Neil Young to Net: “Get off my lawn!”

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Neil Young to Net: “Get off my lawn!”
Number 2537
Broadcast Date JULY 15, 2015
Episode Length 42:40
Hosts Tom Merritt
Guests Scott Johnson

Scott Johnson and Tom Merritt take a look at Google’s new buy links in mobile search results. Is this new trend a ripoff or godsend for you as a consumer?

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Google has announced their “Purchases on Google” program according to TechCrunch. Partners can choose to show text that says "buy on Google" in their mobile search ads. Users who tap will go to a page where they can buy the product. Google will host the pages and process the payment from a Google account while merchants will handle product fulfillment. Google said it’s testing the feature with “a dozen or so” retail partners over the next few weeks, with plans to expand availability to advertisers throughout the United States by late 2015 or early 2016.
The White House is piloting a program to provide 275,000 low income families with free or deeply discounted broadband service reports the Verge. In partnership with Google, Cox, Sprint and Century Link the program called ConnectHome will roll out in 27 cities across the US including the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. The plan will start by trying to sign up families with school-aged children. Google Fiber will offer free service in Atlanta, Durham, Kansas City, and Nashville. Cox will offer broadband for $9.99 a month in cities including Macon Georgia, Baton Rouge Louisana, and New Orleans. The Department of Housing and Urban Development will require new public housing developments to support broadband going forward. Best Buy PBS, the American Library Association, and Boys and Girls Clubs of America will offer internet training to low-income families in a number of cities.
US Justice Department and Europol have shut down the Darkode.com online forum reports Reuters. Operation Shrouded Horizon included the US FBI, Europol and other countries including Brazil, Israel, Nigeria and Australia. The US Justice department has charged 12 people with crimes including conspiring to commit computer fraud, wire fraud and money laundering. Europol said there have been 28 arrests and a total of 70 individuals are being investigated. Among those charged was Johan Anders Gudmunds of Sollebrunn, Sweden, known as Synthet!c, who the Justice Department said was Darkode's administrator. Residents of Pennsylvania, New York, Florida, Indiana, Wisconsin, Louisiana, Slovenia, Spain and Pakistan also were indicted.
Reuters reports that Apple has updated their iPod line. The new iPod Touch has an 8MP iSight camera, and the iPhone 6's A8 and M8 chips inside. The price points for the revamped Touch are: $399 for a new 128GB model, $299 for 64GB, and $199 for the 16GB model. All the new iPods as well as the Shuffle and Nano will be available in dark blue, pink and gold colors.
HTC’s affordable Desire phones are coming to the US according to Engadget. All are built on Qualcomm's quad-core Snapdragon 210 with 8-megapixel rear cameras, and microSD and microSDXC card slots. The Desire 520 will come to Cricket Wireless, the 526 to Verizon, T-Mobile and AT&T get the 626 and the 626S is prepaid only. Prices will vary by carrier.
A Pew Research Center and Knight Foundation study about the evolving role of news on Twitter and Facebook found that 63% of US Facebook and Twitter users surveyed say that the platforms serve as a source of news about events and issues beyond friends and family. The study also found that the proportion of users who say they follow breaking news on Twitter is nearly twice as high as those who say they do so on Facebook (59% vs. 31%), but Facebook users are more likely to post and respond to content, while Twitter users are more likely to follow news organizations. However, 60% of both Twitter and Facebook users said that the sites were “not a very important way” they get their news and if you throw in people who don't use Twitter and Facebook the percent of US adults who use both Facebook and Twitter to find news drops to 8%. 66% of US adults use Facebook 17% use Twitter.
Engadget reports that Samsung has launched its slimmest smartphone ever. The 5.7-inch Galaxy A8 is 5.9mm thick, weights 5.3 ounces and a "near bezel-less" display. The phone also features a fingerprint sensor and hand-wave detection, and costs aout 3,499 yuan in China (about $560). No word on availability outside the country.
Fortune reports YikYak will allow users to post photos to its anonymous messaging service. No inappropriate photos (anything you wouldn’t send to your mother), illegal content, or faces will be allowed in local feeds. YikYak will approve all photos before they are allowed in the feeds. The app will ask a user once for a phone number to prevent bots.
The Next Web reports that taxi-hailing app Gett has updated its Android and iOS apps to make it easier for visually impaired and blind users to book a taxi. When enabled the app reads an audio description of where users are pressing on the screen and which feature the user is interacting with. The company was approached by 17 year old Adi Kushnir, who has been blind since birth with a request to make the app more accessible, and an offer to help make it so. To switch on the feature, enable VoiceOver or Talkback in the most updated version of Gett available in the US, UK, Russia and Israel.
CNBC reports Neil Young posted on Facebook Wednesday that he will no longer allow his music to be streamed. Young wrote “I don't need my music to be devalued by the worst quality in the history of broadcasting or any other form of distribution. “ and also wrote “When the quality is back, I'll give it another look. Never say never.” He made no mention if this includes the Pono music service which he developed.
CNBC reports Intel announced earnings per share of 55 cent on revenue of $13.2 billion. Analysts expected 50 cents on $13.04 billion. Guidance for the full year has revenue down by approximately one percent.
And Netflix added a better-than-expected 3.28 million streaming subscribers in the June quarter.

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So much Reddit. Gawker reports on former reddit CEO Yishan Wong’s latest post. He took responsibility for loosening up Reddit’s free speech policies in his day and defended Ellen Pao who he says residsed the boards push to ban all hate subreddits. New CEO and co-founder Steve Huffman posted that neither he nor co-founder lexis Ohanian “created reddit to be a bastion of free speech, but rather as a place where open and honest discussion can happen.” Huffman will host an AMA on Thursday at 1 PM.
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Engadget reports that the Commodore Pet is back. As an Android phone. With a Commodore 64 emulator on it. Android Police believes the phone is a rebranded Orgtec WaPhone. The phone will be available in Italy, France, Poland and Germany later this month for around US$300 for the 16GB version and $360 for the 32 GB version.
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Hackaday has a post on how to build a ProxyHam in the wake of Bill Caudill’s DEFCON cancellation. The article describes using a Ubiquiti RocketM base station, a Raspberry Pi and a Yagi antenna. And an ethernet cable. Ars Technica also notes Rob Graham at ErrataSecurity has his own recipe and ProxyGambit is a similar device for $235. Use of any of these products may violate local laws.
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Why is Egnyte never brought up in the cloud storage conversations. Could it be because they don't offer a free version just a limited trial? Is it because it's not catering to individuals?

I have used Egnyte for about a year and it is by far the most capable, the fastest, most feature rich file cloud storage that I've ever seen. Their hybrid functionality alone is so useful I could never be without it again. It blows the doors off Box, Dropbox and OneDrive (Sharepoint trying to be a file system) isn't even in the same league.

My two cents. Keep up the great work. I really enjoy your show.
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