Podcast: Everybody’s talkin’ @Twitter, Nest’s hot smoke detector and R.I.P. “Google TV”

 

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It was a Twitter-iffic week in techland. After filing for its IPO, the company made some announcements with Nielsen and Comcast (s CMCSK), had the valley buzzing over a forthcoming book, and sparked controversey over the makeup of its board. But Twitter wasn’t the only hot company this week, Nest followed up its connected thermostat with a new, smarter smoke detector. And finally, Google (s GOOG) kills off “Google TV” in favor of Android TV.

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What IEDs and armored vehicles have to do with the future of television

 

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A few years ago, Mark Buff was chipping away at a matter of life and death. For his PhD at North Carolina State University, he was trying to figure out how to better protect soldiers in the field from roadside bombs, also known as Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs). The answer? Many IEDs were remotely controlled, so finding them had a lot to do with detecting their antennas.

After graduation, Buff used his knowledge to found Greenwave Scientific, a defense contractor that set out to develop a variety of antennas for armored vehicles and other military use cases. Some of these antennas had to be very stealthy, leading to the development of a completely flat antenna that didn’t look at all like you would an antenna expect to look like.

And then, in 2010, Buff suddenly realized that there also was a civilian application for all of this: Consumers increasingly…

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Want the Steam OS and the Steam Machine? You’ll need a Steam Controller

 

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With the Steam OS as the software and the line of Steam Machines providing the hardware, it’s not that surprising that indie game company Valve would unveil a proprietary controller to bridge the gap between the two. The Steam Controller is hackable, programmable, and apparently works with all games available on Steam, the company announced Friday.

From an aesthetics point of view, the Steam Controller doesn’t look much like any traditional console peripheral — for one, there isn’t a joystick. Instead, the controller relies on two trackpads that allow for freer movement and haptic response. The sixteen buttons on the controller include two that flank the inner sides of each track pad and two on the back of the peripheral. Finally, a touch screen similar to the one offered on the Ouya controller is in the center, enabling users to make certain multitouch actions within the game.

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4 things you might have missed during Apple’s iPhone 5s announcement

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It’s easy to get caught up in the hype of an Apple(s aapl) announcement. And with Cupertino introducing two new iPhones for the first time ever, a lot of other news managed to slip through the cracks. Like Apple’s Cards app, for instance? Gone. So what else might have snuck under the radar? Here are four things that were easy to miss:

iWork is free for all new devices

You might have heard this one, since Apple announced it at the event. Anyone that purchases a qualifying iOS 7 device after September 1 will be able to download the entire iWork suite of apps for free. Previously these apps cost anywhere from $4.99 to $9.99 apiece. iWork includes iMovie, iPhoto, Keynote, Numbers and Pages. New users will automatically see a screen on their new iPhone, iPad or iPod touch with an opportunity to install the software upon first setting…

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Apple announces budget-priced, plastic iPhone 5c

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After months of rumors and speculation, Apple(s aapl) on Tuesday took the wraps off of two new smartphones, including the iPhone 5c. This is the first time Apple has unveiled two new phones at once. The iPhone 5c is a colorful, budget-priced smartphone with similar specs to the iPhone 5.

Introducing the device, Apple CEO Tim Cook said, “In the past we’ve lowered the price of the current iPhone, making it accessible to more people. This year we’re not going to do that… The business has become so large, this year we’re going to replace the iPhone 5.”

The iPhone 5c is made of a hard-coated polycarbonate that comes in green, white, blue, pink or yellow. The entire back and sides of the phone are made from a single part so you won’t see any seams, part lines or joins, and the inside is made of aluminum that also…

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Apple’s DRM on iTunes was not an illegal monopoly, court confirms

 

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Apple(s aapl), which has been hammered by a New York judge over its ebook pricing practices, got some good news this week when a California appeals court ruled that a music rights management system known as FairPlay did not break antitrust laws.

The ruling comes in response to a long-running class action suit that claimed Apple’s iTunes store was an illegal monopoly because songs bought in the store could only be played on Apple’s iPod music player. After Apple imposed the digital rights management system, its share of the digital music and player market rose to 99 percent by 2004, according to the decision.

Despite the commanding market share, a three-judge panel affirmed that Apple did not break antitrust laws, in part because it maintained prices at 99 cents even after its DRM system gave it dominant market power in 2004. The court also noted that Apple maintained its 99…

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Spotify sued by UK dance label over playlist-related copyright infringement

 

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Podcast: Are you ready for some (Internet of Things) Football? A data driven party?

 

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Sensor-packed football helmets, camera-covered NBA stadiums and sensor-studded soccer balls are all generating a ton of data but it’s still unclear how all of it can and will be used. As we connect everything, the amounts of data are going to be astounding, and so is the opportunity to build and change businesses (and sports).

To understand some of this, I spoke with David Jonker, the VP of product marketing for big data at SAP. We started with tracing the path of data from connected football helmets that can tell coaches when a hit was too hard and then went on to discuss how the National Basketball Association is sharing data gathered by cameras in certain stadiums to explore how business models around data might evolve. We also discussed how a German soccer team is sending data from a sensor-studded ball and sensors on the team members to understand play.

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Why Juniper Research’s prediction of 36M smartwatches in 2018 misses the mark

 

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Smartwatch sales will grow over the next handful of years but still won’t rival sales of smartphones and tablets. That’s the word from Juniper Research, which on Tuesday said it expects 36 million smartwatches to ship annually by the year 2018. The firm suggests two types of smartwatches — Dashboard/Console and Multi-function — which I previously defined as second screens and standalone devices, with Apple(s aapl) and Samsung raising consumer awareness of the products.

I generally agree with Juniper Research’s smartwatch market sentiment: We’re in the early days of smartwatches even though the devices have been around in some form or fashion for more than a decade. I remember buying a Microsoft(s msft) SPOTWatch in 2004 that provided glanceable data in the form of news, weather and text messages over FM radio waves, for example. But I think Juniper Research, and others, are missing the bigger picture when it comes…

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China Mobile confirms it wants Apple’s iPhone, but troubles persist

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Android tablets still face major app gap with the iPad

 

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Samsung still crushing Apple in world’s top smartphone market

 

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Apple’s ‘iPhone 5C’ compared to iPhone 5 in leaked HD video

 

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Apple buys social TV startup Matcha.tv after it shut down

 

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In what looks like a typical acqui-hire, Apple (s AAPL) recently scooped up the team and assets of Matcha.tv, a social TV startup that shut down in May. The deal, which was first reported by VentureBeat, is more proof of consolidation in the social TV space, but it also goes to show that Apple is serious about TV.

Matcha.tv created an iPad app to discover movies and TV show episodes on Netflix, iTunes and Amazon, using data from social networks to recommend new titles to watch. The service shut down in May, with a message posted on the Matcha.tv website informing users that all of their data had been deleted.

Matcha isn’t the only one to try and fail in the social TV space: Screentribe, Twelevision, Otherscreen, BeeTV, Philo and a bunch of others all threw the towel over the last year or so. That’s in part because one can only…

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Apple’s September 10 Event Date For Next iPhone Gets A Strong, If Unofficial Confirmation

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Apple’s Next iPad Will Indeed Inherit iPad Mini’s Thin And Light Good Looks, Reports WSJ

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Apple Will Reportedly Unveil The Next iPhone On September 10

 

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Apple slams government’s proposed punishment in ebook pricing case

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As expected, Apple(s AAPL) has expressed its strong disagreement with the federal government’s proposed remedies in the ebook pricing case, which the government outlined in a court filing released Friday morning.

In July, a federal judge found Apple guilty of conspiring with publishers to fix ebook prices.

Apple’s full court filing is embedded below and is available here as a PDF. Apple calls the proposed injunction “a draconian and punitive intrusion into Apple’s business, wildly out of proportion to any adjudicated wrongdoing or potential harm,” and claimed it is “a sweeping and unprecedented injunction as a tool to empower the Government to regulate Apple’s businesses and potentially affect Apple’s business relationships with thousands of partners across several markets.”

The government’s injunction seemingly forces Apple to abandon its in-app purchasing restrictions, at least for digital bookstores, by “allowing Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other ebook app providers to offer a simple…

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