| The Drill Down 269: Broken Cities
This week, the first businesses start to ban Google Glass — before it’s even out! The U.S. reinforces our right to videotape the police, Samsung poised to beat Apple, SimCity players speak out against draconian DRM and dead servers, and the world’s coolest gamer dad hacks Donkey Kong so the girl rescues Mario!
...continue reading » Tags: Amazon, Android, Donkey Kong, DRM, first amendment, Galaxy, Google, Google Glass, Hacking, iPhone, Kickstarter, Pebble, Privacy, Samsung, SimCity | |
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| The Drill Down 267: Through The Looking Glass
This week, Google Glass gets its first real review; will it alter the social contract? Turn any iPhone into a spycam, Groupon‘s CEO is fired, HP sells WebOS to LG, An Australian hacker knows the secrets of the next XBOX & Playstation, Is Reddit being gamed by marketers?, How NetFlix is using Big Data to turn us into their puppets, and How “Golden Eagle Snatches Kid” ruled the Internet.
...continue reading » Tags: Andrew Mason, Apple, Google, Google Glass, Groupon, HP, iPhone, Koozoo, LG, Microsoft, NetFlix. Viral Video, Playstation, PlayStation 4, reddit, Sergey Brin, Social Marketing, Sony, spam, WebOS, Xbox | |
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| The Drill Down 266: Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics
This week, the sky falls over Russia, Apple makes their own Pebble, Bungie announces their 1st non-Halo game in over ten years, Google plans to launch stores (and a new netbook to put in them), Sony‘s Playstation 4, and Tesla drives the New York Times crazy.
...continue reading » Tags: Apple, Bungie, Chomebook, Chromebook Pixel, CNN, dashcam, data, Destiny, DualShock 4, Elon Musk, Gaikai, Google, Google Glass, Halo, Halo 4, iWatch, Jenova Chen, Kickstarter, Pebble, Playstation, PlayStation 4, PS4, Sony, Tesla, Tesla Model S, thatgamecompany, The New York Times, Volkswagen, Yahoo | |
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| The Drill Down 228: The Social Network Strikes Back
This week, The Drill Down team takes a look at April Fools’ Day on the web, Apple‘s upcoming revolutionary TV vs. existing console-based options, and further bad times for Yahoo, as Facebook strikes back, but first, this week’s hot tech headlines. Instagram comes to Android, details on Sony‘s next-generation Playstation, Ashton Kutcher to play Steve Jobs, Apple addresses worker violations at Foxconn, an iPhone stalker app raises privacy concerns on Facebook, Amazon wins sales tax fight in Colorado, Google to sell tablets online, Google tests augmented reality goggles, and OMGPop‘s CEO gets catty.
...continue reading » Tags: Amazon, Android, Apple, April Fool's Day, Ashton Kutcher, Facebook, Foxconn, George Takei, Glass, goggles, Google, Google Glass, Instagram, iPhone, OMGPOP, Orbis, Steve Jobs, The Drill Down, ThinkGeek, xkcd, Yahoo | |
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