On this week’s episode, Don Donofrio returns to discuss possible paths ahead for of Apple this year as the company comes off a record-breaking quarterly profit and a surging stock price. El Kaiser and J.D. have some things to say about Facebook’s new autoplay audio on videos, the price war between Verizon Wireless and
T-Mobile for unlimited data plans, and new tools for Google Maps. Oh, and the Queen of England is doing her part in the global war on cybercrime. Tally-ho!
Links to Stories in This Week’s News Segment
- Keep track of your favorite places and share them with friends (Google blog)
- How-to: Spectator View, a new tool to help others see what you see in HoloLens (Windows blog)
- Apple joins Wireless Power Consortium/Qi, lending weight to rumor of wireless charging for iPhone 8 (9to5Mac)
- One of the iPhone 8’s hottest new features might not even work out of the box (BGR.com)
- Eddy Cue says Planet of the Apps will premiere this spring and be ad-free (9to5Mac.com)
- Get unlimited data on the network you deserve (Verizon)
- Mobile ONE ups Verizon’s new unlimited offer (T-Mobile Newsroom)
- New ways to watch Facebook video (Facebook)
- Facebook tries to offer music labels a YouTube alternative (Bloomberg)
- Elon Musk thinks humans need to become cyborgs or risk irrelevance (The Verge)
- Amazon Chime, a new unified communications service (Businesswire.com)
- UK cybercrime body launches private sector drive as Queen opens new HQ (Reuters)