Allison interviews Mike May from GoodMaps about their service that provides navigation aids for people with vision impairments. GoodMaps apps help the user, such as a person who is blind or with low vision or a first responder, easily navigate their way within a building. GoodMaps requires no infrastructure or Bluetooth beacons to be installed […]
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Security Bits — 16 October 2022
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Last time Bart & Allison waxed lyrical about the DART mission, but we didn’t know yet if it had worked, now we do, it did 😀 — www.nasa.gov/… The Matter home automation standard has […]
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CSUN ATC 2022: Hable Assistant to Your Smartphone
Allison interviews Freek van Welsenis from Hable about their smartphone assistant designed for people who are blind or visually impaired. The Hable device pairs with your smartphone and is about the size of a thick smartphone. Hable has six buttons laid out in a braille 3×2 format as well as two function buttons on either […]
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CCATP #722 – Tom Merritt on the Past, Present, and Future of Messaging
This week’s guest on Chit Chat Across the Pond is Tom Merritt, host of the Daily Tech News Show, Cord Killers, Know a Little More, Sword and Laser and more podcasts than I can count. He’s also a science fiction author with his book series Pilot X tommerrittbooks.com. I asked Tom to come on Chit […]
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Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇺🇸 An update on a story Allison referenced last time: Missouri governor rebuffed: Journalist won’t be prosecuted for viewing HTML — arstechnica.com/… 🇮🇱 The NSO Group/Pegasus Saga: The Israeli government has opened an investigation […]
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NC #853 Special with the SMR Podcast Hosts
Hi, this is Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Apple Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Apple bias. Today is Sunday, September 12, 2021, and this is show number 853. mp3 download Today’s show is something completely different. This week Steve and I traveled across the country to visit […]
Continue readingMore TagSecurity Bits — 30 August 2020
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇺🇸 Pennsylvania has announced plans to release an Apple/Google-based COVID app in September — www.imore.com/… Which U.S. states are using Apple’s Exposure Notification API for COVID-19 contact tracing? 9to5mac.com/… 🇦🇺 Australia’s non-Google/Apple COVID app […]
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Hi, this is Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Apple Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Apple bias. Today is Sunday, August 9, 2020, and this is show number 796. mp3 download
Continue readingMore TagNC #795 Taming the Terminal is a Published Book, 100 Years Ago Podmom, House Committee on Tech Giants
Hi, this is Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Apple Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Apple bias. Today is Sunday, August 2nd, 2020, and this is show number 795. This was a huge week around here and I’m super excited to tell you all about it! mp3 download
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Motorola g7 Android Phone Finally Got Updates
Android 10 Comes to Moto g7Like My Fancy Drawing With Android’s Markup Tools? Back in March, I wrote a blog post entitled I Really Don’t Understand Why People Choose Android. I wrote it because I was so frustrated that my seven-month-old Moto g7 Android phone wasn’t getting recent security updates. At the time, the phone […]
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