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tnt - 2015-01-20

] expected discussion of privacy, security, technology
] more and more tech oriented b/c of privacy issues, need to seem innovative
] municipal broadband networks
] digital divide in america, as you go from 1 city to another
] how will broadband providers react?
] what about UK initiative to be allowed to crack any encryption, to have backdoor access to everything, imessage, snapchat, what have you
] maybe easy topics, things everyone agrees on, protecting children, credit card security
"] an encrypted conversation is identical/comparable to 2 people whispering to on another, we have the right to have private conversations, no matter who
"] we need protection from malicous hackers, state sponsored hacking
] allegations that much state sponsored hacking is against others, perhaps would be better to be defensive hacking, trying to protect us

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[00:00] twitter acquires zipdial w/Jason Abbruzzese @mashable.com

] indian marketing company, helps companies to communicate without using their data plans
] using messaging response system, notifications
] famous for "missed call", you then call their ph#, listen to an ad,
] designed for markets where internet mobile connections are expensive are hard to access/
] will it come to america? can't see it, mature mobile markets use a lot of data
] in emerging markets, a lot of people still use feature phones
] zipdials 500 clients including Disney, Procter & Gamble
] the data they are aquiring is also valuable

[14:00] France Pushes for Scrubbing Internet of Terrorism-Related Content w/Sam Schechner @wsj.com (Wall Street Journal)

] french interior minister meeting with german counterpart to get on the same page re
] pressuring american tech companies(google,facebook,twitter,...) to remove terrorist related content more quickly
] urgency being driven by charlie hebdo attacks,
] tech companies are troubled by stricter rules, more complications
] countries want american tech companies to do pre emptive filtering of their sites
] us officials have called for this as well
] upcoming french surveillance law, also similar in UK, germany
] targeting more access to what people are doing online
] are countries connecting the dots, -backdoors, -special access front doors, are countries unifying in their approach to their demands
] europe wants right to do somthing, then other countries will want the same rights, what about turkey, iran, china
] how do companies determine who gets access, do countries have to decide who is the good countries, who are the bad countries
] this is what tech companies are argueing,

] new report - fb claiming its business has generated $227B of economic activity
] has created 4.5M jobs worldwide
] deloitte published the report, was funded by facebook
] example of all
] UK company, created a fake company, offered "downloadable bagels", generated a lot of fb activity, likes
] fb has an enormous amounts of fake accounts, does engagement and activity drive monetary activity
] fuzzy math - events - measured responses to attend, multiplied each attendee by x$ of buying at the event location
] a dollar value on "likes"
] facebooks COO is going to discuss these results at the worldwide economic ..
] there is an economic benefit to facebook, it is an advertising/marketing/promotion engine
] they are taking credit for everything fb touches
] fb is part of a bigger economic puzzle

[26:00] Samsung developing a special variant of the Galaxy S6 with a dual-edge display

] sam mobile is reporting that the galaxy S6 will have a curved display on the right edge and on the left edge
] similar to the galaxy note egde with curved display on left edge, this will have on both edges
] phone has not been named or ship dates set yet,
] some clunkiness to the current note edge curved display
] if they improve the elegance of it, it could be tempting
] ? is how many people would be attracting to the device because of the feature, it it enought to justify
] case to be made for a "flagship phone" to give cachet to the rest of the brand
] reputation - copying apple, scattershot in design,
] truly innovative things - like this - that nobody has, would help
] gartner report - apple dominates high end devices, devices >$400, android dominates low end devices, <$100

] tech is not new, has been around for over 1 year, but no one is really talking about it, first time its been reported on
] 50 law enforcement agencies are using this device, more then 200 devices
] can see inside walls, will track your movement, can see the layout of your home
] device doesnt require a warrant to uses, privacy advocates are concerned
] main thing it does, tells law, are you at home, where are you in the home.
] in Denver, device was used to find someone, when judge heard about it, was really concerned about privacy issues

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] google buying into spaceX
] german publication Heise says email addresses/passwords of 1800 minecraft accounts were stolen and published online, small percentage of minecraft users, but may just be the tip of the iceberg
] report from trendforce claims chinese companies accounted for almost 40% of total smartphones sold in 2014, global leader samsung lost 4.5, holds 28%, apple has 16.4%, xiaomi listed as the 6th biggest seller, 1.16 billion
] splashdata released its annual list of top dumb passwords - the two worst , 123456 and password, used by approx 2%

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