| The Drill Down 335: An Extra Hour In The Ball Pit
This week, Greg Davies from the Blendover podcast joins Dwayne and Andrew as we discuss: Chinese hackers break into U.S. gov’t employee records, Hulu gets South Park, a shakeup at Microsoft, Apple and IBM join forces, a new vehicle from Tesla, and…Worst. Con. Ever. All this and much more…
...continue reading » Tags: Apple, Comcast, Conventions, DashCon, ELectric Car, Google, Google Drive, Greg Davies, Hacking, Hulu, IBM, Microsoft, Novartis, Right to be forgotten, Satya Nadella, South Park, Streaming, Tesla, Tumblr, Video Games, videogames, Weird Al Yankovic | |
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| The Drill Down 325: Don’t Underestimate The Power Of The 4th
This week, tech giants take a stand against the FCC, Russia restricts free speech for bloggers, China’s about to launch an IPO that may dwarf Facebook, Who really won Samsung vs. Apple? …and < em>Star Wars the way it was really meant to be seen…
...continue reading » Tags: #AmazonCart, Alibaba, Amazon, Apple, Bloggers, Carousel, china, Dropbox, Facebook, FCC, Federal Communications Commission, Foursquare, Fred Wilson, free speech, Google, Google Drive, Initial Public Offering, IPO, John Carmack, May the 4th, Net Neutrality, Netflix, Oculus, Oculus VR, Patent Law, patents, President Putin, Russia, Samsung, Star Wars, Star Wars Day, Swarm, Twitter, VC, venture capital, Vladimir Putin, Yahoo | |
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| The Drill Down 257: Turn The Page
This week we begin the slide into the Holidays with Black Friday & Cyber Monday, Microsoft & Apple drop key team members, Apple patents the page turn, Nintendo launches the Wii U, and real (and hoax) Facebook changes make users nervous.
...continue reading » Tags: Amazon, Apple, Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Eddie Cue, Facebook, Gmail, Google, Google Drive, Instagram, Julie Larson-Green, Microsoft, Nintendo, Richard Williamson, Steve Sinofsky, The Drill Down, Wii U, Windows 8 | |
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| The Drill Down 231: Billionaires In Space!
This week The Drill Down team takes a look at the battle for your online distributed data, with new features on cloud storage services from Microsoft, Dropbox, and Google. Then, it’s sci-fi billionaires in space!!! as Google’s Larry Page, Eric Schmidt, and director James Cameron launch into a new venture to mine asteroids. But first, the headlines… Nokia‘s down 30% with a $1.7 BN loss, Anonymous launches a social music service, Facebook pays Microsoft $550 M for former AOL patents, Adobe announces Creative Suite 6 (and subscription-based licenses), and Facebook announces its staggering Q1 financials, including details on its Instagram purchase.
...continue reading » Tags: adobe, Anonymous, AOL, Cloud, cloud services, Dropbox, Eric Schmidt, Facebook, Google, Google Drive, Instagram, James Cameron, Larry Page, Megaupload, Michael Fassbender, Microsoft, Nokia, Planetary Resources, Prometheus, Ridley Scott, SkyDrive, Viral Marketing | |
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| The Drill Down 230: Plug Life, Yo
This week, Dwayne DeFreitas & Andrew Sorcini examine Microsoft‘s announced new versions of Windows 8 OS, and Twitter‘s pledge not to join the Patent War offensive. But first, the headlines…Google announces a stock split, Google Drive launches next week, Yahoo CEO’s plan to drop fifty properties to turn the company around, Valve announces research into wearable computing, IKEA will sell a HDTV modular furniture system, text messages soothe the soul, and Tupac lives again via “hologram.”
...continue reading » Tags: Google Drive, HDTV, holograms, IKEA, Microsoft, patent litigation, Patent wars, patents, Pepper's Ghost, SMS, text messaging, The Drill Down, Tupac, Tupac Shakur, Twitter, Uppleva, Valve, wearable computing, Windows, Windows 8, Yahoo | |
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