Softbank Pays for ARM, skips leg

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Softbank Pays for ARM, skips leg
Number 2812
Broadcast Date JULY 18, 2016
Episode Length 35:15
Hosts Tom Merritt
Guests Lamarr Wilson

Republican, Democrat or neither, there are more ways to watch the political conventions than ever before. Lamarr Wilson and Tom Merritt talk about the tech land grab for cord-cutting eyeballs.

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The 2 TB version of the Xbox One S will arrive in select regions on August 2 for $399 And ZTE has a 6-inch phone the ZMax Pro with a fingerprint sensor for $99. Here are some more top stories and Netflix added 1.7 million subscribers in Q2 missing its goal of 2.5 million. Goodbye high stock price!
Mobile chip designer ARM Holdings confirmed that Softbank Group made an offer of £24.3 billion in cash ($32 billion) to acquire the company. The offer represents a 43% premium over ARM's stock price. The sale has the preliminary approval of both boards. Softbank said it intends to keep ARM's top managers and headquarters in the UK and double the headcount there. Softbank will finance the cash offer with over 1 Trillion Yen in bridge loans, as well as their recent sale of $20 billion in stakes of Alibaba and Finnish game developer Supercell.
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Opera announced its sale to a consortium of companies led by Qihoo 360 has terminated for failure to get regulatory approval by July 15. A Kunlun spokeswoman told Reuters that US investigation of privacy implications would have delayed the entire acquisition process by six months to a year." So a new deal would sell the browser operations, performance and privacy apps, non-TV tech licensing and a 29% stake in JV nHorizon for $600 million. Opera's advertising arm Mediaworks, Opera Apps and Games and Opera TV would remain as a separate company under a new name. The new deal has until October 31st to be completed with an automatic extension to December 31.
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Microsoft launched its Stream service for enterprise that allows YouTube like video sharing with corporate security tools. It has likes, comments and recommendations all meant for things like training videos and employee communications. Microsoft is also working on speech to text, automatic translations, face recognition and live streaming. Each video can be assigned access rights, access groups, have access removed and be prevented from sharing outside the company. An API will let companies build apps on top of it too. Stream will eventually converge with Office 365 video. The service is available as a free preview.
Germany’s transport ministry has proposed legislation requiring cars with autonomous driving features include a black box like device that would record when the computer is driving and when the human is driving. The proposed law would also require drivers remain seated at the wheel at all times although it allows humans to not have to pay attention to traffic when the autonomous system is engaged. Some manufacturers like Tesla already log these kinds of systems.
The Toronto Sun reports the NFL plans to insert data chips into game balls in the 2016 preseason and possibly on Thursday Night regular season games. The data can tell how close field goals are to the posts and provide evidence in the debate over whether goal posts should be narrowed. Kickers made 84.5% of field goal attempts last season.
Netflix has obtained the rights to stream the new Star Trek Series in 188 countries outside the US and Canada less than 24 hours after it premieres on CBS All Access. Netflix also extends its rights to stream all previous Star Trek series outside the markets where it already has the rights . The new Star Trek premieres in January.

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Hey Tom,
I ran across these sites on podcasts this week, and I thought I’d share them.
Webtorrent.io is an innovative example of video distribution.
Tryca.st is a service for audio podcast production.
Xda-developers.com/xda-labs/ is access to a new app from XDA to get immediate access to updates to apps, instead of waiting for Google’s staggered rollout. From what I understand, the app in the Play Store doesn’t have the full functionality of the one downloaded and installed from the site. Besides several “unlabeled buttons” and XDA absolutely needing to go through their app with Google’s Accessibility Scanner, I’m enjoying having this app.

BTW, I abandoned Pocketcast because of their lack of responsiveness to several emails about major accessibility issues. I have moved to PodKicker Pro on Android. The app still has some “unlabeled buttons”, but not very many. I’ve tried to contact the developer to provide help troubleshooting accessibility challenges, but have not heard back.

So, I guess another recommendation is, if you are an Android app developer, test your app with Google’s Accessibility Scanner available in the Play Store. You just might be surprised that improving the UI/UX for accessibility benefits everyone, not just those who need it.

Thanks,
Submitted by William Madison from blindinsight.com

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Pretty much everything thing you've been discussing about seems spot on.I'm a level 15 resistance agent, I've been playing ingress for almost 4 years now, I was in the closed beta. I have personally made great friends from both factions and meet hundreds of amazing people that I would have never spoken to otherwise. Since the update to the app that records how far you walk, I've walked 890 miles. Compared too many hardcore ingress enthusiasts my stats are meager.

The story line of ingress is progressive and changes due to in game events called anomalies, which trashed place around the world in a battle between the 2 factions. https://youtu.be/AsMsjSrMxhI is an example.

Let me say that I'm astonished by the sheer number of people playing pokemon go. I work at a theme park and over this past weekend we broke our budgeted attendance for the first time in a while.

I hope to see the pokemon go app get better over time and love seeing the people having so much fun with it. If it is anything like ingress it will change many lives for the better. I only wish that my beloved ingress had as much attention.
Sent by Your boss and anonymous resistance agent

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