At The Nexus #38: Absolute Ridiculousim

Matthew Petschl and Ryan Rampersad discuss Matt's new blog and error of his ways, more Virgin Mobile news, Google's laying Motorola off, Flash on Android is gone, that Obvious guy is at it again, Twitter just messed up, SMS bugs, more Lawyer man patents that you can believe and more!

Note: We are looking for guests!

Links

• Matthew’s Blog
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• Boost Mobile, Virgin Mobile and Samsung coming together for August 22 event | PhoneDog
• Kyocera Rise Lands on Sprint for $19.99 August 19th; Virgin Mobile for $100 on August 31 | TechnoBuffalo
• Google’s Motorola laying off 20 percent of its workforce as it focuses on a few good phones | The Verge
• Google+ launches vanity URLs, catching up to Facebook, Twitter | Internet & Media – CNET News
• Nielsen: More Teens Now Listen To Music Through YouTube Than Any Other Source | TechCrunch
• The Athena Project: Wikipedia’s big overhaul detailed | The Verge
• Wikipedia Redefined
• Steve Jobs’ stolen iPad unwittingly used by ‘Kenny the Clown’ after burglary – San Jose Mercury News
• Flash for Android dies today, long live the ‘full web experience’ | The Verge
• Palm reborn as Gram, as focus shifts to software, UX, and cloud services | The Verge
• Nokia, Microsoft Invite Press to New York Event
• Lenovo CEO ready to take on Microsoft’s Surface, ‘just one of many competitors’ | The Verge
• Download Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation
• 13 ways of looking at Medium, the new blogging/sharing/discovery platform from @ev and Obvious » Nieman Journalism Lab
• App.net is a real-time social feed without the ads.
• BBC News – Twitter changes provokes anger from developers
• EBay Bans Magic Potions, Curses, Spells – ABC News
• Official: OnLive sold to ‘newly-formed company,’ will continue service | The Verge
• Nvidia launches GeForce GTX 660 Ti desktop graphics card for $299 | ZDNet
• Meteor Counter – Android Apps on Google Play
• App Store – Meteor Counter
• Pinterest – Android Apps on Google Play
• Researcher Finds iPhone Bug Allows SMS Spoofing | threatpost
• Apple “rubber-banding,” “pinch-to-zoom” patents challenged by Samsung witnesses
• Apple expert shines light on Samsung sales in U.S.| Reuters
• Watch this: kids from 1995 convince you to get on the internet | The Verge

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