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March 15, 2013 DigitalOutbox Episode 155
DigitalOutbox Episode 155

DigitalOutbox Episode 155 - Rubin moves, Reader shuttered and the Boxer hunts a Troll
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0:51 - Sundar Pichai Takes Over For Andy Rubin As Head Of Android At Google

11:30 - Google takes harsh stance against ad-blocking apps, removes them from Play Store

14:03 - A second spring of cleaning

26:56 - Kindle Fire HD 8.9 finally hits the UK

28:23 - Netflix Speed Index

29:46 - Average UK broadband speed hits 12Mbps

32:20 - Pirate Bay for 3D printing launched

35:22 - The boxer and the troll
Picks

Ian

Pocket Casts

- £2.70

- Great features

- Great widget

- Digitaloutbox looks excellent in it - see the feeds
Ridiculous Fishing

- £1.50 ish?

- Great games for iOS

- Simple - drop anchor, catch fish
45 min
March 08, 2013 DigitalOutbox Episode 154
DigitalOutbox Episode 154

DigitalOutbox Episode 154 - Microsoft Fine, Evernote breach and EA dickery
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3:20 - Microsoft fined 561m Euros for browser choice error

7:00 - Evernote Security Breach

9:38 - Twitter discontinuing iPhone, Android, and Air versions of TweetDeck

12:21 - Facebook updates News Feeds

16:13 - Amazon acts to halt sales of Keep Calm and Rape T-shirts

18:54 - Tu Go app lets O2 UK customers use their mobile number with any iOS or Android device

20:55 - Tesco launches Clubcard TV, a Blinkbox-powered video-streaming service supported by advertisers

23:47 - Simcity - more EA dickery
32 min
March 01, 2013 DigitalOutbox Episode 153
DigitalOutbox Episode 152

DigitalOutbox Episode 153 - Gullible Brits, UK Courts and Mobile World Congress
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0:55 - Microsoft Hacked Too

2:35 - UK was world's most phished country in 2012

8:05 - Attorney general takes legal action over online pictures of Jamie Bulger killers

10:03 - Court orders UK ISPs to block more piracy sites

11:52 - Another Twitter client bites the dust

14:57 - App.net Introducing a freemium tier

20:01 - Google Launches Google+ Sign-In For Mobile And Web

23:30 - Microsoft Launches IE10 For Windows 7

25:14 - Firefox OS Hits The Ground Running With Phones From Telefonica, T-Mobile, Firefox Marketplace For Apps

28:11 - HP Slate 7 hands-on: a standard Android tablet with standard HP style

29:34 - HP emerges as big winner in webOS sale, and LG doesn't rule out a phone

32:13 - Asus launch the Fonepad and the Padfone

34:49 - Samsung unveils Wallet an Android alternative to Apples Passbook

37:21 - Nintendo to bring Wii Mini to UK

39:03 - Real Racing 3 launches
Picks

Ian

BT London 2012

- Panoramic image from the BT Tower in London

- You can keep zooming and zooming and zooming
Bombermine

- 1000 player Bomberman

- Tweaked rules

- Free to play

- 20 min games all in the browser
49 min
February 22, 2013 DigitalOutbox Episode 152
DigitalOutbox Episode 152

DigitalOutbox Episode 152 - PS4, Apple Hacked and 4G
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1:06 - PS4

13:32 - Google shows what its like to use Project Glass in new video and expands preorders

16:44 - Google launches the Chromebook Pixel

23:38 - HTC One

26:53 - 4G auction raises £2.34 billion in the UK

32:59 - iPhone 5 and iPhone 4S each outsold the Galaxy S3 in Q4

34:13 - Apple Hacked

39:15 - Burger King Twitter Account hacked

42:37 - Google now uses over 120 signals to thwart account hacks

44:51 - Outlook.com passes 60m users Microsoft drops preview tag and preps ad push to kill Hotmail

46:12 - Jonathan Ive gets gold Blue Peter badge
51 min
February 15, 2013 DigitalOutbox Episode 151
DigitalOutbox Episode 151

DigitalOutbox Episode 151 - iOS issues, Mailbox and naughty Nike
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1:07 - Hold off updating your iPhone 4S to iOS 6.1 European carriers warn customers

2:41 - iPhone lockscreen can be bypassed with new iOS 6.1 trick

4:39 - Mailbox

11:24 - Apple drop prices spec bump on laptops

13:23 - First digital magazine sales figures in the UK

15:57 - BBC to broadcast shows on iPlayer before TV transmission

19:45 - 4G to affect TV reception in two million homes

21:21 - Nike has no plans for Fuelband Android app

23:07 - Fitbit brings Bluetooth 4.0 support to Android app

24:41 - Minecraft Pi Edition
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Ian

Kickstarter for iPhone

- Free

- See all messages

- Keep up to date on pledges

- Staff highlights, whats popular

- Easy to buy into new campaigns

- Easy to check on status of a campaign that you are running
34 min
February 07, 2013 DigitalOutbox Episode 150
DigitalOutbox Episode 150

DigitalOutbox Episode 150 - Three's LTE promise, Dell goes private and next gen consoles
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1:01 - Three UK promises to provide LTE without increasing prices

4:32 - BT to end traffic throttling - claims capacity is FAT

6:35 - Liberty Global to buy Virgin Media for $23.3bn

9:57 - Sky+ Android app catches up

11:32 - Channel 4 gives its catch-up TV service 4oD a native Android app

13:57 - iPhone 5 iPad mini jailbreak now available

15:08 - Dell goes private

18:51 - Microsoft Surface Pro Tablet Gets Good Reviews - Except For Battery Life

23:04 - Twitter Hacked

26:00 - Glasgow has the chattiest people on Twitter in the UK

27:41 - Amazon Launches Amazon Coins

30:25 - Hailo closes $30.6m Series B round from Union Square Ventures

32:51 - Next Gen Consoles
0 min
February 01, 2013 DigitalOutbox Episode 149
DigitalOutbox Episode 149

DigitalOutbox Episode 149 - Blackberry 10, Apples Porn Problem and Glasgow gets smart
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1:41 - Blackberry 10

14:23 - EE rolls out 4G to nine new UK towns ahead of schedule

17:45 - Glasgow - UKs first smart city

22:02 - Apples porn problem

26:21 - iOS 6.1

29:45 - New iPad

32:59 - Apple confirms Mac Pro sales will cease in EU on March 1

34:42 - Office 2013 Launched

37:30 - Microsoft Launches Modern.IE

39:31 - Skys Now TV to offer Premier League football and other major sporting events

41:15 - Sky Broadband struggling with demand

43:46 - App.net moves beyond its ad-free Twitter alternative adding 10 GB of storage to share

46:28 - Computer science part of English Baccalaureate

47:19 - 15000 Raspberry Pis free to UK schools thanks to Google

48:43 - Nintendo cuts sales forecast for Wii U and other devices

50:53 - GTAV Delayed
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January 25, 2013 DigitalOutbox Episode 148
DigitalOutbox Episode 148

DigitalOutbox Episode 148 - Apple slides, HMV is saved and Kims Mega
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0:58 - Quarterlies

5:33 - Atari files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy

8:53 - Hilco takes control of HMV Brand

10:32 - Sony fined £250,000 after millions of UK gamers details compromised

13:10 - Kim Dotcoms Mega now open

16:28 - Surface Pro dated and Priced

20:53 - EE tweaks 4G pricing

25:15 - The Firefox Phone

26:46 - Twitter launches Vine

28:52 - Actual Facebook Graph Searches
Picks

Ian

Documents for iPad

Free file viewer for iPad

- Connect to lots of cloud services or load up docs from iTunes

- View lots of file types, audio files etc

- PDF support is great

- Replaced Goodreader for me - as fast if not faster PDF support and better front end
Hola

- Region unblocker chrome extension

- View hulu, pandora, fox, cbs content in the UK, or iPlayer around the world

- Free and it works - pretty slick
0 min
January 18, 2013 DigitalOutbox Episode 147
DigitalOutbox Episode 147

DigitalOutbox Episode 147 - Aaron Swartz, Facebook Graph Search and HMV
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1:49 - Aaron Swartz internet activist and builder of Reddit dies at 26

3:31 - Jessops closed

4:06 - HMV in Administration

13:36 - Tweetdeck threatened with closure

15:35 - Facebook Graph Search

24:27 - New Myspace is open

27:08 - BT SmartTalk

29:22 - UK Mobile Operator 3UK Filtering Political Satire
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January 11, 2013 DigitalOutbox Episode 146
DigitalOutbox Episode 146

DigitalOutbox Episode 146 - CES
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2:27 - CES

13:13 - Jessops and Play

14:39 - Hacker Gary McKinnon will not face UK charges

15:23 - Internet porn Automatic block rejected

18:36 - Prosecutors clarify offensive online posts law

20:50 - Consumers given more copyright freedom

21:41 - Pirate Bay proxy gets shut down after music industry legal threat

22:38 - Pi Store

25:01 - Another blow for handset subsidies as UK regulator mulls price hike controls

27:57 - Ubunto for Android phones coming 2014

29:45 - iOS Do Not Disturb Bug

31:33 - Google launch YouTube Capture on iOS

33:20 - Microsoft to kill Messenger
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Henry

iRunner

- Great app for runners

- Plugs into a variety of software and hardware platforms including Runkeeper and Fitbit

- Advantage is more detailed running stats
Chris

Eufloria

- Great game
Triple Town

- Great game
0 min

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DigitalOutbox is a weekly podcast on computing, gadgets and gaming with a distinctly UK voice. Join us each week as we wander through the week's news and discuss topic's relevant to the everyday user.

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