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Sonos PLAYBASE is off-the-wall wireless for home theater

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Posted by Rene Ritchie on 7 Mar 2017 8:34 am
Sonos PLAYBASE is a connected soundbar for those of us who don't mount our TVs on the wall. A couple of years ago, after my week-out-of-warranty amp decided to start flagging everything as HDCP non-compliant, I switched to a Sonos PLAYBAR for my home theater. And I never looked back. Until today. Now, Sonos has a PLAYBASE as well, and it's designed not to be mounted on a wall but to sit under...

Slack planning voice and video chat, upping threat to Hangouts, Skype

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Posted by Rene Ritchie on 1 Mar 2016 10:45 pm
Slack plans to roll out voice and video chat this year, making the popular messaging company even more competitive with incumbents like Microsoft's Skype and Google's Hangouts. That's according to their 2016 product roadmap, presented to customers at a conference today in San Fransisco. TechCrunch reports: [Voice chat] on desktop will come first, and then the company will focus on making...

Iterate 78: Google designers talk Material Design

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Posted by Rene Ritchie on 19 Nov 2014 12:41 pm
Iterate brings together the best designers and app producers in the business to talk user interface, human interaction, icon design, and user experience from concept to implementation. On this episode — Richard Fulcher, Nicholas Jitkoff, designers at Google, talk to Marc, Seth, and Rene about the origins, development, and implementation of Material Design on Android and the web.

Get a Galaxy Note 4, get 50GB of storage for 2 years from Dropbox

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Posted by Rene Ritchie on 3 Sep 2014 11:58 am
Dropbox is partnering with Samsung to give customers an even bigger incentive to buy the brand new Galaxy Note 4 when it hits stores — 50GB of free storage for 2 years. That's an extension of their existing promotion, but they're also tightening integration, so, starting at the end of September, anyone who buys any Samsung device will get access to all of Dropbox's core apps. Sure, most of you...

Mobile Nations podcast changes and updates!

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Posted by Rene Ritchie on 14 Aug 2014 12:38 pm
We're going to be making some changes to the podcasts we do here at Mobile Nations — Android Central, CrackBerry, Connectedly, iMore, and Windows Phone Central. That'll no doubt excite some people and upset others, but our single, unwavering goal is to make better shows that you'll enjoy even more. We want to respect your time and your interests, we want to stay focused and stay relevant, So,...

Google and HP looking to bring Android's Google Now to Enterprise

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Posted by Rene Ritchie on 13 Aug 2014 2:04 pm
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Google and HP are reportedly looking at bring the power and functionality of Android's Google Now digital assistant to small and medium sized businesses (SMB) and enterprise alike. The talks apparently began a year ago but nothing really came of them. However, with the recently announced Apple + IBM deal everything seems to be moving again. So, how will it work?

Field Trip makes travel information conveniently available in Google Now

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Posted by Rene Ritchie on 13 Aug 2014 11:42 am
Field Trip, the location-based information app by Google's Niantic Labs, has been updated with support for Google Now on Android phones and tablets. This means that when you show up at a new place all the interesting details about that place are ready and waiting for you to access, right in that convenient, card-based interface.

Amazon adds 'Live App Testing' to Android and Fire developers' arsenals

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Posted by Rene Ritchie on 13 Aug 2014 10:09 am
Amazon has just launched a new service called Live App Testing. It's designed to allow developers for the Amazon Appstore in general, and Kindle Fire and Fire Phone in specific set up and distribute apps to QA and beta testers.

The TV Show 11: Doctor Sorry. So sorry...

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Posted by Rene Ritchie on 28 Jul 2014 9:04 pm
The TV Show is like app or game reviews for television episodes. Whether you're watching from the Chromecast in your living room or streaming to your Android phone or tablet, follow along for the week of TV that was. On this episode Dave and Rene talk Doctor Who season 4, marrying the Doctor's daughter, thinking through your anti-life plans, the end of the beginning of River Song, bionic...

Review 17: Godzilla, Pacific Rim, and Kaiju!

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Posted by Rene Ritchie on 26 Jul 2014 10:19 am
Review is like app or game coverage but for movie series, television shows, comic books, and other geeky entertainment. It's great stuff you can watch and enjoy on your Android phone or tablet or Chromecast! On this week's episode Dave, Georgia, and Rene are joined by Peter Cohen and Anthony Casella to talk Kaiju — giant Japanese monster movies! From Godzilla to Jurassic Park to Godzilla...

The TV Show 10: 24 finale, Farscape 1, Doctor Who 3

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Posted by Rene Ritchie on 22 Jul 2014 8:05 pm
The TV Show is like app or game reviews for television episodes. Whether you're watching on your Chromecast or streaming to your Android phone or tablet, follow along for the week of TV that was. On this episode Dave and Rene are joined by Dave's ex-girlfriend, Ashley Williams to talk 24 finale, Fascape season 1, and — sorry, really, so sorry! — Doctor Who season 3, including the brilliantly...

The TV Show podcast episode 9: 24 hour 11, The Leftovers 2, Doctor Who season 2

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Posted by Rene Ritchie on 14 Jul 2014 8:08 pm
The TV Show is like app or game reviews for television episodes. Whether you're watching on the console in your living room on Chromecast or Android TV, or streaming to your Android phone or tablet, follow along for the week of TV that was. On this episode Dave and Rene try to figure out what the hell happened in the penultimate 24, what the hell's happening in The Leftovers, if anything at all...

Review 16: Real Genius

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Posted by Rene Ritchie on 12 Jul 2014 10:21 am
Review is like app or game coverage but for movie series, television shows, comic books, and other geeky entertainment. It's great stuff you can watch and enjoy on your android phone, tablet, TV, or Chromecast! On this week's episode Don, Matt, Guy, and Rene visit Pacific Tech to talk Real Genius. While they don't hammer any six inch-spikes, they do get into Martha Coolidge's directing, Val...

Vector 48: 64-bit, ART, Android Extension Pack, and the state of the chipsets

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Posted by Rene Ritchie on 8 Jul 2014 9:58 am
Vector is a news and analysis show focusing on the biggest stories, hottest trends, and most important issues in technology, past, present, and future. On this week's show, Anand Shimpi of AnandTech joins Rene to talk about 64-bit processors, mobile GPUs, ART, Extension Pack, Swift, Metal, camera and battery technology, and more! Subscribe in iTunes Subscribe in RSS Download...

Vector 47: Google I/O Q&A

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Posted by Rene Ritchie on 1 Jul 2014 4:45 pm
Google I/O has come and gone but we'll be talking about it for a good long time still. And who better to talk about it with than Phil Nickinson and Jerry Hildenbrand, two of the smartest people in the industry. Now, I've watched the I/O keynote twice, but they were both there. So, we got into everything: Android One and what it means for Google and AOSP in emerging markets. L Preview and why...

Review 15: X-Men

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Posted by Rene Ritchie on 28 Jun 2014 8:47 am
Review is like app or game coverage but for movie series, television shows, comic books, and other geeky entertainment. It's great stuff you can watch and enjoy on your phone, tablet, or connected TV! On this week's episode Clayton Morris joins Georgia, Guy, Dave, and Rene to talk X-Men. From the original comics to the animated shows to Bryan Singer's movies, Brett Ratner's something something...

Iterate 70: Google I/O 2014 roundtable

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Posted by Rene Ritchie on 26 Jun 2014 2:38 pm
Iterate brings together the best designers and app producers in the business to talk user interface, human interaction, icon design, and user experience from concept to implementation. On this episode Russell Ivanovic from Pocket Casts joins Marc, Seth, and Rene to talk Google I/O 2014, the new Materials designer language, the paper and ink motif, scaling from watches to TVs, and everything in...

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