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<li><strong>[00:00] <a href="http://9to5mac.com/2014/08/21/apple-files-to-kick-off-expanded-jewelry-classified-sapphire-production-this-month/" target="_blank">Apple files reports with regulators about shipping jewellry</a> with Matt Margolis wall Street Forensics<br /></strong></li>
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<li>] letter indicates that the iWatch may be shipping soon</li>
<li>] apple has its own big facility to mfg the saphirre screens, it is of ginormous scale, has been operating since 2014-06</li>
<li>] sapphire is grown in big blocks, then screens are carved out of the block and polished</li>
<li>] rumours are that one or both of the new iphone 6 model's will use the sapphire screens, as well as the iWatch, Matt expects both will use it</li>
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<li><strong>[08:30] <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/hps-blow-out-quarter-doesnt-thrill-2014-8" target="_blank">HP surprised wall street with jump in revenues </a>- with <br /></strong></li>
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<li>] jump in revenues is the&nbsp;first increase in 3 years</li>
<li>] up 12% from pc sales</li>
<li>] layoffs have been ongoing for 2 years, HP has about 325K employees worldwide</li>
<li>] PC sales were good in US and EUROPE, a lot of sales were driven from XP upgrades</li>
<li>] the bump in sales not likely sustainable</li>
<li>] is Meg Whitman turning around the company?</li>
<li>] well liked by employeds, seems genuine, speaks well, getting&nbsp; a handle on the company</li>
<li>] analysts want to see growth in revenue, results from previous aquisition</li>
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<li><strong>[14:30] <a href="http://gigaom.com/2014/08/21/remember-googles-wave-thanks-to-sandstorm-its-easy-to-start-using-again/" target="_blank">google wave makes a comeback</a> - with David Meyer GigaOm</strong></li>
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<li>] google closed the social communication/collaborations services 4 years ago to work on google plus</li>
<li>] platform for collaboration,</li>
<li>] google gave the wave code to appache project,</li>
<li>] app is a hybrid between email and chat, collaboratively work on documents like google docs</li>
<li>] platform is sandstone, crowdunded, personal cloud,</li>
<li>] instead of running your own server, can have a virtual server, hosted by sandstorm or others,</li>
<li>] click once to install, apps can talk to each other</li>
<li>] could give indy apps a way to compete with the likes of google, msft</li>
<li>] gives users more control over their own data, privacy, ...</li>
<li>] difficult to position</li>
<li>] super easy to use, a complete novice could use, a techie could take advantage of as well</li>
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<li><strong>[19:00] google has new ad format - with Barry Schwartz <br /></strong></li>
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<li>] ads will show up on your mobile while your doing a search</li>
<li>] same as admob mobile network in june</li>
<li>] ad format works for both and android and ios</li>
<li>] fb and twitter have similar offereings, this is pretty much the same thing</li>
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<li><strong>[00:00] <a href="http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/08/21/apple-invention-helps-iphone-users-find-their-parked-car-despite-poor-cell-gps-reception" target="_blank">2 new apple patents to help you with finding where you parked your car</a> - with Mikey Campbell @ apple insider.com</strong></li>
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<li>] problem in parking garages, NO GPS and often no data connection</li>
<li>] iphone will detect when user enters cars</li>
<li>] uses accelorometer to measure, speed distance</li>
<li>] interprets this data</li>
<li>] apple carplay integration would be requred</li>
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<li><strong>[00:00] reader feedback </strong></li>
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<li>] xiaimo may have trouble competing in us with their iphone copy,</li>
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<li><strong>[00:00] followups</strong></li>
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<li>] chinese hackers</li>
<li>] ikea and airBnB - letting users sleep in ikea beds</li>
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<li><strong>] <a href="/view/people?id=88" target="_blank">twit.tv - tnt show</a></strong></li>
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<li>] host -&nbsp;<a href="/view/person?id=202" target="_blank">Mike Elgan</a></li>
<li>] 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>] twit.tv - tnt show</strong></li>
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<li>]&nbsp;<a href="http://twit.tv/show/tech-news-today/1076" 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-august-21-2014" 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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