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<li><strong>[00:00]&nbsp;<a href="https://gigaom.com/2014/11/20/apple-ends-patent-war-on-android-deal-suggests" target="_blank">google settles with rockstar consortium</a> w/<a href="https://twitter.com/jeffjohnroberts" rel="nofollow" target="_self">Jeff John Roberts</a>,@gigaom.com</strong></li>
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<li>] rockstar owns the patents from the failed canadian networking company nortel,</li>
<li>] rockstar is backed/owned by apple, blackberry, ericsen, microsoft and sony</li>
<li>]&nbsp;google lost the&nbsp;bidding war for the patents, rockstar paid 4.5 B in 2010, google offered 4.4 B</li>
<li>] rockstar also sued HTC, Huawai , other android makers</li>
<li>] and cisco, anyone who made a router, ....</li>
<li>] litigiousness may have been a steve jobs thing, going thermonuclear on android</li>
<li>] suggests that the patent wars may be over</li>
<li>] its getting really expensive, companies can afford it, but better to focus on their products</li>
<li>] helped apple in that it established that other companies were copying apple, more the marketing and mystyel of app</li>
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<li><span style="background-color: #c0c0c0;"><strong>[06:00] AD braintree</strong></span></li>
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<li><span style="background-color: #c0c0c0;">] payments platform for your website, ] 10 lines of code to implement, ] accept payments from multiple credit cards, ] secure, uses tokenization ] OFFER first 50K of transactions w/out any processing fees</span></li>
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<li><strong>[07:30] </strong><a href="http://skift.com/2014/11/20/exclusive-amazon-to-get-into-hotel-booking-with-launch-of-travel-site" target="_blank"><strong>amazon planning to launch a travel service</strong></a><strong>&nbsp;</strong><a href="https://twitter.com/denschaal" rel="nofollow">Dennis Schaal</a>&nbsp;skift (travel site)</li>
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<li>] service will launch&nbsp;as early as jan 2015</li>
<li>] amazon would get a 15% commission from hotels, comparison to expedia's 25% commission</li>
<li>] going to the drive market, looking at independant hotels other then just the major industry players&nbsp;</li>
<li>] different then previous amazon attempts in 2001 and 2006</li>
<li>] will amazon expand into flights and other services, like car rentals, vacations ? maybe</li>
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<li><strong>[11:45] <a href="http://nypost.com/2014/11/21/amazon-plans-a-streaming-video-alternative" target="_blank">amazon planning to launch a free ad supported streaming video service</a>&nbsp;nypost</strong></li>
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<li>] service will co exisit with their current paid streaming service</li>
<li>] service could&nbsp;be used to attract new viewers to amazon and then try to upsell them on their paid streaming options</li>
<li>] service&nbsp;was previously denied by amazon when reported in the wall street journal&nbsp;&nbsp;</li>
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<li><strong>[12:30] <a href="https://www.google.com/contributor/welcome" target="_blank">google contributor service offers ad free viewing</a></strong></li>
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<li>]&nbsp;service allows users to view specific sites without any ads</li>
<li>] users pay a 1, 2 or $3 per month contribution</li>
<li>] ads are then replaced with a "thank you" message</li>
<li>] testing now with several sites including theonion.com&nbsp;ScienceDaily, Urban Dictionary, Mashable and six other sites</li>
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<li><strong>[13:00] FOLLOWUP - chinas plan to end internet censorship for conference .... goes awry</strong></li>
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<li>] <strong>China's lifted internet censorship but was for 1 city only, and only during the&nbsp;conference event. Chinese officials also tried and failed to rush through a 9 point "internet declaration" </strong>- ] a draft of declaration was slipped under the doors of conference attendees the night before the conference after 11PM&nbsp;] conference attendees were given 9 hours in the middle of the night to submit suggestions for change ] vague concepts , but didnt get passed</li>
<li>]&nbsp;<strong>Areeo</strong> - NYC TV streaming service&nbsp;is going bankrupt, launched 2 years ago, laid off staff 2 weeks ago,</li>
<li>] <strong>China and 1 or 2 other countries</strong> have the ability to shut down the US electrical grid says&nbsp;NSA cyber command cheif Michael Rogers.&nbsp;The identity of the other countries is classified. (allies like isreal, germany, uk, canada)</li>
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<li><strong>[16:20] <a href="http://googledrive.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Google Chromebook promotion offers 1TB of Drive storage free for 2 years</a></strong></li>
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<li>] Google today announced a holiday promotion that gives new Chromebook buyers one terabyte of Google Drive storage free for two years. That's a $240 value that can be had with the purchase of a Chromebook costing less than $200. The offer has to be redeemed before January 1. Read more at google.com.</li>
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<li><strong>] twit.tv - tnt show</strong></li>
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<li>] host -&nbsp;<a href="/view/person?id=202" target="_blank">Mike Elgan</a></li>
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<li>] guest host&nbsp;- none</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/1141" 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-november-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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