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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

• IoT613 announces winners of student design competition
  • http://betakit.com/iot613-announces-winners-of-student-design-competition/
• Infographic: Who is Investing in Canadian SaaS?
  • https://www.l-spark.com/infographic-investing-canadian-saas/
• NetCents users can now purchase bitcoin with MasterCard
  • http://betakit.com/netcents-users-can-now-purchase-bitcoin-with-mastercard/
• National Bank investing $6 million in Nest Wealth, plans to integrate its robo-advisor tech
  • http://betakit.com/national-bank-investing-6-million-in-nest-wealth-licensing-robo-advisor-platform/
• Transport Canada Recall’s AT-AT’s for Cold Weather Defects
  • https://techvibes.com/2017/05/04/transport-canada-recalls-all-terrain-armoured-transport-maythe4th

Topics

• Tuesday’s Microsoft Education event
  • Microsoft reveals Windows 10 S, its education-focused answer to Chrome OS
    • http://mobilesyrup.com/2017/05/02/microsoft-announces-windows-10-s/
    • https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-10/114303/windows-10-s-fine-print
  • Microsoft announces Windows 10 S-powered Surface Laptop at its education event
    • http://mobilesyrup.com/2017/05/02/microsoft-announces-surface-laptop-education-event/
    • http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-surface-laptop-first-impressions-2017-5
  • Microsoft announces Classroom Experiences, a new version of Teams designed for education
    • http://mobilesyrup.com/2017/05/02/microsoft-classroom-experience-teams/
• Surface Pro 5? Microsoft to hold mystery event May 23 in Shanghai
  • https://www.geekwire.com/2017/surface-pro-5-microsoft-hold-mystery-event-may-23-shanghai/
• Twitter Teams Up With Bloomberg for Streaming News
  • https://techvibes.com/2017/05/01/twitter-teams-up-with-bloomberg-for-streaming-news
  • https://www.baystreet.ca/articles/techinsider.aspx?articleid=30233
• New app allows Londoners to find and pay for parking
  • http://www.lfpress.com/2017/05/04/new-app-allowers-londoners-to-find-and-pay-for-parking
• Google blocks fast-moving fake Google Docs scam
  • http://www.itworldcanada.com/article/google-blocks-fast-moving-fake-google-docs-scam/392879

Stuff We Like

• Stuart – Teracopy
• Derek – 14” Pinebook

What are you up to lately?

• Stuart – On call week, going to be doing some more video recording work for my model building club. (IPMS London)
• Derek – Set up a new, redundant backup system for CleverHost. Picked up trades 4, 5, and 6 of East of West (Wikipedia entry). Got my minor soccer team drafted this weekend. Looking forward to the next Middlesex Centre Council meeting on Wednesday.

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Music Credit:

“District Four” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 44:14 — 50.6MB)

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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

• Alberta bank ATB Financial first in Canada to get Pepper robot assistant
  • http://mobilesyrup.com/2017/04/25/alberta-bank-atb-financial-first-canada-pepper-robot-assistant/
• LG G6 Review: The LG flagship you’ve always wanted
  • http://mobilesyrup.com/2017/04/25/lg-g6-review-smartphone-android-nougat/
• “Today at Apple” bringing new experiences to every Apple Store
  • https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2017/04/today-at-apple-bringing-new-experiences-to-every-apple-store/
• Docker brings containerization to legacy apps
  • https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/19/docker-announces-new-containerization-service-for-legacy-apps/
• Google Wifi offers Canadians a sleek 3-piece mesh network for $439
  • http://mobilesyrup.com/2017/04/28/google-wifi-canada/
• VOIS Inc. to pay $15,000 for breaking mandatory participation requirement in telecommunications complaints body
  • https://www.canada.ca/en/radio-television-telecommunications/news/2017/04/vois_inc_to_pay_15000forbreakingmandatoryparticipationrequiremen.html

Topics

• BlackBerry phone with physical keyboard to be sold in Canada in May
  • http://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/blackberry-phone-with-physical-keyboard-to-be-sold-in-canada-next-month/article34830416/
• Woolwich and Wellesley, Ontario to adopt paperless voting in 2018
  • http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/2018-election-will-be-paperless-in-woolwich-wellesley-1.4088409
• CRTC chair Blais criticizes carriers for fibre internet investment double-talk
  • http://mobilesyrup.com/2017/04/26/crtc-chair-blais-criticizes-carriers-fibre-internet-investment-double-talk/
• Samsung posts 48% profit jump — but it’s all down to components not smartphones
  • https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/27/samsung-q1-profit-jumps-48/
• Microsoft meets expectations with $23.6B in revenue, Azure revenue up 93%
  • https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/27/microsoft-meets-expectations-with-23-6b-in-revenue-azure-revenue-up-93/
• Alphabet’s stock price reaches new highs as Google posts strong earnings
  • http://www.theverge.com/2017/4/27/15457974/alphabet-google-q1-first-quarter-2017-earnings
• Ontario budget 2017: government and auto insurance services to become available on mobile
  • http://mobilesyrup.com/2017/04/28/ontario-budget-2017-government-auto-insurance-services-available-mobile/

Stuff We Like

• Stuart – Freemind
• Derek – Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett

What are you up to lately?

• Stuart – Going down to a one car family, digital and physical purging and sorting continues. A good week at the library, on-call week next week.
• Derek – Finished restoring service to 100% at CleverHost, will be moving things around to take advantage of cloud virtual machines and storage across the board. Working on some new motions to bring to Middlesex Centre Council over the next few months around safety and revenue generation. Went to the Del-Ko-Brydge Soccer coaching clinic yesterday, player evaluations start Tuesday! Also watching Kathleen get the upcoming local Girls Learning Code event together. Tried Lagavulin 16 Year Old Scotch Whisky last night, so good!

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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: 38:51 — 44.5MB)

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Sponsored by Olio Digital Labs

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

Hosts & Guests

• Stuart Clark
• Derek Silva

Quick Hits

• Google reportedly building an ad-blocker into Chrome
  • http://mobilesyrup.com/2017/04/20/google-reportedly-building-ad-blocker-chrome/
• Here are the movies and shows coming to Netflix Canada this May
  • http://mobilesyrup.com/2017/04/20/movies-shows-coming-netflix-canada-may-2017/
• Samsung Galaxy S8 review
  • https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/apr/21/samsung-galaxy-s8-review-smartphone-infinity-display-iris-scanner
  • http://mobilesyrup.com/2017/04/18/samsung-galaxy-s8-review-android-plus-canada/
• Blizzard’s almost 20-year-old masterpiece StarCraft is now free
  • http://mobilesyrup.com/2017/04/19/starcraft-broodwar-blizzard-free/
• Facebook announces lots of new features at F8 conference
  • https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/18/facebook-analytics-gets-smarter-with-automated-insights-and-custom-dashboards/
  • http://mobilesyrup.com/2017/04/18/facebook-spaces-oculus-vr-launches-today/
  • http://mobilesyrup.com/2017/04/18/facebook-launches-augmented-reality-camera-effects-platform/
• Apple makes GarageBand, iWork and iMovie free for all iOS and macOS users
  • http://mobilesyrup.com/2017/04/19/apple-ios-macos-iwork-garageband-imovie-free/
• Microsoft dropping Wunderlist in favour of To-Do; available for download now
  • http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsofts-wunderlist-successor-to-do-hits-public-preview/

Topics

• Canada strengthens net neutrality with zero-rating crackdown
  • https://www.engadget.com/2017/04/21/canada-zero-rating-quebecor-videotron/
  • http://mobilesyrup.com/2017/04/20/crtc-passes-judgement-differential-pricing-videotron/
  • http://business.financialpost.com/fp-tech-desk/dumb-pipes-it-is-analysts-slam-crtcs-ruling-on-restricting-telecoms-from-offering-data-freebies
• Shopify’s new unity buy SDK lets game devs sell products in-game.
  • http://betakit.com/shopifys-new-unity-buy-sdk-lets-mobile-developers-sell-products-in-game/
• London Medical Network announces $6.8 million 3D printing partnership with Western U and Renishaw PLC
  • http://globalnews.ca/news/3395961/london-medical-network-announces-6-8-million-3d-printing-partnership-with-western-u-and-renishaw-plc/
• Google Earth updated for first time in several years, features new drone footage
  • http://mobilesyrup.com/2017/04/18/google-earth-update-3d-view-voyages/
• TD MySpend app reaches nearly 1 million Canadian users
  • http://mobilesyrup.com/2017/04/19/td-myspend-app-reaches-nearly-one-million-canadian-users/

Stuff We Like

• Stuart – A good dentist as I’m going to one this week!
• Derek – OpenSource.com

What are you up to lately?

• Stuart – Rebuilt media server to another machine. Purging continues, lots of chores done on my week ‘off’.
• Derek – Spent Wednesday until today dealing with the fall out of a customer account getting breached on CleverHost, also had a Council meeting Wednesday. Getting ready to take on some DevOps responsibilities at Olio.

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