Episode 125 – We’d Like to Learn More About Kwanzaa

By | December 11, 2012

Kwanzaa candles (Kinara) cartoon-like image. T...

Guru is back in the studio for another episode.

Show Notes

  • In Other News
    • Bitcoin exchange secures approval to operate as a bank in France.
    • Seeking a Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights
    • Google and Others petition courts to stop upholding vague patents…
    • AT&T Labs working on wireless asthma sensor that alerts patients via smartphone and other devices
    • USPTO Declares Apple’s Multitouch Patent Tentatively Invalid
    • T-Mobile to try a model of no longer subsidizing handset purchases, will offer handsets at full price or in installments.
    • Nationwide Google Fiber Service could cost $140 billion to build out. 
    • Apple and Google team up to bid for Kodak patents 
    • FCC Calls on FAA to Allow Electronics on Planes
    • Cable companies ordered to support HD content streaming within homes by 2014, using a common open standard that does not require consultation between cable operator and PC manufacturer. Probably won’t work on Linux. 
  • Platform News
    • Google discontinues free Google Apps offering.
    • Google opens up private Google Play store to Apps Customers, allows the distribution of ‘private’ Android apps to users on your domain.
    • Amazon promises to bring basic Android accessibility features to the Kindle Fire and Fire HD they omitted.
    • No one talks about Sony Android phones, but Sony is hobbyist friendly…releases tool to flash stock firmware onto unlocked Xperia device. 
    • Google I/O set for May 15-17.
    • Amazon’s Appstore downloads increase 500%. 
    • Google launches Google+ Communities, groups of people arranged around a Google+ hub page dedicated to a specific topic. 
    • Microsoft’s New #DroidRage Twitter campaign backfires. Microsoft asks for Android malware horror stories, gets the opposite. “I tried to buy a Nexus 4, but the device is so popular to get one! I wish it were less popular like Windows phone. #DroidRage”
  • App News
    • GO releases Next Launcher, a 3D visually impressive launcher that costs $16. (Play Link)
    • From the creator of Tweet Lanes, Action Launcher arrives for $4…replaces the app drawer with a app panel. Still needs more features. (Play Link)
    • SendReduced Makes it Easy to Send Reduced Size Pictures (Play Link)
    • XBMC for Android Beta APKs being released
    • CM Team Member releases aeGis Open Source Security app to remotely lock, wipe, locate, or alarm phone with a text. (Play Link)
    • Tasker’s developer working on a UI overhaul, and other updates, but it may loses pre-ICS compatibility due API changes
    • Facebook Messenger no longer requires you use Facebook.
    • Beautiful Widgets updated, adds support for 4.2 lockscreens and Daydream, a new UI, and more. (Play Link)
    • Official Etsy App arrives. (Play Link)
    • Snapseed Photo Editing software now available on Android. (Play Link)
    • Root Transmission allows you to root other Android devices with an OTG cable.
    • Google updates Voice, Authenticator, Translate with bugfixes. 
    • Google Search receives update: New Now cards..events, research suggestions, boarding passes from Gmail, search by camera, weather at upcoming travel destinations…
    • Dropbox updated, brings move file/folder feature. (Play Link)