Category:show notes’
Oh My Pod! Daily – Episode 124 – October 26, 2011 – Show Notes
- by Peter
Show Notes for Wednesday October 26, 2011
PBS to Air ‘Steve Jobs – One Last Thing’ Documentary on November 2nd
Apple Building Solar Farm at North Carolina Data Center
Apple Online Store Begins Offering In-Store Pickup in San Francisco
Apple awarded patent for touchscreen slide-to-unlock gesture
iPhone 4S launch drives record number of BlackBerry trade-ins
Toyota introduces Touch Life smartphone mirroring system, your Prius and iPhone can become one
New Touchscreen From SMK Designed To Work With Gloved Hands
Droid RAZR pre-orders go live on Verizon tomorrow, ships to Blur fans before November 10th
21-Month-Old Nexus One ‘Too Old’ for Android 4.0 Upgrade
Nokia Unveils First ‘Lumia’ Phones Based on Windows Phone 7.5
Are Nokia’s Flagship Windows Phones Even Coming to the US? [Nokia]
Nokia’s kinetic future: flexible screens and a twisted interface (video)
HP might revive TouchPad as a Windows 8 tablet
ANA’s Boeing 787 Dreamliner touches down after first international flight
Boeing 787 Reviewed: Well Worth the Wait [Airplanes]
The Air Force’s Rocket-Killing Megawatt Laser Runs on Rocket Fuel [Video]
You’re Not Done with Arkham City Yet
PSA: Xbox 360 Battlefield 3 servers are down, EA “aware”
Report: GTA V to be set in Los Angeles, will feature multiple playable characters
ThunderCats Brings Back the Berbils, Bitches
Oh My Pod! Daily – Episode 123 – October 25, 2011 – Show Notes
- by Peter
Show Notes for Tuesday October 25, 2011
Apple Joins Oreos And Capri Sun As Most Popular Youth Brand
Steve Jobs left iTunes creator in charge of connected TV initiative
Condé Nast subscriptions up 268% since Newsstand launch
Apple ‘expected’ to release LTE 4G iPhone in 2012
Fraser Speirs’s Week With iOS 5
Market Share Claim Chowder
iPad and Mac disruptions
Thanks to iPad, tablets outsell netbooks nearly 2 to 1
Tablet takeover: Pew study shows how tablets are changing consumer behavior [infographic]
Amazon’s Kindle Fire Will Become To the Video Industry What the iPod Was To the Music Industry [Kindle Fire]
Bluetooth Smart announced, iPhone 4S is ready
RIM to release PlayBook OS 2.0 mid-February, still struggling with multi-device BBM support
Nest—Introducing a Thermostat Steve Jobs Would Love
Batman: Arkham City ships 4.6M in first week, 2M sold
Grand Theft Auto 5 announced, includes guide to Roman numerals
Oh My Pod! Daily – Episode 122 – October 24, 2011 – Show Notes
- by Peter
Episode 122 – October 24, 2011 – Show Notes
Steve Jobs Celebration Video from Oct 19th Posted by Apple
Steve Jobs Biography on Pace to Become Amazon Best-seller of 2011
Apple Macbook Pro Line-up Gets Processor and Graphic Boost—No Price Increase
iPad 2 Smart Cover Gets Update
In-Store Pickup Option Coming to Apple’s Online Store
Grand Central Apple Store to be Ready for Black Friday
Apple Television with iOS, Siri, and Facetime seen as 100B Oppotunity
How Much the iPhone Camera Has Improved?
Sprint and Apple Working On “Issue” With iPhone Data Speeds
Unlicensed China Mobile says 10M iPhones on its network
Amazon introduces new HTML5-based eBook format
Hirai: ‘no question’ iPod, Android impacting Sony gaming
PlayStation Games “Not Just For Sony Devices” Says Hirai [Playstation]
Sony starting secret PlayStation 4 development internally
Next Xbox to be Unveiled and Launched in 2013 – Report
Acer posts $36.3m loss, iPad continues to bite
Netflix lost 800k U.S. Subscribers in the Third Quarter
Toshiba Introduces New 6.1-Inch Display at 498 PPI
Portal 2’s second DLC is an ‘in-game editor,’ arrives ‘early next year’
Zombie Apocalypse: Never Die Alone launches this fall on XBLA, PSN
Oh My Pod! Daily – Episode 121 – October 23, 2011 – Show Notes
- by Peter
Show Notes for Sunday October 23, 2011
What’s on Our Radar
Movies—In Time, The Rum Diary, Puss in Boots
Music—Darren Hayes, BoyzIIMen
TV—Project Runway Finally, Once upon a Time, Grimm, Boss
DVD—Captain America: The First Avenger
Video Games—Saints Row, Battlefield 3, Kinect Sports Season 2, Dance Central 2
Steve Jobs biography
First “Steve Jobs” review finds biography worthy of its subject
Steve Jobs Regretted Early Decision to Delay Cancer Surgery
From Steve Jobs’ Biography: “I’m going to destroy Android”
Steve Jobs on an Apple Television Set: ‘I Finally Cracked It’
Steve Jobs didn’t want any apps on the iPhone in the beginning
Steve Jobs left designer Jony Ive more power than anyone at Apple
New Faster Sandy Bridge MacBook Pros Next Week?
or
No MacBook Pro Refresh Until Early Next Month?
Intel’s Ivy Bridge Platform Enters Volume Manufacturing Ahead of Spring 2012 Product Launches
AT&T Announces One Million iPhone 4S Activations
Half of all AT&T smartphones still iPhones
Apple Airs First iPhone 4S TV Ad Featuring Siri
Android’s Andy Rubin is not a fan of Siri
James Kendrick: ‘After the iPhone 4S, Android Just Feels Wrong’
iPhone used to record parts of Marvel’s ‘The Avengers’ feature film
Apple rumored to be building iPad 3 with new, smaller dock connector
Oh My Pod! Daily – Episode 119 – October 18, 2011 – Show Notes
- by Peter
Show Notes for Tuesday October 18, 2011
Apple Earnings Call
$28.87B in revenue
$6.62B quarterly profit
20.34B /4.31B year ago quarter
$81.57B cash on hand
4.89M Macs (up 26%)
17.07M iPhones (up 21%)
6.62M iPods (down 26%)
11.12M iPads (up 166%)
PC companies blame the iPad for cannibalization… but Mac sales up.
Apple Q4 earnings fall short of expectations: $28.27 billion in revenue, $6.62 billion net profit
Sprint Ad on Back Cover of the New Issue of Rolling Stone
Apple to close retail stores for Steve Jobs memorial
‘iPad Mini’ Rumors Revived with Claims of 7.85-Inch Screen
iPhone 5 on schedule for summer launch?
Early adopters: Don’t panic if your iPhone 4S has issues
What the iOS 5 update did to ISP traffic
Apple releases minor 4.4.1 software update for Apple TVi
RIM Announces 1 Billion App World Downloads
RIM apologizes for BlackBerry downtime with $100 worth of free apps
BlackBerry’s New QNX Platform Is Called BBX [BlackBerry]
Motorola Droid RAZR: The World’s Thinnest Smartphone Is Also Splashproof [Droid RAZR]
Verizon unveils DROID RAZR by Motorola, pre-orders begin October 27th for $299.99
Motorola Droid RAZR official: 7.1mm, Super AMOLED
Motorola Motoactv hands-on (update: video with Dean Karnazes!)
Samsung caught lifting iPhone screen for Galaxy Player shot
HP TouchPad Gets a webOS Upgrade from Beyond the Grave [Touchpad]
NTT DoCoMo confirms Galaxy Nexus will ship in November
Galaxy Nexus Specs Leak Just Ahead of Tonight’s Launch [Galaxy Nexus]
Canon announces EOS-1D X: full-frame 18MP sensor, 14 fps, 204,800 top ISO, $6,800 price tag
Hacked Kinect lets you turn any surface into a multitouch interface
Drink NOS, get a Batman Beyond skin for Arkham City
Western Digital extends suspension of operations in Thailand