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SeroTalk Podcast 140: Paradigm Shift
Posted on February 6, 2013 by jpauls
Listen to SeroTalk Podcast 140: Paradigm Shift
In Podcast 140, Ricky Enger, Lisa Salinger and Joe Steinkamp discuss the top news stories of the week. Topics covered include:
BlackBerry Z10 review: a new life, or life support?
U.S. Carriers Rally Around BlackBerry 10
Ticketmaster dumps ‘hated’ Captcha verification system
Microsoft Office 2013 review: Designed for tablets, but great for everyone
Windows Weekly 297 discussing Office 2013
Is Windows 8 a bad OS for tablets? It’s time to decide…
Microsoft Surface Pro 64GB comes with only 23GB of available storage space
Apple iPad jumps to 128GB, starting at $799
Apple releases iOS 6.1 with more LTE carrier support, Siri/Fandango movie ticket purchasing, iTunes Match song downloading
★ AppleTV 5.2 Update Brings Accessibility Changes
Barnes & Noble Plans to Eliminate 30% of Stores Over Next 10 Years
Serotek has a shiny new Web site
Triple-click Home Episode 14: “Now Peter”
SPN Special: 2012 Outtakes
New BookShare Tools Announced at ATIA 2013
Announcing the release of BookSense 3.0.
Braille Sense U2 and U2 QWERTY are available at a promotional price of $5,595 (plus $45 shipping) through June 30th.
HumanWare – The all new Victor Reader Stream
AFB’s AccessNote for iOS has been released.
BrailleTouch has been released
Facebook Accessibility is now on Twitter
White House Announces Audio Descriptions for Public Tours
Detailed image descriptions now available
Mailbag
From Mike Arrigo:I’m not sure how many consumers actually attempt to unlock their phones. Most people do not know what an unlocked phone is when I mention it. People should do their research more, as I have mentioned previously, the benefits of unlocked phones are many. I think making unlocking cell phones other than through your carrier gives carriers too much power. There are no laws that require carriers to unlock their phones, so if they decide they don’t want to do this, you are stuck.
All the more reason to purchase unlocked phones in the first place.
Many countries have laws requiring carriers to unlock your phone once your contract is complete, unfortunately the United States is not one of them.
I agree with Ricky about Google’s NFC thing. I don’t like the idea of replacing my passwords with some kind of chip.
Blog comment from Sue:
Hello. Love the podcasts as usual. Jamie, you mentioned that you have a drawer filled with floppy disks, and so do I, Well a few months back I got a windows7 computer and love it. Well I do have a lot of stuff on floppy disk about 40 of them. I needed an external one and I got one on Amazon the HDE external floppy disk drive was I think around 10 dollars or so. I just installed it and it is quite easy to use. It comes with a small disk and some paper instructions, but for me I plugged it in to one of the usb ports on the computer and it just works. So thought I would recommend it it for anyone who still has a bunch of floppy disks around and still use them.
Roundabout
Kids See Through the Challenges of BlindnessThe Experiences of a Guide Dog owner and his dog on their first cruise
Staying in touch with the home front: Technology in the midst of war
Here is a link to the Blinded Veterans Association Web site
Here is a Wikipedia article on Paradigm Shift
Please take this screen reader user survey and help spread the word about System Access.
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