I am not sure if you are following the Aero supreme court case (my guess is you are not) but this decision to not allow streaming of the cable is sad news. 

I am not sure of the future impact on innovation in this area. You will see it affect you (online viewing) in other ways.
Here is the letter from the CEO that he just released.

CEO Letter on the outcome of the Supreme Court Decision

Look carefully at the link. That is a balloon carrying high speed internet to people on the ground.

Google-celebrates-project-loons-birthday-first-lte-experiments-launch-near-equator/

about 15 years ago, I read this could be done for wifi in Africa. Now it looks like it can be possible.
Back then they felt it would stay up for 2 years before replacement was needed.
Just think about this. in the next 15 years (I am sure less) you will be able to be connected to the internet for little or no cost, ANYWHERE, that is truly life changing.

What will happen to our big cities then?
Gary

Amazon Music Launch, now lots of Music for streaming. 

What is the price?

Well Amazon has thrown in with other music options for a “subsidized free” music service. I think it will have a big impact on users in the “Try it, I already have it Market”.

Amazon Adds Ad-Free Music Streaming To Prime SubscriptionsSeattle — Amazon unveiled its Amazon Prime music-streaming service, a million-song-strong service that is both free and ad-free to subscribers of the e-tailer’s $99/year subscription-based Prime shipping service…

I loaded this up on my iPad this morning and the music selection is decent. It was a good idea for them to add this as a service and to include it into the prime account. I wonder what it will cost them. It would appear with the Prime increase in price this looks like they are budgeting only a few dollars of usage per user, per month.The interface is very two years ago. I recently tried out the beats format, you know that service Apple paid 3 Billion dollars for.  Amazing; smooth setup, nice interface on working out what you like or may like and great quality sound playback. I cannot say that for Prime. Beats at an annual cost $99 a year the same amount as Amazon has for free delivery!

I am still a fan of Pandora. There issue is that it is extremely hard to consolidate music stations and they limit you to 100 stations which I feel is just not necessary. If they fixed that and increased their library on the stations then they’ll survive this increased competition.

Now we need an app that can consolidate these services into one interface.

Worth a quick look at this before the games start.  

Thanks Google.

https://www.google.com/maps/views/streetview/brazils-world-cup-stadiums?gl=us

What exactly are the 22 Siri Supported languages revealed 

Apple World Congress yesterday announced Siri support for 22 more languages (24 that will include dictation), I have tried to find a list of what they are going to be.

Here is a list of what I have found out so far.
Finally Apple Siri will support you talking to it.

Arabic - Saudi Arabia
Catalan - Spain
Croatian - Croatia
Czech - Czech Republic
Danish - Denmark
Dutch - Netherlands
Finnish - Finland
Greek - Greece
Hebrew - Israel
Hungarian - Hungary
Indonesian - Indonesia
Malay - Malaysia
Norwegian Bokmal - Norway
Polish - Poland
Portuguese - Brazil
- Portugal Romanian
- Romania Russian
- Russia Slovak
- Slovakia Swedish
- Sweden Thai
- Thailand Turkish
- Turkey Ukrainian
- Ukraine Vietnamese
- Vietnam
Source:
http://9to5mac.com/2014/06/03/heres-all-24-new-dictation-languages-arriving-in-ios-8-os-x-yosemite/

An impressive array of hardware announcements are expected over the next few weeks.

I saw this one on the new high end Chromebook as an example.  A Chromebook at over $1,200.00 is excessive but its applications could be interesting.  Chrome, when it is done well does not have the overhead of the operating system etc.      This can lead to more dedicated capability for high end graphics delivery (perhaps medical imaging or search and rescue, satellite image matching).

http://www.google.com/intl/en-US/chrome/devices/chromebook-pixel/

Then this one hits this week.  Nice concept of a laptop with a phone cradled inside.  I would like to see the devices “married” closely so that they sync with the phone and the laptop seamlessly, perhaps where the laptop can share the data. I have a 64 Gb phone and know that if I could get it to 500 Gb, I would put more music and videos on it.

http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/05/19/google-patents-a-laptop-with-a-built-in-smartphone-let-the-chromebook-and-android-speculation-begin/

Today we will see Apple giving us their year’s roadmap. Hopefully with not too many “we are going to do this in 4 months’ time” as they often do.  I prefers when manufactures release products after their announcements within a few weeks.  I understand that they sometimes have to gauge demand first but often we are seeing products take months to get to market.  I do enjoy Kickstarter projects and have sometimes purchased months ahead of the launch, but that is different.  With Kickstarter projects I am also making a statement that the design and Company are worth developing, often potential game changers.

Here are two examples:

https://gigaom.com/2013/11/14/meet-coin-a-startup-creating-a-universal-credit-card/

Coin is really a US only product idea at this point since Europe and other countries have the “Chip and pin” built into each card.This is an interesting wearable monitored T shirt it is designed to be a “full sensor” shirt so the fabric tells the system what you are doing, heart, breathing etc. Watch the video its cool.

http://www.omsignal.com/collections/all

Let’s see what more comes out over the next few weeks. Please feel free to share your game changing products and why deem them as such.
Gary