145: Mousing Like a Natural Man

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Haddie and Dan are back from NYC to talk a bit about their trip, Dan's new NeXTstation, the iPhone 5S outselling the 5C two to one, Comcast data cap, AT&T trying to out-fiber Google in Austin, Amazon coming out with set-top boxes, HTC One max review, the original voice of Siri is revealed, and a study that shows there's probably feces in women's purses.

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• iPhone 5s Outselling iPhone 5c Two-to-One - John Paczkowski - Mobile - AllThingsD
  According to CIRP’s survey of U.S. consumers who purchased Apple’s latest iPhones during the last days of September, the 5s accounted for 64 percent of total iPhone sales following its launch that month. Meanwhile, the the 5c accounted for 27 percent, with the legacy iPhone 4S making up the remaining 9 percent.So not only is the 5s outselling the 5c, it’s outselling it more than two to one.
• Comcast Announces Data Cap in Memphis | News Blog | Memphis News and Events | Memphis Flyer
  The Memphis market now joins the areas affected by Comcast’s data usage allowance plan, after the company announced a 300GB data per month limit on all XFINITY Internet plans and tiers. Other cities included in the plan are Huntsville and Mobile, Alabama
• AT&T attempts to out-Google Google in Austin fiber race | Mobile - CNET News
  The telco says it will begin offering its "GigaPower" service to Austin and surrounding areas this year, with further expansion and a 1-gigabit connection planned in 2014. But how much will it cost?
• KICKSTARTER OF THE WEEK : Petcube
  stay closer to your pet by Petcube, Inc. — Kickstarter
• Snapchat's next big thing: 'Stories' that don't just disappear | The Verge
  Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel's hands are shaking as he points to his iPhone.
• Foursquare Opens Ad Platform To 1.5 Million Merchants | Fast Company | Business + Innovation
  Today, Foursquare announced that it's opening up its advertising platform to its fast-growing database of small businesses. The service, which allows users to check in to locations via smartphone, has transitioned into a promising search and discovery platform, on which ads are beginning to play a more prominent role in attracting potential customers to venues. Foursquare has been testing its ad product for months with select partners, but now it's finally giving its 1.5 million merchants access to the service--a move that could generate substantial revenues for the company.
• Twitter reportedly planning targeted ad network for apps and websites
  Now that Twitter is almost a publicly traded company, it's under pressure to find meaningful new sources of revenue. That may include advertising outside of users' social streams, according to a new report from the Financial Times. Its sources claim that Twitter is developing an ad network for apps and websites that would target visitors based on what users tweet and who they follow. It wouldn't resemble Facebook's login-based advertising, however, as much of Twitter's data is public. The network would reportedly launch soon after the firm completes its recent acquisition of MoPub, a mobile ad exchange. Twitter isn't commenting on the rumor, but such a move is logical -- it would let the company improve its bottom line without intruding any further into our conversations.
• Amazon Readies Set-Top Box for Holidays - WSJ.com
  The set-top box, which would pit the online retailer against a host of established rivals, is a small device that resembles a Roku Inc. player and is similarly styled as a platform to run apps and content from a variety of sources, these people said. It would also serve as a delivery vehicle for Amazon's existing streaming video service—available as part of its Prime membership—which competes with Netflix Inc.
• Elon Musk Details Cause Of Tesla Model S Fire, Says Would Have Been Worse With Gas | TechCrunch
  Musk says that the fire was caused by a piece of a tractor trailer which punctured the battery compartment of the car with a ‘peak force on the order of 25 tons’.
• Adobe To Announce Source Code, Customer Data Breach — Krebs on Security
  Adobe Systems Inc. is expected to announce today that hackers broke into its network and stole source code for an as-yet undetermined number of software titles, including its ColdFusion Web application platform, and possibly its Acrobat family of products. The company said hackers also accessed nearly three million customer credit card records, and stole login data for an undetermined number of Adobe user accounts.
• HTC One max review: a lot more of the same | The Verge
  Equally enervating is the fact that you have to wake the One max from sleep before swiping to unlock it. The whole point of these fingerprint sensors is to speed up security processes, not make them more finicky, and that’s exactly where the HTC One max fails.
• Tweeter Home shares explode on apparent Twitter mix-up | Reuters
  Excitement for Twitter's coming IPO is running pretty high - so much so that some investors on Friday mistook the nearly worthless stock of long-dead electronics retailer Tweeter for the "tweeting" site, sending shares up more than 1,000 percent.
• 'I'm the original voice of Siri' - CNN.com
  Behind this groundbreaking technology there is a real woman.
• APP OF THE WEEK: Seene
  Seene lets you capture life with beautiful 3D photos. You can share these life-like three dimensional Seenes of the world around you with friends, family and followers.
• These Robots Will Stop the Jellyfish Invasion - IEEE Spectrum
  Jellyfish* are serious business. If you get enough of them in one place, bad things happen. And we're not just talking about some mildly annoying stings, but all-out nuclear war. Obviously, we have to fight back. With ROBOTS.
• And Then Steve Said, ‘Let There Be an iPhone’ - NYTimes.com
  The iPhone could play a section of a song or a video, but it couldn’t play an entire clip reliably without crashing. It worked fine if you sent an e-mail and then surfed the Web. If you did those things in reverse, however, it might not. Hours of trial and error had helped the iPhone team develop what engineers called “the golden path,” a specific set of tasks, performed in a specific way and order, that made the phone look as if it worked.
• What's in YOUR handbag? Lipstick, diary, iPhone plus E.coli, bacteria and traces of excrement | Mail Online
  Next time you reach into your Mulberry tote to grab your purse, you could be putting yourself in danger of catching a serious - and potentially deadly - disease.
• This awesome LEGO wall planner syncs digitally with your Google Calendar account - The Next Web
  Vitamins design studio in London has created an ingenious wall mounted time planner that’s built entirely from LEGO bricks and can be synced digitally with your Google Calendar account using a smartphone camera.
• Netflix Pursues Cable-TV Deals - WSJ.com
  A deal would mark the online video service's first such tie-up with a U.S. cable provider and would come after a similar agreement it recently announced with U.K. cable operator Virgin Media Inc. The talks are in early stages and no deal is imminent, the people cautioned.
• 65 Amazing Facts That Will Blow Your Mind | Mental Floss
  
• Dear Mr. Watterson
  An Exploration of Calvin & Hobbes

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