Jamie Pauls, Lisa Salinger and Buddy Brannan sit down together and discuss this week’s top news stories. Among other things, here are the main stories covered:

Apple

132-page internal document shows how Samsung set out to copy the iPhone pixel by pixel

Apple vs. Samsung: Influence, or Copying?

Apple freezes AppleID password resets requested over the phone

An in-depth discussion of the above story can be heard on Security Now Episode 364

New iPhone’s Bigger Screen to Have 5th Row of Homescreen Icons?

Why a longer iPhone 5 screen needs to happen

General Tech

Verizon divulges high data plans under ‘Share Everything’

Starbucks aims to take Square, digital payments mainstream

Microsoft Office 2013: Goodbye to adds-in, bring on the apps

Online Radio Service TuneIn Comes To Tesla’s Model S, Now Available On 200 Platforms

Google’s Self-Driving Cars Complete 300K Miles Without Accident, Deemed Ready For Commuting

AT

A Ride in a Cab That’s Optimized for the Blind

Finding and Hiring a Driver

SeroSpectives Special: Mountain Lion

Super Egg Hunt Plus preordering is now live.

Christine Ha: MasterChef Contestant, Writer, and Cook

The Blind Cook – Sightless adventures of gastronomical proportions

Using your feedback to make Narrator work better with touch

A new version of Fleksy is out.

Roundabout

NASA: Your smartphone is as smart as the Curiosity rover

iPhone app aims to help visually impaired

Replay the accessible Event Archive of SeroSpectives Special: Mountain Lion

ABOUT OUR PRESENTER

Michael Lauf was the former host and producer of the SeroTalk Podcast, weekly Thursday Tech Chats and the first few editions of seroSpectives. He is currently a Trade Practice Specialist with the Tri-State Better Business Bureau in Evansville Indiana.

Michael earned an Associate Degree in Radio and Television Broadcasting from Wabash Valley College in MT. Carmel Illinois in 1983 and recently began taking classes from the Cisco Vision Academy and Curtin University

He is studying Information Technology Essentials and Linux Administration, with the goal of obtaining A Plus certification in early 2013.

ABOUT OUR GUESTS

A member of the Serotek technical support and customer service staff, Buddy Brannan has been on the Internet for over 20 years and has had his head in computers of some kind for a bit longer than that. In 2005, he got his first Mac, when Voiceover was first introduced. He has been a ham radio operator for 25 years. In spite of all this fun he’s having with technology, it’s a pretty safe bet that any tech prediction he makes for the future will be wrong. To hear Buddy’s tech predictions and other useful information, listen to Triple Click Home, or follow him on Twitter.

Liam Erven is best known for the computer games he produces for blind users. Follow him on Twitter for the latest updates.

David Woodbridge works with Vision Australia, but is best known in the community for his thorough Mac podcasts, and contributions to the Applevis Site. Visit his podcast feed or follow him on Twitter.

Apple’s detailed list of all new features in Mountain Lion:

OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion: the Ars Technica review

Triple-Click Home: Episode 9: the Slide-to-Unlock People

Listen to a discussion of Mountain Lion on ACB Radio’s Main Menu:

15 Mountain Lion demos from David Woodbridge

Tech Doctor podcast: excellent work that David Woodbridge does as an Apple Ambassador

Inside Apple’s OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion: New iOS-style Accessibility How to Enable and Use

How to Enable and Use Dictation in OS X Mountain Lion

ZDNet: Chores to consider before and after upgrading to OS X Mountain Lion

Creating An OS X Mountain Lion Boot Disk

On this week’s edition of SeroSpectives, Michael Lauf speaks with users of Apple’s latest Mountain Lion operating system for the Mac.
Topics include: accessibility enhancements, voice dictation, integrated Twitter and Facebook support, sharing data and messages between iOS devices, improved AirPlay support to show content on Apple TV, Gatekeeper security to prevent non-Apple-approved apps, installing a clean copy rather than upgrading, calendar, contacts, iCloud, messages, notes and notification center, email issues, PowerNap, plus items that personally excite our guests.
So join us, and learn why most people are calling this Apple’s best operating system yet!