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314: Moved to Tears

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This week, Samsung’s got its finger on the pulse, Kickstarter’s been hacked, Candy Crush reaches a new level, Facebook adds more pronouns and knows WhatsApp, Bitcoin falls due to a glitch, the biggest game of Pokémon ever, and more...

What We're Playing With

Andy: House of Cards, season 2; Whisper
Dwayne: Secret

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Music Break: Girls and Boysby Blur

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Music Break: Pokémon Red/Blue theme by Kanto Symphony

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Geeks Of Doom’s The Drill Down is a roundtable-style audio podcast where we discuss the most important issues of the week, in tech and on the web and how they affect us all.

Hosts are Geeks of Doom contributor Andrew Sorcini (Mr. BabyMan), marketing research analyst Dwayne De Freitas, and Box tech consultant Tosin Onafowokan. Occasionally joining them is Startup Digest CTO Christopher Burnor.

Direct download: The_Drill_Down_-_Show_314.mp3
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313: The Brief Rise and Fall of Flappy Bird

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This week, Sony ditches the PC market, Comcast buys Time Warner Cable, Amazon’s ready to play games, GoPro goes for IPO, Google shows their true colors, ‘Flappy Bird’ gets its wings clipped, and more...

What We're Playing With
Dwayne: Piper smart home/ security (Indigogo)
Tosin: Broken Age

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Music Break: Fly Robin Flyby Silver Convention

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Music Break: Free Fallin' by Tom Petty

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Hosts are Geeks of Doom contributor Andrew Sorcini (Mr. BabyMan), marketing research analyst Dwayne De Freitas, and Box tech consultant Tosin Onafowokan. Occasionally joining them is Startup Digest CTO Christopher Burnor.

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This week, Microsoft has a new CEO, Facebook turns ten and releases a new app, the NSA plays favorites with Yahoo, and journalists in Sochi are getting insta-hacked.

What We're Playing With
Dwayne: Nest

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Music Break: Soviet Connection by Michael Hunter

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Hosts are Geeks of Doom contributor Andrew Sorcini (Mr. BabyMan), marketing research analyst Dwayne De Freitas, and Box tech consultant Tosin Onafowokan. Occasionally joining them is Startup Digest CTO Christopher Burnor.

Direct download: The_Drill_Down_-_Show_312.mp3
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This week, Google sells Motorola and gets one step closer to SkyNet, NetFlix and Nintendo aren’t going to give up that easily, the Macintosh turns 30, and one more reason to be angry at Angry Birds...

What We're Playing With
Andy: ZyXel NSA 320
Tosin: Lightpack, Elgato Game Capture HD

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Music Break: Extraordinary Machine by Fiona Apple (get it?)

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Hosts are Geeks of Doom contributor Andrew Sorcini (Mr. BabyMan), marketing research analyst Dwayne De Freitas, and Box tech consultant Tosin Onafowokan. Occasionally joining them is Startup Digest CTO Christopher Burnor.

Direct download: The_Drill_Down_-_Show_311.mp3
Category:technology -- posted at: 7:30am EDT

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This week, Apple refunds consumers whose kids clicked on mobile app purchases, President Obama reigns in the NSA, the end of physical film in theaters is near, Google unveils plans for smart contact lenses, and will your next Amazon package arrive before you’ve even ordered it?

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Music Break: In Your Eyes by Peter Gabriel

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Music Break: I Know What You Want by Busta Rhymes and Mariah Carey feat. Flipmode Squad

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Hosts are Geeks of Doom contributor Andrew Sorcini (Mr. BabyMan), marketing research analyst Dwayne De Freitas, and Box tech consultant Tosin Onafowokan. Occasionally joining them is Startup Digest CTO Christopher Burnor.

Direct download: The_Drill_Down_-_Show_310.mp3
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This week, the NSA uses radio waves to spy on offline PCs, credit-card hacking comes to luxury retail, Google buys into home automation, and is Net Neutrality on the chopping block?

What We're Playing With
Andy: Jelly / Questions
Dwayne: PBS on Apple TV. Tesla Model S
Tosin: Box iOS App

Headlines

Audible Book of the Week

Music Break: Redemption Song by Rihanna

Hot Topic

Music Break: Keep It To Yourself by Sonny Boy Williamson

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Hosts are Geeks of Doom contributor Andrew Sorcini (Mr. BabyMan), marketing research analyst Dwayne De Freitas, and Box tech consultant Tosin Onafowokan. Occasionally joining them is Startup Digest CTO Christopher Burnor.

Direct download: The_Drill_Down_-_Show_309.mp3
Category:technology -- posted at: 7:00am EDT

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We ring in the New Year with our first new show of 2014! This week we discuss a new Pebble watch, cloud gaming on Sony Playstation, T-Mobile wants to pay you to switch, Facebook is dead to teens, are digital music downloads already obsolete?...the legacy of the Snowden NSA leaks, and a cube that balances on its edge.

What We're Playing With
Andy: Tomb Raider, iMagnet mount, 12 Days of Gifts
Dwayne: Comixology
Tosin: Monaco, iPad mini, Star Wars: Machete Order

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Audible Book of the Week

Music Break: New Friend Request by Gym Class Heroes

Hot Topic: Lessons Learned in 2013

Music Break: The Box by Orbital

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Hosts are Geeks of Doom contributor Andrew Sorcini (Mr. BabyMan), marketing research analyst Dwayne De Freitas, and Box tech consultant Tosin Onafowokan. Occasionally joining them is Startup Digest CTO Christopher Burnor.

Direct download: The_Drill_Down_-_Show_308.mp3
Category:technology -- posted at: 7:00am EDT

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On this week’s show: Google previously bought seven robotics companies, and this week it buys the Big Dog (literally), Sprint guns for T-Mobile, Instagram wants a piece of Snapchat’s action, Twitter changes blocking--then changes their mind, are the NSA’s actions unconstitutional?

What We're Playing With

Andy: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug in HFR 3D
Dwayne: New Pebble Update
Greg: Google Music All Access; woes with the Nexus 4

Headlines

Audible Book of the Week

Music Break: God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen/We Three Kings by Barenaked Ladies (ft. Sarah McLachlan)

Hot Topic: NSA Held to Account

Music Break: Rapper's Delight by Sugar Hill Gang

Final Word: Everything is a Remix

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Everything is a Remix Case Study: The iPhone


Outro: Long December by Counting Crows

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Hosts are Geeks of Doom contributor Andrew Sorcini (Mr. BabyMan), marketing research analyst Dwayne De Freitas, and Box tech consultant Tosin Onafowokan. Occasionally joining them is Startup Digest CTO Christopher Burnor.

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Category:technology -- posted at: 5:00am EDT

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This week, The Drill Down crew looks back at the year in tech and the web for the year 2013. We’ll discuss our favorite tech events of the past year, and what we can expect in 2014.

Before that, however, we discuss recent a discovery that the NSA sought to spy on gamers, eight top tech companies ban together to reform surveillance laws, and is Apple's iBeacon just a marketing gimmick, or are there bigger plans in store?

Headlines

Audible Book of the Week

Music Break: Top of the Pops 2013 (Hey Brother) by Mashup-Germany

Hot Topic: Top Tech Stories of 2013
Dwayne:

  1. <Sigh> Edward Snowden: The government of the free’est land in the world, has conspired to undermine its citizen’s rights to privacy on multiple levels.
  2. The Quantified Self/Wearable Tech Revolution (Rumoured Apple Watch, the M7, Samsung Watch, Pebble, & FitBit)
  3. Old Media resurrected by New Media: Veronica Mars/Kickstarter; Arrested Dev/Netflix; Microsoft Xbox/Heroes
  4. Amazon ascends: Mature Tablets(G3), Mayday, Kindle(G6) crushing Nook, US Post Office connection, Prime INstat Video (Original productions like Alpha House and Betas), Prime Air
  5. Netflix wins Emmys
  6. iOS 7 - More than a redesign, an exclamation of a new era of leadership at the largest tech company in the world.

Tosin:

  1. Disney purchases Lucasfilm
  2. Bitcoin hits 1 Billion
  3. Balmer steps down Microsoft
  4. FCC allows use of cell phone
  5. New Tech Bubble: Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat

Andrew:

  1. Edward Snowden NSA Leaks
  2. Netflix/”binge viewing”
  3. Console Wars 2013 (XBox/PS)
  4. Google Glass

Music Break: United State of Pop 2013 (Living the Fantasy) by DJ Earworm

Biggest Fails of 2013

  • NOKIA mobile BOUGHT BY MS
  • NSA allowing Snowden to steal data
  • Nintendo and the Wii U
  • Maybe RIM makeover? Rebranded
  • Microsoft DRM Xbox One

Predictions for 2014

  • Amazon about to be a tech leader on par w/ Google/Apple/Microsoft
  • Re-emergence of PC Gaming
  • Year of the Cloud

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Pop Danthology by Daniel Kim

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Hosts are Geeks of Doom contributor Andrew Sorcini (Mr. BabyMan), marketing research analyst Dwayne De Freitas, and Box tech consultant Tosin Onafowokan. Occasionally joining them is Startup Digest CTO Christopher Burnor.

Direct download: The_Drill_Down_-_Show_306_Year_In_Review_2013.mp3
Category:technology -- posted at: 5:30am EDT

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This week, the NSA tracks your cellphones and knows where you are, Americans boost Black Friday & Cyber Monday to record highs, and the future of commerce is in drones and robots, and it’s not that far off...

What We're Playing With:
Andy: UltraViolet/Vudu, The Stanley Parable
Dwayne: Doctor Who Official 50th Celebration
Tosin: R2-D2 Builders

Headlines

Audible Book of the Week

Music Break: Robocop by Basil Poledouris

Hot Topic: The Future is Drones & Robots

Music Break: Terminator 2 by Brad Fiedel

Final Word

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Outro: Blade Runner by Vangelis

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Geeks Of Doom’s The Drill Down is a roundtable-style audio podcast where we discuss the most important issues of the week, in tech and on the web and how they affect us all.

Hosts are Geeks of Doom contributor Andrew Sorcini (Mr. BabyMan), marketing research analyst Dwayne De Freitas, and Box tech consultant Tosin Onafowokan. Occasionally joining them is Startup Digest CTO Christopher Burnor.

Direct download: The_Drill_Down_-_Show_305.mp3
Category:technology -- posted at: 6:30am EDT