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<li><strong>[00:00] [technology-software] <a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/07/30/336531811/some-loyal-foursquare-users-are-checking-out-after-swarm-spinoff" target="_blank">people checking out of foursquare in swarms</a></strong></li>
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<li>] guest cohost Elise Hu wrote article on people leaving foursquare, because of their new swarm app</li>
<li>] twitter acount @killswarmapp retweets all people declaring they are leaving</li>
<li>] swarm takes away all the features that foursquare users liked, ] check in's ] badges ] mayorship of ..</li>
<li>] ratings for the app in the store is plummeting</li>
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<li><strong>[02:45] [business/finance] <a href="http://www.cnet.com/news/samsung-warns-2h14-will-be-tough-as-it-reports-weak-q2-results/" target="_blank">Samsung posted a 25 percent drop in second-quarter profits</a>, w/ </strong><strong></strong> <a href="http://twitter.com/dcseifert" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dan Seifert</a>, <a href="http://twitter.com/sharatibken" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Shara Tibken</a> @cnet.com</li>
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<li>] the third straight quarter of profit declines for the company, stock took a hit</li>
<li>] The company also said the rest of the year would &ldquo;remain a challenge.&rdquo;</li>
<li>] chinese handset makers are "eating their lunch", in china, taking away market share of samsungs low end devices</li>
<li>] high end devices like their <span style="text-decoration: underline;">galaxy s5</span> are doing well in north america, 10% better then s4 model of last year BUT</li>
<li>] bulk of samsung's profits come from it's low end phones</li>
<li>] abondoning low end, turning focus to new premium mobile devices, with new premium materials</li>
<li>] what does that mean?</li>
<li>] long time user complaints about look and feel of samsung phones, cheap plasticy materials compared to high end competitors</li>
<li>] looks like company is saying we are going to address that,&nbsp;</li>
<li>] re assure shareholders, their new number 1 priority is&nbsp;</li>
<li>] there high end devices, their other number 1 is low end mid range, and wearables</li>
<li>] more diverse portfolio on wearables, ] some hints at smartglasses</li>
<li>] is the loss of share inevitable, because of their dominance</li>
<li>] low end competitors (lenovo, huawai) have seen up to 95% per quarter share growth</li>
<li>] mobile division made 4.31 B in profits in a market where only 2 companies made any noteable profit</li>
<li>] it's less money than what made previously, thats all that Shareholders/Wall Street care about.</li>
<li>] comparable to apple's ipad market share, first mover,</li>
<li>] samsung said they overestimated smartphone demand</li>
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<li><strong>[13:00][government] <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/31/us-china-canada-cybersecurity-idUSKBN0G015620140731" target="_blank">Canada is accusing China of hacking the NRC network</a> w/ </strong><a href="http://twitter.com/stevenchase" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Steven Chase</a>,@The Globe and Mail</li>
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<li>] National Research Council(NRC) is the main computer network of its leading research body.</li>
<li>] NRC works with people who've discovered things, patented, ip,</li>
<li>] But this isn't the first time China has been accused by other governments of hacking into national security resources ... on of the most recent accusations has been of hacking <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Isreals Iron Dome missile defence system</span></li>
<li>] China takes a very broad approach to hacking, when confronted, they say "irresponsible accusation", then they start investigating companies from the country</li>
<li>] first time the Canadian government has acknowledged chinese hacking, some apprehension about how its going to play out</li>
<li>] when will the escalating claims have an economic impact?</li>
<li>] Canadian PM (Stephen Harper) planning trip to China this fall</li>
<li>] Canada already has a "frosty" relationship with Chinese gov., blocked some of their access to <span style="text-decoration: underline;">oilsands projects</span>, they blocked canadian financial institutions(banks/insurance) access to their market</li>
<li>] havent heard of any companies in canada being impacted by this yet</li>
<li>] in US mainstream, is not a lot of outrage anymore,&nbsp; because its so prevelant,</li>
<li>] public reaction in Canada, not sure yet, everyones on summer vacation</li>
<li>] whats different this time is the Canadian government is involved directly.</li>
<li>] China's foreign ministry calls this an irresponsible accusation.</li>
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<li><strong>[19:00][government] <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/30/us-google-europe-android-insight-idUSKBN0FZ2B220140730" target="_blank">European regulators are getting ready to take action against Google</a>&nbsp; </strong>w/<a href="https://twitter.com/lexnfx" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Alexei Oreskovic</a>,</li>
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<li>] for abusing Android&rsquo;s 80 percent market share, according to a report by Reuters. The action will come after a nearly four year investigation.</li>
<li>] What abuses are we talking about?</li>
<li>] currently, more of a fact finding mission, have sent questionaire to handset mfg's, telecom operators that use android</li>
<li>] trying to discover policies to licence android</li>
<li>] any requirements that preclude companies from using any services other than google's services</li>
<li>] that would impede other rivals in the space</li>
<li>] google has made statement, it's committed to keeping android open</li>
<li>] their is an open source version of android, anyone can use</li>
<li>] most recent versions, require licence, there are multiple different licences, details on licences are not public</li>
<li>] 80% android market share is combination of licenced google android and open source android</li>
<li>] 40 questions on questionare, going back to 2007(androids beginning), questions include ...</li>
<li>] details on revenue sharing agreements with google</li>
<li>] requirement to NOT use competing services</li>
<li>] experiences and difficulties with using app store other then googles app store</li>
<li>] what are penalities if they are found guilty?</li>
<li>] EU has ability to fine companies up to 10% of their annual revenue</li>
<li>] no matter what, Europe is always un happy with google</li>
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<li><strong>[25:00] BREAKING NEWS </strong>- CIA director John Brennan apologizes to Senate Intelligence Committee</li>
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<li>] admitted to CIA hacking a Senate computer network,(Senator Feinstein) interesting because she has been a big supporter of NSA and CIA, then found out senate was being hacked by them</li>
<li>] apologized and admitted it</li>
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<li><strong>[25:30][government] <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2014/7/30/5953139/fcc-deeply-troubled-by-verizon-plan-to-throttle-lte-data" target="_blank">Verizon is planning to throttle or slow down the service of its unlimited data plan users starting in October</a>&nbsp; </strong>w/ <a href="https://twitter.com/jbrodkin" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jon Brodkin</a> @arsTechnica</li>
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<li>] the FCC Chairman isn't happy about it. In a letter, Chairman Tom Wheeler calls the plan "disturbing" and "deeply troubling".</li>
<li>] what is verizon doing and why is Wheeler troubled when others are also doing it?</li>
<li>] a few years ago, Verizon started throttling 3G users, limited it to users with Unlimited plans and to when they connected to "congested towers"</li>
<li>] whats new is, they are now doing throttling with 4G users also</li>
<li>] every carrier has to do some throttling to keep networks operating effectively</li>
<li>] what verizon is doing, is because of customers with 'grandfathered' unlimited data plans,</li>
<li>] verizon wants to get these customers to move to new plans with limited data, where they will be able to charge users additional for over data limits</li>
<li>] thats the reason for Wheelers objection</li>
<li>] is part of the problem of the FCC's own making, vague interpretaion of terms like "reasonable network management"</li>
<li>] reasonable network management, doesnt apply to wireless carriers, rules for wireless carriers are really weak,</li>
<li>] what could the FCC do?</li>
<li>] could issue a stronger set of net neutrality rules</li>
<li>] other countries like South Korea have super fast wireless network, are they doing this(throttling) instead of building up their wireless infrastructure</li>
<li>] juggling systems instead of systems that perform like in other countries</li>
<li>] throtting is pretty universal when it comes to the heaviest data users on the most congested cell sites</li>
<li>] AT&amp;T is doing the same thing</li>
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<li><strong>[31:00][technology-software][humor] <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/07/30/facebook_okcupid_experiments_what_other_companies_are_conducting_secret.html" target="_blank">Thats how websites work</a> w/</strong><a href="https://twitter.com/WillOremus" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Will Oremus</a></li>
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<li>] Facebook and OkCupid have been in the news lately because we learned they&rsquo;ve been doing experiments on users.</li>
<li>] Facebook changed some users&rsquo; News Feeds to be more negative to see if that would change what they did on Facebook.</li>
<li>] The OKCupid online dating site lied to some users about their compatibility with other users to see if that changed their relationships. Slate senior technology writer Will Oremus wrote a humor piece on the subject, where he quoted OKCupid co-founder Christian Rudder saying: &ldquo;Guess what, everybody: If you use the Internet, you&rsquo;re the subject of hundreds of experiments at any given time, on every site. That&rsquo;s how websites work.&rdquo;</li>
<li>] is it the norm, do all websites do this experimentation?</li>
<li>] most do experimentation of some sort, all the time, likely that most are NOT of this type, on a personal level</li>
<li>] example testing - A/B testing, ex different headlines - same story, OR changing styles site design, layouts to determine which creates a higher clickthrough rate for visitors</li>
<li>] A/B testing of headlines doesnt affect the relationships people have IRL</li>
<li>] thing is, we dont know which sites are doing or what they are doing</li>
<li>] we have to trust the sites we use</li>
<li>] this is a violation of trust, for some people</li>
<li>] if users dont like it</li>
<li>] you can vote with your feet and go elsewhere,</li>
<li>] BUT is where you go, doing the same thing?</li>
<li>] some services like facebook, which are ubiquitous</li>
<li>] people wont leave, but these types of incidents erode users trust</li>
<li>] could be harming themselves, they rely on the data that users feed into their system to sell ads,</li>
<li>] if users continue to lose trust, its 'possible' that they may feed less of their data into the system</li>
<li>] facebook is realizing it, OK Cupid maybe not so much</li>
<li>] example experiments from humour article - YELP experiment</li>
<li>] switch reviews and ratings from the worst sushi restaurants and best restaurants, see if people then try worst and give it a good rating</li>
<li>] example Yahoo mail - delete all user email</li>
<li>] see how people react to having no emails, are they happier or not?</li>
<li>] example busch could switch beer with fake beer and</li>
<li>] see how people react, do they still act drunk</li>
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<li><strong>[38:30] #howdoyouwatchTNT&nbsp;</strong></li>
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<li>] police officer watches from his police cruiser, says suspects dont care for the show so much, but he hopes to convert one of them someday</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;- Elise Hu</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/1061" 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-july-31-2014" 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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