Tim Stevens is back to chat with us about HBO Now, ResearchKit, a new 12-inch MacBook and the Apple Watch pricing.

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Today’s guest: Tim Stevens, editor-at-large CNET.com

Headlines: 

Oh that watch. We finally have the details. An Apple Watch app comes first along with iOS 8.2 today. Thats how you’ll manage app selection and installation. It also will have a magnetic charger that snaps to the back after you exhaust the 18 hours of normal use battery life. The aluminum-bodied Sport collection comes in silver and space grey. $349 for the 38mm and $399 for the 42mm. The Apple Watch Collection has more band options and comes for $549 to $1049 for the 38 mm and $599 to $1099 for the 48mm depending on what band you choose. Finally the Apple Watch Edition collection comes in solid gold and if you have to ask you can’t afford it, but it starts at $10,000. You can preorder and get an in-store demo starting April 10 and the watches begin shipping April 24 in 9 countries.

Apple announced a new 12-inch MacBook with a 2304 x 1440 screen a new trackpad that can gauge how hard it’s clicked and a fanless unibody construction. Most of the insides are batteries leading to a 9 hour battery life for browsing. The laptop has 802.11ac WiFiu and Bluetooth 4 but only one USB-C port for power, data, display and of course USB. It comes in silver, space grey and gold starting at $1299 for 256 GB and $1599 for 512 GB shipping April 10.

Apple also announced ResearchKit, an open source framework for creating diagnostic apps to conduct health research. Examples included a Parkinson’s, asthma, diabetes and breast cancer. Apple never sees the data and the user of the app decides what data is shared with the app maker.

Techcrunch reports open source Saleforce rival SugarCRM has acquired Stitch mobile platform and iOS app to help salespeople follow and close deals. Stitch provided analytics to make email and documents more useful while using machine intelligence to surface better sales opportunities. SugarCRM will shut down Stitch and roll its tech into the core Sugar application.

PC World reports that Samsung has released a free web version of its Internet streaming music service, Milk. The browser version has a linear slider to fine tune taste, and introduces keyboard shortcuts. The free version has no ads, but you’re limited to skipping six songs, there’s also a paid version that lets you skip all you want. Music streams at 128Kbps and you’ll still need a Samsung device to use it on a phone, tablet or TV.

GigaOm reports that German webmail providers including Deutsche Telekom and United Internet will roll out a browser plugin next month designed to make end-to-end PGP encryption easier to use. It will work on the German government backed De-mail system as well. United Internet developed the plugin with the Mailvelope OpenPGP project and the code will be published. The plugin will become available in April for Chrome and Firefox.

Cryptic tech invite alert! CNET reports that T-Mobile sent out invitations to an upcoming New York event with the words “This one’s a real piece of work.” The press-only event is scheduled for Wednesday March 18th in Manhattan. Presumably it will not be a collection of opinionated mothers sitting on stage discussing their beloved son’s latest girlfriend.

Remember FriendFeed? Remember Facebook bought it in 2009? Well you can forget about it. Platform posts and messages will go away April 9.

News From You:

Zuntax sent us an Engadget report about a cell phone privacy nugget embedded deep in federal drug case. The defendant filed a motion to suppress evidence, which the court denied. But within that ruling, the judge determined that police officers need a warrant to get phone location data, because a cell phone user has a reasonable expectation that their position data will remain private, even when limited to information about what cell tower was used. The ruling isn’t legally binding, but does serve as a notice to police not to play fast and loose with evidence gathering, at least not in California.

KAPT_Kipper and MacBytes sent us the BBC report that a solar powered aircraft “Solar Impulse-2″ completed its first leg of an around-the-world trip. The aircraft took off from Abu Dhabi and landed in Oman after a 12 hour flight. The pane will circumnavigate the globe over the next five months. Andre Borschbeg and famed baloonist Betrand Piccard will swap piloting duties. The plane has 17,000 solar cells lining the top of the wings, and uses lithium-ion batteries to store power for night flying.

habichuelacondulce sent in the Bloomberg report that Tesla said it is cutting jobs in China. The Chinese Economic Observer reported the company would reduce staff by 30%. Tesla spokesman Gary Tao said the changes started at the beginning of the year. CEO Elon Musk said in January that Chinese sales were slow because of concerns over charging.

 

Discussion Section Links:  Apple Keynote

http://www.theverge.com/2015/3/9/8177087/macbook-port-adapter-accessory

https://gigaom.com/2015/03/09/how-much-apple-watch-costs-when-it-goes-on-sale/

Pick of the Day: 

My pick of the day is your old android phone if you have one. They make great dedicated remotes for your Chromecast. If you old phone won’t sell for much, wipe it and install just your entertainment apps. You may get a little extra speed out of the old phone if you can root it and install a ROM without any bloatware like Cyanogenmod. Improve battery life by putting into airplane mode, and then just turning on WiFi.
Steve in the OC

Messages:

Hey Tom it’s been a busy week, but I seem to recall you talking about wireless device charging vs USB ports recently… Just to be clear; some systems like the Powermat being installed at Starbucks does charge the device via inductive coils with the ability to also send data back to Starbucks.

The power receiver changes the load presented to the transmitting coil, the frequency of this load change allows the system to read the ID of the device being charged. So the system CAN track users. When built into a device it would be unclear to the user how much access this system would have to other data stored on the device. After market adapters most likely would only be able to ID the same adapter since the adapter would only connect to the on board battery.

For public charging, I’ll stick with a USB cable that only has the power pins connected.

<tips tin foil hat>

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Tom et al.,

This is Steve from ‘getting the rain out of our system, before SXSW starts’ Austin. After hearing Darren talk about Club Mate on the show yesterday, I thought your listeners might want to know that it is now being widely distributed in the US. In Austin alone there are seven retailers selling it, and The 2600 Club in Brooklyn will ship you a case anywhere in the US.

This link has a tool to show the retail locations near you:

http://club-mateusa.com/

Order form to buy via mail:

http://store.2600.com/clubmate.html

I hope that you find this useful:

– Steve

-Ron

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Monday’s guest: Tim Stevens

Darren Kitchen is back to talk about arrests of malicious hackers in the UK and US and things he learned from NON-malicious hackers in Europe in February. Drones, Club-Mate and more! And yes Len Peralta is here to illustrate it.

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Show Notes

Today’s guests: Darren Kitchen and Len Peralta

Check out Len’s amazing DTNS artprov:

http://lenperaltastore.com/products/there-and-hack-again-dtns-3-6-15-print

Headlines: 

ReCode reports Apple executives have been promising music labels it will not have a free tier for digital music when it launches its own subscription streaming service later this year. Apparently Eddy Cue and Jimmy Iovine have been trying to convince labels to distribute music with Apple first, for a service targeted at $8 a month.

Also something about Apple releasing a watch Monday. Apparently 9to5 Mac’s Marc Gurman knows somebody with one of the watches and it gets 5 hours of battery life with heavy use – the ability to see your heart rate at any time— 8 GB of storage— unlinked music playing. All kinds of stuff. Gurman’s usually right about this kind of thing.And we’ll find out for sure on Monday. When Apple actually announces the watch.

ZDNet reports that Oracle has begun bundling the Ask.com toolbar with its latest release of Java 8 Update 40 for Mac. The Ask toolbar has bundled with Java for Windows for several years. The option to install the toolbar must be unchecked by the user during installation.

eWeek reports that Microsoft published a security advisory yesterday, March 5, saying that all supported versions of Windows are vulnerable to the FREAK technique. Microsoft has issued workarounds for Windows Vista and newer. Windows Server 2003 does not have a workaround. Microsoft has seen no evidence of the attack in the wild but will issue an update, possibly out of band. Both the browser and server must be vulnerable for the exploit to work. You can visit https://freakattack.com/ for information on browser patches.

Reuters reports that Apple will be added to the Dow Jones Industrial Average after the close of trading, March 18th and AT&T will be removed. The Dow Jones tracks 30 stocks considered representative of the US economy. The Dow Jones Average was created in 1896. AT&T was added in 1916. It was removed in 2004 but reinstated in 2005 after a merger with SBC.

The BBC reports the UK National Crime Agency’s National Cyber Crime Unit co-ordinated the arrests of 56 people suspected of crimes like data theft, fraud and writing viruses. 25 separate ops were carried out across England, Scotland and Wales. A suspected Lizard Squad member was arrested in Leeds — which we will now spell with 3’s— and an arrestee in London is suspected of being part of D33d which is already spelled with 3’s. The NCA also visited 70 firms to inform them their servers were vulnerable to attack. They even set up four ppo-up shops to give security advice and check devices for malware.

The Next Web reports the US Department of Justice charged three men with hacking into US email service providers. Viet Quoc Nguyen allegedly hacked 8 providers obtaining more than 1 billion addresses. Giang Hoang Vu allegedly sent spam to tens of millions of the addresses. Both men are vietnamese but were living in the Netherlands. Canadian David-Manuel Santos Da Silva was indicted for allegedly helping the two purported hackers launder the money.

ReCode reports Amazon has opened an online store on Alibaba’s Tmall.com marketplace in China. Tmall offers virtual storefronts. Amazon also operates its own ecommerce site in China.

The Sydney Morning Herald is reports that starting April 1st Australia’s Telstra will give customers access to a limited set of their metadata – for a fee. Metadata information includes who was called, time, location and duration, but does not cover contents of the communication. It also doesn’t include who called you. The policy reversal came after SMH’s Ben Grubb lodged a complaint with Australia’s Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim. Australia is considering data retention laws that wopuld require telcos to store 2 years of customers metadata for law-enforcement access.

 

 

 

 

News From You: 

thelouisguy sent us this story from CBC that Alain Philippon of Quebec has been charged with hindering or preventing border officers from performing their role because he refused to give Canadian border security the password to his phone. According to the Candian Border Services Agency the minimum fine is $1000 up to a maximum of $25,000. Philipon plans to fight the charge. Travelers crossing most borders have a reduced privacy rights. The Canadian Border Services Agency would not say why Philippon was asked for the password. IN astatement the agency said, “Officers are trained to look for indicators of deception and use a risk management approach in determining which goods may warrant a closer look.”

HobbitfromPA sent us the Phandroid post that only owners of the Nexus 6 will be able to use Google’s wireless carrier announced earlier this week at Mobile World Congress. The Wall Street Journal has the sources on this. Google’s service will combine WiFi with LTE using other carriers networks. We’ll no doubt hear more about it at Google I/O, May 28.

Discussion Section Links: 

https://wiki.london.hackspace.org.uk/view/LondonAerospace

https://spacefed.net/wiki/index.php/Spacenet

Pick of the Day: ProfessorMesser.com via Brandon Pierce

This site is geared toward helping people get CompTIA Certifications. Features:

– Full course streaming videos on the site and Youtube (free!) covering all topics for the A+, Network+, Security+ and Windows 7 certifications
– Videos & mp3 are available DRM free for purchase
– Live study groups for the A+, Network+ and Security+ on the weekends, with a chatroom for discussion and questions
– Chat is also available on the site 24/7 for questions
– PDF study notes for purchase
– Study quizzes

I got my A+ and spent only $20 on study materials.

Messages:

Hi Tom,

Derek from lovely “wait did we really go straight from fall to spring?” Eugene, Oregon here. In my (just thought of) capacity as DTNS AWS Co-executive producer I thought I’d weigh in on the discussion of MLB Advanced Media’s capacity for things like WWE and HBO.

In the first keynote of the 2014 re:Invent conference last November the CTO of MLBAM gave a brief talk on the tools and architecture that they are able to leverage with AWS to achieve greater and greater scale all the time. As someone who oversees an AWS based SaaS product that gets millions of pageviews a day I can tell you that capacity is a much more complicated equation than just number of servers but the tools to achieve truly elastic and practically limitless capacity are getting better on a daily basis. For a company as sophisticated as MLBAM running on a platform like AWS the past means very little in being able to predict how they will fair with the new load from HBO Now.

For viewers that are interested the talk from the MLB CTO is in the day 1 keynote and starts at the 16 minute mark here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp0Qv4N3uXQ

Derek “Bishma”
Software Architect

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Monday’s guest: Tim Stevens

Veronica Belmont and Justin Young are on the show to help fend off Apple rumors and talk about MLBAM’s OTHER opening day, the purported launch of HBO Now in time for the April 12 premier of Game of Thrones.

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Show Notes

Today’s guests: Veronica Belmont of Sword and Laser and Justin Robert Young of Night Attack and Jury Talks

Headlines: 

Mobile World Congress? Tech reporters are most concerned with how to smuggle jamón iberico out of the country in their pants. GDC? Hungover. BUT This coming Monday is an Apple announcement. And so the rumors are flooding in to fill the gap! Here. We. Go.

Bloomberg says the never announced 12.9-inch screen iPad will be delayed until September for manufacturers. Some people call the delay of rumored products “starting.”

The WSJ adds the imaginary product will have a more power-efficient Oxide LCD screen and a USB 3.0 port. The WSJ adds the imaginary product will have a more power-efficient Oxide LCD screen and a USB 3.0 port.

WSJ ALSO says a 12-inch MacBook Air will be announced Monday.

And 9to5 Mac reports Apple will NOT announce a new live streaming music service Monday.

TechCrunch says that mythical service will debut at WWDC in June

I can confirm from asking myself that Apple will also not announce a car, a television, or a space rocket or Monday.

The Verge reports that Office 2016 for Mac is about to catch back up to Windows. The last version was released in 2010. Microsoft today announced a preview program for the new Office 2016 for Mac. Major points: Cloud services will be integrated directly into the suite of programs, Word will get co-authoring, and Excel keyboard shortcuts are now consistent between Mac and PC versions. Microsoft wants it ready in time for summer. The company has not yet announced pricing or exact availability dates, but a standalone version is expected.

The Verge reports Imgur has launched a new iPhone app that gives viewers an endless row of swipeable pictures with titles. To comment, like or dislike, or read comments just double tap the picture. When you first open the app the most “viral” images are shown to you first but there are also options for random and latest submissions as well. You can’t upload through the app yet, but that feature is in the works. A new version for Android is also coming soon.

Fit-solidation is official. TechCrunch reports Fitbit confirmed the acquisition of FitStar, makers of a personal training app that creates customized workouts with celeb athletes like NFL star Tony Gonzalez and yogi Tara Stiles. FitStar has two million registered iOS users. Fitbit co-founder and CEO James Park says the company also plans to expand FitStar to other platforms.

Look out Progressive Insurance, TechCrunch reports Google is launching “Google Compare for Auto Insurance” which lets California shoppers compare rates from different insurance providers. The option will pop up after a consumer does a Google search for “car insurance” or by going to google.com/compare. Google plans to offer it other states later in the year. While the move could help bolster revenue for Google through commissions many high profile insurance brokers like Progressive, State Farm, Allstate and GEICO have declined to work with Google. TechCrunch speculates that Google might also be doing this to learn about pricing risk in advance of self-driving cars.

Engadget reports that 2009 is back! I mean, RockBand is back! Rock Band 4 is coming to Xbox One and Playstation 4 later this year. Harmonix says all previous songs will work in Rock Band 4. The company wants to make old peripherals work but there will also be new peripherals. Also no news on Rock Band Network. This will be a platform for DLC it seems. Harmonix will talk more about Rock Band 4 this weekend at PAX East in Boston, and in June at E3 2015.

News From You: 

ccastro425 posted the Engadget story about a laser from LockHeed Martin that can stop a car from more than a mile away. The fiber-optic laser called ATHENA burned through the engine manifold of an F150. It works by “spectral beam combining which involces taking multiple laser modules and pointing them to the same place. Like the death star. And no the truck didn’t explode, just stopped running.

AB-ee-CHWAY-lah-con-DOOL-say submitted the PC World report that Phil Spencer, head of Xbox, said Microsoft is opening up app development for the Xbox One. Windows developers will be able to port their apps to the Xbox. Microsoft wants to make Xbox Live accessible through the API to all game developers no matter how big.

Michsineath submitted this topic. The Cost of eBooks in France and Luxembourg won’t be going down anytime soon reports Reuters. Judges at the European Court of Justice today, dismissed arguments by both countries that ebooks should be treated as goods not a service. EU rules allow member states to set lower VAT rates on printed books, however the European Commission decided that France and Luxembourg’s application of those rates to electronic books was illegal. Statista predicts ebook sales in Europe are expected to account for a fifth of book sales in Europe by 2017 up from 4.5% in 2013.

 

Discussion Section Links:  HBO NOW?

http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/03/hbo-now-coming-this-spring-for-15-per-month-with-apple-as-launch-partner/

http://www.theverge.com/2015/3/4/8149579/hbo-now-streaming-service-name-pricing-report

http://consumerist.com/2014/12/09/hbo-seeks-streaming-video-help-from-major-league-baseball/

http://www.wsj.com/articles/mlbs-streaming-tech-unit-goes-pro-1424718022

http://www.techhive.com/article/2888298/major-league-baseball-might-spin-off-its-video-streaming-operation.html

https://gigaom.com/2014/12/09/hbo-gone-cto-leaves-after-hbo-outsources-streaming-service/

http://www.cnet.com/news/nba-espn-deal-drafts-streaming-only-service-for-cord-cutters/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeuLion

 

Pick of the Day: Mohiomap via Michelle

Dear Tom, Jennie, today’s guest and behind the scenes DTNS team,

I would like to recommend Mohiomap, to DTNS followers. This developing site is a visual cloud based, free, curation tool, currently combines, Google drive, Evernote and Dropbox, with more services in the pipeline to be added.

Certainly helps to visualise and manage all the resources one has stored across these various platforms. IMHO A new service worth checking out, supporting, testing and giving feedback too.

https://www.moh.io/mohiomap/welcome.php

Thanks for the great show.

BFN
OOROO
Michelle not from lovely Cleveland

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Friday’s guest: Darren Kitchen and Len Peralta