Read More »
Guru and Jere are joined by special guest, Pat Archibald. Show Notes In Other News Andre Cassagnes, the Inventor of the Etch A Sketch dies in France at 86. FTC Suggests Privacy Guidelines for Mobile Apps. AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon agree to investigate sharing spectrum with the government. Netflix unveils its first independent original series…releases whole 13 episodes at… Read More »
Another slow news week. Show Notes Guru reflects on a week with a Chromebook In Other News New H.265 standard approved, will allow for high quality video at half the bitrate. Belkin to purchase Linksys. German Court rules Internet is an essential part of life Platform News 30% of Mobile Devices Shipped in Q4 were made by Samsung.… Read More »
Mr. Jones is hopefully back. Show Notes Triumphant Ovation to Mr. Jones on his Return Guru is offering a contest, thanks to last week’s guest. In Other News The Overbite in Humans developed as a result of the Fork. Facebook Wants New Breed of Flash Memory for Storing Old Picture that would be designed for archival storage. A… Read More »
Jere is in Washington, Guru isn’t. Special Guest Matt Paprocki. Show Notes In Other News White House turns down petition to build a Death Star, as the Administration Does Not Support Blowing Up Planets. Amazon announces Autorip…adds MP3s for all eligible CDs purchased since 1998. Almost 50% of Verizon traffic now on LTE. It was 35% in… Read More »
This is Android Buffet. Show Notes Jere’s Setup on Reddit It’s CES and Blogworld Week. Expect Hardware announcements In Other News For Sale or Rent: Used Launchpad – Kennedy Space Center is preparing to sale/rent LaunchPad 39A, space in the Vehicle Assembly Building, the Orbiter Processing Facilities, Hanger N, the Launch Control Center, etc. NASCAR may be renting… Read More »