News From You The Third

News From You The Third
Number	2210
Broadcast Date	April 10 2014
Episode Length	26:36
Hosts	Tom Merritt
Guests	Rich DeMuro, Molly Wood, Patrick Beja, Jon Strickland

Tom’s on assignment today, so he called his most trusted fill-in host – YOU! We’ve got listener thoughts on the Amazon Fire, Facebook and Oculus, the Adobe Creative Cloud, and a genuine Molly Wood Heartbleed rant. Plus Jon Strickland has some thoughts about the (much) bigger picture.

Guest

• Rich DeMuro
  • ktla.com/technology
• Molly Wood
  • nytimes.com
• Patrick Beja
  • RDVtech
• Jon Strickland
  • fwthinking.com/

Headlines

• What John Chen Is Really Saying About BlackBerry’s Handset Business

BlackBerry CEO John Chen told Reuters, “If I cannot make money on handsets, I will not be in the handset business,” which lead headline writers to declare BlackBerry would dump handsets. So Chen wrote a blog post Thursday that said “I want to assure you that I have no intention of selling off or abandoning this business any time soon,” referring to the devices business. So what gives? Pretty easy if you think about it. Chen said he won’t stop making devices soon but if he can’t make money off it eventually he’ll get out of the business.

Stop SAYING REASONABLE THINGS JOHN CHEN, IT CONFUSES US!

• Lastpass to the rescue!

Does hearing more about the Heartbleed vulnerability make your brain bleed? Lastpass to the rescue! The passwords storage and checker won points for fixing the vulnerability on their own site quickly and for the solid practice of encrypting traffic on another level. Now Lastpass users have a handy tool to help them decide if and when to change passwords due to heartbleed. The security checkler function in lastpass wills can all stored passwords and highlight any servers that have not patched OpenSSL 1.01 PLUS whether they’ve updated their security certificate. It’s all summarized in an action entry that either says wait, or Go update.

• Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) group has released a Module Developers Kit (MDK) for Project Ara

TechCrunch reports Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) group has released a Module Developers Kit (MDK) for Project Ara, its forthcoming modular smartphone. That means hardware developers can start working on modules that would fit into the Google-made endoskeleton. Without independent companies making lots of modules, Project Ara won’t be very interesting, so go et ‘em developers.

• Facebook is taking the messaging capability out of the standard Facebook app

TechCrunch also reports Facebook is taking the messaging capability out of the standard Facebook app. That means you’ll need to download the Facebook Messenger app if you want to chat with friends on the service on your mobile device. People who already downlaoded the Messenger app might not notice since the messenger tab automatically detects the messenger app and links to it if it’s there. Facebook will roll the change out slowly, starting in Europe and notify users several times before the messaging tabs actually disappears. The change doesn’t affect users of Facebook’s Paper app.

• Sen. Franken: Comcast can't have it both ways

Remember Comcast submitted their 180-page filing on why a merger with Time Warner Cable would be good? Among the many reasons Comcast pointed out they don’t compete with TWC because they have no overlapping markets. CNET reports, Senator Al Franken found that interesting. During a US Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the merger, Senator Franken pointed out Comcast cited competition with Time Warner Cable as a reason to approve Comcast’s acquisition of NBC Universal in 2010. The hearing does not have any direct influence over approval of the merger.

• Dropbox-owned mailbox app is now available for Android

The Dropbox-owned mailbox app is now available for Android. Engadget reports it even has some features not found int he iOS version., including a new auto-swipe feature that teaches the app which emails you archive and defer until later and acts appropriately when it sees them. The company also showed off a preview of mailbox for the desktop.

• Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox Board

Dropbox also made the news with the addition of Dr. Condoleeza Rice to its board of Directors. PC Magazine reports that Dropbox CEO Drew Houston made the announcement along with the news that Sujay Jaswa and Dennis Woodside have been named CFO and COO, respectively. Rice has been Provost of Stanford University, served on the board of several companies like HP and Charles Schwab, and is likely best known for serving as US Secretary of State under President George W. Bush. Rice was also National Security Advisor from 2002 until 2005. That is an advisory White House position with no authority over any departent.

News From You

• Heartbleed and the long tail of the internet

Submitted by Toby Pinder

• Dropbox updates

Submitted by RIch DeMuro

• Adobe Creative Cloud

Submitted by Justin Crowell

• Amazon Fire

Submitted by Dave from Allen, TX

• On media portability across devices

Submitted by David Brodbeck

• On chips!

Submitted by Rich from Lovely Cleveland

• On Facebook and Oculus

'Submitted by Richard Ya

• A Molly rant and article on Heartbleed

Submitted by Molly Wood

• On airlines using Twitter for customer service

Submitted by Daemon

• On Chromium OS

Submitted by Guillaume

• On Windows 8.1

Submitted by Patrick Beja

• On universal search

Submitted by Kencade Babb

• And Jon Strickland of Thinking, co-host of TechStuff, and HowStuffWorks writer leaves us with some thoughts on the bigger picture.

Submitted by Jon Strickland

Pick of the Day

• VUDU

Submitted by Tony Vahl

• Gooseberry project

Submitted by metalfreak

• Run Zombies Run!

Submitted by Sean Palladino

Links

• dailytechnewsshow.com/dtns-2210-news-from-you-the-third
• patreon.com/acedtect
• subreddit

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