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MobileViews Podcast 159: Rise of the free VPN and Ad Blocking – with Special guest Don Sorcinelli

Todd Ogasawara and Jon Westfall welcome back Don Sorcinelli to discuss the recent developments in free VPN and ad blocking options for web browsers.

References:

Opera developer Edition with VPN and free ad blocking
Adblocker now in Opera production version (was developer version)
Opera mini for Android now includes ad blocking
Private Internet Access VPN – $35/year: The service that Jon has been using.
Hotspot Shield VPN – free plugin for Chrome. Ref: ZDNet
AdBlock and AdBlock Plus now available for Microsoft Edge on Insider builds. Ref: WinBeta

We also discussed:

Microsoft pre-touch sensing. Like Kinect, cool but does anyone want it? Ref: The Verge/Microsoft Research. Completed in 2014 for a never released device.

MobileViews Podcast 142: Enterprise mobility discussion with Don Sorcinelli

In this podcast Jon Westfall and I (Todd Ogasawara) welcome our old friend and enterprise mobility expert Don Sorcinelli.

– Wolfram Open Cloud. Try Wolfram Language for free in your browser.
– I thought I lost my Moto 360 while walking to work. Big sigh. But, no! Turns out the Android Wear “last seen” feature doesn’t work.
– Google says the requirement of a steering wheel, pedals, and a licensed driver slows down driverless vehicle development – Skynet.
– Project Fi lets you add specific LTE Android & iOS tablets without any extra fee. You just pay for the data used
– Enterprise mobility discussion with Don
– Each year companies do a few â€œEvilâ€ things (MS & OneDrive this year, Apple not providing 3rd party faceplates for the Apple Watch, Google Fi destroying Google Voice accounts). What are our predictions for â€œEvilâ€ 2016?