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Sponsored by Olio Digital Labs and Codeship

Thanks to Techdoz.ca for the loan of the Snowball Blue Mic

Hosts & Guests

• Stuart Clark
• Derek Silva

Quick Hits

• Netflix Just Became More Expensive For Canadians
  • https://techvibes.com/2017/08/10/netflix-just-became-more-expensive-for-canadians
• Bell says Atlantic Canada service outage was the result of a ‘perfect storm’ of cable cuts
  • https://mobilesyrup.com/2017/08/17/bell-atlantic-canada-service-outage-august/

Topics

• Who has the rights? A look at how streaming services are confusing viewers
  • http://www.canadianbusiness.com/business-news/who-has-the-rights-a-look-at-how-streaming-services-are-confusing-viewers/
• Netflix discussing keeping Disney’s Marvel, ‘Star Wars’ films
  • https://www.reuters.com/article/us-disney-netflix-idUSKBN1AR0V0
• The Diminishing Value of Simsub: CBS Streaming Service Coming to Canada Next Year
  • http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2017/08/diminishing-value-simsub-cbs-streaming-service-coming-canada-next-year/
• Forget Tough Passwords: New Guidelines Make It Simple
  • http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/08/14/543434808/forget-tough-passwords-new-guidelines-make-it-simple

Stuff We Like

• Stuart – Solar eclipse on Monday
• Derek – SpeakOut Wireless

What are you up to lately?

• Stuart – Job hunting, doing more training on video apps. Scored a new dynamic microphone from a local auction, started a new podcast at SClarkConsulting.ca
• Derek – Unlocked a feature phone I bought in Portugal last year, will be using it for CleverHost soon with SpeakOut Wireless. Took a week off work, enjoyed a bunch of time with some family visiting from Portugal, went to a few race nights at Delaware Speedway.

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“District Four” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:01:42 — 70.6MB)

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Sponsored by Olio Digital Labs and Codeship

Thanks to Techdoz.ca for the loan of the Snowball Blue Mic

Hosts & Guests

• Stuart Clark
• Derek Silva

Quick Hits

• Apple returns to growth as iPad sales boost Q3 2017 earnings
  • https://mobilesyrup.com/2017/08/01/apple-q3-2017-earnings/
• Bell wireless revenues jump 12.9 percent in Q2, subscribers hit 8,901,291
  • https://mobilesyrup.com/2017/08/03/bce-q2-2017-wireless-subscriber-canada/
• Fitbit Revenue Plunges 40 Per Cent But Believes Forthcoming Smartwatch Will Turn Tide
  • https://techvibes.com/2017/08/03/fitbit-revenue-plunges-40-but-believes-forthcoming-smartwatch-will-turn-tide
• Health Canada issues recall for glittery iPhone cases
  • https://mobilesyrup.com/2017/08/03/health-canada-victorias-secret-case-recall/
• Canada Council for the Arts investing $88.5 million towards digital transformation of Canada’s art sector
  • http://betakit.com/canada-council-for-the-arts-investing-88-5-million-towards-digital-transformation-of-canadas-art-sector/
• A Canadian team is trying to build the ultimate universal game controller
  • https://mobilesyrup.com/2017/08/01/all-controller-canada/

Topics

• Minister of Innovation proposes ‘competitive measures’ for 600MHz wireless spectrum auction
  • https://mobilesyrup.com/2017/08/04/innovation-minister-competitive-measures-600mhz-spectrum-auction/
• Bell, Telus service restored in Atlantic Canada
  • http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/bell-telus-phone-service-atlantic-provinces-1.4235224
• IBM scientists have fit a record 330TB of uncompressed data into a small cartridge
  • https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/2/16074568/ibm-330-terabytes-record-uncompressed-data-cartridge-cartridge-tape
• RBC Introduces Siri Bill Payments and iMessage Money Transfers
  • https://techvibes.com/2017/08/01/rbc-introduces-siri-bill-payments-and-imessage-money-transfers
• Facebook to step up fact-checking in fight against fake news
  • https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/facebook-to-step-up-fact-checking-in-fight-against-fake-news/article35871046/
• Machine Learning Scrubbing Extremist Content Off YouTube
  • https://techvibes.com/2017/08/02/machine-learning-scrubbing-extremist-content-off-youtube
• Ice Wireless using an innovative networking solution to bring wireless to remote communities
  • https://mobilesyrup.com/2017/08/03/ice-wireless-parallel-wireless-partnership/

Stuff We Like

• Stuart – Swidget
• Derek – Archeer AH-07 Bluetooth Headphones

What are you up to lately?

• Stuart – Job hunting, thinking about some training videos and eGuides as a part of SClark Consulting.
• Derek – Really thinking hard about how to take CleverHost in a social enterprise direction, likely focusing on helping to end homelessness. Started a server migration today, will continue over next two days. Had a nice long weekend, entertaining family visiting from Portugal, coaching final soccer game of the season tomorrow.

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Music Credit:

“District Four” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:14:56 — 85.8MB)

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Sponsored by Olio Digital Labs and Codeship

Thanks to Techdoz.ca for the loan of the Snowball Blue Mic

Hosts & Guests

• Stuart Clark
• Derek Silva
• Juleigh Giberson

Juleigh Giberson is a research assistant at the Hospitality and Tourism Research Institute at Ryerson University, and a 4th year Bachelor of Commerce student. She’s co-authored three papers on Virtual Reality, one of which was the recipient of Best Paper Award at the 2017 Tourism & Sports Management Division at the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada Conference, and one was a finalist for Best Paper Award at the 2017 Travel & Tourism Research Association Conference. She has also conducted her own research on Gen Y and VR, which she presented at the 3rd Global Hospitality & Tourism Conference in Hong Kong.

Talking about VR in the hospitality & tourism space with Juleigh

Quick Hits

• Watch Siri help Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson dominate his day [worth watching for the lulz]
  • https://mobilesyrup.com/2017/07/24/dwayne-johnson-siri-dominate-the-day/
• Mitel to buy ShoreTel for $430 million to create unified communications powerhouse
  • https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/27/mitel-to-buy-shoretel-for-430-million-to-create-unified-communications-powerhouse/
  • Less than 18 months after announcing acquisition of Polycom
    • http://www.canadiantechpodcast.ca/2016/04/21/canadian-tech-podcast-ep-68-wed-april-20-2016/
• Campsite booking service launches
  • http://www.lfpress.com/2017/07/20/campsite-booking-service-launches

Earnings news

• Facebook Q2 2017 earnings exceed expectations with $9.32 billion in revenue, 2.01 billion users
  • https://mobilesyrup.com/2017/07/26/facebook-q2-earnings-9-32-billion-revenue-2-01-billion-users/
• Alphabet reports lower Q2 profit following EU Google fine, revenue higher than expected
  • https://mobilesyrup.com/2017/07/24/alphabet-q2-2017-earnings/
• Intel beats earnings expectations as it manages to maintain growth in its Data Center Group
  • https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/27/intel-beats-earnings-expectations-as-it-manages-to-maintain-growth-in-its-data-center-group/
• Samsung Q2 2017 earnings predict the company will overtake Apple in profits
  • https://mobilesyrup.com/2017/07/27/samsungs-q2-2017-earnings/
• Switch sells 4.7 million consoles as Nintendo’s profits surge
  • https://mobilesyrup.com/2017/07/26/nintendo-switch-4-7-million-sales/

Topics

• Adobe to pull plug on Flash, ending an era
  • http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/adobe-flash-end-1.4220671
• Google has dropped Google Instant Search
  • http://searchengineland.com/google-dropped-google-instant-search-279674
• CRTC calls for comments on the subject of Wi-Fi-first MVNOs
  • https://mobilesyrup.com/2017/07/21/crtc-puts-call-comments-wi-fi-first-mvno-decision/
• Google seeks to use U.S. law to battle Supreme Court of Canada’s order to change global search results
  • https://mobilesyrup.com/2017/07/25/google-us-law-supreme-court-of-canada/
• Hype for Hyperloop in Canada: Half the Cost, Quadruple the Speed of Proposed High-Speed Rail Plan
  • https://techvibes.com/2017/07/13/hype-for-hyperloop-in-canada-half-the-cost-quadruple-the-speed-of-proposed-high-speed-rail-plan
• Switch sells 4.7 million consoles as Nintendo’s profits surge
  • https://mobilesyrup.com/2017/07/26/nintendo-switch-4-7-million-sales/

Stuff We Like

• Stuart – Canon RF 70 Camcorder
• Derek – The Referral Engine
• Juleigh – Relive https://www.relive.cc/about, AR Measure https://9to5mac.com/2017/06/26/arkit-ar-tape-measure-iphone/

What are you up to lately?

• Stuart – Job hunting, working on some e-guides in the backup space. Busy first half of the week ahead.
• Derek – Another week of soccer in the can, got to see my oldest play hockey this morning, still enjoying the pool, installed HTTP/2 across all CleverHost servers yesterday, some freelance work, and have a Council meeting this Wednesday, and we’re going to Fireside Conference!
• Juleigh – VR focus groups

Don’t forget to review us on iTunes, Google Play, TuneIn, Stitcher, Player FM, or wherever else you get your podcasts. Please retweet us when we tweet about new episodes on Twitter, share them on Facebook, or tell a friend!

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Music Credit:

“District Four” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0