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Welcome to episode 138 of the EdTech Situation Room from June 12, 2019, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) discussed Apple's June 2019 event announcements, more rumblings of forthcoming tech giant regulations, Microsoft's official pronouncement that "mandatory password changing is “ancient and obsolete," and much more. Geeks of the Week included the Good eReader Blog and a recent War College podcast episode about the US Navy's revised policy on UFO reporting. Please follow us on Twitter @edtechSR for updates, and join us LIVE on Wednesday nights if you can (normally) at 10 pm Eastern / 9 pm Central / 8 pm Mountain / 7 pm Pacific or 3 am UTC. All shownotes are available on http://edtechSR.com/links.
Rich De Steno is one of those people who has put into practice the adage that you can do anything if you put your mind to it. As a lawyer by profession, he found there wasn't an accessible version of a game he wanted to play, so he taught himself how to code in the evenings and wrote the game himself. He then produced a range of fun, accessible games. Now retired, he always had a dream of making music and doing an album, so he taught himself how to do that as well. Rich is Jonathan Mosen's guest on this week's episode. In listener feedback, we learn how you can easily get The Daily Fibre Premium podcast set up on HumanWare's Victor Reader Stream. Jonathan talks about how Daily Fibre Premium subscribers will be able to get access to a live stream of the recording of the Blind Side Special covering Apple's June keynote. There's more discussion about public transport, and a hint on how to learn UEB. A listener asks how Aira explorers are keeping their glasses protected from breakage. Seeking your feedback, Jonathan asks what you'd like to see in the next major versions of Apple software, and for your opinions on whether it's appropriate to blindfold partially sighted people while they receive blindness-related rehabilitation services. We welcome your feedback. Send email to TheBlindSide at Mosen dot org or call the feedback line in the United States on (719) 270-5114. You can also join our online community to discuss the podcast with other listeners. Send a blank email to TheBlindSide+subscribe@groups.io
Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.Show Notes:Web chaos mostly over after Amazon Web Services hit by power outage during Sydney storm [The Age]Telstra's 'prolific inventor' was no doctor [The Age]ATO kills off e-Tax [News.com.au]Labor to 'deliver fibre-based broadband', says Albanese [Computerworld Australia]Wall Street loans Uber $1 billion to offer subprime auto leases [The Verge]Tony Fadell Quits Nest After A Load Of Problems [Gizmodo Australia]With Touch ID rumored for Apple's new MacBook Pros, PC makers prep trackpad fingerprint readers [AppleInsider]Microsoft's drastic upgrade tactic pays off with boost to Windows 10 share [ARN]WWDC 2016 rumor roundup: What to expect at Apple's June 13 keynote [AppleInsider]Apple iOS update fixes bricked iPad Pros [iTnews]R.I.P. Muhammad Ali [Dark Horizons]Labor commits to keeping community radio [CBAA]DC confirms next year's Justice League movie is indeed titled 'Justice League' [The Verge]The writer of The Bourne Identity is reportedly working on Rogue One's reshoots [The Verge]Archer's producers want Jon Hamm's body—phrasing!—for a possible film [The A.V. Club]9Now launches on Apple TV and introduces server side ad-insertion [Mediaweek]Something we mentioned in the show but missing in the Show Notes? Let us know via our Contact Page.Questions, Comments, Feedback and Suggestions are all welcome.Website - http://geeksinterrupted.fmFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/GeeksInterruptedTwitter - https://twitter.com/GeeksOnAirVoicemail - http://www.speakpipe.com/GeeksInterruptedIf you enjoyed this episode head on over to iTunes and kindly leave us a rating, a review and subscribe.
This week Apple declared that as of June 1 all apps submitted to the AppStore must be able to work in an IPv6-ONLY network. In this episode I talk about what that means... More text info at http://www.circleid.com/posts/20160505_apple_requires_all_ios_apps_work_on_ipv6_only_networks/
This week, we review Apple's earnings report for the June 2015 quarter. We kick of the discussion with a focus on the Apple Watch and what we learned about it from Apple's earnings. Next up is our Question of the Week, which is "How is the Apple Watch more like the iPod than the iPhone?", off the back of a post Aaron wrote this week. We wrap up the discussion with a review of the rest of Apple's earnings report, including the iPhone, the iPad, and China. And then there's our pick of the week – this time, a book Jan's just finished. More detail, links, and so on at podcast.beyonddevic.es, as always.
On this week's all-star episode, we talk about Apple's June quarter financials. Some pundits say the numbers were "meh," while others say they were pretty decent overall. One respected industry outlet, however, erroneously reported that Mac sales were down in the U.S., whereas Apple reported that they increased in the double-digits. So we try to separate fact from fiction. We'll also discuss the Apple/IBM marketing deal, the OS X Yosemite Public Beta, which was released to up to one million Mac users on July 24, and some of the possibilities for new gear from Apple this fall. Our guests include Adam Engst, of TidBITS and Take Control Books, and Jeff Gamet, Managing Editor for The Mac Observer.