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<li><strong>[00:00] google aquires songza w/Jason Hiner TechRepbulic, </strong></li>
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<li>x] is this a community play with curation, social curation for music</li>
<li>x] maybe a g+ angle, create your own radio channel</li>
<li>x] 360 deals, leverage pop stars to sell things around music</li>
<li>x] trend in the industry, streaming music is winning</li>
<li>x] xperiment (social + music) dont care much about what friends and family are listening to, people want a 'good curator'</li>
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<li><strong>[00:00</strong><strong>] FTC suing Tmobile for cramming w/John Brodkin arstechnica.com</strong></li>
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<li>- tmobile charging customers for premium services like horoscopes, dating services, ...</li>
<li>- tmobile gets 35-45% of revenues billed from these services</li>
<li>- charges are not explained well OR buried in multi page bills</li>
<li>- hundreds of consumer complaints prompted FTC to get involved</li>
<li>- TMobile response 'disingenuous' because the said they already 'dealt with' it in agreement signed in 2013-11 along with the other major carriers</li>
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<li><strong>[00:00</strong><strong>] msft is making an android version of office </strong></li>
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<li>x] how late is too late?, if they would have been on this years earlier, coulda, shoulda , woulda, they left a lot of money on the table?</li>
<li>x] a lot of people, who were forced to find alternatives,&nbsp;arent going to go back to msft products.</li>
<li>x] office has a lot of features not available in g docs</li>
<li>x] g docs does somethings better, team collaboration</li>
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<li><strong>[00:00</strong><strong>] FTC told amazon to make it harder for kids to buy stuff without their parent permission</strong></li>
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<li>x] FTC asking for same rules applied to apple last year</li>
<li>x] amazon said NO, we will see you in court, we want our own set of rules</li>
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<li><strong>[00:00</strong><strong>] new sw for routers</strong></li>
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<li>x] rewards kids for homework by giving them facebook time</li>
<li>x] integrated with khan academy</li>
<li>x] complete lessons at khan and then get rewards</li>
<li>x] rewards = ....</li>
<li>x] parents have already been doing this kind of thing for 'eons' ... non technically, this is just a technological implementation&nbsp;</li>
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<li><strong>[00:00</strong><strong>] new farm robot</strong></li>
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<li>x] has robot arm that pulls weeds</li>
<li>x] reports back to farmer</li>
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<li><strong>] show - tech news today</strong></li>
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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&nbsp;- </li>
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<li><strong>] show - tech news today</strong></li>
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<li>]&nbsp;<a href="http://twit.tv/show/tech-news-today/1031" 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-june-18-2014" 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>
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