Ep. 5 – Bacon & Zombies
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Welcome to the Canadian Tech Podcast. A weekly show on what’s going on in the tech scene from a Canadian perspective.
Thanks to our sponsor this week Orpheum Hosting Solutions.
Chat log from this weeks show.
Hosts & Guests
Stuart Clark
Jon Pilon
Jamison Roberts
Andy Berdan
Mathew Hoy
Topics
General news
Samsung unveils new win8 phone in surprise launch
http://business.financialpost.com/2012/08/29/samsung-unveils-first-windows-phhone-in-surprise-launch/
Samsung Galaxy Note 2 continues to stretch the limits of smartphone size
(How big is too big, and is the smarthphone/tablet market destined to have offerings of virtually any size?)
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/samsung-galaxy-note-stylus-stays-screen-super-sized/story?id=17096023
The CRTC is Finally Shutting Up Loud Television Commercials
http://www.techvibes.com/blog/the-crtc-is-finally-shutting-up-loud-television-commercials-2012-08-31
Media Companies and ownership
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/is-bell-too-big/article4513538/
Back to school
Do kids know how to search effecitvily, is this something we have to worry about?
Gaming stuff
Project Play is coming up soon in London
September 16
Fanshawe College, $10 tickets. Fanshawe students are having their tickets subsidized by Fanshawe (their tickets are only $7). Etc.
Organized by Games Day Productions and GamerPops
Whats the state of the gaming industry.
Interesting thread re: owning a game vs subscribing.
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=557880
Guild Wars 2 is out
Free to play model gaining lots of traction.
Locals, Digital Extremes are doing WARFRAME on the free-to-play model
Steam Greenlight – game development by popular demand
Mentioned by Mathew Cool Minecraft Mod
http://www.technicpack.net/tekkit/
https://yogscast.com
What else are we seeing coming up this year.?
Borderlands 2
Torchlight 2
WoW – Mists of Panderia
CIV 6
Picks of the week.
Stuart
Cast Roller Podcast. – Great behind the scenes at Cast Roller and podcasting in general.
http://castroller.com/Podcasts/CastRollerPodcast
Jamison – Borderlands 2
Andy Guild wars 2 / bloop for ios
Mathew – Projectplay.ca – sketchbook pro 6 by autodeck, mac version
Jon – Razer Naga Epic Mouse