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<h1 style="text-align: center;">tnt - 2015-01-27</h1>
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<li><strong>[00:00] apples earnings report later today</strong></li>
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<li>] high expectations</li>
<li>] china results, some predicting will have even more units then US, iphone 6 costs more in china</li>
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<li><strong>[00:00] <a href="http://recode.net/2015/01/27/twitters-new-video-product-has-arrived-which-could-make-vine-obsolete/" target="_blank">Vines newest competitor, Twitters own video service</a>&nbsp;w/Kurt Wagner @recode</strong></li>
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<li>] twitters adds new&nbsp;group messaging feature&nbsp;</li>
<li>] similar to direct messaging, instead of 1 - 1, you can message 1 - 20</li>
<li>] you can&nbsp;only DM message someone who is following you</li>
<li>] new video feature, you can record, edit and publish video, all through the twitter app</li>
<li>] twitter will create a video vibe, which will be important when twitter does more</li>
<li>] they are not killing vine, this will be competition for vine,</li>
<li>] twitter video had 30 sec limit, vine is(currently) 6 seconds</li>
<li>] tools are similar, a lot of vine users are using/creating "vines" strictly to upload to twitter</li>
<li>] twitter has tested with some video ads, goal is make consumer video prevelant, will open the door for brand video ads</li>
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<li><strong>[00:00] prosper/twit</strong></li>
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<li><strong>] a peer to peer lending marketlace</strong><span><br /></span></li>
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<li><strong>[10:00] <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2015/01/26/microsoft_q2_2015_earnings_windows_phone_revenue_declines_and_stock_falls.html" target="_blank">Microsoft Is Selling More Phones Than Ever, but It Isn't Nearly Enough</a>&nbsp;w/Alison Griswold</strong></li>
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<li>] msft latest earnings report, numbers showed a lot of promise in cloud,&nbsp;improvements in mobile,</li>
<li>] earnings results were almost exactly as forecast, slightly higher&nbsp;but wall st analysts are concerned,</li>
<li>] tepid forecast, unfavorable currency exchange rates, stock is now trading&nbsp;-9.0%</li>
<li>] are investors concerent about timelines of future products</li>
<li>] surface revenue, up 24%,&nbsp; a good spot</li>
<li>] 10.5M phones sold in last qtr, big for them, pales in comparison to samsung/apple and the really big smartphone makers</li>
<li>] windows + office traditional businesses are in transition</li>
<li>]&nbsp;are investors concerned about the model</li>
<li>] concerned with them having trouble growing sales in China and Japan,</li>
<li>] mike impressed with office 365 home/personal subscriptions +30% over same qtr prev year</li>
<li>] search revenue(Bing) grew 23%, search market share grew to near 20%, they are gaining on the goog</li>
<li>] chronic ? at what point does search transition to 2nd tier, @ amazon, other shopping companies as people go directly to those sites</li>
<li>] also when people search thru cortana, siri etc</li>
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<li><strong>[15:45] <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2015/01/cold-war-echoes-in-a-new-russian-spy-ring/384854/" target="_blank">Cold War Echoes in a New Russian Spy Ring</a>&nbsp;w/Russell Berman</strong></li>
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<li>] justice dept uncovered a&nbsp;3 man russian spy ring operating in NYC</li>
<li>] ring was using sex and money to recruit spies</li>
<li>] particulary interested in NYSE and high frequency trading, methods of destabilization of markets</li>
<li>] 1 arrested, 2 still at large</li>
<li>] operating for the last 2 years, part of a bigger spy ring the gov took down in 2010</li>
<li>] this ring comes at a very different time in us/russian relationships</li>
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<li><strong>[19:30] <a href="http://readwrite.com/2015/01/27/wickr-wtf-facebook-photo-sharing" target="_blank">Looking To Share Secret Photos On Facebook? This Startup May Help</a>&nbsp;w/Yael Grauer @readwrite.com</strong></li>
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<li>] new app Wicher, has feature Wicker Time Feed(WTF) which enables you to send messages to othe Wicker users that posts a "decoy" image to facebook(ex cat photo) which wicker users can "click through" to see the actual wicker secret image</li>
<li>] will people lose their followers b/c you are posting a lot of "cat" photos</li>
<li>] you can use this app outside of fb as well</li>
<li>] not sure of how app works, where "secret" photos are stored, persistence etc</li>
<li>] iOS only, android coming in about 2 weeks, then desktop</li>
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<li><strong>[21:30] <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2015/01/27/justice-department-is-reportedly-spying-on-millions-of-us-cars/" target="_blank">Justice Department is reportedly spying on millions of US cars</a>&nbsp;</strong></li>
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<li>] whenever your driving its a good idea to watch where your going at all times, sounds like&nbsp;the government agrees</li>
<li>] wsj reports that the justice department building a national database that tracks realtime movements of cars throught the US</li>
<li>] all the cameras on the highways , feeding into some big data system, that authorities like the DEA are using to track drug traffickers</li>
<li>] cars already have the abiltity to track themselves, toll roads take pictures, red light / traffic montoring cameras</li>
<li>] systematic ? abusive ?</li>
<li>] this database is silod, data gathered from highway cameras,</li>
<li>] what happens when - gather info from the cars themselves, the phones inside the cars</li>
<li>] what happens when this database, connected to&nbsp;those databases, super database</li>
<li>] PROs save the children, catch the bad guys,</li>
<li><span style="background-color: #ffff99;">] CONS - law abiding citizen,none,"doing nothing wrong", you wont even know about it, dont worrry your pretty little head about it</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: #ffff99;">] larger issue - cumulative effect of lots of companies and the government, tracking everything you do, you dont know what they are tracking, what they are doing with it</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: #ffff99;">] sliding into this dystopian future, you can be are tracked , never know who has control or access to that information</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: #ffff99;">] what happens <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">if</span>when <strong>your information</strong> falls into&nbsp;the hands of the bad guys</span></li>
<li>] this program the cameras can ID who is in the car, who is driving, who is&nbsp;in the passenger seat</li>
<li>] when self driving cars arrive, what will they be reporting</li>
<li>] of course we will continue to track this story ...</li>
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<li><span style="background-color: #ccffff;"><strong>[00:00] </strong></span><a href="http://naturebox.com/twit" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: #ccffff;"><strong>shutterstock.com/twit</strong></span></a></li>
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<li><strong>[27:30]&nbsp;<a href="https://fiber.google.com/about/" target="_blank">Google Fiber - A different kind of Internet and TV</a>&nbsp;</strong></li>
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<li>]&nbsp;plans to announce 4 new cities (Atlanta, Charlotter, Raleigh Durham, Nashville) that will be getting google fiber</li>
<li>] huge fees for first time users of google fiber</li>
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<li><strong>[28:15] </strong><strong>ASSORTED </strong></li>
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<li>]&nbsp; snapchat - has new feature called discover, will push out content from a variety of publishers, espn, cnn and vice - Will it fit with their user profile</li>
<li>]&nbsp;<a href="https://blog.agilebits.com/2015/01/26/1password-5-2-for-ios-the-awesomesauce-edition/" target="_blank">1Password 5.2 for iOS: The Awesomesauce Edition is here</a>&nbsp;- new features</li>
<li>] <a href="https://www.pixelapse.com/tour" target="_blank">Pixelapse</a>&nbsp;- aquired by Dropbox, makes a github like version control service for designers, terms of deal undisclosed, part of a larger trend where "commodity cloud providers" add additiona[ services to continue to provide value</li>
<li>] xbox - 6.6 M sold by msft in xmas qtr , -11% over same period last year</li>
<li>] xiaomi - sold out its new flagship mi smartphone in 3 minutes after it went on sale, no sales # announced by company says it had 220M phones reserved,</li>
<li>] <a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2015/01/27/joystiq-closing-shop/" target="_blank">Rumor: Joystiq closing shop</a>&nbsp;</li>
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<li><strong>[00:00] </strong><strong>FOLLOWUP -&nbsp;on PREVIOUSLY REPORTED STORIES</strong></li>
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<li>] none</li>
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<h2>[objects]</h2>
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<li>] xbox</li>
<li>] xiaomi mi</li>
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<h2>[systems]</h2>
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<li>] twitter</li>
<li>] wicker</li>
<li>] google fiber</li>
<li>] snapchat</li>
<li>] 1Password</li>
<li>] Pixelapse</li>
<li>] DOJ.us.gov&nbsp; highway surveillance</li>
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<h2>[people]</h2>
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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=288" target="_blank">Joe Panettieri</a>&nbsp;</li>
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<li>] twitter</li>
<li>] msft</li>
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<h2>[events]</h2>
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<h2>[places]</h2>
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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/1183" 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-january-27-2014" 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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