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tnt - 01-07

] it has been a "hopping" CES this year
] wearables trends
] so many wearables, so much hardware, everyone has hardware, watches, bands, sleep, home automation controls,
] ignore the hardware, the wearables have already become a commodity
] winners will be the companies that take the data from all these devices and turn it into useable information for you
] strategy - get your data, sell your data
] 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
] battle between intel and nvidia
] both companies are huge, both are going after many markets (mobile, iot, wearables, autos, ...) but are on divergent paths for chips
] nvidia tegra x1 chip - 256 gpu cores on top of 8 cpu cores, a ridiculously fast and powerful chip, high power consumption
] intel curry chip - low power, tiny soc, dual core - betting on makers to make the next generation of devices, IOT, low power
?] KB - Did the intel investment in workplace diversity break up the conversation about gadgets, data, wearables?
] half of the large intel booth is non traditional devices - a huge maker space, occulus, more data points , subtle shift

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] 12 people killed
] killer or killers have NOT been captured
] magazine has done satirical cartoons of political figures
] tweet about isis leader from magazines twitter account approx. .5 hour before attack

] Monster claims Dre & Iovine conspired to seperate the Beats headphones brand from monster before the apple aquisition
] companies started as partners, about 3 years
] HTC made 300M investment in Beats, this investment enabled them to extract beats brand from Monster partnership
] founder of Beats convinced to sell his share for 5M,
] this share was later valued at 60M when Beats sold to apple
"] KB - set of headphones with really great marketing behind them
] what monster brought to beats - global supply chain, connections to asian component mfg, infrastructure
"] does HTC have a lawsuit also - they are named in the suit, but this suit is primarily aimed at Dr Dre and Jimmy Iovine, Paul Wachter(board member)
] will try to find emails between HTC and beats, to prove it was a sham investment
] HTC bought interest in Beats, then shortly after Beats bought that share back
] bad blood between monster and beats for a while -
] 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
] if Beats would acknowledge that, a lot of the bad blood would dissipate.

[16:45] FTC chairwoman concerned with IOT device privacy w/Tom Risen @US news and world report

] chairwoman Edith Ramirez - is concerned about risks arising from the IoT revolution
] has been pushing for "privacy by design" for IOT devices, gov encourage businesses to bake privacy into devices
] concern about consumers data, what they are giving up,
] need to ensure privacy/security is handled first, before there is a problem.
] some republicans believe ADDING regulation will slow down development of said devices/technologies.
] FTC has been enforcing privacy with companies like google facebook
] might discourage investment in these companies
] some believe their should be more emphasis on consumer education, consumers being responsible for their own privacy
] instead of the gov. being pre emptive with new regulations
] does .gov have the capacity to ensure that devices do meet any guidelines that are created, there are so many of these devices coming into the marketplace now
] going to be like regulation in food industry, there isnt really any, its self policing, overseen by industry members
] FTC is not a regulatory body, it is an enforcement body
] they have a report coming out on the IoT, soon

[23:30] ASSORTED HEADLINES - WhatsApp has grown to 700M Montly Active Users

] bringing the moto g, moto x and the new moto x pro models to sell in the chinese market
] china gets motomaker customization website for phones
] motomaker customization site has been discontinued in the usa

] new $2800 sound system from Bang and Olufsen - Beosound moment - features touch control systems that are made out of wood.

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