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[00:00] msft windows 10 - details announced at press event w/Andrew Cunningham, SR Product Specialist @arstechnicha.com

] Free" upgrade, when will Windows 10 ship?, the new browser Spartan, Continuum, Cortana, and some of the photo features
] msft press event video
] free upgrade to windows 10 - all current win 7 and win 8.1 users, will be offered as the free upgrade for the first year
] release fulfills the promise of windows 8, one OS for all devices, phone, tablet, PC
] apps that run on all devices, buy windows app, works on your PC, your tablet, your phone, not buy app version for the PC, one the Phone another for the tablet
] desktop and touch interfaces will be seperate, where original win8 was kind of only 1 hybrid
] the idea they had for windows 8 but executed much better
] spartan browser - you can make clips for web pages, ] new readablity features, ] save articles for offline, ] customize text appearance
] cortana - personal assistant - is coming to the desktop, similar to apple siri, google now

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[06:45] msft windows 10 - universal apps w/Devindra Hardawar, Senior Editor @engadget

] win 10 closer to msft longtime dream of universal app (applications that work across desktop, mobile and tablet platforms)
] talking about it before the launch of windows 8, finally happening
] showed newest version of office running across PC, tablet, phone
] msft likes to make things seem simple, desktop apps seem to be heavy, phone is a lightweight low end platform,
] how will the phones handle the big desktop apps, must be some way to scale app from low end apps to high end
] msft didnt alway intend to aim for low end of market with their win phones, its where they ended up
] rumours of surface phone or other high end phones, still exist
] developer reaction to univeral apps
] didnt see many compelling apps for windows 8
] more of a chance to get developers on board, possi your app running on multiple platforms including xbox

[11:00] msft windows - halo lens w/Sascha Segan Lead Mobile Analyst @pcmag.com

] augmented reality system appears to place 3D holographic images in the real world, and even alien landscapes.
] headset with visor, visor has a see through screen that super imposes images on what your seeing around you
] ex - can turn your living room into minecraft
] ex - fixing a broken sink, have a plumber on the other end, showing you where the problem is, what you need to fix,
] full augmented reality, its amazing, everyone is talking about it
] when - nobody knows, will probably be years, msft said "in the windows 10 timeframe"
] skeptics - maybe its just research, its not a product yet,
] does msft have the ability to productive this
] big element of connect in this ....
] msft intends to productize this, wether they are capable of doing it, we dont know yet.
] what does this product say about CEO satya Nadella - he has been able to create 1 msft, company divisisions are now talking to each other
] trying to make msft "cool" again,
"] Satya Nadella - i want msft to go from something you have to use, to something you choose to use, to something you love to use"
*] glasses look like photos of glasses shown in the movie "back to the future", released in YYYY, the movie portrayed the future year 2015
] when, how much - nobody knows, msft has said within win10 timeframe = before windows 11, guessing a year or two away,
] pricing - pick a number, $500, google working on something similar, bought magic leap, maybe we will see a bunch of competing units

[17:00] msft surface hub - an 84 tablet w/Cherlynn Low @Toms Guide

] Surface Hub has a 4K screen and has Kinect cameras for reading motion gestures
] it's an all in one PC, that you can mount on the wall,
] will be 55" version as well
] meant for the workplace, better collaboration
] speculation that they may be in the 5-7k price range
] msft aquisition of perceptive pixel, ceo jeff hahn uses similar to/like a drafting table
] available later this year

[20:30] samsung blackberry, talking? w/Claire brownell @Financial Post

] January 14 report that Samsung was in talks to buy BlackBerry. After both companies denied the report, the news reports on it evaporated. says Samsung is still "actively pursuing" either an acquisition or the buying of a major stake in BlackBerry
] not a lot that I can tell you, about how i got the information, where i got the info from, source has knowledge of the dealings between Samsung and "evercorp"
] evercorp is helping samsung prepare an outline for doing the takeover, how to structure the deal
] whats in it for samsung?
] major strategic reason is to break further into the ent. market
] bb has market share in .biz, .gov market
] + bb patents and software ] + potential tax savings
] blackberry denials about "aquisition talks", maybe talks are about purchasing a large major stake
] documents suggest buying major controlling stake, may get around a number of issues, regulatory issues
] bb would still be an independant company, headquarted in Canada

[23:30] ebay selling paypal w/ Deepa Seetharaman reuters.com

] ebay is splitting off paypal division
] may also be looking to sell/spin off the "ebay enterprise" unit
] ebay enterprise works with brands and retailers, helps them create an omni channel strategy
] expected 7% job cuts company wide, 2400 people, more cuts on marketplace side than payments, company will be taking 100M charge against layoffs in first fiscal quarter

[27:00] twitters new feature - while your away

] catches you up on tweets that you missed while your away
] power users dont need the feature b/c they would never be away
] 1 big issue for twitter, people sign up and leave, dabblers and lurkers
] this may help them to "see the service"
] but part of the charm of twitter is, you don't worry about what you missed
] twitter is the "here and now"
] using algorithms, this features content that is not from people you follow on twitter
] an example of company with facebook envy,
] may turn off their most loyal users

[00:00] google to be selling its own wireless service, Sascha segan @pcmag.com

] google has been working on this idea for 4 years
] wants to offer wireless mobile service,
] in talks to make deal with sprint and tmobile
] google will be offering sprint and tmobile services under the google brand name
] google PR not confirming or denying anything right now
] we don't know what will be "special" about the google service
] both theinformation and wsj.com reporting on it, that it may be happening soon

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[00:00] FOLLOWUP - on PREVIOUSLY REPORTED STORIES

] email - encryption - like whispering in public, good encryption should be legal, 4th amendment limits auth, but not their capability, ex safe maker , 2nd amendment , limit the gov capablitiy, ex export laws, encryption is a munition(m) should encryption be considered a gun we can, we use 2nd amendment to defend right to carry guns, politicians saying there shouldnt be any place where you can communicate online that they cant see
] twitter - 2 tweets lined up

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