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)
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