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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 41 – August 12 2013

By admin | 13 August 2013 | Comments 0 Comment

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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

Episode 40 – July 29 2013

By admin | 30 July 2013 | Comments 0 Comment

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The Canadian Tech Podcast
Episode 40 July 29 2013

Hosts

Stuart Clark

Jamieson Roberts

Topics

Google Chromecast released. – A Cord cutters dream?http://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/gadgets-and-gear/gadgets/googles-chromecast-tv-streamer-is-its-best-new-thing/article13397106/

Chromecast vs. AirPlay: how do they compare?

http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/24/4554130/google-chromecast-vs-apple-airplay-how-do-they-compare

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2013/07/mounting-disappointments-chromecast/67640/

Google takes on Apple with new, faster and pricier Nexus 7 tablet
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/gadgets-and-gear/gadgets/google-takes-on-apple-with-new-faster-and-pricier-nexus-7-tablet/article13392884/

Samsung overtakes Apple as world’s most profitable mobile phone maker

Falling profits from iPhone sales and strong demand for Galaxy handsets combine to end California firm’s four-year reign

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/jul/26/samsung-apple-profitable-mobile-phone

Apple beta hints at fingerprint recognition with the newest iOS beta

http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/29/4568802/iphone-biometric-sensor-ios-7-beta-code

Activision Blizzard splits from Vivendi in $8bn buyout
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/jul/26/activision-blizzard-splits-vivendi

Massive Eve Online battle.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57596021-1/4000-plus-duke-it-out-in-epic-eve-online-space-showdown/

Are we really surprised?
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/07/prism-revelations-result-in-lost-business-for-us-cloud-companies/

Zynga looses 25% of active users
http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/07/game-over-for-zynga-firm-loses-25-percent-of-daily-active-users-in-one-quarter/

I don’t often use Windows but when I do its for IE… and their terrible dev tools
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/07/microsoft-continues-courting-web-devs-with-ie-11-for-windows-7-parallels-discount/

XBOX1 and XBOX Live to allow self publishing
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/07/report-microsoft-to-finally-let-indie-developers-self-publish-on-xbox-live/

Now we have chromecast is it time for xbox tv?
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57595815-93/now-that-we-have-chromecast-is-it-time-for-xbox-tv/

Virus tricks man into turning himself in for child porn
http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/27/4562804/virus-tricks-man-into-turning-himself-in-for-child-porn

I dropped my notebook.
http://sclarkconsulting.ca/2013/07/i-dropped-my-macbook/

Picks of the Week
Jamieson – Sublime Text 2
Stuart – Mac Book Pro Unibody (see the story above)