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<h1 style="text-align: center;">tnt - 2015-02-23</h1>
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<li><strong>[00:00]&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/htc-one-m9-full-specs-images-revealed-ahead-official-launch-mobile-world-congress-1489062" target="_blank">HTC one m9</a> - w/David Gilbert</strong></li>
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<li>] leaks from german website about upcoming phone announcement by HTC</li>
<li>] the phone will announced on mon @ MWC, expected price&nbsp;749eu&nbsp;</li>
<li>] the leaked specs dont look like there are&nbsp;any&nbsp;huge upgrades over last years model</li>
<li>] &nbsp;5" quad hd screem, looks almost identical to last years model</li>
<li>] moved their previous&nbsp;"ultra pixel camera" to the front of the device</li>
<li>] added&nbsp;a new&nbsp;20mp camera to rear of device</li>
<li>] ships with android&nbsp;lollipop&nbsp;</li>
<li>] this phone&nbsp;matches other flagships tech</li>
<li>] no outstanding differentiating features compared to sony z3, samsung s5,&nbsp;</li>
<li>]&nbsp;maybe some unique&nbsp;color options - silver/gold combo,</li>
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<li><strong>[00:00] mwc, <a href="http://www.cnet.com/news/agony-and-htc-how-an-underdog-phone-maker-aims-to-reinvent-itself/" target="_blank">a big event for HTC, remaking its image as a "connected products" company</a></strong></li>
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<li>] has portable action "re camera", unveiled at CES-2015, uploads video directly to youtube</li>
<li>] fitness tracker with under armour</li>
<li>] another product ?</li>
<li>] has creative labs, research&nbsp;and dev&nbsp;facility&nbsp;</li>
<li>] run by guy in charge of creating sense UI</li>
<li>]&nbsp;company looking to find new ways to grow (outside of smartphone market)</li>
<li>] htc petra smartwatch - ?</li>
<li>] has a fitness deal with underarmour - long term partnership going after hard&nbsp;core athletes</li>
<li>] also sponsoring video gaming team, getting into gaming down the road?</li>
<li>] growing in the US, helping them grow, earnings have done parter in the&nbsp; last 2-3 quarters,</li>
<li>] HTC 1 m8 is a high quality phone that hasnt got the press attention of the apple or samsung</li>
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<li><strong>[00:00] <a href="http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/02/23/lg-announces-four-new-lollipop-powered-mid-range-phones-magna-spirit-leon-joy/" target="_blank">LG announces 4 new mid range android phones</a> w/Ryan Whitwam</strong></li>
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<li>] reasonably well speced,</li>
<li>] look like LG's more expensive phones(G2,G3)</li>
<li>] is this LG getting attention ahead of show, no announcements planned for MWC</li>
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<li><strong>[00:00] <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/23/facebooks-privacy-policy-breaches-european-law-report-finds" target="_blank">EU report says fb privacy policy is illegal</a></strong></li>
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<li>] too much effort to manage</li>
<li>] failed to inform users about what they are doing with their data</li>
<li>] very difficult to deal with "location"</li>
<li>] these complexities make it very hard to know</li>
<li>] aren't clear by what they mean by "for advertising purposes"</li>
<li>] what does that mean?</li>
<li>] fb has many apps, what's going on with those</li>
<li>] pointing out that fb is being clear, not be</li>
<li>] reality is that it is a complicated app with a complicated mission, they have to build a business around it, will be a huge challenge</li>
<li>] company is reliant on advertising,</li>
<li>] they should be superclear, nobody reads those things(PP)</li>
<li>] another problem is they dont know what they are going to do with it,</li>
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<li><strong>[00:00] <a href="http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/02/ssl-busting-code-that-threatened-lenovo-users-found-in-a-dozen-more-apps/" target="_blank">lenovo superfish</a></strong>&nbsp;</li>
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<li>]&nbsp;isreali company, komodia, malware has now been discovered in 14 other software packages,</li>
<li>]&nbsp;a serious problem</li>
<li>]&nbsp;cardcrunch, system alerts, arcade giant,</li>
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<li><strong>[00:00] courtroom drama, ruling in favour of google</strong></li>
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<li>] google accused of driving up prices by forcing users to bundle google apps</li>
<li>] lots of companies dont play ball with google</li>
<li>] depends on how market share is defined</li>
<li>] android total or</li>
<li>] the bundling of google apps</li>
<li>] ? do you thing - google bundling of</li>
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<li><strong>[00:00] BIG NUMBERS</strong></li>
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<li>] 15M facebook posts,likes,etc, created by 21M users</li>
<li>] 1.9B apple spending on data centers in EU ireland +</li>
<li>]<a href="https://twitter.com/tim_cook/status/569868529064943616" target="_blank"> 2,400 giant panels</a> of glass in apple spaceship, mfg in germany, plant had to be retooled to produce the glass, building contains not flat panels of glass,&nbsp; $5B exclusionary - keep everyone out</li>
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<li><strong>[00:00] TNT fan of the day</strong></li>
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<li>] &nbsp;</li>
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<h2>[objects]</h2>
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<li>] smartphone - HTC One M9</li>
<li>] smartphone -&nbsp; LG midrange 1</li>
<li>] smartphone -&nbsp; LG midrange 2</li>
<li>] smartphone -&nbsp; LG midrange 3</li>
<li>] smartphone -&nbsp; LG midrange 4</li>
<li>] building - apple space</li>
<li>] building/materials - curved glass windows</li>
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<h2>[systems]</h2>
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<li>] EU ruling on fb privacy policy</li>
<li>] superfish - malware brought to you by Lenovo + ....</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=290" target="_blank">Lindsay Turrentine</a></li>
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<li><strong>] business/companies</strong></li>
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<li>] HTC - rebranding for the USA, no just smartphones</li>
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<h2>[events]</h2>
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<li><strong>&nbsp;] MWC -</strong></li>
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<li>Sunday @cnet - live blog</li>
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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/1201" 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-february-23-2015" 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>
<li>] <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/116375417329203784398" target="_blank">Community - Google+</a>&nbsp;-</li>
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