May 18th 2016
Tech News Today 1516
Amazon is a Prime Example
Future of Lumia is not bright.
Tonight we chat about Google Home, Duo, Allo, and other announcements from Google Developer Conference Google I/O, where Jason is for the next few days. We also check in with Brad Sams from Thurrott.com and Petri.com about how Microsoft has sold its feature phone division. Sam recaps the Microsoft/Nokia partnership disaster and ponders the future of a Surface Phone.
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Links
- Google debuts Assistant, a conversational AI helper
- Allo is a messaging app with Google built right in
- Saying Hello to Allo and Duo: new apps for smart messaging and video calling
- Daydream is Google’s Android-powered VR platform
- #NameAndroidN Submission Guidelines
- Android Wear 2.0 Developer Preview
- Google takes a new approach to native apps with Instant Apps for Android
- Microsoft Closes the Book on Nokia Assets, Ending in Disaster
- Goodbye, Microsoft Lumia. Hello Surface mobile?
- Microsoft selling feature phone business to FIH Mobile Ltd. and HMD Global, Oy
- Man Who Streamed Son's Birth on Facebook Live Didn't Know He Was Sharing It with the World
- LinkedIn Says Hackers Are Trying to Sell Fruits of Huge 2012 Data Breach