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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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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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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)

 

Ep. 13

Ep. 13

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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
Carmi Levy

Groupon going down in flames
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/507346/groupon-daily-deals-and-the-complex-question-of-business-failure/

Facebook’s Couples Pages – Ew
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/sex/9671862/Facebook-couples-pages-make-me-want-to-retch.html

DIG London coming up this week.
http://diglondon.ca/
Shameless self-promotion by Carmi- Closing keynote – Wed 5:15 to 6:15 in the main plenary
Topic: London? Silicon Alley? Believe it.

Apple and HTC end patent battle.
http://mashable.com/2012/11/11/apple-htc-patent/
Another example of Tim Cook putting his stamp on Apple.
Both companies suggested that the goal of the settlement is to move beyond litigation and back to innovation.

I’ve always hated litigation, and I continue to hate it,” Cook said during Apple’s second quarter earnings call in April. “We just want people to invent their own stuff.”

Samsung increasing prices for hardware components against Apple
http://www.macrumors.com/2012/11/12/samsung-reportedly-hits-apple-with-20-price-increase-for-ios-device-chips/

Canada’s Wireless carriers to create blacklist for lost or stolen devices.
http://business.financialpost.com/2012/11/08/canadas-cellphone-companies-to-blacklist-lost-or-stolen-smartphones/

BB10 gets an official release date
http://metronews.ca/news/canada/436717/blackberry-10-to-launch-jan-30/
http://ca.finance.yahoo.com/blogs/insight/blackberry-10-launch-date-confirmed-205050641.html

A $20 Tablet could change the market
http://www.engadget.com/2012/11/11/aakash-2-android-tablet-india/

Microsoft Surface sales off to a modest start, told “just you wait for the Pro one”
http://www.engadget.com/2012/11/11/ballmer-says-microsoft-surface-sales-off-to-modest-start/

Reviews are coming in, Win8 does nothing really to improve gaming performance
http://www.engadget.com/2012/11/09/windows-8-upgrade-diary-4/
– Sub-story, Microsoft forcing fragmentation by DX11.1 being Win8 only

http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/12/3634852/microsoft-directx-11-1-windows-8

Valve working on Source Engine 2.0
http://www.engadget.com/2012/11/11/valve-gabe-newell-source-engine-2/

Transit going paperless
http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/12/3634820/smartphone-ticketing-mbta-commuter-rail

iPads ‘speak’ for non-verbal, autistic kids
http://metronews.ca/health/436922/ipads-speak-for-non-verbal-autistic-kids/

Carmi’s “2 minutes out of the box”

Picks of the Week

Stuart –http://scansnapcommunity.com/

Jamieson – Buffer
Carmi – The Wider Image – Reuters photojournalism app
Also, Boston Globe Big Picture