At The Nexus #54: Alpaca Poncho

Ryan Rampersad and Matthew Petschl discuss finals or the lack there of, Samba 4.0, Google Maps back on iOS, there's more fiber to come, Facebook's new native Android app, a new status page from Apple for all their Internet services and so much more.

Links

• Samurai Pizza Cats – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Sprint Offers to Buy Rest of Clearwire – Bloomberg
• Prepaid 4G LTE Smartphones for Sprint Brands Coming in Q1 2013
• Dish gains FCC approval to build its own LTE network | The Verge
• BlackBerry 10 SDK Toolkit Goes “Gold”
• Valve confirms Steam Box coming in 2013, says it will compete with next-gen consoles | ExtremeTech
• Intelligence report predicts IT in 2030, a world of cyborgs with Asia as top power
• Samba – opening windows to a wider world
• Hacker group makes good on promise to attack major banks | Hacking – InfoWorld
• ‘Jedi’ religion most popular alternative faith – Telegraph
• Google Launches Native Maps For iOS, And Here’s The Deep Dive On Navigation, Info Sheets And More | TechCrunch
• No Google Apps on Windows 8 and WP8: User base too small to invest in | BGR
• Google Reveals Top Searches in 2012 Zeitgeist Report
• Eric Schmidt says Google Fiber ‘isn’t just an experiment,’ company ‘trying to decide where to expand next’
• Google Play Magazines arrives in UK for light reading ‘on the couch or on the go’
• Facebook for Android goes native, boosts performance and improves scrolling | The Verge
• Facebook Year in Review 2012 – Facebook Newsroom
• Confirmed: Facebook will “eventually” monetize Instagram – TodaysiPhone.com
• Another Apple touch-screen patent in trouble | Apple – CNET News
• Samsung Exec Admits To Using Apple Products, Calls iDevice Ecosystem “Sticky” | TechCrunch
• Jury finds iPhone infringes Nokia, Sony patents owned by “troll” | Ars Technica
• Apple’s Classic Mac Startup Chime is now a Registered Trademark – Patently Apple
• Apple – Support – System Status
• Apple releases iTunes 11.0.1, adds duplicate item finding, includes iCloud, AirPlay fixes | 9to5Mac
• Amazon expands Instant Video to iPhone
• Amazon Launches Dedicated Push Messages For Kindle Fire
• Russian YotaPhone aims to reinvent the smartphone with secondary Kindle-like display | The Verge
• Chinese Women Tasered By Police For Trying To Buy Too Many iPhones – YouTube

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