At The Nexus #61: What If I Had One Right Here?

The the biggest week so far this year, Ryan Rampersad and Matthew Petschl with guest, Sam Ebertz, discuss Microsoft's Windows 8 and Surface decline, streaming video bonanzas, legal piracy, more Java issues, and more BLACKBERRY news than ever before with some hands on time with an amazing phone.

Links

• Windows 8 Grabs 2.36% Market Share, Windows 7 Drops
• Microsoft Launches Modern.IE To Help Developers Test Their Web Apps For Legacy And Modern Versions Of IE | TechCrunch
• Firefox Moves To Block Java, Silverlight, Adobe Reader – Security –
• Microsoft’s 64GB Surface Pro will only have 23GB usable storage | The Verge
• Verizon rolls out new prepaid wireless plans, but only for 3G smartphones | The Verge
• T-Mobile confirms trials for GoSmart Mobile prepaid, may take it US-wide in 2013
• Netflix launches all 13 episodes of ‘House of Cards’ | Internet & Media – CNET News
• Amazon scores Downton Abbey as a subscription streaming exclusive from June 18th (update: timing leak)
• Sony Is Teasing Something PlayStation-Related for February – Digits – WSJ
• Apple to discontinue Mac Pro in Europe March 1st over new regulatory standards | 9to5Mac
• Apple Increases iPad with Retina Display to 128GB – MarketWatch
• New York Times says targeted by China hackers after Wen report| Reuters
• Twitter Hacked, 250,000 User Accounts Potentially Compromised – Mike Isaac – Social – AllThingsD
• Antigua’s Legal “Pirate Site” Authorized by the World Trade Organization | TorrentFreak
• Facebook Might Owe You $10
• Amazon Responds To Outage, Confirms Offline For 49 Mins, AWS Unaffected, Outside Groups Uninvolved | TechCrunch
• Canonical might dump interim releases by 14.04, switch to rolling releases | ExtremeTech
• Oracle Releases Java 7 Update 13 to Address Security Issues, Reenable Web Plug-in on OS X – Mac Rumors
• UPnP Flaw Leaves Millions of Networked Devices Vulnerable to Attack | Maximum PC
• Backdoor accounts found in networking and security appliances from Barracuda Networks – Network World
• Inconsolata
• Courier Prime – A Courier made for screenplays. | Quote-Unquote Apps
• Minicom – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• BlackBerry Z10 official: 4.2-inch 1,280 x 768 display, 1.5GHz dual-core Snapdragon S4 Plus, LTE, BB 10 for $200
• BlackBerry Z10 Camera: The Worst Low-Light Performance We’ve Seen in a Long Time
• RIMM Falls 12%: Bears Take First Crack at BB10, Z10 Prospects – Tech Trader Daily – Barrons.com
• RIM’s BlackBerry Rebranding Is Much More Than a Name Change | Gadget Lab | Wired.com

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