In MobileViews Podcast 71 Todd Ogasawara and Jon Westfall discuss (and debate):
– Net Neutrality
– Online college courses
– Note the finding that Windows XP is on 95% of ATMs (Automatic Teller Machines).
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MobileViews Podcast 71: Net neutrality, online college courses, Windows XP on 95% of ATMs
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MobileViews Podcast 70: CES 2014, Microsoft’s future, more security problems
Todd Ogasawara and Jon Westfall discuss a number of topics in MobileViews Podcast 70:
1. What products announced at CES 2014 caught our attention?
2. Is controlling the physical world (locks, thermostats, appliances, etc.) from a smartphone a good idea?
3. Cyber security: This time Nieman Marcus’ credit card data was stolen
4. Does it matter that Microsoft did not have a booth at CES 2014? This was set off by The Verge’s click-bait headline: Closing Windows: Microsoft and its platforms are nowhere to be found at CES
5. Windows 9 “Threshold” to arrive in April 2015. And, how much of a disaster is Windows 8 for Microsoft? (ref: Supersite for Windows: “Threshold” to be Called Windows 9, Ship in April 2015) -
MobileViews Podcast 69: Life after Windows Phone, Microsoft Project Siena, credit card security
Todd Ogasawara and his old friend and special guest, Jon Westfall, talk about their move from Windows Mobile/Phone to other mobile platforms, Microsoft Project Siena for Windows 8.1, and credit card security (COIN, Loop).
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MobileViews Podcast 68: 2013 holiday mobile tech gift ideas
Todd Ogasawara and Jay Stone discuss seven (7) holiday mobile tech gift ideas in this podcast.
Jay
1. Learning Resources Zoomy Handheld Microscope
2. Romo Smartphone Robot
3. Lytro cameraTodd
4. Windows 8.1 tablets like the Asus T100 and Dell Venue 8 Pro
5. Viki.com $3.99 per month subscription to TV shows and movies from all over the world (with subtitles)
6. Digital camera with a GPS data logger (e.g., Canon SX280)
7. Raspberry Pi with the new Wolfram Language and MathematicaFYI: You can subscribe to this podcast in iTunes. Search for MobileViews Podcast.
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Barometer sensor in Nexus 4
One of the things I found interesting about the old Motorola Xoom (one of the first Android tablets) was that it had a barometer sensor. It seemed like a great feature to enable crowdsourcing weather information. As the Xoom faded from my memory so did the notion of having a barometer on me all the time.
Listening to a discussion of all the sensors in the new Nexus 5, I wondered what sensors my previous generation Nexus 4 has. So, I installed CPU-Z and learned the 4 does indeed have a barometer. I haven’t found any app/service that crowdsources barometer sensor data. However, there are a few free Android apps that work with the sensor. I’m trying Barometer Monitor right now.
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Forecast.io says I live in the “Middle of Nowhere”
You know the saying “stuck in the middle of nowhere”? Well, according to Forecast.io I, apparently, am. Granted, Hawaii is the most remote island populated island chain in the world. And, Honolulu is the most remote major city with a population over 500,000 (ref: ESRI Blog: The World’s Most Remote Island Group: Hawaii?. But, still…
Note: Forecast.io is one of the best examples of an HTML5 site that is has both good functionality and a good user interface design.