CortanaOS

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CortanaOS
Number 2725
Broadcast Date MARCH 31, 2016
Episode Length 41:17
Hosts Tom Merritt
Guests Justin Robert Young

Are virtual assistants the next app store? As Microsoft pushes Cortana served by Azure, to take over mobile Amazon’s leveraging Alexa to win your home. Justin Young and Tom Merritt discuss.

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Headlines

Microsoft announced that Xamarin will be included in all versions of Visual Studio including the free Community edition. Xamarin allows developers to use .NET and C# to build applications for iOS and Android. Microsoft will also open source the Xamarin SDK over the next few months, releasing them on GitHub.
Amazon has added more than 100 brands that use its Dash Button for ordering products. New products now include snacks, vitamins and beverages in addition to assorted home cleaning products. According to Daniel Rausch director of Amazon Dash, Dash Button orders have grown by more than 75% over the past 3 months.
Submitted by habichuelacondulce
ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley reports on Microsoft’s introduction of a preview of Azure Functions, a serverless compute service. Its runtime will be open sourced. Its well-suited for Internet of Things but scales to demand and only charges for the period of time when functions run. You can also purchase Azure IoT starter kits today for between $50 and $160 for building prototype Azure IoT services. Each kit comes with a development board, sensors, actuators and tutorials. Microsoft also announced a new tool called Power BI Embedded for in-app data visualization in your own applications. The tool will be free to try until December 1.
Prosecuting attorney Cody Hiland in Faulkner County, Arkansas told the AP Wednesday that the FBI will help unlock an iPhone and iPod belonging to two people accused of murder. Prosecutors believe the phones may hold evidence related to murders last July. Hiland made the request after hearing of the FBI’s success unlocking an iPhone 5C in a case in San Bernardino, California.
Submitted by flo-BAMA and motang
As they do with all new products the folks at iFixit have torn apart the new Oculus Rift headset. The custom display has two 1080 x 1200 OLED screens have a pixel density of 461 PPI, somewhere between the iPhone 6 Plus’s 401 PPI and the Galaxy S7’s 576. Concentric rings on a hybrid fresnel lens system give a large viewing angle and focal length. A slope on the back of the lens lets the you aajust focus by moving the headset higher or lower on your face. Ifixit gives a 7 out of 10 repairability score.
Square Enix announced Wednesday that Final Fantasy Fifteen will come to PS4 and Xbox One on September 30th. This is the current name of the game announced in 2006 as Final Fantasy Versus Thirteen. A free demo is available now for both platforms. A mobile game for iOS and Android called Justice Monsters Five, a feature film with the voices of Aaron Paul, Lena Headey and Sean Bean, and a prequel anime series called Brotherhood were also announced. Special edition packages are up from preorder now.
California Assemblyman Mike Gatto proposed legislation that would require ISPs to let customers to cancel online. Gatto’s bill says "If a cable or Internet service provider enables an individual to subscribe to its services through an Internet Web site, it shall also enable all of its customers to cancel their subscriptions through the Internet Web site."
Submitted by yaniv05
Shanghai Securities News announced Thursday that the China Computer Go team plans to issue a challenge to DeepMind’s AlphaGo AI by the end of 2016. While we wait for the current reigning Go champion to be next in line for AlphaGo it seems we can look forward to AI vs. AI battles in 2017!
Xiaomi’s Hugo Barra and Manu Jain announced the Mi5 smartphone will come to India, just five weeks after being introduced in China. The 5.15-inch glass backed phone with 32GB of storage goes on sale April 5 for INR 24,999 (US$376). The higher-end ceramic Mi5 was not announced for India.
The US FCC voted 3-2 to propose Commissioner Tom Wheeler’s privacy policy that would require ISPs to get consent and disclose collction and breaches around customer information. A public comment period now begins seeking additional or alternative paths.
And in other notes, Google has extended its Cardboard VR development kit to include tools for Apple’s iOS. Tesla fans lined up outside Tesla showrooms for a look at the public debut of the Model 3. And Apple released iOS 9.3.1 to fix a bug causing links to stop working in some apps.

Discussion

Pick of the Day

My pick is Zencastr.com, a web service that records the audio locally and uploads automatically through the browser. After the show is finished the host of the session gets a separate audio file for each person in a folder in their Dropbox account. The service also has the option of creating a mixed version that has basic noise reduction and compression applied.

Getting a guest to use it just requires sending them a link and making sure they have the microphone selected. We use it with Skype and Hangouts, but there is also a built in VOIP service that works pretty well in our limited testing. Zencastr is currently in beta, but the developer does plan on charging $10 or $20 for different tiers once it's released. It works in Firefox and Chrome, but currently works best in Chrome.
Submitted by Jeremy

Messages

Tom-

While the idea of Amazon opening a centralized location in Kansas seems like a good idea to pursue, I thought it'd be important to add they just closed a large warehouse in Coffeyville, KS a year ago that had been in operation since 1999 and once employed >1000.

http://www.kansas.com/news/business/real-estate-news/article2411676.html

The recent announcement also drew ire against the Governor over the jobs "created" as well as incentives offered by our cash-strapped state:

http://www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/yael-t-abouhalkah/article68599242.html

Also, it's not so much that Kansas has cheap labor, more that cost of living is much lower here. That said, I'd expect average wages to be higher in the greater Kansas City area versus their previous Coffeyville location.

This may have been a political move as much as it may have been a logistical one.

I should probably add Coffeyville is about 2hrs south of Edgerton, and has a population of 10,200 vs Kansas City metro's 2.4million.

Proud supporters,
Sent by Jeff and Karen


Microsoft specifically said that in the Anniversary update, UWP apps can be installed with a simple double-click.

You only have to do commerce through the Windows Store if you sell the app or game through the Windows Store, just like other platforms.
Sent by An anonymous Microsoft person


In the Tech News that virtually no one here cares about... Mobotix Vision Systems (a high end security camera company) has agreed to sell 65% of their shares to Konica- Minolta. That is a BIG shift since Mobotix is a German company and they use that as a fairly large selling point.
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