Minnov8 Gang 174 – Google Releases the Ood?

Joined by guest host Julio Ojeda-Zapata and our guest out at Google I/O, Breon Nagy of Code 42 Software, we cover all the hottest stories from that event and whether or not, as Julio pointed out, Google really released the Ood.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins, Phil Wilson and Julio Ojeda-Zapata
Music: Majesty by Infernal Devices & brought to us by the podsafe Music Alley.

Discussed during the show…

• SNL Sprockets
• Skillshare Fair at CoCo
• Apple‘s new app Podcasts (App Store link)
  • Apple Buys Chomp
  • Looks Like Apple Has Changed Its App Store Search Algorithm Again
  • Five Years Ago Today, the iPhone Went On Sale
• Google I/O
  • Jelly Bean: What you need to know about Android 4.1
  • Google Now
  • Nexus 7 Tablet Review
  • Google Nexus 7 Makes Amazon Kindle Fire Irrelevant
  • Amazon prepping two new Kindle Fire tablets with improved build, metal casing
  • Google’s $299 Nexus Q streaming media player
  • Sergey Brin hopes to bring Google Glass to market in 2014 Google Chrome has 310 million active users, ‘most popular browser in the world’ 
    • Google announces Google Glass Explorer Edition, $1,500
  • Google announces Chrome for iPhone and iPad, available nowGoogle I/O nerdfest has goodies you can use right now
    • Some Impressions and Benchmarks from Chrome on iOS
  • Google Compute Engine: Computing without limits
  • Google Just Declared War On These 12 Products
• RIM posts huge Q1 miss: Net loss; BlackBerry 10 launch delayed, 5,000 jobs cut 
  • Exclusive: Microsoft tie-up, network sale among RIM options
  • Steve’s February 2007 post on his blog: iChat at 75mph

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