Goodbye Google Reader
Show Notes
- Google Reader Shutdown
- In Other News
- iDEN network shut down on Sunday. As of April, 1.3 million people were on the network, but Sprint says the number has dropped.
- Lawmakers to hold back controversial intelligence bills like CISPA post-Prism leaks
- Yahoo announces that AltaVista, after 18 years on the scene, is closing July 8th.
- Chromium announces QUIC experimentation. QUIC(Quick UDP Internet Connections).
- Today’s Phones and Tablets Will Die Out Like the PC
- Verizon looking to replace landline service in rural areas with a wireless substitute as its sole service offering.
- Verizon’s first LTE-only Phones to Launch Late Next Year, along with VoLTE. VoLTE is tricky for CDMA carriers due the fact, unlike GSM, calls cannot transfer seamlessly between the two. Now 4G LTE covers 99% of 3G network.
- British Airways launching wireless luggage tag with e-paper display. The display would be programmed with a smartphone and an app.
- FTC wants to let Internet users see the data that the NSA can get.
- Want a 24 caret gold-plated HTC One? Only $3000
- How Free Mobile is using residential femtocells to build a mobile network with millions of nodes.
- Platform News
- New Cyanogenmod PushSMS service detailed, allows for end to end encrypted messages, based in PGP.
- B&N is done making Nook tablets.
- Cyanogenmod ending official support for Nvidia Tegra 2 Devices After CM10.1
- New Cyanogenmod feature would add a camera tile in the Quick Settings panel, press it and you get a live viewfinder.
- App News
- Gmail App updated, brings back Delete Button.
- Delta updates app to allow international flight purchase. (Play Link)
- Facebook opens up new beta testing program for their app.
- Google’s Camera/Gallery app extracted and downloaded. Wondering if it will be the next Google app sent to the store.
- CloudAround Music Player seamlessly combines local and cloud sources for music files. (Play Link)
- Google Search adds information on shows you’re watching on your internet-connected TV, a new voice action to play music, and more.
- Boomerang, long standing Gmail service that allows for scheduled messaging, releases third-party Gmail client for Android. (Play Link)
- Draft is a versatile text editor for Android that allows for plaintext or markdown that syncs to Dropbox (Play Link)
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I have noticed something unusual. Have you stopped attaching the mp3 file as an enclosure to the RSS feed? This is the first of 2 episodes (including 155) where the enclosure did not show up, and I needed to come the the site to download it.