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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

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“District Four” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:04:42 — 74.0MB)

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Hosts & Guests

• Stuart Clark
• Derek Silva
• Andrés Aquino

Andrés Aquino Bio, @eh_eh

Andrés is an active advisor, community advocate, and startup investor in the Toronto tech community. He is also Managing Partner at TWG, a Toronto-based Software Consultancy that builds software platforms and applications for enterprise companies, not-for profit organizations, governments, and some of the fastest growing startups in Canada. TWG also has teams in New York City and Mumbai.

Quick Hits

• If you use Wi-Fi on your iOS device, get this security update
  • https://www.cnet.com/au/news/apple-security-update-iphone-ipad-ios-hack-broadpwn/
• Netflix surges to record high as company adds non-US subscribers
  • https://arstechnica.com/business/2017/07/netflix-surges-to-record-high-as-company-adds-non-us-subscribers/
• Microsoft earnings beat expectations thanks to strong cloud performance
  • https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/20/microsoft-earnings-beat-expectations-thanks-to-strong-cloud-performance/?ncid=mobilenavtrend
• Amazon discounts are misleading you, consumer group says
  • They were fined $1m for a similar issue in Canada earlier this year.
  • https://www.cnet.com/news/ftc-investigating-claims-of-misleading-amazon-discounts/
• IBM Launches Data Encryption system, opens blockchain data centre in Toronto
  • http://betakit.com/ibm-launches-data-encryption-system-opens-blockchain-data-centre-in-toronto/

Topics

• ChangeTogether.io
  • Increasing diversity at tech companies: TWG partnered with TechGirls Canada to improve their diversity, and through their efforts they have quickly increased the number of female employees from 9% to 30%. TWG’s created and released a free guidebook for other tech companies looking to increase their diversity, which was released early 2017; available at changetogether.io

• CRTC’s new head will be former Telus executive Ian Scott
  • http://mobilesyrup.com/2017/07/18/crtc-chairman-ian-scott-canada/
• Google to radically change homepage for first time since 1996
  • https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jul/20/google-change-home-page-first-time-since-1996-app-based-feed-news-events-sports
• Live sports streaming service DAZN launches in Canada with NFL Game Pass
  • http://mobilesyrup.com/2017/07/20/dazn-canada-nfl-game-pass/
• Nanopay gets strong scores from the US Federal Reserve’s faster payments task force
  • http://betakit.com/nanopay-gets-strong-scores-from-the-us-federal-reserves-faster-payments-task-force/

Stuff We Like

• Stuart – Pocket RPG
• Derek – reMarkable tablet
• Andrés – getpocket.com it’s not a new app, but I continue to be a huge fan of Pocket for saving articles to read and listen to later.

What are you up to lately?

• Stuart – Still job hunting, doing some training on Davinci Resolve.
• Derek – Busy at Olio initiating some new marketing initiatives, added some new Managed VPS plans without cPanel pre-installed at CleverHost, and otherwise just enjoying my new pool and family time.
• Andrés – Helping advise Codefor.ca with their new fellowship program; released a new Code of Conduct at TWG this week.

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“District Four” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 42:25 — 48.5MB)

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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

• In rare display, northern lights could be visible across Southern Canada Sunday
  • http://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/in-rare-display-northern-lights-could-be-visible-across-southern-canada-sunday-1.3504775
• Merchants will soon be able to sell products on eBay through Shopify
  • http://mobilesyrup.com/2017/07/13/merchants-will-soon-able-sell-products-ebay-shopify/ (US only for now)
• Atari’s new retro Ataribox aims to be like the NES Classic
  • http://mobilesyrup.com/2017/07/17/atari-ataribox/
  • https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/17/15980990/atari-ataribox-specs-pictures

Topics

• Canadian tech companies say they value diversity — but what are they doing about it?
  • http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/canada-tech-companies-diversity-reports-2017-1.4194556
• Apple devices and services now support PayPal as a payment option
  • http://mobilesyrup.com/2017/07/12/apple-payment-option-canada/
• Why we keep falling for online phishing scams and downloading viruses?
  • http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/phishing-online-scams-ramona-pringle-1.4205512
• Amazon is reportedly working on a messaging app called Anytime
  • https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/16/15978920/amazon-anytime-messaging-app-rumor
• OpenText launches AI assistant to help business analysts with decision making, task automation
  • http://betakit.com/opentext-launches-ai-assistant-to-help-business-analysts-with-decision-making-task-automation/

Stuff We Like

• Stuart – Forest City Surplus
• Derek – Zip, zero, zilch, nada!

What are you up to lately?

• Stuart – Not a good week, victim of cutbacks at my job so looking around for something else to pay the bills. Got my desk reorganized and cleaned up. A bunch of purging done. Checked out Vimy Flight at London Airport on the weekend.
• Derek – Four more weeks of soccer coaching left, had a Council meeting last week, spent the weekend in North Bay, got the pool fully erected this weekend.

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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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