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tnt - 2014-01-11

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1. ] security breach -Target and 4 others hacked, neiman marcus + 3 other unnamed retails
1. ] pos malware - grabs encrypted data, ramscraper ...
2. ] security breach - total # of users affected, how it's affecting compramised users
1. ] reuters reporting numbers... 40 M, 70M, 110M
2. ] and how the expoit is affecting users is unknown
3. ] secret new google service coming for airline ticket purchasing
1. ] for purchasing airline tickets - price comparison, ad supported,  eta 2014-03
2. ] " - Ryanair, CEO, Michael O Leary - would change the way people buy tickets forever
4. ] paypal
1. ] has new "in context" checkout service, keeps user on 'merchant site'
5. ] windows 8 is failing says Paul Thurrott of windows supersite
1. ] msft planning windows 9 release in 2015-04, codenamed "Threshold" to 'distance itself' from the 'win 8 debacle', will bring back the 'start menu'
6. ] take down my twitter
1. ] dance music label 'spinnin records' request google take down links to its own twitter site
7. ] maxis simcity update 10
1. ] coming out with offline mode for single player, previously offline version requred network sign-on
8. ] NYC crime down BUT iphones stolen WAY UP, 
1. ] 1/5 of grand larceny cases in NYC involves an apple product, 8000+ stolen
9. ] blackberry's comeback plan
1. ] newest models z10,z30 - followed the trend of smartphones, not successfull in the marketplace, bb not having much success with anything
2. ] new CEO, John Shen saying their new devices would be predominantly 'keyboard' centric, NOT exclusively keyboard
3. ] Mike thinks it brilliant, focus on the (x) % of the market that is 'keyboard' centric 
10. ] IOT - "dead in the water"
1. ] former apple exec Jean-Louis Gassée blogged that the IOT 'revolution' is dead in the water, B/C of the "basket of remotes problem", 
2. ] Even Smart TVs can’t provide a machine-readable description of the commands they understand, or even tell a smartphone app whether its on, what channel its on and so on. Smart refrigerators, smart toasters and smart thermostats? Forget it. Hardly anyone is working on this problem, and it’s the one problem that will kill the Internet of Things for consumers. Unless the industry organizes around standards and machine-readable and universally readable communication between devices, the Internet of Things is just a “Basket of Remotes” -- the features are there but nobody will use them.
3. ] harmony remote - 1 remote, many devices
4. ] seeing it with the nest thermostat
11. ] NBC partners with "nowthisnews"
1. ] makes 6 second news clips, play on vine, snapchat
2. ] networks trying to figure out how to use twitter, crowdsourced content
3. ] dumbing down of content OR 
4. ] nowthisnews - backed by Kenneth Lerer - co-founded The Huffington Post and currently serves as chairman of BuzzFeed.
12. ] drone warfare in the classroom
1. ] belgian school considering using 'drones' to monitor students taking exams for cheating, drones flying overhead in the classroom 
2. ] a prank OR the dumbest idea ever?
13. ] facebook - marilyn mckenna, (wife of former AG Rob)
1. ] has her facebook post served with a takedown notice for 'promoting' body image', post was her showing her weight loss(she lost 100+#), was not selling anything, 

 

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