Remember the Maine…February 15, 1898.

Update: Due to unknown technical issues, several minutes of the show was unknowingly not recorded. Have edited to remove the gap, replacing with a single tone. Could not recover the missing minutes. Losses have been rare over the previous 286 episodes. Will be checking system for possible reasons.

Show Notes

* Android News

* Android devices from 74 companies feature Microsoft apps.

* Why aren’t more manufacturers using Intel in their phones?

* Android has a new API for Contacts called the People API, which combines the older APIs for contacts and user profiles

* App News

* Latest Maps update allows disabling voice guidance when in a call.

* Chrome 49 for Android will support physical web-enabled beacons

* Google Clock updated with night mode, audio alerts for Android wear, and new animations.

* In Other News

* Qualcomm announces new Arm chips, LTE modem, and a wearable platform.

* Google shutting down Picasa in May.

* This USB-C problem isn’t going away any time soon.

* Chrome to deprecate SPDY in favor of HTTP2 as well as the NPN extension to TLS on May 15th.

* Happy Birthday will soon be public domain, lawyers vow to free more songs.

* Amazon’s new game engine services cannot be used for safety-critical systems unless of a zombie apolcalypse.

* Opera Software may be bought out by Chinese consortium.

* Gmail will now advise users when they send or receive from email providers who don’t support TLS encryption.

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