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<h1 style="text-align: center;">TNT - 2014-03-05</h1> <h2>[subjects]</h2> <div style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><ol> <li style="font-weight: normal;"><strong>[00:00] CNN has sold app 'zite' to Flipboard for approx ?60M? w/Donna Tam @cnet</strong></li> <ol> <li>] terms are somewhat disclosed</li> <li>] zite user #'s undisclosed but has loyal user base</li> <li>] overly satured marketplace</li> <li>] advertising partnership</li> <li>] flipboard claims 250K new readers</li> <li>] zite HAS algrothim for picking what people want to read, based upon ..,</li> <li>] ceo of zite wont be joining the flipboard</li> </ol> <li><strong>[00:00] unprecedent TV deal, DISH to stream live TV</strong></li> <ol> <li>] dish will be allowed to stream content from disney</li> <li>] catch is will delay ad skipping feature for 3 days</li> <li>] intel and sony and apple and ... are trying to do this deal but havent been able to pull it off</li> <li>] disney content = 5 channels, (disney, espn, ) includes ABC, live TV</li> <li>]</li> </ol> <li><strong>[00:00] blackberry service outage in canada and asia AND tmobile offer response</strong></li> <ol> <li>x] initial TMobile offer, bb users upset, then TM created 'apology offer',</li> <li>x] trade in any working blackberry for $200 </li> <li>x] $50 off extra off if they switched to blackberry z10</li> <li>x] 94% of blackberry users traded in their blackberries for non blackberry in Tmobile offer</li> <li>]</li> </ol> <li><strong>[00:00] NEW roku streaming stick</strong></li> <ol> <li>] plugin to your tv hdmi port, first stilck was MHL (hdmi with power)</li> <li>] new one uses usb power port like googles chromecast</li> <li>] roku has interface and content library, VS chromecast works with smartphone</li> </ol> <li><strong>[00:00]</strong><strong> yahoo dropping support for google/facebook login</strong></li> <ol> <li>] initially offered these services to build their customer base</li> <li>] reason they are taking it back =</li> <li>] get to track those folks, offer more personalized services, lock in</li> <li>] will roll out to all yahoo services eventually( flicker, ymail, ), starting soon with yahoo fantasy sports</li> <li>] extra friction for occasional users may lose them customers</li> </ol> <li><strong>[00:00] PC and smartphone sales</strong></li> <ol> <li>] IDC reports that PC sales dropped 9% last year, predicting another 6% drop this year</li> <li>] predicting that smartphone growth in China will slow, only x % are currently using smartphones </li> </ol></ol></div> <h2>[objects]</h2> <div style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><ol> <li>] </li> </ol></div> <h2>[systems]</h2> <div style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><ol> <li>]</li> </ol></div> <h2>[people]</h2> <div style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><ol> <li>] show host - <a href="/view/person?id=202" target="_blank">Mike Elgan</a></li> <li>] show producer - <a href="/view/person?id=234" target="_blank">Jason Howell</a></li> <li>] guest host - Dan Patterson - content and -</li> <li>] guest = Donna Tam Cnet</li> <li>] guest = </li> </ol></div> <h2>[events]</h2> <div style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><ol> <li>] </li> </ol></div> <h2>[places]</h2> <div style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><ol> <li>] <a href="http://twit.tv/show/tech-news-today/946" target="_blank">show url</a> - shows home page with video of show and links</li> <li>] show notes - detailed show notes, transpcript, links to resources </li> <li>] <a href="http://twit.tv/content/top-news-february-18-2014" target="_blank">show notes summary</a></li> <li>] <a href="http://irc.twit.tv/" target="_blank">twit chat room</a> - </li> <li>] <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/technewstoday/" target="_blank">subreddit</a> - News item submissions for TWIT's Tech News Today</li> <li>] trove - </li> <li>] rsa.com</li> <li>] </li> </ol></div>