DigitalOutbox Episode 265

Chris and Ian discuss IS, Youtube and Sky Q

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DigitalOutbox Episode 245

Chris and Ian discuss Periscope, EE and Flickr

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DigitalOutbox Episode 244

Chris and Ian discuss Microsoft Build, Twitter falls and Apple Watch

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DigitalOutbox Episode 235

Chris and Ian discuss the snoopers charter, the money making machine that is Apple and Outlook – the best Gmail client on iOS?

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DigitalOutbox Episode 234

Chris is joined by Ian to dicuss the Windows 10 announcements

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DigitalOutbox Episode 203

DigitalOutbox Episode 203
DigitalOutbox Episode 203 – Microsoft Build, Amazons Fire TV and the Nest hits the UK

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3:30 – Windows Phone 8.1 brings a new look and a Siri rival named Cortana
8:31 – Windows 8.1 Update available April 8th, includes keyboard and mouse improvements
11:44 – Microsoft making Windows free on devices with screens under nine inches
12:34 – Microsoft unveils redesigned Office for Windows touchscreens
14:46 – Microsoft announces universal Windows apps, which work across PCs, phones, tablets and Xbox One
16:22 – Microsoft pledges not to search user email for stolen property
18:05 – Porn site age-check law demanded by media regulator
20:49 – Cyber Emergency Response Team launched by UK
23:12 – UK will finally legalise ripping CDs and DVDs in June
24:03 – Sky will send DVD copies of your movie downloads
26:36 – How Dropbox Knows When You’re Sharing Copyrighted Stuff
29:07 – Amazon Fire TV
36:50 – Amazon Student lands in the UK with discounted deliveries for six months and 50% off Prime thereafter
37:34 – Motorola’s Moto G bites into UK budget smartphone market
39:41 – Nest thermostat arrives in the UK ahead of an ‘aggressive’ European expansion
41:58 – Spotify debuts ‘dark’ redesign ahead of competition from iTunes and YouTube

DigitalOutbox Episode 195

DigitalOutbox Episode 195
DigitalOutbox Episode 195 – Google sells Motorola, Facebooks Paper and 30 years of Mac

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0:54 – Facebook Paper
5:00 – Tech Financials
10:59 – Samsung to open more than 60 dedicated stores across Europe with Carphone Warehouse
12:28 – Samsung And Google Bury The Apple Hatchet, Sign 10-Year Patent Agreement
14:38 – Lenovo To Buy Motorola Mobility From Google For About $3B
17:16 – Google buys UK artificial intelligence start-up DeepMind
19:57 – Google brings Chrome apps to Android and iOS, lets developers submit to Google Play and Apples App Store
22:40 – Microsoft changes SkyDrive name to OneDrive, six months after losing court battle to BSkyB
23:38 – Microsoft testing Windows 8.1 update that hides tile interface by default
25:07 – The NSA is reportedly scouring Angry Birds and other apps for user data
26:31 – UK government tackles wrongly-blocked websites
29:38 – Government websites on rise again despite cull
33:07 – 30 Years of Mac

DigitalOutbox Episode 176

DigitalOutbox Episode 176
DigitalOutbox Episode 176 – Twitter Trolls, Now TV and goodbye Skydrive

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0:41 – Twitter under fire after bank note campaigner is target of rape threats
7:55 – Internet troll who abused Mary Beard apologises after threat to tell his mother
9:36 – UK ‘losing fight’ against internet crime, warn MPs
13:39 – Google asked to remove 100 million ‘piracy’ links in 2013
16:18 – Blu-ray successor plan unveiled by Sony and Panasonic
19:20 – Microsoft forced to rename SkyDrive following trademark case with broadcaster
22:10 – British broadcaster BSkyB launches £9.99 Now TV set-top box to make all TVs smart
24:34 – The Old Reader bites the dust
27:46 – Brits can now get hands-off with the Autographer wearable camera
30:33 – Asda removes Nintendo’s Wii U from stores

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Immunicity
– simple censorship circumvention
– basically, configure browser to point to a proxy.pac file. This file contains the latest list of URLs that are commonly censored in the UK. When your send a request to one of these sites, your browser is instructed to route that traffic via our HTTP proxy server gateway.immunicity.net:8080 which will fetch the content and send it back to you. When you send a request for a website that isn’t on our list of URLs that are commonly censored, your browser connects directly to that site, bypassing our servers completely.
– free but costs money to run and so looking for donations
– provided by torrenticity – http://torrenticity.com/

DigitalOutbox Episode 167

DigitalOutbox Episode 167
DigitalOutbox Episode 167 – Snoopers Charter, Feedly and the BBC Clock

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4:11 – Internet companies warn May over ‘snooper’s charter’
6:36 – Government Still Demanding Action to make web safer
10:02 – UK piracy warning letters delayed until 2015
13:12 – Sky Broadband starts to block access to torrent site proxies, other ISPs likely to follow
15:52 – Reeder, gReader & Other Popular Feed Reading Apps Partner With Feedly Ahead Of Google Reader Shutdown
18:53 – Save Podcasting
23:08 – Zynga lays off 580 employees
26:40 – Nintendo partners with O2 to give 3DS owners free Wi-Fi access at over 8,000 hotspots in the UK
27:30 – Peter Molyneux reveals winner of gaming experiment
30:37 – Trust upholds BBC Online clock complaint

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Dots
– Free addictive game for iOS
– From betaworks – Diggg and Instapaper owners
– New update today brings it to iPad too plus a multiplayer game
– Android in the works

DigitalOutbox Episode 150

DigitalOutbox Episode 150
DigitalOutbox Episode 150 – Three’s LTE promise, Dell goes private and next gen consoles

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1:01 – Three UK promises to provide LTE without increasing prices
4:32 – BT to end traffic throttling – claims capacity is FAT
6:35 – Liberty Global to buy Virgin Media for $23.3bn
9:57 – Sky+ Android app catches up
11:32 – Channel 4 gives its catch-up TV service 4oD a native Android app
13:57 – iPhone 5 iPad mini jailbreak now available
15:08 – Dell goes private
18:51 – Microsoft Surface Pro Tablet Gets Good Reviews – Except For Battery Life
23:04 – Twitter Hacked
26:00 – Glasgow has the chattiest people on Twitter in the UK
27:41 – Amazon Launches Amazon Coins
30:25 – Hailo closes $30.6m Series B round from Union Square Ventures
32:51 – Next Gen Consoles