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<h1 style="text-align: center;">tnt - 01-07</h1>
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<li><strong>[00:00] CES-2015 update</strong></li>
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<li>] it has been a "hopping" CES this year</li>
<li><strong>] wearables trends</strong>&nbsp;</li>
<li>] so many wearables, so much hardware, everyone has hardware, watches, bands, sleep, home automation controls,</li>
<li>] ignore the hardware,&nbsp;&nbsp;the wearables have already become a commodity</li>
<li>] winners will be the companies that take the data from all these devices and turn it into useable information for you</li>
<li>] strategy - get your data, sell your data&nbsp;</li>
<li>] started with basic information(fitbit), then using the information to do analysis, now companies taking the analysis and doing big data correlation to buy you</li>
<li><strong>] battle between intel and nvidia</strong></li>
<li>] both companies are huge, both are&nbsp;going after many markets (mobile, iot, wearables, autos,&nbsp;...) but are&nbsp;on divergent paths for chips</li>
<li>] nvidia tegra x1 chip&nbsp;- 256 gpu cores on top of 8 cpu cores, a ridiculously fast and powerful chip, high power consumption</li>
<li>] intel&nbsp;curry chip - low power, tiny soc, dual core - betting on makers to make the next generation of devices, IOT, low power</li>
<li>?] KB&nbsp;- Did the&nbsp;intel investment in workplace diversity break up the conversation about gadgets, data, wearables?</li>
<li>] half of the large intel booth is non traditional devices - a huge maker space, occulus, more data points , subtle shift&nbsp;</li>
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<li><span style="background-color: #888888;"><strong>[00:00] <a href="http://naturebox.com/twit" target="_blank">naturebox.com/twit</a> </strong></span></li>
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<li><span style="background-color: #888888;">] subscription snack service, healthy food, all kinds of innovative, delicous snacks, NO artificial flavours, colours, high fructose corn syrup, some are gluten free, FREE box with your initial order, </span><span><br /></span></li>
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<li><strong>[08:15] paris attack on political satire magazine Charlie Hebdo</strong></li>
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<li>] 12 people killed</li>
<li>] killer or killers&nbsp;have NOT been&nbsp;captured</li>
<li>] magazine has done satirical cartoons of political figures</li>
<li>] tweet&nbsp;about isis leader from magazines twitter account approx. .5 hour before attack&nbsp;</li>
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<li><strong>[00:00] <a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_27269691/monster-sues-beats-severing-ties-ahead-apple-acquisition" target="_blank">monster sues Beats</a> w/Jeremy C. Owens San Jose Mercury News</strong></li>
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<li>] Monster claims Dre &amp; Iovine conspired to seperate the Beats headphones brand from monster before the apple aquisition</li>
<li>] companies started as partners, about 3 years</li>
<li>] HTC made 300M investment in Beats, this investment enabled them to extract beats brand from Monster partnership</li>
<li>] founder of Beats convinced to sell his share for 5M,</li>
<li>] this share was later valued at 60M when Beats sold to apple</li>
<li>"]&nbsp;KB -&nbsp;set of headphones with really great marketing behind them</li>
<li>] what monster brought to beats - global supply chain, connections to asian component mfg, infrastructure</li>
<li>"] does HTC have a lawsuit also&nbsp;- they are named in the suit, but this suit is&nbsp;primarily aimed at Dr Dre and Jimmy Iovine, Paul Wachter(board member)</li>
<li>] will try to find emails between HTC and beats, to prove it was a sham investment</li>
<li>] HTC bought interest in Beats, then shortly after Beats bought&nbsp;that share&nbsp;back</li>
<li>] bad blood between monster and beats for a while -</li>
<li>] Monster see's Dre and Iovine as taking credit for the headphones success, even though monster felt it was their technology (infrastructure) that led to their success</li>
<li>] if Beats would acknowledge that, a lot of the bad blood would dissipate.</li>
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<li><strong>[16:45] <a href="http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/01/06/the-internet-of-things-ftc-chairwoman-calls-for-tech-privacy-at-ces" target="_blank">FTC chairwoman concerned with IOT device privacy</a> w/Tom Risen @US news and world report</strong></li>
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<li>] chairwoman Edith Ramirez - is concerned about risks arising from the IoT revolution</li>
<li>] has been pushing for "privacy by design" for IOT devices, gov encourage businesses to bake privacy into devices</li>
<li>] concern about consumers data, what they are giving up,</li>
<li>] need to ensure privacy/security is handled first, before there is a problem.</li>
<li>] some republicans believe ADDING regulation will slow down development of said devices/technologies.</li>
<li>] FTC has been enforcing privacy with companies like google facebook</li>
<li>] might discourage investment in these companies</li>
<li>] some believe their should be more emphasis on consumer education, consumers being responsible for their own privacy</li>
<li>] instead of the gov. being pre emptive with new regulations</li>
<li>] does .gov have the capacity to ensure that devices do&nbsp;meet any guidelines that are&nbsp;created, there are so many of these devices coming into the marketplace now</li>
<li>] going to be like regulation in food industry, there isnt really any, its self policing, overseen by industry members</li>
<li>] FTC is not a regulatory body, it is an enforcement body</li>
<li>] they have a report coming out on the IoT, soon&nbsp;</li>
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<li><strong>[23:30] ASSORTED HEADLINES&nbsp;-</strong><strong>&nbsp;<a href="http://recode.net/2015/01/06/whatsapp-keeps-on-growing-hits-700-million-users/" target="_blank">WhatsApp has grown to 700M Montly Active Users</a></strong></li>
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<li>]&nbsp;sending 30B messages per month</li>
<li>] users have grown by 200M since the fb aquisition in 2014-02</li>
<li>] telephone companies still havent figured out how to deal with messaging apps</li>
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<li><strong>[00:00] <a href="http://recode.net/2015/01/06/motorola-heads-back-to-china-with-moto-x-moto-g-and-new-moto-x-pro/" target="_blank">Lenovo plans to start selling Motorola smartphones in China</a></strong></li>
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<li>] bringing the moto g, moto x and the new moto x pro models to sell in the chinese market</li>
<li>] china gets motomaker customization website for phones</li>
<li>] motomaker customization site&nbsp;has been discontinued in the usa</li>
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<li><strong>[00:00] <a href="http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/los-angeles-police-department-lapd-to-deploy-more-than-3000-taser-smart-weapons-to-front-line-officers-300016138.html" target="_blank">police&nbsp;body cameras&nbsp;activate when taser is deployed</a></strong></li>
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<li>]&nbsp;new taser cameras and body camera's for LA police</li>
<li>] self activated body cameras by police can have issues regarding deployment</li>
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<li><strong>[27:00] <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/01/06/knock-on-wood-bang-olufsens-beosound-moment-has-a-touch-panel-made-of-oak/" target="_blank">touch control&nbsp;surfaces made out of wood</a></strong></li>
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<li>] new $2800 sound system from&nbsp;Bang and Olufsen - Beosound moment - features touch control systems that are made out of wood.</li>
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<li><strong>[00:00] </strong><strong>FOLLOWUP -&nbsp;on PREVIOUSLY REPORTED STORIES</strong></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 - <a href="/view/person?id=307" target="_blank">Jason Cleanthes</a></li>
<li>] guest host&nbsp;- <a href="/view/person?id=305" target="_blank">Katie Benner</a></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/1169" 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-december-15-2014" 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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