At The Nexus #90: Does He Get To Keep Skype?

Ryan and Matthew discuss Android 4.3 system updates, extremely generic patents, Amazon's expensive downtime, the fate of the Ubuntu Edge, a reason to shout "Developers!" from the rooftops and Ryan's review of the Chromecast and its oddities.

Links

• Windows 8.1 is ready, gets released to manufacturers | Microsoft – CNET News
• Motorola Moto X Teardown – iFixit
• Motorola teases Moto X Developer Edition with unlockable bootloader, 32GB of storage | 9to5Google
• Android 4.3 (JSS15Q and JWR66Y) factory images and binaries for Nexus 7, Nexus 4, Nexus 10 and Galaxy Nexus available
• Google plonks down cash for Foxconn’s head-mounted display patents • The Register
• Reports of the Nook’s death have been greatly exaggerated | ITworld
• Amazon Is Said to Have Tested a Wireless Network – Bloomberg
• Amazon website goes down for 40 minutes, costing the company $5 million | VentureBeat
• Ubuntu Edge Project Fails to Meet Fundraising Goal
• Ubuntu Edge | Indiegogo
• LG Executive Says a Firefox OS Smartphone is on the Cards for 2014
• Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months
• Chromecast ability to cast local content via AirCast/AllCast “intentionally” broken?

This episode of At The Nexus has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #128: ATN #90 — Clog the Sorrow!

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