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Content: use HTML Edit Content <h1 style="text-align: center;">tnt - 2015-01-20</h1> <h2>[subjects]</h2> <ol> <li><strong>[00:00] <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2015/01/19/enhancing-2015-state-union-announcing-our-river-content" target="_blank">Obama to&nbsp;deliver US state of the union</a></strong></li> <ol> <li>] expected discussion of privacy, security, technology</li> <li>] more and more tech oriented b/c of privacy issues, need to seem innovative</li> <li>] municipal broadband networks</li> <li>] digital divide in america, as you go from 1 city to another</li> <li>] how will broadband providers react?</li> <li>] what about UK initiative to be allowed to crack any encryption, to have backdoor access to everything, imessage,&nbsp;snapchat,&nbsp;what have you&nbsp;</li> <li>] maybe easy topics, things everyone agrees on, protecting children, credit card security</li> <li>"] an encrypted conversation is identical/comparable to&nbsp;2 people whispering to on another, we have the right to have private conversations, no matter who</li> <li>"] we need protection from malicous hackers, state sponsored hacking</li> <li>] allegations that much state sponsored hacking is against others, perhaps would be better to be defensive hacking, trying to protect us</li> </ol> <li><span style="background-color: #ccffff;"><strong>[00:00] AD gazelle.com </strong></span><ol> <li><span style="background-color: #ccffff;">] new trade in program, can sell your old gadget and trade it in for a new device, USE OFFER CODE = , to SAVE x %</span><span><br /></span></li> </ol></li> <li><strong>[00:00] <a href="http://mashable.com/2015/01/20/twitter-acquires-zipdial/" target="_blank">twitter acquires&nbsp;zipdial</a>&nbsp;w/Jason Abbruzzese @mashable.com</strong></li> <ol> <li>] indian marketing company, helps companies to communicate without using their data plans</li> <li>]&nbsp;using messaging response system, notifications</li> <li>] famous for "missed call", you then call their ph#, listen to an ad,</li> <li>] designed for markets where internet mobile&nbsp;connections are expensive are hard to access/</li> <li>] will it come to america? can't see it, mature mobile markets use a lot of data</li> <li>] in emerging markets, a lot of people still use feature phones</li> <li>]&nbsp;zipdials 500 clients including Disney, Procter &amp; Gamble</li> <li>] the data they are aquiring is also valuable&nbsp;</li> </ol> <li><strong>[14:00] <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/01/19/france-pushes-for-scrubbing-internet-of-terrorism-related-content/" target="_blank">France Pushes for Scrubbing Internet of Terrorism-Related Content</a>&nbsp;w/Sam Schechner @wsj.com (Wall Street Journal)</strong></li> <ol> <li>] french interior minister meeting with german counterpart to get on the same page re</li> <li>] pressuring american tech companies(google,facebook,twitter,...) to remove terrorist related content more quickly</li> <li>] urgency being driven by charlie hebdo attacks,</li> <li>] tech companies are troubled by stricter rules, more complications</li> <li>]&nbsp;countries&nbsp;want american tech companies to do pre emptive filtering of&nbsp;their sites</li> <li>] us officials have called for this as well</li> <li>] upcoming french surveillance law, also similar in UK, germany</li> <li>] targeting more access to what people are doing online</li> <li>] are countries connecting the dots, -backdoors, -special access front doors, are countries unifying in their approach to their demands</li> <li>] europe wants right to do somthing, then other countries will want the same rights, what about turkey, iran, china</li> <li>] how do companies determine who gets access, do countries have to decide who is the good countries, who are the bad countries</li> <li>] this is what tech companies are argueing,</li> </ol> <li><strong>[22:15] <a href="http://www2.deloitte.com/uk/en/pages/technology-media-and-telecommunications/articles/the-global-economic-impact-of-facebook.html" target="_blank">The global economic impact of Facebook</a>&nbsp;</strong></li> <ol> <li>] new report - fb claiming its business has generated&nbsp;$227B of economic activity &nbsp;</li> <li>] has created 4.5M jobs worldwide</li> <li>] deloitte published the report, was funded by facebook</li> <li>] example of all</li> <li>] UK company, created a fake company, offered "downloadable bagels", generated a lot of fb activity, likes</li> <li>] fb has an&nbsp;enormous amounts of fake accounts, does engagement and activity drive monetary activity</li> <li>] fuzzy math - events - measured responses to attend, multiplied each attendee by x$ of buying at the event location</li> <li>] a dollar value on "likes"</li> <li>] facebooks COO is going to discuss these results at the worldwide economic ..&nbsp;</li> <li>] there is an economic benefit to facebook, it is an advertising/marketing/promotion engine</li> <li>] they are taking credit for everything fb touches</li> <li>] fb is part of a bigger economic puzzle</li> </ol> <li><strong>[26:00] <a href="http://www.sammobile.com/2015/01/19/exclusive-samsung-developing-a-special-variant-of-the-galaxy-s6-with-two-edge-displays/" target="_blank">Samsung developing a special variant of the Galaxy S6 with a dual-edge display</a></strong></li> <ol> <li>] sam mobile is reporting that the galaxy S6 will have a curved display on the right edge and on the left edge</li> <li>] similar to the galaxy note egde with curved display on left edge, this will have on both edges</li> <li>] phone has not been named or ship dates set yet,</li> <li>] some clunkiness to the current note edge curved display</li> <li>] if they improve the elegance of it, it could be tempting</li> <li>] ? is how many people would be attracting to the device because of the feature, it it enought to justify</li> <li>] case to be made for a "flagship phone" to give cachet to the rest of the brand</li> <li>] reputation - copying apple, scattershot in design,</li> <li>] truly innovative things - like this - that nobody has, would help</li> <li>] gartner report - apple dominates high end devices, devices &gt;$400, &nbsp;android dominates low end devices, &lt;$100</li> </ol> <li><strong>[28:45]&nbsp;<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/01/19/police-radar-see-through-walls/22007615/">New police radar can see inside homes</a></strong></li> <ol> <li>] tech is not new, has been around for over 1 year, but no one is really talking about it, first time its been reported on</li> <li>]&nbsp;50 law enforcement agencies are using this device, more then 200 devices</li> <li>] can see inside walls, will track your movement, can see the layout of your home</li> <li>] device doesnt require a warrant to uses, privacy advocates are concerned</li> <li>] main thing it does, tells law, are you at home, where are you in the home.</li> <li>] in Denver, device was used to find someone, when judge heard about it, was really concerned about privacy issues</li> </ol> <li><span style="background-color: #ccffff;"><strong>[00:00] AD <a href="http://blueapron.com/twit" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: #ccffff;">blueapron.com/twit</span></a></strong></span></li> <ol> <li><span style="background-color: #ccffff;">] food ingredients delivery service, sends you all the ingredients you need to make delicous gourmet meals, includes step by step instructons for preparation, approx. $10 per person FREE - first 2 meals. with&nbsp;OFFER CODE&nbsp;= twit</span></li> </ol> <li><strong>[00:00] </strong><strong>ASSORTED </strong></li> <ol> <li>]&nbsp;google buying into spaceX</li> <li>] german publication Heise&nbsp;says email addresses/passwords of 1800 minecraft accounts were stolen and&nbsp;published online, small percentage of minecraft users, but may just be the tip of the iceberg</li> <li>] report from trendforce claims chinese companies accounted for almost 40% of total smartphones sold in 2014, global leader samsung lost 4.5, holds 28%, apple&nbsp;has 16.4%, xiaomi listed as the 6th biggest seller, 1.16 billion</li> <li>] splashdata released its annual list of top dumb passwords - the two worst , 123456 and password, used by approx 2%</li> </ol> <li><strong>[00:00] </strong><strong>FOLLOWUP -&nbsp;on PREVIOUSLY REPORTED STORIES</strong></li> <ol> <li>] none</li> </ol></ol> <h2>[objects]</h2> <div style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: normal;"><ol> <li>]</li> </ol></div> <h2>[systems]</h2> <div style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: normal;"><ol> <li>]</li> </ol></div> <h2>[people]</h2> <div style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: normal;"><ol> <li><strong>] <a href="/view/people?id=88" target="_blank">twit.tv - tnt show</a></strong></li> <ol> <li>] host -&nbsp;<a href="/view/person?id=202" target="_blank">Mike Elgan</a></li> <li>] producer - <a href="/view/person?id=307" target="_blank">Jason Cleanthes</a></li> <li>] guest host&nbsp;- <a href="/view/person?id=288" target="_blank">Joe Panettierri</a>&nbsp;</li> </ol></ol></div> <h2>[events]</h2> <ol> <li>&nbsp;]</li> </ol> <h2>[places]</h2> <div style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: normal;"><ol> <li><strong>] twit.tv - tnt show</strong></li> <ol> <li>]&nbsp;<a href="http://twit.tv/show/tech-news-today/1178" target="_blank">show url</a>&nbsp;- shows home page with video of show and links</li> <li>]&nbsp;show notes&nbsp;- detailed show notes, transpcript, links to resources&nbsp;</li> <li>]&nbsp;<a href="http://twit.tv/content/top-news-january-20-2015" target="_blank">show notes summary</a>&nbsp;-</li> <li>]&nbsp;<a href="http://irc.twit.tv/" target="_blank">twit chat room</a>&nbsp;-&nbsp;</li> <li>] <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/technewstoday/" target="_blank">subreddit</a> -&nbsp;News item submissions for TWIT's Tech News Today</li> </ol></ol></div> <h1 style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;</h1>