Category: Podcast

DigitalOutbox Episode 216

DigitalOutbox Episode 216
DigitalOutbox Episode 216 – Apple and IBM, Microsoft Reboots

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0:53 – Apple and IBM Team Up to Push iOS in the Enterprise
5:01 – Microsoft layoffs: 18K jobs to be cut
10:53 – British MPs to sue government over fast-tracked DRIP surveillance law
15:08 – Those parental-control filters? As few as 4% are signing up
16:25 – Pirate Bay traffic has doubled post-ISP blocks
18:01 – 3 Years Later, Google+ Drops Its Dumb Real Name Rule And Apologizes
20:43 – Scotland gets its own .scot domain as independence vote looms
21:47 – Nvidia unveils Shield Tablet and controller for gamers

DigitalOutbox Episode 215

DigitalOutbox Episode 215
DigitalOutbox Episode 215 – DRIP

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1:03 – UK government to rush through emergency surveillance legislation
8:56 – Post Office launches mobile phone network through EE
11:42 – Germany’s World Cup hammering of Brazil broke Twitter records
14:11 – Raspberry Pi B+ marks first major upgrade to microcomputer
19:09 – Is this the best job ever? Netflix want to pay people to watch TV
21:48 – Potato salad Kickstarter stokes internet ire

DigitalOutbox Episode 214

DigitalOutbox Episode 214
DigitalOutbox Episode 214 – Facebook experiments and Google forgets

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1:06 – Facebook tinkered with users feeds for a massive psychology experiment
9:29 – ‘Adult Content’ Filters Block 1 Out Of 5 Of The UK’s Most Popular Websites
14:27 – EU’s right to be forgotten: Guardian articles have been hidden by Google
18:24 – Apple To Cease Development Of Aperture And Transition Users To Photos For OS X
22:34 – Google Glass banned by UK cinemas over piracy concerns

Picks
Ian
Smarty Pins
– Web
– Free
– Geographical trivia game using Google maps
– Nicely constructed and a nice way to waste 10 mins

DigitalOutbox Episode 213

DigitalOutbox Episode 213
DigitalOutbox Episode 213 – Google I/O

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1:23 – Android One
3:24 – Android L Developer Preview
15:12 – Android Wear
18:38 – Android Auto
23:03 – Android TV
25:13 – Chromecast
26:49 – Chromebooks
29:01 – Docs
29:53 – Google Play
31:33 – Google Fit Platform
33:20 – Freebies
38:12 – Google Opens Gmail, Making It More of a Platform for Developers
39:12 – Googles Nest Buys Dropcam for $555 Million
41:30 – Nest launches its answer to Apples HomeKit with a developer program
45:17 – Apple iPhone ‘kill switch’ cuts thefts and Microsoft and Google are to follow
46:27 – Google Glass on sale in the UK now for £1,000
47:58 – Withings sticks a digital fitness tracker in an analog watch
49:18 – Microsoft kicks off Google ‘productivity war’ by doubling free OneDrive storage
51:05 – Official singles chart to include streaming services

DigitalOutbox Episode 212

DigitalOutbox Episode 212
DigitalOutbox Episode 212 – Amazons first Phone and Adobe gets Creative

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2:03 – The UK government can legally spy on your offshore data
7:18 – Google will be forced to make a company disappear
10:21 – YouTube to block indie labels who don’t sign up to new music service
14:54 – Facebooks Slingshot Challenges Snapchat With Reply To Unlock
16:34 – Adobe Upgrades Creative Cloud, Adds New Mobile Apps And Creative Hardware
21:26 – The Amazon smartphone is here: meet the Fire Phone
29:08 – Microsoft finally launches IE Developer Channel
29:55 – Unlikely hit app Yo is ‘hacked’ by students

DigitalOutbox Episode 211

DigitalOutbox Episode 211
DigitalOutbox Episode 211 – E3

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1:15 – Apology for crashed Get Safe Online anti-hack site
4:11 – How the Get Safe Online password checker fails users badly
5:20 – All Our Patent Are Belong To You
8:19 – Vodafone reveals existence of secret wires that allow state surveillance
12:18 – Nominet’s new rules on .uk domains could mean the end to users’ privacy
14:16 – Google buys satellite firm Skybox Imaging for $500m
16:18 – London’s anti-Uber taxi protest brings traffic to standstill
20:46 – Twitter will soon dominate TV on Xbox One
21:37 – Microsoft Briefing
32:25 – Sony Briefing
38:46 – Nintendo Briefing
41:17 – EA Briefing
44:09 -Ubisoft Briefing
46:11 – Alien Isolation

DigitalOutbox Episode 210

DigitalOutbox Episode 210
DigitalOutbox Episode 210 – WWDC, Apple buys Beats and Googles self driving cars

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1:32 – Microsoft Demos Real-Time Speech-To-Speech Translation On Skype
4:48 – Google is to start building its own self-driving cars
9:28 – Google launches ‘right to be forgotten’ webform for removal requests
12:56 – Samsung’s Health Event Was All Hype, No Substance
13:54 – Samsung launches first Tizen phone
16:36 – ‘Two weeks’ to block cyber-attack as criminal network seized
19:06 – Twitter experiments with ‘News Feed’ style algorithms, threatens to ruin everything
23:43 – Apple Will Buy Beats for $3 Billion
28:36 – Apple WWDC Keynote

DigitalOutbox Episode 209

DigitalOutbox Episode 209
DigitalOutbox Episode 209 – eBay hacked and Surface Pro 3

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1:24 – Apple, Google Settle Motorola Patent Dispute But Broader Issues Remain
4:11 – Ebay tells 112 MILLION customers to reset passwords after massive data theft
8:47 – Microsoft announces Surface Pro 3
16:35 – Facebook brings autoplay adverts to UK
18:16 – Facebook wants to ‘listen’ to your music and TV
22:07 – BT ordered to repair most faults ‘within two days’
23:32 – Halo 5: Guardians not hitting Xbox One until fall 2015
27:44 – Xbox One’s June update adds your friends’ real names and external drive support

DigitalOutbox Episode 208

DigitalOutbox Episode 208
DigitalOutbox Episode 208 – Xbox Changes and EU says you can be forgotten

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0:58 – Deal to combat piracy in UK with ‘alerts’ is imminent
5:21 – Tech world stunned as court rules Oracle can own APIs, Google loses copyright appeal
8:43 – EU court backs ‘right to be forgotten’ in Google case
18:07 – Twitter introduces mute feature on Android, iPhone, and the Web
20:23 – Google Maps just became a one-stop shop for UK public transport data
21:27 – Dixons and Carphone Warehouse shares drop on merger
24:28 – Microsoft to unbundle Xbox One and Kinect
28:33 – Microsoft brings free Games with Gold to Xbox One, drops Gold paywall for apps in June
31:21 – The new Unreal Tournament will be free, moddable and developed with players

DigitalOutbox Episode 207

DigitalOutbox Episode 207
DigitalOutbox Episode 207 – Samsung fined, Google kills URL, Nintendo losses

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1:17 – Jury finds that Samsung infringed 2 of Apple’s patents, awards $119.6M in damages
5:36 – Google moves to kill off the URL entirely in new version of Chrome
11:01 – Google Maps turbo-charges turn-by-turn directions on iOS and Android and gets Uber transit option
16:39 – All the wrong Moves: Facebook dances around a privacy issue as it counts every step you take
18:25 – App.net is profitable and self-sustaining, but will no longer have any full-time employees
23:52 – Amazon Extends Its Shopping Basket To Twitter
25:12 – Nintendo Misses Its Own Lowered Hardware Expectations