017 - Back to work (for some)
Ken is still on his holidays and Emily is away, but Steve, Guillermo and Anu are here to catch up on the headlines from the last few weeks, including Blackberry, Google News, Instagram, WhatsApp, The (awful) Interview, Xiaomi, Apple policy changes, CES, new phones from Samsung and Microsoft, Google Translate, North Korea, Office for Android, and our recommendations!
- Show Notes:
- - Back to basics for Blackberry
- - Google News closes in Spain
- - Instragram purges fake accounts
- - Instagram now worth 35b
- - WhatsApp - 700m users and 30b messages daily
- - The Interview makes $15m
- - Xiaomi sells big in 2014
- - Apple now offers refunds in Europe within 14 days
- - Apple pays out big time to devs
- - Apple's charging of VAT in the EU
- - CES - Intel releases Broadwell chips
- - Samsung finally releases a Tizen phone
- - Microsoft makes Windows Phone more affordable with new Lumia 435 and 532
- - Google rolling out major update to Translator app
- - Apple pushes iOS 8.2 beta 4 to developers
- - North Korea’s OS X clone is now available to the public
- - Office for Android tablets preview now available to download
- - Jaasta E ink keyboard changes with your computer applications + languages
- - Site recommendation: Lynda
- - App recommendation: Deliveries
- - App recommendation: Duet Display (Mac/iPad)