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MobileViews Podcast 279: Google Android Call Screen demo & more

  1. Pro tip: If you are an Audible subscriber, Audible provides a selection of short books from which you can select two each month for free. This month, in addition to the two books you can select, you can also choose to download a third book titled Jingle Bell Pop: How to Make a Holiday Hit. The titles of the two free audio books I choose are: Christmas Eve 1914 and Alien: Out of the Shadows.
  2. I first thought that saying”OK Google, play the news” displays video news clips compared to saying just “news” and getting audio-only news. However, this just happened to be the case at the time of my first test. You can, however, modify the news source list on an Android device (but apparently not the Smart Display itself) to include video news sources. Collaborating on the future of audio news for the Assistant
  3. FaceTime in 12.1 can take live photos
  4. Google Android Call Screen on Pixel 2 not what I expected
  5. Jon’s Rant about Outlook for iOS – yes, some nice features. Yes, nice design. But Microsoft To-Do Sucks, why can’t we have that in Outlook?!?
  6. Jon’s ProTip – Don’t forget about the Wayback Machine (www.archive.org)
Available via Google Music Podcasts and Apple iTunes.

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 “Evil” 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 “Evil” 2016?