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Simulcast 130: Bi-tech-ual

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This week on The Simulcast 130 we are joined by Brian Feldhaus, we talk about the HTC Rezound, the death of Flash, Modern Warfare 3, and more listener emails


Apple
No plans for Siri on older devices  May be linked to 4S’ unique proximity sensor GREED?
Amazon buys voice recognition startup Yap to counter Apple’s Siri
Australian court forces Apple to hand over private operator iPhone business terms

Microsoft
HTC Titan to hit AT&T shelves on November 20 for $199
Tango video calling app now in Windows Phone Market
Microsoft planning to combat Windows Phone app piracy with new encryption

Gaming
Modern Warfare 3 – our review and thoughts
Apple’s iOS & Google Android command 58% of US portable game revenue

Miscellaneous
Verizon offering a double data promotion
Barnes & Noble announced Nook 2
Fedora 16 comes out and brings a heavy dose of cloud processing and storage support

We have our own Google+ page! and an Android app!

Email
Hi guys, me again!
On holiday this week so in a chilled out mood and had time to put a question to you

Firstly, a big thanks to all you guys as you’ve helped me out again.  I started by just listening to these podcasts and it’s amazing that it feels like I know you all personally now.  You’ve all dug me out out the crap on various occasions and I just wish I could return the favour somehow?  This time it was Dave and all I have to say is having a rummage in Daves Dropbox i felt like a kid in a sweet shop!

Having said all that, I do actually have a question.  On these holidays I like to send pictures and videos during the week mainly to make my mates who are still at work jealous !!

I would love an app or service (for iOS of course!) that I could post a photo or video clip and it sent it to twitter, Facebook, Google+. blogs etc.   I use pixelpipe and it comes close but only stills and not compatible with Google+.

Any ideas would be most welcome!

Gotta go, my beer has just arrived!

Gordy
Sent from my iPhone

What are we playing with/watching/reading this week?
Bill – Modern Warfare 3
Dave – Modern Warfare 3 duh
Patrick – MW3
Brian – L.A. Noire The complete edition/ B&B

Picks of the week
Bill – joemobi.com
Dave – Modern Warfare 3
Patrick – Inheritance (Final Book of Eragon Series)
Brian – Nexus S & iTap Keyboard

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Simulcast 124: Fire the Horde

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This week on The Simulcast we talk about the Amazon tablets, our anticipation for the iPhone announcements, Gears of War 3, we’re all here, and we have even MORE listener mail!Amazon tablet and Kindle Touch zomg!!!1! – what are our thoughts?

Apple
Apple event to be held in Cupertino? – confirmed for October 4th
LOVEFilm offers iPad app, Europeans rejoice
Apple killing off the shuffle and classic ipod?

Google
Ice Cream Sandwich to be revealed October 11th
SGS II surpasses 10 million sold
Verizon HTC Vigor pictures and specs leak Bill likey!
HTC Thunderbolt Gingerbread OTA Update now available!
Flickr App for Android goes live

Microsoft
Windows Phone Marketplace on the Web
Windows 8 log in via WindowsLive
Windows Phone 7.5 “Mango” released worldwide
Microsoft announced Windows Phone Suggestion Box
Geoff’s new Trophy, and Mango!

Gaming
Patrick and Bill beat Gears 3 Campaign.

Miscellaneous
Bill was on the Gadget Gurus Sunday – LISTEN

Listener email
Hi gents enjoy the podcast from up here in Vancouver.

I have an Airport express with reasonably good speakers, is there a way to listen to radio broadcasts live that use in one case Windows Media player through the Airport speakers rather than the laptop speakers?

If I didn’t want to listen live I could wait for the one program until posted on iTunes or listen to the other via my iPhone.

I may have just answered my own question
Bob

Bill: Not sure if this will work? http://thedigitallifestyle.com/w/index.php/2011/09/24/aerodrom-brings-airplay-video-photos-music-and-slide-shows-to-windows/

Email #2
Hey guys,

Seeing that a few of you often throw in video games in your pick of the week selections, I thought I’d e-mail and ask if any of you had any experience with the cloud gaming platform called “OnLive”?

The system launched in the UK last week, and I’ve been lucky enough to try it out after picking up a free console at a video game expo in London last weekend. On paper, it seems like a good idea, but in execution – especially with the state of broadband internet in the UK – it’s not that great.

I’ve written two stories on it on my own blog at www.theianhamilton.com – but it seems that OnLive’s servers have struggled to cope with the high demand created by giving out 12,000 consoles for free on launch weekend. The selection of games, whilst not triple-A level, are pretty respectable, but given the reactions I’ve read in the first few days, it isn’t cut out for the UK just yet.

Is OnLive mainstream at all in the US, or do you think that it’s a niche that will only take off once another company jumps on the idea?
Ian

What are we playing/watching/reading this week?
Steve – Still stuck on Tiny Wings
Bill – Gears 3 – Horde mode rocks!
Patrick – Gears 3 – Horde Mode Weak Link
Dave –  Gears 3 (Of course)

Picks of the week – sponsored by BrianandDeniseHarris.com
Steve – 240GB SSD Drive
Bill – CyberPower CP625 battery backup
Patrick – Flickr App for Android
Dave – Gears 3 (Of course)
Geoff – Windows Phone 7.5 Mango

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Simulcast 122: Illegal Bass

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This week on The Simulcast we talk about hardware, Steve is absent, but Dave is back, Brian joins us for another week, and Bill is rocking a new microphone and mixer! We have listener mail, and we do have Google Plus invites. Who needs one?

Apple
HTC exec: iPhones are for old people
NBC, TNT, and TBS bring full episodes to ipad apps.

Google
HTC announces Sensation XE with Beats audio
CM7 available for Sensation and EVO 3D
HTC Bliss and Runnymede leak, Bill reminisces about his Nexus One
Google announces flight search service
Gamestop will have an Android gaming tablet next year?
Philadelphia Media Company launches $99. Android Tablet – Spec Sheet

Microsoft
Windows 8 tablet shown off on video
Windows has 500K downloads of Windows 8* in 12 hours. * Developer Preview

Miscellaneous
Amazon preparing “Netflix for books”?
Logitech announces new bluetooth headphones (with boom mic) and boombox for tablets and smartphones. Patrick wants the headset for his iPad2
Youtube now allows online editing of posted videos (<1000 views and no copyright id claims)
Qualcomm announces Snapdragon processor roadmap, 2.5GHz quad-core devices coming early 2012 if true, this is sick for mobile devices

Listener email
Hey guys – just thought I’d give you an update… after a lot of research, I finally got the HTC Desire Z (aka the T-Mobile G2 in the US) for my wife. She’s been using the phone for about a fortnight now, after some issues with our mobile phone network.

So far, she’s had no problems with it, despite it being her first Android phone. Save for a rookie wi-fi error (forgetting to turn Wi-Fi off in the morning meant that the battery went from 100% to 15% in four hours!), the only problem we’ve found had been with my phone: despite the Desire Z being almost a year old, it can run several apps that my brand new Galaxy S II can’t – such as the new Madden NFL game, and several others. She’s used an iPhone before (casually), and has found the Android a lot more user friendly and a lot easier to use than the iPhone, and the extra customisations are a bonus as well.

It’s just a shame that the Desire Z has now been discontinued in Europe and is getting increasingly difficult to get hold of.

Thanks for the advice guys – one last question for anyone who’s got/used a G2 (Brian…): do you recommend updating the firmware to Gingerbread? What changes does it make to the phone, and will all apps already on the device be lost in the upgrade?

Cheers guys

Ian in London

We take a break to leave a voicemail for the Gurus. F yeah!

What are we playing/watching/reading this week?
Brian – Sons of Anarchy
Bill – Home Theater Magazine
Patrick – DC Universe Online (Fired up PS3 to make sure it still works)/ Halo: Reach
Dave – Xmen First Class
Geoff – Dead Space 2 and Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (finishing up the rest of the achievements)

Picks of the week – sponsored by BrianandDeniseHarris.com
Brian – Has none but will use Ian’s email as pick
Bill – Burn the City
Patrick – Universal Laptop/Ipad Stand (iGobee)
Dave – Juice Defender
Geoff – Power support

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Simulcast 121: The Brian Harris Show

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This week on The Simulcast we talk about lawsuits, Brian Harris joins us as our September sponsor, and we still don’t have listener mail!

Apple
Confirmed: iPhone 5 takes nice pictures of sushi
Deutsche Telekom offers customer opportunity to reserve iPhone 5
GameStop to carry iOS devices soon, begins trading-in used iPhones, iPads and iPods for in-store credits
Judge (Australia) To Apple: Show Us Your iPad 2 Sales Numbers

Google
Droid Bionic launches tomorrow for $299
Droid Prime and Nexus Prime get certified
Samsung Note fills that gap between phone and tablet
Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 has super awesome SAMOLED Plus display, unknown pricing
Apple injunction pulls the Galaxy Tab 7.7 off IFA floor
HTC sues Apple with Motorola patents obtained last week from Google
Official Gingerbread update released for HTC Incredible

What are we playing/watching/reading this week?
Brian – Red Dwarf
Bill – Top Gear USA, Portal 2, COD: BLOPS campaign completed
Patrick – Man vs Food, LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga
Steve – 24 season 1
Geoff – Stargate SG-1, Halo Reach, BLOPS

Picks of the week
Brian – VPN Tracker 6 for Mac, Video Time Machine for iPad
Bill – Lenovo N5902 Multimedia Keyboard
Patrick –  Parallels Desktop 7 for Mac
Steve – Carbonite
Geoff – Stargate SG-1, Google+ Photo Gallery

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Simulcast 110: Deep Shot Your Admin

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We are back for the 10th Simulcast north of the centennial. There is plenty of juicy information about our favorite tech giants plus what we’re playing, and picks of the week! Skype was not our friend this week, so bear with us!

Apple
Apple Mac Pro and Mac Mini Refreshes coming in August with Thunderbolt?
iPhone 5 will have radical case design?
Apple announces Lion Server Option along with Business and Educational pricing.
Final Cut Pro X, Motion 5, and Compressor 4 now in the Mac App Store.
FCC Filing shows new AirPort Extreme refresh coming soon.
Broad multitouch patent granted to Apple seen as ‘huge blow’ to rivals
Geoff left AT&T and went back to the iPhone

Google
Bill’s new Galaxy Tab 10.1 – his thoughts – and it’s already rooted
Android 3.2 coming this summer with 7inch tablet support and bugfixes
Google buys Sage TV – GoogleDVR, anyone?
Deep Shot – Think Chrome to Phone and throw in a camera.
Google bringing WebRTC integration to Chrome.

Microsoft
Could Microsoft and the DMCA spell the end of 3rd party gaming peripherals?

Gaming
Redbox now has video games Been…?! in some areas (what normal people call test markets). now nationwide
Black Ops Annihilation Map Pack (June 28th on Xbox 360) (This is bullshit)

Miscellaneous
Verizon tiered data plans July 7th
New Federal Law in the works to make illegal streaming of copyrighted material a Felony
With all the hacking going on, CNET has a handy dandy chart to keep it all straight.
Dropbox’s Security Glitch – Check your files.

What are we playing this week?
Steve -
Dave – Infamous PS3 and Battlefield 2 Bad Company
Bill – businessman
Geoff – Dead Space, Illusia
Patrick – DC Universe Online/ BLOPs (getting practice in before the new map packs hit)

Picks of the week
Steve – Weatherpro
Dave – vTok, Splashtop RDP
Bill – WiFi File Explorer Pro
Geoff – Illusia and Airport Express
Patrick- ZigZag Board App (ipad)

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Simulcast 109: This is Geoff’s Next

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This week’s show covers what is traditionally called “a slow news week”. We cover some news from our other favorite mobile devices plus what we’re playing, and picks of the week!

Apple
Apple finally releases unlocked iPhone 4′s . Starting at $649 (buh bye AT&T)
Apple and Nokia patent dispute ends with license agreement, Apple pays
iCloud Communications sues Apple for obvious reasons
Apple removes password stealing app from App Store
NO free iPod with new mac this fall.

Google
Google voice search/Instant Pages
Desire is/isn’t getting Gingerbread HTC pulls a 180, now says Gingerbread is coming to Desire
Nexus 4G Revealed

Microsoft
KinectShop concept is ready to televise your shopping revolution (video)

HPalm
TouchPad, pre-order available June 19, $499

Gaming

Miscellaneous
Sonic.net starts trial of 1Gbps fiber-to-the-home internet in California, asks just $70
No DVD playback on Nintendo Wii U? Boo

The Liz Money After Party Challenge

If you listen to the After Party, you know that Nic and Liz sometimes tend to go off on tangents while doing their podcasts. Usually they center around celebrity gossip, or super geeky topics or how Liz has too small of hands to handle the newer larger screen smartphones. One of their tangents has sprung up a new challenge, The Liz Money After Party Challenge. This all started when they went on some tangent about small phones and that Mobile Mike’s buddy fit the HP Veer into his mouth.  After hearing that, Liz, of course, tried to fit her phone in her mouth. Repeatedly.

So this is where you come in, After Party People. We are taking suggestions for Liz to fit things into her mouth. This will be included in the extras section of their shiny new Android app! You can send in your suggestions to Liz or Nic via email:  nic@gadgetgurus.net, hellolizzy@facebook.com or twitter: @Liz_Money @NicBall @GuruAfterParty and we will pick what Liz tries to fit into her mouth. Within reason, of course.

So, grab their new app from the Android App store and send in your suggestions for the Liz Money Challenge!!

What are we playing this week?
Steve – nada
Dave –  Resistance PSP
Bill – Kinect Labs
Patrick -Infamous (Free*  *In return for getting PSN info hacked, thanks Sony)

Picks of the week
Steve – Google music
Dave – Dock4droid, DropSnap
Bill – Simi Folder widget
Patrick- Netflix (new cartoons shows ie. Heman (original), Spiderman, Iron Man, XMen, etc)

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