Guru is Back from Vacation.
Show Notes
- In Other News
- When will Americans finally start lowercasing ‘internet’?
- Is Dyn.com trying to kill free accounts?
- DuckDuckGo Passes 2 Million Daily Searches compared to over a billion by Google.
- Members of Congress call on FTC to prosecute patent trolls for unfair business practices.
- San Francisco District Attorney and New York State Attorney General to meet with some of the nation’s largest smartphone makers on June 13th to discuss how to render stolen devices useless. An estimated 1.6 million Americans had their smartphones stolen in 2012.
- Majority of Americans support phone tracking, oppose email spying.
- New Standard for smartSD cards would place a secure element inside a microSD card for phones with NFC capabilities. Secure Digital already supports microSD cards with both a Secure Element and NFC, this would allow for several phones to be used as digital wallets by swapping the card.
- Google launches mobile backend starter – one-click deployment of cloud backends for developers
- Chicago Sun-Times eliminates all of its full-time photography staff, will train journalists to take photos with iPhones.
- Platform News
- Jellybean now on 33% of active devices, ICS on 25.6%,
- Google closes acquisition of Waze. (Official Notice)
- Google to keep CalDAV api public, open CardDAV access to all.
- Google explains that users with smartphones and tablets are consuming news throughout the day, as opposed to over breakfast, and at the end of the day. Google intends to move news collection to Now and Plus and use algorithms to decide what is important to an individual. The Digital Reader points out the problem is that most social networks get links from people who use a news reader of some kind. The net effect is that Google is driving away those who distribute content on social networks.
- Google Play Developer 8-step checkup
- Recent Poll shows 83% give favorable opinions of Google, 10% more than Apple, and more than 20% than Facebook.
- Add a bluetooth slider keyboard to a phone?
- App News
- Feedly officially leaves Google Reader and completes transition to its own backend.
- PureContact is a visual, swipe-driven speed dialer for Android (Play Link)
- WordPress updated to 2.4, adds push notifications of comments and other stats. (Play Link)
- Floating Notifications now in the Play Store. Thirty day trial. (Play Link)
- McAfee Smart Perimeter Plus links your phone and tablet, then sets off an alarm if they are separated from the same wireless network. (Play Link)
- Wifi Tether for Root gets first Google Play update in nearly a year. (Play Link)
- Action Launcher gets update to 1.8, ability to configure grid size, option to change which widget is controlled by Shutter features, and more. (Play Link)
- JetBlue app updated, adds mobile boarding passes and timetables. (Play Link)
- Falcon Pro adds multi-account support. (Play Link)
- Google Stock Keyboard now in Play Store. (Play Link)
- Minecraft Pocket Edition updated. (Play Link)
- Hangouts updated with performance and bug fixes. (Play Link)
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