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<h1 style="text-align: center;">TNT - 2014-03-05</h1>
<h2>[subjects]</h2>
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<li style="font-weight: normal;"><strong>[00:00]&nbsp;CNN has sold app 'zite' to Flipboard for approx ?60M? w/Donna Tam @cnet</strong></li>
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<li>] terms are somewhat disclosed</li>
<li>]&nbsp;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>
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<li><strong>[00:00]&nbsp;unprecedent TV deal, DISH to stream live TV</strong></li>
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<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>
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<li><strong>[00:00]&nbsp;blackberry service outage in canada and asia AND tmobile offer response</strong></li>
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<li>x] initial TMobile offer, bb users upset, then TM created 'apology offer',</li>
<li>x] trade in any working blackberry for $200&nbsp;</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>
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<li><strong>[00:00]&nbsp;NEW roku streaming stick</strong></li>
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<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>
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<li><strong>[00:00]</strong><strong>&nbsp;yahoo dropping support for google/facebook login</strong></li>
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<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>
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<li><strong>[00:00]&nbsp;PC and smartphone sales</strong></li>
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<li>]&nbsp;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&nbsp;%&nbsp;are currently using smartphones&nbsp;</li>
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<h2>[objects]</h2>
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<li>]&nbsp;</li>
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<h2>[systems]</h2>
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<h2>[people]</h2>
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<li>] show host -&nbsp;<a href="/view/person?id=202" target="_blank">Mike Elgan</a></li>
<li>] show producer -&nbsp;<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 =&nbsp;</li>
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<h2>[events]</h2>
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<h2>[places]</h2>
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<li>]&nbsp;<a href="http://twit.tv/show/tech-news-today/946" 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-february-18-2014" target="_blank">show notes summary</a></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>
<li>] trove -&nbsp;</li>
<li>] rsa.com</li>
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