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Spend your morning commute with GigaOM writers and experts who walk you through the technology news and analysis you need to know.
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The Hadoop wars, HP cloud(s) and IBM's big win | If you are confused about Hewlett-Packard's cloud plan of action, this week's guest will lay it out for you. Bill Hilf, the SVP of Helion product management, makes his second appearance on the show (does that make him our Alec Baldwin?) to talk... | 3/5/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChrome Show: Remote Chromebook access arrives for all | -- | 3/4/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The internet of things will rock your business and here's how | The internet of things will disrupt the hell out of your business and you best start preparing your business to meet that change by preparing to deal in information as opposed to physical goods, according to Charlie Peters, an executive senior vice... | 3/3/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mark Cuban on net neutrality: FCC can't protect competition | As someone who takes her cues on net neutrality from Gigaom's resident expert Stacey Higginbotham or, failing that, John Oliver, this is hard to admit: Mark Cuban may have a point on why the proposed net neutrality... | 2/25/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChrome Show: Everything we know about the Chromebook Pixel 2 | asdf asdfa | 2/25/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How to design security into your connected product | We often talk about designing security into a product from the get go, but we don't often discuss what that means. In today's podcast John Kestner, a principle with Supermechanical, the company behind the Twine sensor and the Range thermometer,... | 2/24/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Microsoft's machine learning guru on why data matters sooooo much | Not surprisingly, Joseph Sirosh, has big ambitions for his product portfolio at Microsoft which includes Azure ML, HDInsight and other tools. Chief among them is making it easy for mere mortals to consume these data services from the... | 2/21/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Insurers may subsidize your smart home, but which device? | The wealth of data and convenience a connected home can offer is impressive. Saving energy or adding security are primary reasons consumers are buying connected products today, but businesses are interested as well. One of the earliest industries to... | 2/17/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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No, you don't need a ton of data to do deep learning | There are a couple of seemingly contradictory memes rolling around the deep learning field. One is that you need a truly epic amount of data to do interesting work. The other is that in many subject areas there is a ton of data but it's not just... | 2/12/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChrome Show: Evidence of a Chromebook Pixel 2 appears | -- | 2/11/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Let's learn about Block Name, a decentralized version of DNS | This weekend brought us a panic about Samsung TVs listening to every word people say in their presence. A little reporting showed that to be overblown, so Kevin Tofel and I discussed how voice recognition worked right now across devices in... | 2/10/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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VMware wants all those cloud workloads "marooned" in AWS | Even though VMware initially called its Amazon competitor vCloud Hybrid Services, make no mistake, it's the company's public cloud (now renamed vCloud Air.) And, [company]VMware[/company] really wants workloads that might run ow on... | 2/4/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Connected apartments may be smarter than connected homes | If you're looking for clean data then connected apartments offer a much better set of information than connected homes argues Sce Pike, the founder and CEO of Iotas, on this week's podcast. Pike, whose startup kits out apartments with sensors and... | 2/3/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Don't like your cloud vendor? Wait a second. | If your cloud provider's lineup leaves you cold, you can jump ship. Or you could wait a minute because things could -- probably will -- change. There's already been a ton of consolidation -- the acquisitions of MetaCloud, Eucalyptus,... | 1/29/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChrome Show: Dell backs Chromebooks in the workplace | Kevin Tofel is a master swordsman. | 1/28/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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This week's podcast unravels the secrets of Thread and HomeKit | For those of you who love talking about radio protocols listen all the way through for our guest on this week's podcast because Sujata Neidig, of the Thread Group and Freescale Semiconductor, doesn't disappoint. She digs into the hardcore details... | 1/27/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Hilary Mason on taking big data from theory to reality | If you're interested in assessing how and when a given data technology -- deep learning, machine intelligence, natural language generation -- can move from the theoretical to commercial use, Hilary Mason may have the best job around. This... | 1/22/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChrome Show: Two new Acer Chromebooks for Education | -- | 1/21/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The internet of mi. Discussing Xiaomi, Yonomi and smart homes | Building an interface for the connected home that won't freak out mainstream consumers is tough. So when I head about an app called Yonomi, that attempted to help the casually connected consumer eke a bit more functionality out of their connected... | 1/20/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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On the importance of building privacy into apps and Reddit AMAs | Given the increasing need to keep private data private in a world of habitual over-sharing on social media and the burgeoning internet of things, the work Jean Yang is doing at MIT is important. Yang and her team are working on Jeeves, a... | 1/14/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChrome Show: Should you buy a Chromebook now or wait? | -- | 1/14/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Wall Street's perspective on IoT and the plague of CES | The internet of things isn't ready to roil Wall Street this year. Or at least that's the conclusion of former Deutsche Bank financial analyst Jonathan Goldberg, who is now a development executive for Paragon Semiconductor and still write analysts... | 1/13/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Cheap cloud + open source = a great time for startups | While the rest of the world binges on IoT goodies from CES 2015, we thought we'd focus on (what else?) enterprise-grade infrastructure. This week's guest, Steve Herrod was formerly CTO of VMware, and so knows a... | 1/8/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChrome Show: The best Chromebook at CES is... | -- | 1/6/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Smart coffee makers, cheap light bulbs and better voice control | This week in the podcast we took on two intractable problems: voice control of the smart home and International CES. First up, Kevin Tofel and I hit up the first day of CES and discussed some of the news we heard and products we've seen. Among the... | 1/5/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Hanging with my husband: His thoughts on our smart home | The Internet of Things podcast is back this week with a short and sweet episode featuring my husband as my guest and co-host discussing life in our smart home. He's playing the role of a normal user as he discusses his favorite device (the Hue lights)... | 12/29/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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It's all Docker, containers and the cloud on the Structure Show | It’s safe to say that Docker has had a momentous year with the container-management startup gaining a lot of developer interest and scoring a lot of support from big tech companies... | 12/18/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChrome Show: The first two Chromebooks likely to appear at CES | -- | 12/17/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mo' money, mo' data, mo' cloud on the Structure Show | If you want an informed opinion on the state of the cloud and the relative merits of the players, Sebastian Stadil's a good person to ask. Founder and CEO of Scalr, a multi-cloud management company, he keeps his finger on the pulse of all the... | 12/11/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChrome Show: Unlocking Chromebooks with phones and watches | -- | 12/10/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Why CoreOS went its own way on containers | Alex Polvi seems a bit puzzled at the reaction to CoreOS's decision to develop its own basic container technology. Many saw that news, announced this week, as an aggressive move on Docker. It's fine with him... | 12/4/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Chrome Show: Common Core and Chromebooks vs. iPads | -- | 12/3/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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More from Facebook on its new networking architecture | Facebook has blazed a lot of trails by open sourcing some of its handiwork and driving the creation of the Open Compute Foundation to drive adoption of a standard servers for scale-out data centers. Now it's on to networking where... | 11/25/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Do you find OSS hard to deploy? Meet ZeroToDocker | It's great that there are a ton of open source projects available for the taking, but checking them out and trying to get a feel for how they'll work out can be tricky for newbies (and even for some more grizzled veterans.) That's why the... | 11/20/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChrome Show: When I'm 64 (bit, that is) | -- | 11/19/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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All about AWS Re:invent and oh, some HortonWorks and Microsoft news too | Amazon Web Services had a lot of stuff up its sleeve this week with its new MySQL-compatible Aurora relational database service, a new Docker container service, a service catalog, and Lambda, an event-driven compute... | 11/14/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChrome Show: Why Chromebooks became the teacher's pet in 2014 | -- | 11/12/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Exploring Amazon's Echo and the retailer's home automation channel plans | This week's podcast is basically all about Amazon in that we cover Amazon's launch of a product called Echo that combines a speaker and voice recognition to offer an in-home personal assistant that's sort of like Siri. But also this week I... | 11/10/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Okay, we admit it. Google may be serious about cloud after all | Some of us (that would be you Derrick Harris) were skeptical about whether Google really, really, really wanted to be in the cloud business. Well we're starting to be convinced after this week's Google Cloud Platform Live event. At the very... | 11/6/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Looking for an architecture for the internet of things? Try DNS. | The same system we use to keep track of web site addresses should be adapted for identifying devices on the internet of things, says Andrew Sullivan, the director of architecture at DYN. In this week's podcast Sullivan explains why we should... | 11/4/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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EMC cloud really isn't all about EMC hardware, says EMC product chief | Skeptics and smart asses (raising hand here) contend that any cloud delivered by a hardware provider is immediately suspect because it's just a way for that vendor to sell more of that aforementioned hardware. There is some... | 10/30/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Building networks that can expand and survive the internet of things, plus some tips on crowdfunding | Getting things online is an essential element of the internet of things, but the way that people can do it is expanding greatly. In this week's podcast my colleague Kevin Fitchard and I discuss how companies like Facebook are expanding internet... | 10/27/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Microsoft's big freaking servers make cloud wars even more interesting | So much news so little time. On this week's Structure Show we talk about Microsoft's latest cloud moves including the beefiest cloud servers known to man (so far, but give it a second); a new Azure-in-a-box appliance--... | 10/23/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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IOT - Why the internet of things should be designed with efficiency in mind | If you imagine 50 billion connected devices all consuming a few milliwatts of power, it adds up. With that in mind, we brought Oleg Logvinov, director, market development at ST Microelectronics and who currently serves on the IEEE Standards... | 10/21/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Former MongoDB CEO talks about stepping down to be a better dad -- and NoSQL, of course | Another week, another Structure Show podcast. In this week's installment, Gigaom reporter Jonathan Vanian and I cover a broad spectrum of issues, from the Poodle bug to the Microsoft-Docker relationship, and the growing attempt by... | 10/15/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mother may I? Building hardware that can change with the flip of an app. | Almost a decade ago Rafi Haladjian saw that ubiquitous Wi-Fi in homes and cheap electronics meant that the internet could become part of everything, so he built Nabaztag, a connected bunny that would interact with people. It was meant to be a... | 10/14/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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While HP splits up, married entrepreneurs build something together | This week's show concludes with an interview with Ann and Bobby Johnson, the husband and wife behind a new analytics startup called Interana. We covered the company earlier this week, but dive even deeper in the podcast, including with a... | 10/9/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChrome Show: Another Tegra-powered Chromebook arrives; this time from HP | -- | 10/8/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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We're already driving smart cars, so when will they be autonomous? | Backup cameras, adaptive steering, lane guidance systems and even automated parallel parking exist in today's cars, which means that by any definition they are smart. But they can't yet drive themselves, which is why we had Kristen Parrish, a... | 10/6/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How Talko wielded cheap cloud services and open source tools to build its communications app | Back in the day -- say a decade ago -- tech startups spent a huge chunk of their funding on servers and commercial software. That was very good for the Sun Microsystems and Oracles of the world, but not so great for the startups... | 10/2/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChrome Show: Low-cost Windows laptops v. Chromebooks | The Chromebook-killers are almost here: This week HP introduced a pair of low-cost laptops that run Microsoft Windows 8.1 with Bing. From a hardware perspective, they're similar to Chromebooks. And Microsoft is wisely bundling some items that add... | 10/1/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Everyone should be a maker. So how do we get there? | How do you make something as complicated as programming -- robots or the smart home-- both easy enough for a novice to get into it and complicated enough that the novice can keep the same tools and expand their skill set to higher levels? Joachim... | 9/30/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ericsson mind melds with Apcera, Talko takes on communications, and what's up with Watson? | Another Structure Show, another frenetic week of cloud, data and even mobile news to parse... First up, mobile infrastructure gigantor [company]Ericsson[/company] made a "large investment" for a majority stake in [company]Apcera[/company].... | 9/25/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChrome Show: You got your Android apps in my Chromebook! | -- | 9/24/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Learning lightbulbs, Logitech's new hub and the ideal smart home owner | What if you never had to touch a light switch again? That's the promise behind the Alba light, a connected white light bulb that contains an array of sensors and learning algorithms. The bulb responds to motion, presence and ambient light to dim and... | 9/23/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Launching open-source projects is easy, keeping them running well? Not so much | Facebook, which has already blazed trails in the open-source movement, launched a new project called TODO (short for "Talk Openly, Develop Openly") that aims to help other organizations progress down the open-source... | 9/20/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChrome Show: Apps can now be streamed from Amazon to Chromebooks | Chromebooks can already remotely access apps on a nearby Windows or OS X machine. Now they can stream and use applications created to run on Amazon's servers. On this week's podcast, we discuss how that and native Android apps fit in the Chrome OS... | 9/17/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ecobee may have the killer app for the smart home and thoughts on wearables | This week Kevin and I began the podcast with his thoughts on the Apple event he attended last week. We both think the upcoming watch is a nice device, but it's clear that no one yet knows what we want a smart watch to do. We decided that with... | 9/16/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What in the world will HP do with Eucalyptus? The company's cloud chief(s) give us a hint | If you think of Marten Mickos as the outspoken CEO of Eucalyptus, think again. HP bought Eucalyptus, along with all its IP and its team, and made Mickos SVP and GM of HP cloud, reporting to CEO Meg Whitman. Martin Fink remains CTO and director of... | 9/12/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Let's discuss IBM's new block chain internet of things architecture and robots | No connected light bulbs in this week's podcast, guys. We're getting kind of nerdy with a discussion of the robot invasion of our homes featuring this week's co-host Signe Brewster who discusses the Jibo robot as the face of the smart home,... | 9/9/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The trials and tribulations of the API economy | Zapier's aim in life is to make third-party APIs -- even crazy APIs -- accessible to people who want to knit together their own "best-of-breed" apps suite. The startup was formed by University of Missouri buddies who decided it would be great to... | 9/4/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Chrome Show: Why pictures may be better than images on the web | Plenty of sites -- including this one -- have changed to a more responsive design, meaning only a single page needs to be developed for all screen types and sizes. These web pages dynamically adjust to fit different screens. As good as that sounds,... | 9/2/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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In praise of a subscription plan on your smart home and wild Apple speculation | There's a battle brewing in the business models for the internet of things between companies that want to offer people a quality service that they control and charge the customer for, and those who are in it for the data or incremental revenue. Kevin... | 9/2/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Here's why the democratization of big data really, really should excite you. Yes ... you. | If you aren't thrilled about the ability to quickly query huge datasets about whatever questions strike your fancy, please listen to this podcast. This week's guest, Kalev Leetaru, is the [company]Yahoo[/company] Fellow in... | 8/28/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Chrome Show: Virtual desktops are front and center on Chromebooks | The Chrome Remote Desktop client can help get around some of the limitations of a Chromebook: Just connect to and control a Windows or Mac PC. What you don't have -- or want -- that remote computer though? Enter Citrix and VMWare, which both announced... | 8/27/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A peek at the Peq hub expected at Best Buy and making the trains run on time | It's late summer, and most of the tech world is devoid of actual news, but when it comes to the internet of things we have a new smart home hub to discuss in the Peq and a guest who can help explain some of the many protocols associated with the... | 8/26/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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In which we ask Aaron Levie how Box can compete with giants and what's up with the IPO | Most observers would say Box is in a tough spot. Microsoft, Google and now Amazon have barged onto its turf of business-focused file sync, share and management. That's got to be worrisome even if some of those... | 8/21/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChrome Show --8-20-14 | -- | 8/20/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Don't count out cellular. It could still win with the internet of things | Cellular connections are expensive and the plans aren't always conducive to connecting 1,000 devices in a go, but that is changing argues Eran Eshed, Co-Founder and VP of Marketing & Business Development, Altair Semiconductor in this... | 8/19/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Linode Founder Chris Aker on why you don't want to mess with The Onion | When he quit his paying job and needed a new gig, Chris Aker started [company]Linode[/company] in 2003, well before any of the public cloud providers showed up. And Linode, a conflation of "Linux" and "node," which he initially ran out of... | 8/13/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Face it: The internet of things isn't going to develop like the web | Maybe it's time for us to grow up a bit and recognize that two or three companies that have the ability to invest in creating an awesome user experience will control the destiny of the consumer-oriented internet of things. The experience won't be... | 8/11/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Proposition: AWS isn't always the low-cost provider. Discuss | Brad Feld just came out and said what some still deem unthinkable: Amazon(s amzn) Web Services is not always the lowest cost provider. Not since Google(s goog) and Microsoft(s msft) hit the public cloud arena like gale force winds. And... | 8/7/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChrome Show: Get a 25% performance boost on Chrome for OS X | -- | 8/7/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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LIFX plans to move beyond lightbulbs with plans for a switch | The company behind a $99, color-changing light bulb that so far plans to work with Nest and Apple's HomeKit is also building out a platform of it's own with a switch that may one day act as an interface for the internet of things. But unlike... | 8/5/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Hortonworks CEO Rob Bearden on the latest Hadoop hubbub | Hortonworks and Cloudera have been in a big-time arms race -- each raking in big bucks from a series big backers -- the latest skirmish was Hewlett-Packard's(s hpq) $50 million investment in Hortonworks. This week's guest... | 7/30/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How much data to a smart home generate? About a 1 GB a week. | In my connected home I've focused mostly on automation, but Stephen Sorkin, the chief strategy officer at Splunk has decided to go a much nerdier route. He focused on data, specifically gathering data from his circuit breaker, his connected... | 7/29/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Devops guru on Cloud Foundry, OpenStack and why startups should steer clear of incubators | Andrew Clay Shafer co-founded Puppet Labs (see disclosure), worked on OpenStack stuff at Cloudscaling and Rackspace(s rax) and is now the senior director of technology for Pivotal. He's seen and done a lot. So it's worth hearing his... | 7/23/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChrome Show: Acer overtakes Samsung's Chromebook sales lead | -- | 7/23/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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You are being tracked in the real world, so what should we do about it? | We're pretty accepting that every digital click we make and our phone's location is constantly available. Some of us even are okay with devices tracking our motion in our homes or tweeting out weight. But as we both track more aspects of our lives and... | 7/21/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Fake Steve Jobs: He's back and we've got him | Do you remember The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs? Also known as the Fake Steve Jobs blog, took the world by storm starting in 2006. Bounties -- and iPods -- were offered for anyone could unmask the anonymous scribe. Dan Lyons,... | 7/16/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChrome Show: Why Dell's Chromebook success is a bad thing | -- | 7/16/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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All about AllSeen, and a bit about the new Thread radio tech that wants to own the home | I get a lot of questions about AllJoyn, so I invited Liat Ben-Zur, the chairwoman of the AllSeen Alliance, to come to the podcast and talk about the organization's vision for a protocol that helps devices talk to each other. She discusses the... | 7/15/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Solomon Hykes on the tricky balance of being Docker's benevolent dictator | Solomon Hykes, founder and CTO of Docker is the benevolent dictator of the super-heated Docker container universe. But with power comes responsibility and he knows that for Docker (writ large) to succeed, Docker (the company) must... | 7/10/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChrome Show: Here comes Acer's BayTrail Chromebook | -- | 7/9/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How to train your smart home and does the internet of things need an OS? | This weekend I picked up a Nest thermostat -- in part because this seems to be the focal point of Google's connected home efforts and because I wanted to see what a more intuitive home felt like. So after three days of living with the Nest, Kevin... | 7/8/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Why you should know about Digital Ocean if you don't already | There's so much news this week we can barely pack it in -- but we give it a try. For starters, Derrick Harris explains why there's so much mad money flowing into big data -- the latest example being MapR's new healthy $110 million... | 7/3/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChrome Show: Making Chrome Apps on Chromebooks | dummy description | 7/2/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Is the MapReduce era coming to an end? Maybe, says one of Spark's founders | If you're into big data, you probably know about Spark, sort of the Swiss Army knife of big data analytics in that it can handle all sorts of queries of all sorts of data types. On this week's Structure Show, Matei Zaharia, one of the... | 6/26/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChrome Show: Google I/O 2014 edition | -- | 6/25/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dropcam was only the beginning. How Nest plans to build a smart home empire. | Today's news that Nest is throwing open its developer program with integrations from vendors that range from Logitech to LIFX looks like Google's answer to Apple's HomeKit program. So we asked Cory Sorice at Chamberlain, about the garage door... | 6/23/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What's up with Google and Microsoft clouds? Hear from the execs in charge | If you're a public cloud watcher, you've got your eyes on Google(s goog) and Microsoft(s msft), the two companies that have the resources and wherewithal to mount a serious challenge to Amazon Web Services. So it's good to hear what Urs... | 6/19/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Chrome Show: What. Is. Project. Athena? | Last month, if not prior, the Chromium team started work on Project Athena which looks like a new window manager and interface for Chrome OS. What might that mean, considering some of the changes are for touchscreen devices? We chat about that, a new... | 6/17/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What is Project RoseLine and why did it get $4M in federal money? | The National Science Foundation gave a $4 million grant to several researchers led by a computer science and electrical engineering profession at UCLA for Project RoseLine, a study into improving how the internet of things will handle... | 6/16/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Want the latest on what's hot in IT (and IoT) infrastructure? Listen up. | What are Twitter(s twtr) and Facebook(s fb) doing to build the infrastructure they'll need for their next-generation services? What sort of foundations are Amazon(s amzn), Microsoft(s msft), Google(s goog) designing to support the... | 6/11/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Chrome Show: A tale of two very different Samsung Chromebook 2 reviews | Early reviews for the Samsung Chromebook 2 couldn't be more mixed this week with one very positive and one fairly negative impression on the performance being published. That's OK, Chrome OS is getting better either way with more tools to... | 6/10/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Digital health is going to need medical approval and a great UI | The intersection of healthcare and connected devices was thrown into high relief these last few weeks as both Apple and Samsung unveiled ecosystems to take consumer health data and turn it into actionable intelligence. But this... | 6/9/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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IBM's Lance Crosby: To glimpse the future of cloud, check out the banking industry | Lance Crosby has a big job for a big company. He's the former SoftLayer CEO who is now CEO and GM of the SoftLayer group within IBM(s ibm). Compared to Amazon and Google, IBM, despite (or perhaps because of?) it's sheer size and... | 6/5/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Much ado about HomeKit, the new Apple smart home framework | Well, Apple made a tentative first step into the smart home on Monday, and companies in the sector are optimistic that it will both help educate consumers about the benefits of connected doodads in the home as well as home automation, while... | 6/2/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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VMware's top cloud guy on why -- for enterprise work -- price isn't everything | This week, Bill Fathers, SVP and GM of VMware's cloud effort, talks about where vCloud Hybrid Services fits into increasingly crowded enterprise cloud market and why the corporate cloud decision really isn't (or shouldn't be) all about... | 5/29/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Chrome Show: Asus C200 or C300; your choice at the same $249 price | It's not often that different device models are sold at the same price so when an Asus representative said both the C200 and C300 Chromebooks(s goog) will cost $249, we were shocked. You don't have to choose based on cost at that point; simply decide... | 5/28/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How the internet enables future cars, and is this the slowest network in the world? | Does the internet of things need a dedicated network that sends data at speeds that are 100 times slower than a 1200 baud modem from the 90s? Sigfox thinks so, and Kevin and I discus why we might want that. We also debate the benefits of cellular... | 5/27/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Raymie Stata on why Hadoop (as a Service) isn't just for tech heads -- marketers need it too | If you're into big data, you have to catch this week's guest, Raymie Stata, CEO of Altiscale, a startup that aims to bring Hadoop to the masses. While CTO at Yahoo(s yhoo) Stata helped bring Hadoop to fruition and now he's building Altiscale, which... | 5/22/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChrome Show: Surface Pro 3 doesn't make for a good Chrome tablet (yet) | Running Chrome in desktop mode on a Windows 8.1 device typically brings a Chrome OS-like experience. That's not yet the case with Microsoft's new Surface Pro 3; the touchpoints are off, possibly because of the unique 2160 x 1440 display... | 5/21/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Chrome Show: First hands-on with the 1080p Samsung Chromebook 2 | Google(s goog) took another step in making Chrome a desktop replacement this past week by integrating native files in the OS X(s aapl) Finder with Chrome apps. Windows(s msft) support is in the works and for now, you'll need Chrome Canary to open... | 5/20/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Thingful wants to crawl the internet of things, but is this the right model? | In the early days of the web people "surfed the internet from walled gardens of content often assembled by their ISP. Then outside portals such as Yahoo started building indexes of sites that one might go to if you were interested in certain topics.... | 5/20/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Heroku CEO on why two PaaSes are better than one -- no really! | Last year, Tod Nielsen jumped from Cloud Foundry to Heroku and now is in charge of explaining why Salesforce.com(s crm) needs both Force.com (for internal apps) and Heroku (for customer facing apps). Over the past several years, Nielsen... | 5/15/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How will your home talk to you? We talk to Sonos to find out. | The internet has likely killed the last media playing device, according to Tom Cullen, the VP of product management at Sonos. The co-founder of the connected speaker company thinks Blu-Ray is the last physical media most people will buy and everything... | 5/13/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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OpenStack must be growing up if we're talking indemnification for goodness sake | Hewlett-Packard's (s hpq) new OpenStack distribution and public cloud is notable for a few reasons. One: Most of us thought it already had this stuff. Two: When vendors tout their plans to indemnify customers to insulate them from... | 5/7/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Chrome Show: Intel is happy to power your next Chromebook | It's late and short podcast this week as we're traveling for meetings. While flying around the country, Google(s goog) and Intel(s intc) held a joint press event with news of up to 20 new Chrome OS devices this year; some of which were announced... | 5/7/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Learn how this hospital is using the internet of things to improve health | We spend a lot of time on the podcast discussing the theoretical benefits of real-time tracking of things or people, but Celebration Health, a hospital just outside of Disney World has actually implemented such a system, using gear from Stanley... | 5/6/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Can CenturyLink cloud compete with AWS on price? | "Yes we can," says its cloud chief | 5/1/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChrome Show: This is the Asus Chromebook C200 | Hosts: Janko Roettgers and Kevin C. Tofel This is the Asus Chromebook C200 Acer is going with a Core i3 in a new Chromebook this summer: the mid-range we wanted? Dead Trigger 2 in a browser with no plug-ins thanks to Unity's new... | 4/30/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Integration drama in the smart home and Lumafit's CEO on new wearables | While waiting for official support on popular devices like the Nest thermostat or the Dropcam line of IP cameras, some smart home hub makers are hacking together integrations that might leave consumers in a lurch when the functionality changes. Kevin... | 4/29/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Linux trailblazer Mark Shuttleworth on why it's OpenStack that matters now | Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth, who backed Ubuntu Linux from the get-go, is over the Linux wars, at least in the traditional single-node Linux incarnation. Now the action has moved to OpenStack, where the old Linux... | 4/24/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChrome Show: Could Motorola revive the LapDock with a Chromebook? | It has become pretty standard to hear about patent licensing deals between Microsoft(s msft) and Android(s goog) device makers. Motorola Solutions is the latest to sign one but it's not just about Android; the deal also covers Chrome OS devices.... | 4/23/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanAre we nearing the Dropbox moment for the internet of things? | Bug Labs, a consulting and design firm behind a of a variety of connected devices and services, is sick of the fragmented nature of the internet of things. So it has created a technology toolset to help tie different devices together and make playing... | 4/22/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Drones 101 and why your August smart lock hasn't shipped just yet | Between Amazon threatening to use drones to deliver packages, to etiquette questions about what to do when you find a fallen drone, the tech set and popular culture has become obsessed with the flying machines. So I asked my colleague Signe... | 4/18/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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OpenStack has wooed developers for years, now it's time to charm users | OpenStack promises a lot: Robust clouds that can support both specialized private and massive public workloads but without fear of vendor lockin. And that is a lot to promise. On this week's show, we've got not one but two heavy-hitting... | 4/16/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Chrome Show: ChromeBleed checks for HeartBleed issues before you surf insecurely | After finding out how widespread the HeartBleed security issue is, it only made sense to find a Chrome extension to help the situation. There are a number of good ones but we chose ChromeBleed because it also works in Google(s goog) searches,... | 4/16/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Enterprise cloud adoption: Amazon is big, natch, but watch out for "vSoup" | Which clouds are doing well in the enterprise? RightScale has a unique perspective and VP of Marketing Kim Weins gives us a glimpse into what's going on here. Amazon(s amzn) Web Services keeps rolling along which is no surprise.... | 4/10/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChrome Show: Asus C200 Chromebook appears while the C300 hides | We knew Asus was going to supplement its Chromebox with a pair of Chromebooks(s goog) but only one so far has leaked. The C200 is an 11.6-inch Intel-powered(s intc) Chromebook that comes with pre-loaded software just like the Samsung Chromebook 2.... | 4/9/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanWhat would you do with $100M? We talk to Prodea about connecting the world | I can control the blinds in my Austin home from San Francisco, but the founders of Prodea have testing their operating system for the internet of things from the International Space Station. The Ansaris, two brothers and the wife of one of the... | 4/8/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanCloudera CEO breaks down Intel investment | Cloudera's monster round of investment this week got a ton of ink but also sparked a bit of confusion about just how much of that $900 million bag o' cash from Intel(s intc), Google(s goog), Dell and institutional investors -- will... | 4/3/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Chrome Show: There's a new "best" Chromebook in town and it's a Dell | People are pretty happy with the Acer C720 Chromebooks; for the money, they offer a great value and there are several models. The C720 is no longer the best Chromebook according to The Wirecutter, which is a great resource to find great products. The... | 4/2/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Let's get industrial data online, and moving the connected home | This week's podcast has a bit of split personality with the first half of the show focused on a very consumer problem -- how to move a smart home -- and the second half discussing the industrial internet. Kevin is planning a move to Arizona, so we... | 4/1/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanDon't like your cloud price? Wait a second | If there's one thing we learned this week -- if you don't like what you're paying for cloud, don't worry, it'll change. Maybe even today. This week saw a flurry of price reductions kicked off by Google(s goog) on Tuesday and trumped... | 3/27/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Chrome Show: Run Android on a Chromebook thanks to Android-x86 | Back in 2009, we had Android 1.6 running on a touchscreen Windows tablet. Fast forward to today and you can run Android 4.4.2 on a Chromebook Pixel or other Chrome OS device. It's not a merger of Chrome and Android but it's an interesting... | 3/26/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dude, where's my car? Plus a tour through a Savant home | Last week I experienced some real highs and lows on the connected scene. Between a tour to a smart home software provider to a lost car in the airport parking lot at 12:30 a.m., this week's show covers a long 24-hour period. Friday I... | 3/25/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Podcast: How mobile is disrupting the living room | What's next for the future of the living room | 3/24/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPro tip: How to learn to love the cloud (and not worry when it shoots you through the head) | Storied engineer Mark Lucovsky started his career working on low-level albeit important technology -- microcode loaders, first-level fault handlers, kernels. In the course of his career and a series of jobs at Digital Equipment,... | 3/20/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChrome Show: I'll take a small Chromebox and a side of Android Wear please | Although many folks pre-ordered the Asus Chromebox(s goog), the anticipated delivery date has come and gone, so what gives? While we wait to find out we can also wait for new wearable devices thanks to Android Wear, which feature Google Now to unify... | 3/19/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanCooking with the internet of things and the coming wave of dumb "smart" devices | Do you want to eat better or perhaps quantify your nutritional input in addition to your footsteps and sleep? If so, Santiago Merea, the CEO of The Orange Chef company hopes to help. He's rethinking how the kitchen works by adding connected devices in... | 3/18/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHow Declara brings together cloud, AI and social networks to help us learn better | Ramona Pierson, CEO of Declara, has an amazing personal history, which includes having to relearn how to walk, talk and see after a drunken driver left her for dead. During her very long recovery, the residents of a senior citizen's home... | 3/13/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChrome Show: Samsung Chromebook 2 benchmarks don't impress | It's far too early to dismiss the new Samsung Chromebook 2 laptops but the early signs based on benchmarks suggest a limited performance gain over their predecessors. That's OK, if you do buy one -- or any other new Chromebook for that matter -- you... | 3/12/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanAnother take on wireless power and the cool IoT stuff at SXSW | I have too many products to charge each night and it's only going to get worse. This is why in this week's podcast I spoke with Omri Lachman, the CEO of Humavox, an Israeli company trying to bring wireless power to the consumer market. Humavox... | 3/11/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The state of private cloud | Marten Mickos has been at the forefront of private cloud since the get-go and witnessed the hype cycle first hand. The CEO of Eucalyptus concedes his company got into the game maybe too early, but has refocused and is still in the fray. He... | 3/6/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChrome Show -3.5.14 | -- | 3/5/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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eat the fitness tracker market? RunKeeper's CEO says yes. | It is hard out there for platform. That's the takeaway from this week's Gigaom Internet of Things podcast. There are the myriad challenges of having to integrate with an ever-increasing number of APIs from new services and devices, but there is also a... | 3/3/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanWhy NSA-gate is good news/bad news for Sqrrl | If the product you're selling is a NoSQL database and services built atop technology with roots in the National Security Agency -- is that a good or a bad thing when it comes to sales calls? Actually, it can be a little of both,... | 2/27/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChrome Show: Plex is Chromecastic while the Samsung Chromebook 2 is elusive | Google(s goog) released Chrome OS version 33 this week, bringing some new features to Chromebooks and Chromeboxes. And it looks like a few new devices are in the works thanks to a new Intel(s intc) Haswell board working with Chrome OS and a pre-order... | 2/26/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Overclock your car and hack the Google Glass prescription limitations | This week on the Internet of Things podcast we focus on Kevin's face and a variety of connected cars. First up, Kevin Tofel and I discuss his method for getting prescription glasses for his Google Glass, which seems somewhat complicated (and... | 2/25/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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New Rackspace prez lays out his plan of action | Taylor Rhodes, who's about 4 weeks into his new gig as Rackspace(s rax) president, admits the company may have spread itself a little thin of late, but it can now focus on what he calls a hybrid system of options. "We don't see dedicated... | 2/20/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Chrome Show: Windows apps on Chromebooks are coming, but for who? | The official Chromecast(s goog) SDK is just over a week old and already some interesting new apps are arriving. You can now 'cast YouTube videos from a Windows Phone and there's some experimental mirroring from Android devices on display. New... | 2/19/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How do you bring the internet of things to the consumer? Two perspectives. | This week we focused (inadvertently) on how to get consumers to adopt the internet of things is large numbers. First up is Om Malik and I chatting about what device is the right entry point for the connected home and why everyone seems to be waiting... | 2/18/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Gigaom Show: Comcast/TWC, the trials of Sprint's Dan Hesse, and Bitcoin's growing pains | On this week's episode of The Gigaom Show, we tackle one of the biggest stories we've seen in months: Comcast's $44 billion bid for Time Warner Cable. As you might expect, we have some strong feelings about this potential deal. We also catch up with... | 2/14/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The state of Hadoop and what's up with Rackspace? | Hosts: Barb Darrow and Derrick Harris Not surprisingly, Cloudera's chief strategy officer Mike Olson sees Cloudera (!) at the forefront of Hadoop use by real, live enterprise companies. But he has other interesting takes on the state of adoption by... | 2/13/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The internet of things is a developer nightmare ... and opportunity | This week's podcast brings together Kevin Tofel's new Pebble Steel purchase, my connected garage door and a deep discussion about data privacy in the connected world with this week's guest Sam Ramji, the VP of strategy at Apigee. Kevin and I kick it... | 2/11/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Gigaom Show: Act 3 to Satya, connected car laws, and online video shenanigans | This week's episode of The Gigaom Show tackles the big news of the week right up front: the ascension of just the third CEO in Microsoft's history, Satya Nadella, to the top spot, and Barb Darrow helps us set it straight. Nadella has got a lot on his... | 2/7/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ford’s data scientist: Keep all the data and sort it out later | Remember that time in Boca when you were stuck behind somebody's grandfather and you realize he's been signaling for a left turn ... for the last 50 miles? Ford(s f) is using data to design cars that nip that problem -- and many more... | 2/6/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Chrome Show: Chromecast SDK launches alongside a new Chromebox | Google(s goog) finally released the Chromecast SDK and we talk about what apps might be coming down the pike as a result. There's also a new Chromebox coming soon: Look for Asus to sell one for as low as $179. And Google Now quickly makes its way to... | 2/5/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Podcast: Meet Skynet, an open source IM platform for the internet of things | Chris Matthieu, the creator of Skynet, a communications platform for the internet of things hopes his creation doesn't turn out like its namesake. But after watching a video where he was able to control a fleet of three drones using a... | 2/4/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Google ditches Motorola, TV viewers ditch social apps, Stacey Higginbotham ditches DC (not really) | On this week's episode of The Gigaom Show, we dive into the big Google-Motorola-Lenovo news, which ends a curious chapter in the history of Google and Android. We brought in Janko Roettgers to defend his point that the standalone social TV app is... | 1/31/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Microsoft, IBM and much ado about servers and how the future will (and won't) be like The Truman Show | What a week: Microsoft(s msft) provides its data center server spec to the masses (well to the Open Compute Project anyway) less than a week after IBM(s ibm) pretty much got out of servers altogether. On our latest Structure Show,... | 1/30/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChrome Show: How to cloud print and get free 4G for life on a Chromebook | We’ve got a new co-host who just bought his first Chromebook and is an active Chromecast follower. Say hello to Janko! Also in this show we tackle a common question on how to print with a Chromebook and talk about the newest features in the... | 1/29/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanInternet of Things: Supporting a connected home is about education, not troubleshooting | When I first installed a SmartThings kit last summer I proudly looked at my pile of sensors, my connected outlets and locks and wondered, now what? It was a deflating moment and could have ended the march into my newly connected life. It's... | 1/28/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Netflix grows, Beats Music launch woes and disparity in the Bay Area shows | On this week’s episode of the Gigaom Show we get into the good, the bad and the ugly of technology. Netflix (nflx) reported another strong quarter this week, setting its site on international expansion and new potential price plans.... | 1/24/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Structure Show: MemSQL rakes in the dough, IBM doesn’t, and the future of MOOCs | On this week’s Structure Show we talk winners and losers. One winner? MemSQL raked in a robust $35 million in new cash, bringing total funding to $45 million in its two year existence. A loser? IBM announced another disappointing... | 1/23/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Internet of Things: Does your coffee machine need its own domain name? | The Consumer Electronics Show was a few weeks back, but Kevin and I just got around to talking about some of the connected home stuff he saw at the show after Google’s $3.2 billion Nest buy pre-empted last week’s show. So take a ride in... | 1/21/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Net neutrality neutered, Nest now Google’s and a crazy search for the Cray OS | This episode is brought to you by Freshbooks. The new year has barely begun, but it’s starting with a bang, and we talk about it all on the Gigaom Show. First, Google (goog) bought connected thermostat company Nest for $3.2 billion,... | 1/17/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Intel goes a little cloud crazy and why Pivotal matters to the manufacturers of the world | This week on the Structure Show we examine why Intel is pushing hard to slap its brand on all the major clouds – perhaps proving that the cloud now really is the server complete with an Intel Inside sticker. But we’re also blown... | 1/16/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChrome Show: Got 2 GB of memory in your Chromebook? Don't blame Google | Last week’s podcast centered discussion on why most Chromebooks come with just 2 GB of memory. This week, we get the official answer: Because that’s what the hardware makers are choosing to use. That means if enough people cry out for... | 1/15/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Google’s new Nest, and NinjaBlocks adds gestures to smart hubs | Host: Stacey HigginbothamGuests: Kevin Tofel and Pete Moore, the cofounder of NinjaBlocksToday’s episode is brought to you by Freshbooks and Fracture (use the coupon code "THINGS"). Google says it’s buying Nest... | 1/14/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CES? More like CE-less to get excited about | The fact that its NFC-enabled badges were the highlight of the show for Kevin Tofel speaks volumes about the state of CES. There was a bunch of cool stuff to be seen (4K TVs! Connected everythings! T-Mobile (tmus) CEO John Legere getting... | 1/10/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Handicapping the clouds: Amazon will continue to crush it (and IT rivals) | Today's episode is brought to you by Freshbooks. Jason Hoffman, former CTO of Joyent and now Ericcson’s(adr) director of digital strategy talks connected cars, worries about whether space-age “smart pajamas” can... | 1/9/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Chrome Show: Chrome’s almost no-show at CES, and is 2GB too little? | It’s CES time again, and our intrepid reporter, Kevin Tofel, braved the big crowds and buffets so you don’t have to. Sadly, though, there was little Chrome news out of the show — a new Toshiba Chromebook and the official LG... | 1/8/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Something about IVEE: Building a voice UI for the smart home | Today's episode is brought to you by Freshbooks. Smart home, make me a coffee! We’re not there yet, but voice control of our connected homes is something we’ll see this year (in the next month in some cases) so my guest this week was... | 1/7/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What to expect when you're CES-ing: 4K TV, wearables and... phablets? | It’s the second most wonderful time of the year — CES time! The Consumer Electronics Show invades Las Vegas next week and we’re giving you a sneak peek. Though, to be fair, as our intrepid gadgeteers Janko Roettgers and Kevin Tofel... | 1/3/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Structure Show: The city of Palo Alto's CIO explains the benefits of open data | It took about 30 seconds for us to decide on the biggest cloud computing story of 2013: Revelations from Edward Snowden that the U.S. National Security Agency gathers information about citizens from pretty much any IT company that... | 1/2/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChrome Show: Canary Chrome OS channel and decluttered pages in Chrome for Android | The new year starts off with a new Chrome Show and this week there’s much discussion on new hardware in the works from Samsung, LG and Toshiba. A clever method will let you run the Canary channel of Chrome OS but it’s not for the faint of... | 12/31/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What’s ahead for the internet of things: Our CES preview podcast | Next week at this time my colleague and co-host Kevin Tofel will be fighting the hordes at the Consumer Electronics Show and reporting back on the cool widgets and gadgets that he finds. But before he takes off, we discussed a bit of what he’s... | 12/31/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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From Snowden to Sonos, and Chromecast to connected dogs, the tech year in review | So, that happened. And by that we mean all kinds of crazy stuff went down in the tech world in 2013. Snooping and privacy were the biggest stories of the year by far, but there was plenty of other stuff for us to jabber about. Like the... | 12/20/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Structure Show: OpenStack follies, Stackmob's new pal and a new theme song? | If you enjoy following the ongoing OpenStack soap opera we hash out the big news that Salesforce.com (crm) will/won’t/may use OpenStack in this week’s Structure Show. Also in this pre-holiday grab bag, Derrick... | 12/19/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChrome Show: Google aims for a bullseye with Dart in Chrome | As much change as we've witnessed in Chrome over just the past year, much more is coming. Dart is Google's answer to an aging JavaScript web world, although it won't totally replace it for programming. Still, it's an interesting situation since Google... | 12/18/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Smart homes aren't dumb, and will employees have privacy in the smart office? | The smart home is still pretty dumb, but that doesn’t mean we should give up or write whiney diatribes in PC Magazine. This week, Kevin Tofel and I discuss this article about one writer’s frustrations with the NEst thermostat and... | 12/17/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bitcoin no longer bunk? AT&T wants to peek at your searches, and Verizon’s LTE Kaiju! | Instagram (fb) shminstagram. Rather using this week’s Gigaom Show to discuss the messaging app we already saw coming, we turned our attention to much hotter topics. Jeff Roberts breaks down whether the $25 million dollar investment in... | 12/13/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Structure Show: Database whiz Michael Stonebraker on the impending battle of the database elephants | If you’re a database geek, or are just interested in the field, you’ll want to listen up this week as Michael Stonebraker sounds off on the shrinking opportunities for legacy relational database vendors. Stonebraker, who helped create... | 12/12/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Chrome Show: Chrome Apps everywhere and a homemade Chrome OS tablet | Want to try a Chrome OS tablet of sorts? It will require a new Windows 8 slate or 2-in-1 and unfortunately, the experience is lacking. However, we learn a few things from the experience worth sharing, one of which being Microsoft's Surface Pro 2... | 12/10/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Internet of Things: All I want for Christmas is a 210-inch, unfolding TV | Whats on your Christmas list this year? Maybe some hue lights or a connected doorbell? For the extremely rich even this Sony 85-inch television might not be enough. I’ve chatted with Eric Thies, VIA... | 12/10/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanApple goes Topsy-turvy over Twitter data as Amazon drones hit your doorstep | Half-hour delivery service from Amazon(s amzn) sounds great, but do you mind a drone landing at your front door? That's what Amazon envisions and on this week's podcast we discover the implications and obstacles of this brave new world. New media and... | 12/6/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Stucture Show: Treading the fine line of AWS love and fear of lock in | Should startups stick with cloud even after they’ve been around for awhile? Some say probably not, but Parse.ly CTO Andrew Montalenti has argued that for most startups it’s best to stick with cloud —... | 12/5/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChrome Show: OK Google, let's talk about being Scroogled | "OK Google, let's start the Chrome Show." So maybe you can't do that (yet) but you can officially speak to your computer for voice searching and Google Now interaction. Interestingly, Microsoft(s msft) doesn't talk about that in their latest Scroogled... | 12/3/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Internet of Things: Connected christmas trees and home hub disasters on this week’s podcast | This week’s podcast has a holiday theme. I’ve had a challenging time reviewing connected hubs for the smart home this weekend, so I share a few things I learned with Kevin Tofel that might save y’all some headaches. He shared a $5... | 12/3/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Gift guide: Chromecast, robots, connected pepper spraying toys and so much more! | Whether you need tech buying advice or just an excuse to tune out your family for a bit — this week’s Gigaom Show is for you! We talk about the gadgets and gear you should get for just about anyone in your life. Chromecast, connected toys,... | 11/29/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Structure Show: In cloud you gotta go deep, go big or go home | This week we wonder what’s up with Joyent and a few other privately-held cloud companies. Must they get bought or go the way of the do-do bird? Our guest Jared Wray, formerly CTO of Tier 3, has a theory on this. As a cloud provider, he... | 11/28/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Chrome Show: Our recommended Chromebook and extensions for new Chromies | We're heading into the holiday season and there are several Chromebooks that would make great gifts. Which one would we recommend right now? The answer could surprise you. We also round up five extensions and apps for new Chromebook owners and tell... | 11/26/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Internet of Things: In a connected world, what is the future of play? | My seven-year-old daughter has LEGOs, Barbies, an assortment of stuffed animals and a Kindle Fire that she plays with on a regular basis. But when our children ask us for tablets instead of toys, what does that mean for the future of play? In this... | 11/26/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Roadmap Rerun: Instagram design less “hunch driven,” more data driven | In the year following its acquisition by Facebook (fb), Instagram has incorporated more data when determining new design features. That was one of the takeaways from Instagram Co-Founder and CEO, Kevin Systrom’s recent chat with Om Malik at... | 11/25/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Gigaom Show: Is Xbox the One for TV fun? HBO on Chromecast is GO! Apple’s big solar farm | The wait is over and the world can once again bask in the cool blue glow of next-generation consoles, as both the Sony (sne) Playstation 4 and Microsoft’s (msft)Xbox One were officially released. On this week’s podcast we... | 11/22/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Structure Show: Here a PaaS, there a PaaS, everywhere a PaaS, PaaS … | Depending on who’s talking, Platform as a Service as a standalone category is a dead duck or it is the IT development and deployment model of the future. Apprenda CEO Sinclair Schuller. Derrick Harris and I try to sort the wheat from... | 11/21/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Chrome Show: A less-expensive touchscreen Chromebook is on the way | Looks like there indeed is a touchscreen Chromebook(s goog) joining the Pixel and it won't cost nearly as much. A variant of the Acer C720 appeared on Amazon's site in France and it includes the touchable web. We also cover what's new in the latest... | 11/20/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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IoT Show: Laser scan your food to track calories and more, and… the internet of puppies! | A variety of services are making our physical world digital and vice versa, but there’s one huge area where that analog to digital translation has lagged — food. Whether it’s an easy way to get caloric information or a database that... | 11/19/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Roadmap Rerun: The industrial design language of Microsoft’s Xbox One | With the much-anticipated release of the next-next-gen Xbox One game console from Microsoft (msft), we thought this would be a perfect time to revisit our recent conversation with Carl Ledbetter, Sr. Principal Creative Director, Xbox Industrial... | 11/18/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Google books a copyright win, printing gets metal, and the UP24 | This week’s podcast is more METAL than a Judas Priest with Anthrax trapped in an Iron Maiden. First off, Jeff Roberts discusses how Google’s (goog) book scanning was deemed legal by the courts. Then Signe Brewster talks about the... | 11/15/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dumb hardware, smart software's the way to go, and geeking it up with Cycle Computing | In what is without a doubt our geekiest podcast ever, listen to Cycle Computing CEO Jason Stowe explain how his company harnessed more than 150,000 Amazon Web Services cores to simulate and analyze 205,000 organic compounds in less than... | 11/14/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Chrome Show: Fighting back on behalf of the Chromebook users | A few Chromebook detractors don't care for Google's laptops; that's OK because everyone should use the right tools for the task at hand. But opinions should be based on facts and experiences, so we try to set 'em straight on this week's podcast. We... | 11/12/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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IoT: How connectivity can help businesses deliver better cancer care | A lot of people think of connectivity in their products as an opportunity to make things more efficient. That’s a primary reason that Ventana Medical systems added connectivity to one of its products in 2006. The idea was to use a wired... | 11/12/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Roadmap ReRun: Erik Spiekermann on Apple, modesty and typefaces | If you missed our mega-awesome Gigaom Roadmap design conference last week, fear not! We’re bringing you highlight from the general sessions, free-o-charge right here, every Monday. Let’s kick things off in style with a talk... | 11/11/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Twitter’s IPO #pops, Microsoft’s CEO search narrows and people love fonts | While it would have been cool for Twitter’s (twtr) stock to hit $140 on its opening day, the newly minted mega paper rich will have to settle for the 75% jump the stock took. On this week’s Gigaom Show, we cover all the bases of... | 11/8/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Structure Show: Is a database bloodbath on the horizon? Mitchell Kertzman doesn't think so | Mitchell Kertzman has seen a lot of database trends in his career — he started in software in 1968 — and has interesting insights as to why the current flock of new databases won’t go the way of the dodo bird as has happened to... | 11/7/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChrome Show: How not to use a Chromebook | As a heavy duty Chromebook user, it made for me sense to get the LTE version of the Pixel. Another tech writer did the same but had issues getting a signal inside a Starbucks: even Wi-Fi was out of commision. But the Chromebook isn't a "brick" as the... | 11/6/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Can your coffeemaker be compromised? Securing the Internet of Things | Security is the white whale of the internet of things. It’s forever discussed, but it seemingly can’t be solved. So in this week’s podcast I called up Tiffany Rad of Kaspersky Labs to discuss how she thinks about securing our... | 11/5/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mobilize Re-Run: Nokia looks to level up maps to make them more like models | Nokia is looking to transform maps as we know them into more like models of the actual world we live in. So said Hans-Peter Brondmo, vice president and head of new product innovation for Nokia Here during our recent Gigaom Mobilize conference in San... | 11/4/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Gimme a break with Android Kit-Kat, the new, old Nexus 5 news and the Twit-storm over photos | On this week's Gigaom Show: Google (s GOOG) held an Android Kit-Kat event, and we have all the news you need to know about the upgrade, as well as all the news you already knew about the Nexus 5. Then we shift gears to the imminently IPO-ing Twitter,... | 11/1/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Structure Show: East Coast vs. West Coast in Big Data and the Hadoopalypse! | It’s always fun to check in with Chris Lynch, the Atlas Venture partner who made his bones at Digital Equipment Corp. (RIP) and as CEO of Vertica Systems, helped engineer its sale to HP. He talks with us this week about the big data... | 10/31/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChrome Show: More evidence of a Chrome OS tablet appears | We may have touched a nerve when suggesting the HP(s hpq) Chromebook 11 over the Acer Chromebook C720; perhaps the HP Chromebook 14 is a happy medium? Chrome OS tablet rumors have resurfaced, but with good reason: Why would the software... | 10/30/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Are parking hassles an Internet thing of the past? And connected seat cushions! | One of the first published articles I ever wrote was a gem called “Parking is a bitch” in my college magazine. Back in 1998 that was certainly the case, but 15 years later sensors, mobile connectivity and real-time data analysis is finally... | 10/29/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mobilize Rerun: A day in the life of a connected consumer | We are continuing our series of bringing you highlights from our recent Mobilize Conference. Today we’re sharing the “Day in the Life of the Connected Consumer” panel. The Internet of Things promises to change the way we work, eat,... | 10/28/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Gigaom Show: Facebook’s violent video problem, Netflix nails its quarter and all hail the designer | On this week’s episode, a beheading video caused a firestorm for Facebook (fb) this week. As the social network grows, how will it handle controversial material posted by its users? And on a decidedly less bleak note, we talk about how... | 10/25/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Structure Show: That time the CIA dropped by Backblaze and how AWS isn't always the cheapest | We’re a success-obsessed culture but most people learn more from their screw-ups than their wins. That’s why Failcon is a great idea, says Gleb Budman, CEO and co-founder of Backblaze. It’s a conference where executives... | 10/24/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Chrome Show: Apple goes after Google services and hands on with Acer C720 | Sure, it’s the Chrome Show, but we had to talk about Apple (appl) after the company made such a ruckus about its apps and iCloud at the iPad event yesterday. Plus, Not long after getting an HP(hpq) Chromebook 11, the Acer... | 10/23/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Special: The iPad Air apparent, Retina’d Mini, and Apple's shot at Google | Apple held its second big event this fall and released a new, thinner iPad, a Retina iPad mini, a free Mavericks, and even fired a shot across Google’s bow with big talk of cloud integration and collaboration. We gathered the group to... | 10/22/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Internet of Things: A Raspberry Pi board for the internet of things and connecting my blinds | This week we’re shaking things up with the podcast by introducing a new segment where my colleague Kevin Tofel and I discuss how we’re connecting our lives and any news that strikes our fancy. We’ll still have a guest for each show... | 10/22/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mobilize Re-Run: Netflix's second screen strategy is all about control | For the next few weeks, we'll be highlighting talks from our recent GigaOM Mobilize Conference as a limited series podcast. First up, Todd Yellin, VP of Product Innovation at Netflix (s NFLX) explains the video streaming giant's approach to the second... | 10/21/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Live from Mobilize: Adidas’ new smart watch and a chat with ARM’s CEO | It was a busy week at GigaOM HQ as we held our 6th annual Mobilize Conference. Between on-stage interviews, blog posts and other general nuttiness associated with putting on a two-day conference, we didn’t have time to record our regular GigaOM... | 10/18/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Structure Show: What’s hot in tech? Amazon’s cloud and productivity apps — no, really! | This week Jerry Chen, partner with Greylock Partners, and former VMware VP, talks about the battle royale brewing between Amazon(amzn) Web Services and the rest of the known universe and why he thinks there’s a post-Office(msft),... | 10/17/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Chrome Show: Dumping the Pixel for the HP Chromebook 11 (for a while anyway) | So is the HP Chromebook 11 worth the $279? Kevin thinks so: He left his Pixel behind for a cross-country trip. But there are some nice alternatives worth considering as well. Meanwhile, all Chromebooks get a boost with updates to both the Beta and... | 10/16/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Internet of Things Show: Intel’s plan to get inside the internet of things | A month ago Intel announced the Quark family of chips for the internet of things, but released few details, and then last Tuesday the chip giant pulled together a vision for the internet of things that involved everything from its... | 10/15/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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GigaOM Show: Everybody's talkin' @Twitter, Nest's hot smoke detector and R.I.P. Google TV | It was a Twitter-iffic week in techland. After filing for its IPO, the company made some announcements with Nielsen and Comcast (cmcsk), had the valley buzzing over a forthcoming book, and sparked controversey over the makeup of its board. But... | 10/11/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Structure Show: Booz Allen's top data guy: the best data science teams are like jazz quartets | When folks hear think data scientists, they usually envision of stats and computer science geeks. And those skills are important, but for Josh Sullivan, VP of strategic innovation at Booz Allen Hamilton its equally if not... | 10/10/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Chrome Show: HP's Chromebook 11 and near-native Chrome web apps | Just a day after leaked documents tipped it, HP and Google launched the HP Chromebook 11. We discuss the new laptop's hardware and explain how you can nominate someone to receive one. Web apps become "first class citizens" in the latest Chrome Beta... | 10/9/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Internet of Things Show: Ding Dong! Doorbot’s connected doorbell finds a home | Hot on the heels of being included as a connected device in Staples’ mass market internet of things push, Doorbot has started shipping the first orders of its connected doorbell. The $200 doorbell allows you to see who’s at the door from... | 10/8/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The GigaOM Show: Silk Road goes, iOS 7 woes and MVNOs | So, of course Twitter filed for its IPO after we had this week’s podcast in the can. As a result, we don’t talk about it on the show, but you can still check out our great coverage of tech’s most... | 10/4/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Structure Show - Fantasy football: Big data’s killer app? Plus HP’s cloud guru on why cloud isn’t Narnia | Prepare for more coopetition in cloud land. Margaret Dawson, HP’s Cloud Evangelist talks about why HP might put its own OpenStack distribution out there for customers to use. HP already uses it in-house, but an HP-branded OpenStack... | 10/3/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Chrome Show: How to go back to the old "new tab" page in Chrome | There's plenty of vocal discord about Google changing up the "new tab" page. Why duplicate search on the same page? It's a valid complaint, but don't sweat it if you don't want the new "new tab" layout, we tell you how to get the old "new tab" if you... | 10/2/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Should your ISP be the glue that connects your smart home? | Your ISP already connects your home to the internet, but many ISPs now want to be the creator of your home’s intra-net — the network of connected devices and sensors that will become the hallmarks of a smart home. I chatted with Mitch... | 10/1/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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GigaOM Show: Amazon Fires, should comments be fired? And iPhone sales are on fire | It’s the most pyrotechnic GigaOM Show ever when Laura Hazard Owen and Mathew Ingram pop in to talk about whether Amazon’s (amzn) new tablets are amazing, if comments and commenters are worth the hassle and... | 9/27/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Data Gravity’s Paula Long: flash storage is like a Ferrari and AWS is like boarding school | Paula Long has a knack for talking common sense in a world where many just talk smack. Long, who co-founded EqualLogic, the iSCSI storage company, whichDell(dell) bought for $1.4 billion a few years ago, is now working... | 9/26/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Chrome Show: Watch Google Chrome take over Windows, and the plug-in purge | SHOW NOTES:Hosts: Kevin C. Tofel and Chris Albrecht Today’s show is brought to you by Mobile Day Chrome 31 brings Chrome OS to Windows. You have to see it to believe it. That HP Chromebook 14 launches on November 3: 9.5 hours of... | 9/25/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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IoT Podcast: Staples to become a one-stop shop for office supplies and smart home devices | Buying a connected device is tougher than one might imagine. For example some products like the Phillips Hue light bulbs are only available in one store, while a product like a connected lock could be sold at Home Depot or Best Buy. If you’re... | 9/24/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanGigaOM Show: iOS 7 features, that A7 chip and how the cloud is spreading privacy concerns | It’s iPhone 5s day! Well, technically it’s iPhone 5c day too but you could already pre-order that model. The hardware has been covered to death already so we turn our minds towards iOS 7: What does it mean for users and for... | 9/20/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Structure Show: Top VCs decry data obesity and Lew Cirne on what’s next from New Relic | This week’s show comes direct from London from Structure: Europe day one where we learned about the “data obesity” problem from VCs Michael Abbott and Jonathan Heiliger and tried to shake loose some details of New... | 9/19/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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GigaOM Chrome Show: Snapseed photo editing and shooting stars | Chris is in Europe for our GigaOM Structure event, so mobile reporter, Alex Colon fills in as a host. On this show, we talk more about the new Chromebooks(s goog) that were (and weren't) announced, dig deeper in the Snapseed photo editing in Google+... | 9/18/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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See Me, Feel Me: The internet of things comes to the concert arena | Show notes:Host: Stacey HigginbothamGuest: Robert Tuttle, executive technology designer at frog Today’s episode is sponsored by Mobile Day. The concert of the future may include the artists heartbeat as part of the performance. How do you... | 9/17/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Twitter IP-Oh yes, it’s on! Stop bashing Ballmer, and suckiest of the suck | Since we already talked up Apple’s new iPhone(s) in a special edition podcastearlier this week, this episode of the GigaOM Show focuses on other big news you should know. Twitter did what we all expected it to do and filed for its IPO. And... | 9/13/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Data guy Andy Palmer on flash storage, stats-as-a-service and sticking with your hometown | If you want to hear about the top, hot data startups in Boston, Silicon Valley and beyond, click on this week’s Structure Show with guest Andy Palmer, who as co-founder of Vertica Systems and VoltDB knows a little something... | 9/12/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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GigaOM Chrome Show: Chrome Apps now, new Chromebooks later | Today's show is sponsored by Mobile Day The newest Intel(s intc) chips will power a line of Chromebooks -- and a Chromebox! -- but details are far and few between. Windows users of Chrome can now use Chrome Apps and live the Chrome OS... | 9/11/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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High 5s! Apple's new iPhones - colorful, a flashy camera and more! | After an eternity (in tech years), Apple (s APPL) finally revealed its new iPhone lineup. While there weren't many surprises, there was a ton of news about the new iPhone 5c and the 5s. We break it all down for you in this special edition of The... | 9/10/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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IoT: Before Google Glass, there was Jim Gemmell’s lifelogging software | More than a decade ago Microsoft researcher Gordon Bell embarked on a project to record everything in his life, from conversations and his physical movements to every web site he visited and all his paper correspondence. At the time he... | 9/10/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The GigaOM Show: Samsung Gear is here, Sony's body-less camera and Microkia | Wow. The summer news doldrums are definitely over. The Labor Day weekend wasn’t even over when Microsoft kicked things off with their Nokia announcement. Add to that a new smart watch and phablet from Samsung and a lens-only camera... | 9/6/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanBox’s Aaron Levie on mobilizing, conspiracy theorists and who writes his Tweets | Many people think of Box as a baby company, but it’s almost 9 years old and thus pre-dates the “mobile first” strategy that many companies embrace now. On this week’s Structure Show Box CEO and Co-founder Aaron... | 9/5/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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GigaOM Chrome Show: Gesture-based browsing with Leap Motion | Today's show is sponsored by Mobile Day We wish Chrome(goog) a happy 5th birthday on this episode of the weekly podcast and discuss how far the browser has come in such a short time. The spotlight this week is on packaged apps; two are on... | 9/4/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Are you ready for some (Internet of Things) Football? A data driven party? | Sensor-packed football helmets, camera-covered NBA stadiums and sensor-studded soccer balls are all generating a ton of data but it’s still unclear how all of it can and will be used. As we connect everything, the amounts of data are going to be... | 9/3/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Twitter conversations, YC’s controversy and Nokia’s connected car | To kind of quote Dante from Clerks, we were “supposed to be off today,” given the impending holiday, the Bay Area bridge-a-mageddon, and the general slowness of the news at the end of summer. But then Twitter went ahead and... | 8/30/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Structure Show: OpenStack guru Chris Kemp on cloud challenges and Space Camp! | This week Chris Kemp, who was CTO of NASA by the time he was 12 (kidding, but that’s not too far off), talks about how he got into the space program and the odd aspects of working in an organization that, on the one hand... | 8/29/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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GigaOM Chrome Show: What’s new in Chrome OS and where did the Chromeboxes go? | The latest Stable channel update has arrived for Chrome OS(goog) devices and we take a quick walk through all of the new features. And if you listen to the show, you’ll learn how to enable a hidden feature: QuickOffice support. A different... | 8/27/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Here's what's wrong with the Internet of Things | With summer winding down, I decided to check in with my colleague Om Malik about his thoughts on the internet of things. After months of griping about first world problems or the hard life of renters after I mentioned a new connected door lock or... | 8/27/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Samsung watch secrets spilled! B&N’s Nook not killed! word2vec has us thrilled! | From smart watches to not-so-smart corporate strategies to way too smart computers, this week’s GigaOM Show has the all the brains you can handle (in an easily digestible podcast format). SHOW NOTES:Hosts: Chris Albrecht and Tom KrazitGuests:... | 8/23/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Big Data is still a big deal and Google storage’s 4 trillion transactions | Some folks say Google’s compute cloud is a distraction for a company that made its name and fortune in web search. Greg DeMichillie, director of product management for the Google Cloud Platform, is definitely not one of them. This... | 8/22/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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GigaOM Chrome Show: New Chromebooks to offset Apple's event? | The Chrome browser saw more updates this week and we discuss what benefits this brings, plus a new way to restore that “new car smell” to Chrome. A recent article speculating about what new Chromebooks might be in the works spawns a... | 8/20/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Hard boiled - Quirky and GE will connect your eggs and crack open the IoT space | Do you have an idea for the connected device and service that will make your life (and others’ lives) better? Maybe you have this dream of a refrigerated crock pot that you can use to keep your dish at a safe temperature before cooking it for... | 8/20/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The GigaOM Show: Fade to Blackberry, waves in the wireless world, and Chromecasts its spell | On this week’s podcast, we discuss whether this is the end for the once-dominant, Blackberry (bbry), and then expand that chat to see how the whole wireless world is evolving. Finally, we take a look at the... | 8/16/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Structure Show: Who will win in cloud and whether SDN is for real | In this week’s episode of the Structure Show, Derrick Harris recounts his big data adventures at a Chicago data mining show and Microsoft’s(msft) latest open-source project. Hint: It has to do with YARN and Hadoop. And we’ll... | 8/15/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanGigaOM Chrome Show: Chrome OS is getting better all the time | The Chrome OS Dev channel gets the spotlight this week with a number of added enhancements that make the Chrome OS desktop experience better. A simple tip also helps push any media from a Chromebook to a Chromecast device. And our extension of the... | 8/14/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How the internet of things will make your wallet fat | We’ve discussed a connected wallet on previous shows, where your bank balance might make your wallet heavier or fatter, but in this week’s podcast we discuss how connectivity everywhere might change the way you bank. Online and... | 8/13/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Is spying on your kids okay? Plus cyber-theft via Starbucks | Is it okay to snoop on your kids with tools like keystroke logging software in an effort to keep them safe? We discuss the polarizing idea after Mathew Ingram revealed he’d been doing so for years. And speaking of protecting yourself online,... | 8/9/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Structure Show: Parsing Hortonworks, IBM, and all of Facebook’s data | Few companies have more raw data than Facebook(fb), so we wanted to hear how the social networking giant parses all that stuff and what tools it uses to do so. We went straight to the source and talked to Ken Rudin, who heads analytics at... | 8/8/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanGigaOM Chrome Show: Photospheres and a custom extension for Moto X | Motorola's(s goog) new Moto X phone may be the first handset to come with its own custom Chrome extension. We discuss what it does, as well as the new touch features found in Chrome Canary. More Chrome OS hardware hints have surfaced in Chromium code... | 8/7/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Should nuclear power plants talk to Amazon? | Corporate connected devices are very different from consumer connected devices. This is the obvious, but worth delving into, conclusion of my chat with Bernie Anger, the general manager of communications and control systems for GE. From connected... | 8/6/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Does Moto X have mojo? Smart TVs: dumb as dodos, Blackhat hacks, oh no! | Will the new Moto X phone be the “best of Android?” Why are smart TVs still so freakin’ dumb? And in a world where all my devices are connected, how can they get hacked? We answer all of these questions on today’s GigaOM... | 8/2/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Meet the Structure Show, GigaOM's new cloud and data podcast! | SHOW NOTES:Hosts: Barb Darrow, Derrick HarrisGuest: David Campbell, CTO of Microsoft Server and Tools THE NEWS:The cloud API battle royale raging among the OpenStack faithful The impact the NSA PRISM controversy on adoption... | 8/1/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Will the Tile tag bring an end to losing stuff? | Last week Tile, a connected tag that you can affix to purses computers, bikes etc. and then track them has scored $2.6 million via a homegrown crowdfunding campaign. The technology inside Tile, and the way it takes advantage of peer-to-peer... | 7/30/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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GigaOM Chrome Show: Chromecasting and torrenting from the Pixel | -- | 7/30/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The GigaOM Show: Google v. Apple gets Chromecastical | The big news this week was the big move Google (goog) made with the introduction of its Chromecast device, which squarely takes on Apple (appl) TV. We break down everything you need to know about the Google-y media streamer and... | 7/26/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Home on the Range, connected kitchen gadgets heat up | One of my laments about the internet of things is that many of the devices focus on solving problems that are a matter of convenience. So while it’s cool that I can turn on my lights from my smartphone or buy a scale that tweets my weight,... | 7/25/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanGigaOM Chrome Show: Better betas and a Flipboard type app in new tabs | The Chrome OS Beta channel just got a nice update and we explain what's inside. Not to be outdone by the desktop, Chrome Beta for Android also has a new release and we have a small tip to make it even better. Meanwhile, some well known software titles... | 7/23/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Emmy picks Netflix, Bill Gates’ future fix and Elon Musk science kicks | It was a big week for NewTeeVee, as we used to call it. From Netflix (nflx) getting Emmy nominations to Apple (appl) and Aereo news, we discuss the big changes TV is going through. From the future of TV we move to the future... | 7/19/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sensors stalking while you're shopping may not be so bad | Before the New York Times posted its story this week on shoppers at Nordstrom and coffee shops being tracked using their smartphone, I had talked to Hilmi Ozgucthe, CEO and co-founder of Swirl, a company that provides such technology.... | 7/18/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChrome Show 14 Same as it ever was | Chromebooks are now the fastest growing PC segment and account for nearly 25 percent of the sub-$300 market. Sound familiar? Yup, but this week, we explain why Chromebooks aren’t Netbooks 2.0. The new screen settings feature is the latest... | 7/16/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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“Jump” for T-Mo? Apple found guilty, and the joy of 3D printing | Evidently, the tech world missed the memo saying July is supposed to be a slownews month. On today’s show we talk about whether people will jump around for T-Mobile’s (tmus) new upgrade plan, Apple (appl) being... | 7/12/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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IFTTT's new iPhone app and a Purple Rain recipe | I love IFTTT, the service that let’s me tie digital services and physical devices together via recipes so when a stock price I’m tracking falls, I get a text, or an email or even make the fan in my study turn on. So I was super pumped... | 7/11/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanGigaOM Chrome Show: Hot MMO action and Chrome keeps growing up | Can you seriously play MMO games on a Chromebook? Of course you can and we’ve got a list of 30 different titles to share on this week’s GigaOM Chrome Show podcast. But the Chrome OS isn’t all about fun and games. How can someone who... | 7/10/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Zynga bringas a new CEO, T-Mo’s low profile and paper cuts | What better way to recover from your BBQ hangover than with a cool, relaxing and informative listen to The GigaOM Show. It was a slow news week and this was recorded early, so we talk about Zynga’s (znga) new CEO, discuss why... | 7/5/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What the bathroom door can tell caregivers about your health | Connected homes aren’t just about saving energy or convenience. Lively, a company that makes a home monitoring kit for people trying to keep in touch with elderly loved ones living far away (or by themselves up the street), thinks it can... | 7/4/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanGigaOM Chrome Show: QuickOffice for some and Pixel Photos app for all | That Photos app for the Chromebook Pixel isn't limited to Google's highest end laptop. You just need to know the right link to install it on your own Chromebook or Chromebox. And if you're on the Dev channel of Chrome, you now can now edit native... | 7/3/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Pandora’s Pink problem, Google’s Loon-y launch and digital pregnancy | In honor of the royalties spat between Pink Floyd and Pandora (p), I’ll describe this week’s GigaOM Show using songs from “Dark Side of the Moon.” SHOW NOTES:Hosts: Chris Albrecht, Tom KrazitGuests: Jeff Roberts, Kevin... | 6/28/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Freak out! ZigBee and Z-Wave are doomed | The internet of things has been possible for a while, but there hasn’t been an open platform that makes it easy to develop services and applications that use connected devices or the data generated by connected devices. Rob Chandhok of Qualcomm... | 6/27/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanGigaOM Chrome Show: New photos app arrives along with a Gameboy emulator | Chromebook Pixel owners finally get the long-awaited Photos app; will it get more people to use Google Plus as a primary photo storage and sharing hub? We debate that question and then express concern that Samsung doesn't have a mid-range Chromebook... | 6/25/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What the next few years hold for the internet of things | As we’ve recently discussed at GigaOM Research (subscription required), there is currently no standard definition for the internet of things. As this technology evolves, enabling more and more connectivity in our daily lives, we can expect... | 6/24/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Why business will benefit from Insights as a Service | In this week's GigaOM Research podcast, Research Director Jo Maitland sits down with Patrick Taylor, CEO of Insight Analysis to discuss Insights as a Service and why we companies can use it to save money and analyze their data. SHOW NOTESHost:... | 6/21/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Will Instagram vids insta-kill Vine? Netflix bits and the cloud! | There were a lot of moving parts in assembling today’s GigaOM Show, but neither a cell phone connection, nor our massive cloud computing conference, nor crows ca-cawing from the trees above could keep us from today’s podcast! We talk about... | 6/21/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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I love lamp! No, really, the Goodnight Lamp looks awesome | Show notes: Host: Stacey Higginbotham Guest: Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino, Designswarm How should we categorize the internet of things? That high price tag associated with connected devices should shrink in the next few years. When our devices are... | 6/20/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Chrome Show: In-store invasion, exploit controls your camera and VP9 | SHOW NOTES:Hosts: Kevin Tofel and Chris Albrecht Google making a big retail Chromebook push Acer drops the hard drive from its $199 C7 Chromebook HP’s $329 Pavilion Chromebook is generally panned by Engadget’s review Smile: You may be on... | 6/19/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Is Xbox One done? PRISM reflections and GigaOM is 7! | We are broadcasting from an undisclosed location this week, so please pardon our slightly audio. But despite technical hardships, we pulled together a great show for you talking about how the Sony PS4 scored with gamers, the PRISM saga continues to... | 6/14/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Connect your dog to the Internet of Things | Connected devices are making their way into the animal kingdom, which may have surprising benefits for humans if it helps lead to acceptance of sensor data for tracking health. Show notes:Host: Stacey HigginbothamGuest: Ben Jacobs, CEO... | 6/13/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanGigaOM Chrome Show 9: iTunes access, longer battery life and a possible ChromeKey | Did you tune into the two special Google Chrome events? So did we, but it was all about browser technology; no new Chrome features or hardware. That's OK though because at Apple's WWDC event we got a hint of what Intel's Haswell chips could bring to a... | 6/12/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The GigaOM Show Special: Apple’s all new iOS 7 and more from WWDC | Apple held its first big event in FOREVER, so we had to pull together a special edition of The GigaOM Show to talk about it. Erica Ogg sat through the keynote and pops into the studio to talk about all (and there was a lot) of new stuff coming from... | 6/10/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The GigaOM Show: Phone theft, patent trolls and the sexy, sexy enterprise | SHOW NOTES:Hosts: Chris Albrecht, Tom KrazitGuests: Erica Ogg, Jeff John Roberts, Barb Darrow Cities want smartphone companies to solve crime problems. Plus, what to expect when you’re expecting WWDC. Obama v. patent trolls, what to... | 6/7/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Who wants a connected device if it costs a lot more than the “dumb” device? | When it comes to connectivity, it’s clear that people want it and you can build some really cool stuff with connected devices. But right now consumers pay a pretty penny for the extra radios and microcontrollers associated with hooking a door... | 6/6/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanGigaOM Chrome Show 8: Mysterious Chrome Mobile events and better voice search for IOS | Google has two Chrome events planned but no indication of what might be announced. On this week's show we speculate the possiblities and share what we'd like to see come from the pair of presentations. Chrome continues to evolve, now gaining support... | 6/5/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The GigaOM Show: Cook n’ Musk, cloud trailblazers and Arrested Development | It was a mellow week in the world of tech news, but thanks to the many questions (not) answered by Tim Cook at D11, our own compilation of the coolest cats in cloud computing and the release of the new season of Arrested Development, we put together a... | 5/31/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Securing the internet of things is like securing our borders. Impossible. | Amid the excitement of the consumer and industrial internet of things, is a maelstrom of uncertainty. How will we secure the internet of things? What standards will prevail? What standards should prevail? How can we respect privacy and open up data?... | 5/30/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanGigaOM Chrome Show 7: Playing Skee ball with a Chromebook and an iPhone: score! | On this week’s podcast, we spend a bit more time talking about the Chromebook Pixel as Chris has traded up from a old Samsung to the newest Chromebook. And the experience starts out with a Chrome experiment that you can try on any computer... | 5/28/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The GigaOM Show: Yahoo’s big moves, Xbox’s big One, HTC’s big problem | Phew! Is this week over yet? Yahoo! (yhoo) dominated the headlines with a $1.1 billion Tumblr purchase and Flickr relaunch and new New York office. But Microsoft (msft) made a doozy of an announcement with the unveiling of its new... | 5/24/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How to design a connected device that isn’t a jerk | The internet of things poses a variety of design challenges starting with the fact that we’re not exactly sure how most consumers will want to deploy and implement connected devices in their homes and lives. Much like people don’t think... | 5/23/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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