Magazine publisher Conde Nast announced a major partnership with Amazon on Tuesday in which the Internet retailer will handle print and digital subscriptions for its stable of glossy publications like Vogue, Wired and Vanity Fair.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/business-technology/first-bezos-buys-a-newspaper-now-amazon-sells-conde-nast-subscriptions/article13867724/

Microsoft offers classrooms free Surface RT tablets with ad-free Bing for Schools

http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/21/4643282/bing-for-schools-launches-with-free-surface-rts-for-classrooms

Microsoft and Google to sue over US surveillance requests

Technology firms want to be allowed to publish information about US government requests under the Fisa legislation

http://www.theguardian.com/law/2013/aug/31/microsoft-google-sue-us-fisa

BlackBerry puts quantity over quality, lets one developer own a third of its app store

BlackBerry 10 is far from a “thriving ecosystem,” and the company is doing little to fix it

http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/22/4648730/blackberry-lets-developer-submit-a-third-of-apps

BlackBerry sales hit by fears over company’s future

Firm’s financial woes appear to be worrying clients such as Morgan Stanley, which has delayed upgrade to latest model

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/aug/30/blackberry-sales-concerns-company-future

Vodafone and Verizon to split ways and Verizon to take control

http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/1/4683240/vodafone-reaches-130-billion-deal-to-sell-verizon-wireless-stake

EA’s SimCity continues to plague them http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/29/4674112/simcity-for-mac-too-plagued-by-day-one-issues

Blizzard Announces Diablo 3: Reaper of Souls
http://www.pcgamer.com/2013/08/21/diablo-3-reaper-of-souls-announced/

Nintendo confirms release date for fall games

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2013/08/28/nintendo-confirms-release-dates-for-fall-first-party-lineup.aspx

Nintendo 2DS

http://ca.ign.com/articles/2013/08/28/nintendo-announces-2ds

GamesCom 2013

http://www.reviewstudio.net/572-gamescom-2013-a-recap-of-the-week-s-highlights

Project Play Plug

Picks of the Week

Jamieson – Klok2

Adam – Cloudberry Kingdom

Episode 42 The Canadian Tech Podcast

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The Canadian Tech Podcast

Episode 42 August 19th 2013

Hosts

Stuart Clark

Jamieson Roberts

Adam Forristal

Topics

Blackberry Cuts smart phone production again.

Another 10% cut on a 50% cut earlier.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/inside-the-market/blackberry-cuts-smartphone-device-production-again-analyst/article13837308/

More iPad & iPhone rumours

http://9to5mac.com/2013/08/12/bloomberg-reiterates-thinner-ipad-5-retina-ipad-mini-this-year-sept-10-iphone-event/

iOS malware can sneak through Apple’s approval process, researchers show

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/appsblog/2013/aug/19/ios-malware-apple-iphone-ipad-jekyll

Google blocks Windows phone Youtube app
http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/15/4624706/google-blocks-window-phone-youtube-app

http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_on_the_issues/archive/2013/08/15/the-limits-of-google-s-openness.aspx

Hacker Embarrasses Zuckberberg by hacking his Facebook wall.

Actually more embaressed Facebooks system of responding to security leaks

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/the-hot-button/hacker-embarrasses-zuckerberg-by-hacking-facebook-founders-wall/article13837258/

Google goes down for 5 minutes, web traffic plunges by 40%

http://crave.cnet.co.uk/software/google-goes-down-for-5-minutes-internet-traffic-drops-40-50012019/

GlassUp raised $100K on Indiegogo — but PayPal is refusing to pay up

http://venturebeat.com/2013/08/14/glassup-raised-100k-on-indiegogo-but-paypal-is-refusing-to-pay-up/

Social Media Shaming

http://writteninc.blogspot.ca/2013/08/facebook-shaming-latest-rage.html

Linkedin for Education – Lowers signup age to 13

http://jezebel.com/linkedin-lowers-age-limit-to-13-annihilates-childhood-1167452885

Windows 8 banned by world’s top benchmarking and overclocking site

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/164209-windows-8-banned-by-worlds-top-benchmarking-and-overclocking-site

Skype Confirmed to be built into Windows 8.1

http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/15/4623780/skype-built-into-windows-8-1-microsoft-confirms

Sony brings 12gb flash based playstation to Canada

http://news.cnet.com/8301-10797_3-57598307-235/sony-brings-12gb-flash-equipped-ps3-to-north-america/

Have a MacBook Pro with a LG-made Retina screen? You’re part of a class-action suit

http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/macbook-pro-retina-lg-class-action-suit-started/

Elementary teachers’ union updates electronic device policy

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2013/08/17/toronto-cell-phone-ban.html

Ubuntu Edge

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ubuntu-edge

Project Play

https://www.facebook.com/events/161889354003348/

Picks of the week

Stuart – Oculus Rift http://www.oculusvr.com/

Jamieson – Plants vs Zombies 2

Adam – Intel 7260ac Wireless Card

Episode 41 – August 12 2013

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Episode 41 August 12 2013

Hosts
Stuart Clark
Jamieson Roberts
Adam Forristal

Topics

*Breaking* Xbox 1 will now work without connect.

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/08/12/microsoft-says-new-xbox-one-will-work-without-kinect/

Blackberry for sale but who is buying?

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/blackberry-says-it-is-exploring-strategic-alternatives/article13708618/

Who’d buy BlackBerry – aside from BlackBerry fans?

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/12/blackberry-sale-apple-samsung

Rumoured A10 from BB shows up in leak

http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/12/4613296/blackberry-z30-video-leak-at-t-branding-rumor

HTC warns of first ever operating loss
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23512965

HTC launching a 1 Billion doller marketing campagin including Robert Downy Jr.

http://androidandme.com/2013/08/news/robert-downey-jr-joins-htc-in-1-billion-change-campaign/

Moto X and the era of the ‘good enough’ smartphone

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/digital-culture/moto-x-and-the-era-of-the-good-enough-smartphone/article13690171/

Apple to reveal next iPhone Sept 10th according to sources.
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/aug/12/apple-iphone-september-launch

Samsung to do the same with the Note 3 on September 4th

http://mobilesyrup.com/2013/08/12/samsung-galaxy-note-3-specs-leak-5-68-inch-1080p-hd-display-android-4-3-3gb-ram/

Big 3 telecom launch campaign against verizon – Doesn’t fool anyone.

http://www.cbc.ca/newsblogs/yourcommunity/2013/08/big-3-telecoms-launch-fair-for-canada-campaign-against-verizon.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwHtASd6Jrs&feature=youtu.be

You can now buy a makerbot 3d printer at selected microsoft stores.
http://www.psfk.com/2013/08/microsoft-stores-makerbot.html
http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/12/why-microsofts-3d-printing-partnership-makes-sense/

Windows 8.1 RTM leaked. Contains a little more than we thought

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/163708-windows-8-1-rtm-leak-reveals-major-changes-to-reduce-hatred-from-first-time-users

Samsung crams 1TB of space into new type of NAND chip

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/08/samsungs-3d-vertical-nand-crams-a-terabit-on-a-single-chip/

Resistive RAM

http://gizmodo.com/resistive-ram-terabytes-of-storage-20-times-faster-th-1038661137

A government encouraging “soft” piracy and breaking of geo-locks

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/07/australian-parliament-urges-citizens-to-bypass-geo-locks-on-software

Picks of the Week
Jamieson – One Second On the Internet

Stuart – http://iqtell.com/

Adam – Loadout