Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 64
Welcome to Episode 64. Well we have arrived in October and the General Availability for Windows 8 is just a few weeks away. On this show I talk about the upcoming SpaceX Commercial Resupply Service (CRS) to the International Space Station (ISS) and the fact I will be down at Cape Canaveral to cover the launch this weekend on social media as a credentialed member of the press. It is the first of 12 CRS missions heading to ISS by SpaceX. I also mention my recent road travelling experience with Windows Phone and some of its apps that helped make travelling the byways of America easier. After a quick discussion about Apple’s new iPhone and some consumer end issues and the apparent infighting between companies that are building Windows Phone 8 devices we dove into our stack of news items. Amongst those subjects we covered new spate of spam/scam emails that are using eFax and the IRS to get you to download bad files onto your system; rumors of Microsoft building its own Windows Phone; possible jury member issue in the Samsung vs Apple court decision; the FTC winning their 4 year legal battle with a scareware scam that will cost the perpetrator $163 million; Twitter opts you into several new emails; talking about app store counts for Windows Store; using a standing desk; Facebook bought a lot of consumer purchasing data; student Windows Store developer accounts for free; Twitter will let us download all our tweets by the end of the year; Microsoft patches IE Zero Day flaw and gets criticized for it; HD capture of Endeavor’s arrival at LAX; Microsoft and devs get into Guinness Book of Records; Microsoft introduces YouthSpark program; E*Trade Baby is now on Windows Phone and LastPass introduces a Sentry to keep an eye out for exposed passwords. As usual we wrap up with a look at the past week on WindowsObserver.com.
Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 63
Welcome to Episode 63 with lots of news including the Microsoft Windows Store; how to backup your Windows Phone and its data; 32 pop up Microsoft Stores for the holidays; tools for Amazon Glacier storage service; last weeks GoDaddy outage; students and MSDN subscribers can get a free windows Store developer account; Office 2013 RT details emerge; Vimeo gets social; AppCampus already funding 41 projects for Microsoft and Nokia; Skype Beta released; new studio added in London for Microsoft Windows 8 app development; biometric passwords coming soon; Windows 8 RTM upgrade experience; Nokia Lumia 920 arriving 21 October; Acer still thinks netbooks are the thing; Windows Phone 8 OS has gone RTM; Remote Server Admin Tools released for Windows 8; logo design app in the Windows Store; Windows Store continues to grow quickly; FIFA 13 exceeds past pre-order numbers; some say PC Era is over and Ballmer talks Microsoft’s epic year with The Seattle Times. As usual we wrap up with a look at the past week on WindowsObserver.com.
Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 62
Welcome to Episode 62 of the show. Lots of news discussed from the past week including Nokia’s Windows Phone 8 announcements and the subsequent apologies for misleading ads and photos. Other things we cover are a teen from the UK who launched a camera 20 miles into space; Clean installing Windows 8 by default; Amazon announces HD Kindle Fire tablets and new Kindles with ads and then gives customers an opt-out option from the ads after pressure from consumers; remembering BBS’s documentary; Bing will be default search engine on Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablets; Microsoft and Yahoo formalize their search alliance; Hootsuite buys up Seesmic; Xbox 360 now has 20 straight months as top selling console; nearly half of mobile users will click unsafe links in the next 12 months; differences between Windows 8 and Windows 7 backup systems; Windows browser choice screen returns to EU customers; Windows Phone 8 features revealed; Sprint not planning to carry Windows Phone for now and Verizon looking at adding more Windows Phones to its offering; Nokia Music live now for Lumia customers in the US; more details about new Twitter API come out; Steve Ballmer says 400 million devices will run latest version of Windows on phones, tablets and PC in 12 months; the first Linux Ultrabook costs just as much as Windows based machines; dirtiest keyboard ever; Windows 8 RTM keyboard shortcuts; Windows Live division now known as Windows Services and email is 30 years old. As usual we wrap up with a look at the past week on WindowsObserver.com.
Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 61
Welcome to Episode 61 and pardon the coughing edition – allergies I think! In this show we have more Twitter news which should be no surprise as they continue their march to hide and eliminate third party developers. We mention all the interesting hardware coming out of IFA12 in Berlin, Germany this past week for Windows 8 as well as a couple of third parties that are developing almost exact duplicates of the Windows Start Menu for Windows 8 including one OEM. Other discussion items include Windows 7 overtaking XP and MAC OS X moving ahead of Windows Vista; Windows Phone 8 getting parental controls; a question of whether Windows 8 suffers from the Microsoft Bob effect; free ebooks galore on Microsoft technologies; patents needing some common sense; Amazon uses Nokia Maps instead of Google’s in the new Kindle Fire; ESPN Fantasy Football App for Nokia WP users only; Zune loses more services and features; Windows Phone 8 launch date revealed; Twitters Certified Partner Program goes live; Apple moves to a bigger location in Bellevue; people who want your money and info will impersonate security firms to create trust; Lexmark is leaving the ink jet printer business; Facebook scam trying to send you pictures via email; FAA looking at in-flight electronics use but calls are not on the table; floppy disks and their uses and impact over the years and Twitter’s API changes actually do claim Tweetbot as a victim. As usual we wrap up with a look at the past week on WindowsObserver.com.
Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 60
Welcome to Episode 60 of the show! In this episode we begin with the sad news concerning the death of Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, and the efforts that are happening to memorialize his families request that we all look up and wink at the moon. After that we talk about the Windows Store and introduce you to a terrific resource, McAkins Online, who provides great insight into the store, how it is growing and the apps that are starting to appear in the RTM Windows Store.
We then discuss Twitter and the recent announcement of its API changes and restrictions for developers and how the reaction is around the web. As you might imagine it is not all good. From that point we run down news of the past week concerning our preferences to clean toilets instead of change passwords; Windows 8 info about the new licensing agreements it will come with; the possibility that tablets may allow flip phones to make a comeback; Amazon is set to announce something next week; WinZip reaching 1 billion downloads; comments on a recipe on how to make ice cubes; Kinect for Xbox 360 drops to $109.99; NoReplyAll add in for Outlook updated to include Office 2013 Preview; Solitaire and Minesweeper get major overhauls for Windows 8; find the Start Up folder in Windows 8; Football Pro moves up to version 2.0 for 2013 NFL season; Windows Defender changes in Windows 8 and the easy way to boot up a Windows 8 VHD.