Ep 16

Ep 16

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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.

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Our sponsor this week is sclarkconsulting.ca

Hosts
Stuart Clark
Jamieson Roberts
James Wilkinson

James Wilkinson is a Digital Media Architect and Consultant in the Southwestern Ontario area, he specializes in creating exemplar and exceptional user experiences through interaction on web, mobile, and social channels. He has a fascination with cognitive science research which he applies in his digital media duties. Oh and he is pretty good at Halo 4 and Call of Duty Black Ops 2. If you are looking for help with your user experience or digital media projects drop him a line @jerw.

Topics

Text Messaging turns 20.
http://tvnz.co.nz/technology-news/text-messaging-turns-20-popularity-drops-5256270

Google buys Waterloo startup BufferBox
http://metronews.ca/news/canada/460883/google-buys-waterloo-startup-bufferbox/

Canada neuroscientist develops a working, virtual Spaun brain
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/338075#ixzz2DwsMk1TS

Ontario examines ways to loosen crowdfunding rules
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/small-business/sb-money/business-funding/ontario-examines-ways-to-loosen-crowdfunding-rules/article5781219/

Sharp Unveils new display with touch screen and stylus support
http://www.engadget.com/2012/12/03/sharp-ll-s201a-big-pad/

CRTC to Rogers: Turn down the ad volume
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/crtc-to-rogers-turn-down-the-ad-volume/article5758100/

Windows blue how it could reinvent windows or sink windows 8
http://www.itworld.com/323568/windows-blue-how-it-could-reinvent-windows-or-sink-windows-8

News Corp is Shutting Down ‘The Daily,’ the World’s First Tablet Newspaper
http://www.techvibes.com/blog/the-daily-dies-new-york-times-struggles-2012-12-03

Social Media Report: Social media dominate our online time, both on PCs and mobile devices
http://blogs.vancouversun.com/2012/12/03/social-media-report-social-media-dominates-our-online-time-both-on-pcs-and-mobile-devices/

Vatican unveils Pope’s Twitter handle: @pontifex
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/vatican-discloses-popes-twitter-handle-pontifex-111503109.html

iTunes 11 Released last week.

Jamieson has his new website up. http://www.blacklightmedia.ca

Picks of the Week

Stuart – Synergy
Jamieson – Untappd
James – Plex

 

EP 15

EP 15

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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.

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Please considering rating our podcast on iTunes and wherever else you see us. It helps us spread the word.
Hosts
Stuart Clark
Jamieson Roberts
Mike Battista

Topics

CPU’s to potentially be no longer available separate from Motherboards
An interesting story for the DIY’er and custom machine maker regarding the future of CPU’s and their interchangeability.

Web privacy in spotlight again.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/digital-culture/social-web/privacy-in-spotlight-again-with-facebooks-latest-changes/article5553695/

Facebook privacy chain letter resurfaces.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/facebook-privacy-chain-letter-resurfaces/2012/11/26/8c27bd94-3801-11e2-8a97-363b0f9a0ab3_story.html

Can a robot make a better hamburger?
http://www.kurzweilai.net/can-a-robot-make-a-better-faster-burger

RIM boasts carrier billing integration.
http://mobilesyrup.com/2012/11/26/rim-boasts-billing-integration-with-more-than-50-carriers-in-run-up-to-blackberry-10-release/

Analysts predicting RIM comback:
http://bgr.com/2012/11/26/blackberry-10-analyst-outlook/

Bell will unlock the iPhone for $75.
http://mobilesyrup.com/2012/11/26/bell-and-virgin-will-now-unlock-the-iphone-cost-75/

Apple drops samsung as battery supplier
http://www.zdnet.com/apple-drops-samsung-as-macbook-ipad-battery-supplier-report-7000007888/

Niagara Regional Police using YouTube to find Falls shooting suspect
http://www.niagarafallsreview.ca/2012/11/26/nrp-using-youtube-to-find-suspect

Mr. Dressup featured in Canadian Google doodle today.
http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/1293110–mr-dressup-remembered-in-google-doodle

Call me maybe parody with seniors from Waverly Manor in London
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf0k8sACrTU

Any good Cyber Monday deals / stories?

Chinterest (Pinterest for chins):
http://www.chintere.st/

Picks of the week

Stuart – Evernote ver 5
Jamieson – Tweetdeck
Mike – Curiosity: What’s Inside the Cube? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curiosity_%E2%80%93_What’s_Inside_the_Cube%3F
Bonus: Curiosity by Carly Rae Jepsen: http://youtu.be/krDk7clnihs

 

 

 

Ep. 14

Ep. 14

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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.

Please considering rating our podcast on iTunes and wherever else you see us. It helps us spread the word.
Hosts
Stuart Clark
Jamieson Roberts
Derek Martin
Jamie Edwards

 

Topics

Congrats to Carmi at his new job at Microsoft.

iMessage and facetime hit by outage
http://mashable.com/2012/11/18/imessage-facetime-twitter/

Microsoft hit by 2nd office 365 mail outage in 5 days.
http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-hit-by-second-office-365-email-outage-in-five-days-7000007342/

MS investigating reports of random Windows Phone 8 reboots
http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-investigating-reported-windows-phone-8-reboots-7000007615/

Rim adds free call feature to BBM
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/mobile/rim-adds-free-call-feature-to-bbm/article5274314/

“Microsoft Has Failed” – Windows 8
https://semiaccurate.com/2012/11/14/microsoft-has-failed/

Sinofsky Fired, Julie Larson-Green Promoted
Bio of JLG – http://www.zdnet.com/who-is-julie-larson-green-meet-the-new-head-of-windows-7000007292/
– user interface/experience person for IE 3 & 4, Office XP, Office 2003, Office 2007

Jamie Says – note that MS fired Stephen Sinofsky – president of the windows division (2 weeks after the launch of Windows 8 http://www.extremetech.com/computing/140733-sinofsky-abrupt-firing-can-microsoft-finally-make-progress-in-mobile ).

Jamieson got hands on with the Microsoft Surface.

Jamieson’s report and review with some hands on time on a surface as well as a visit to the popup store in the Eaton Center.

Ghosting issues on Retina display macbooks

http://www.macrumors.com/2012/09/17/retina-macbook-pro-users-still-complaining-of-image-persistence/

Derek’s Macbook has this issue. More severe than the article implies.

Cisco Buys Cloud-Networking Firm Meraki for $1.2 Billion
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2412290,00.asp

Pics of the week.
Stuart – Reeder   RSS reader for Mac and iOS devices.
Jamieson  https://itunes.apple.com/en/app/keynote-remote/id300719251?mt=8
Derek – Square.ca & free dongle
Jamie – Robert Half Technology Salary Guide 2013 (http://www.rhi.com/SalaryGuides)