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Ep. 20 – 2012 Year in Review

Ep. 20 – 2012 Year in Review

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Sponsors
SClark Consulting

Hosts & Guests
Stuart Clark – sclarkconsulting.ca
Jamieson Roberts – blacklightmusicndesign.com
James Wilkinson
Mike Battista
Jason Clarke – twohoundproductions.com
Matthew Hoy – gamesdaypodcast.com

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Ep. 19 CES 2013

Ep. 19 CES 2013

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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.

Please considering rating our podcast on iTunes and wherever else you see us. It helps us spread the word.

Sponsors
IOLO Technologies – System Mechanic. A great set of PC tuning tools.
SClark Consulting

Hosts & Guests
Stuart Clark
James Wilkinson

Topics
Congrats to Jamison on getting married.

Amazon-Netflix Christmas outage and the costly risks of ‘cloud’ reliance

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/international-business/us-business/amazon-netflix-christmas-outage-and-the-costly-risks-of-cloud-reliance/article6736744/

Leaked’ BlackBerry 10 info shows video chat and screen sharing in BBM, new task manager

http://www.engadget.com/2012/12/27/blackberry-10-leak-bbm-video-calling-new-task-manager/

Facebook taps Canada to test talk app

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/facebook-taps-canada-to-test-talk-app/article6922790/
“The numbers back him up. In a country of 35 million, 12 million users log on to the site every single day and data-tracking firm Comscore has reported that four of every five Internet users in the country have accounts. Canadians even have more friends than users in other countries, averaging almost 230 each versus a global average of 130.”

Google and Microsoft declare war (added by Jamieson)
http://gizmodo.com/5973295/google-maps-has-never-been-accessible-on-mobile-internet-explorer

An iPhone Lover’s Confession: I Switched To the Nexus 4. Completely.

http://gizmodo.com/5973073/an-iphone-lovers-confession-i-switched-to-the-nexus-4-completely

What is CES?
New Chipsets
New Mobile Phones
New Cameras
New Speaker Systems
and..

4K TVs are here!
http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/7/3847102/sharp-unveils-its-first-4k-ultra-hd-tvs-for-the-us-market
http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/5/3839992/sony-4k-oled-tv-at-ces-2013-rumored
http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/7/3842602/samsung-un85s9-85-inch-4k-uhd-tv-announced

Intel Partners with Comcast for Live Streaming without set top box through Chipset
http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/7/3847890/intel-comcast-partnership-brings-live-tv-to-future-chipsets

Intel will offer kinect like motion sensor to computers
http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/7/3848012/intel-nuance-voice-face-interface

Fast Free Wi-Fi Access, With a (Big) Catch
http://technabob.com/blog/2007/05/29/slurpr-fast-free-wi-fi-access-with-a-big-catch/

Lego + iOS or Android = Amazing toys (Added by Jamieson)
http://www.macrumors.com/2013/01/07/ces-2013-lego-debuts-ios-compatible-lego-mindstorms-ev3/

revolutionary paper tablet computer reveals future tablets to be thin and flexible as sheets of paper
http://www.humanmedialab.org/papertab

nVidia Releases first game console
http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/07/nvidia-project-shield-hands-on/

Picks of the Week

Stuart – Battle of The Bulge – Classic Wargaming on the iPad.
James – Alien Blue

Ep. 5 – Bacon & Zombies

Ep. 5 – Bacon & Zombies

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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.

Chat log from this weeks show.

Hosts & Guests

Stuart Clark
Jon Pilon
Jamison Roberts
Andy Berdan
Mathew Hoy

Topics
General news

Samsung unveils new win8 phone in surprise launch
http://business.financialpost.com/2012/08/29/samsung-unveils-first-windows-phhone-in-surprise-launch/

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/mobile/samsung-surprises-with-new-windows-phone-8-device/article4508048/

Samsung Galaxy Note 2 continues to stretch the limits of smartphone size
(How big is too big, and is the smarthphone/tablet market destined to have offerings of virtually any size?)
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/samsung-galaxy-note-stylus-stays-screen-super-sized/story?id=17096023

The CRTC is Finally Shutting Up Loud Television Commercials
http://www.techvibes.com/blog/the-crtc-is-finally-shutting-up-loud-television-commercials-2012-08-31

Media Companies and ownership
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/is-bell-too-big/article4513538/

Back to school
Do kids know how to search effecitvily, is this something we have to worry about?
Gaming stuff

Project Play is coming up soon in London
September 16
Fanshawe College, $10 tickets. Fanshawe students are having their tickets subsidized by Fanshawe (their tickets are only $7). Etc.
Organized by Games Day Productions and GamerPops

http://projectplay.ca

Whats the state of the gaming industry.

Interesting thread re: owning a game vs subscribing.
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=557880

Guild Wars 2 is out

Free to play model gaining lots of traction.
Locals, Digital Extremes are doing WARFRAME on the free-to-play model

Steam Greenlight – game development by popular demand

Mentioned by Mathew Cool Minecraft Mod
http://www.technicpack.net/tekkit/
https://yogscast.com

What else are we seeing coming up this year.?
Borderlands 2
Torchlight 2
WoW – Mists of Panderia
CIV 6

Picks of the week.

Stuart
Cast Roller Podcast. – Great behind the scenes at Cast Roller and podcasting in general.
http://castroller.com/Podcasts/CastRollerPodcast

Jamison – Borderlands 2

Andy Guild wars 2 / bloop for ios
Mathew – Projectplay.ca – sketchbook pro 6 by autodeck, mac version

Jon – Razer Naga Epic Mouse