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tnt 07-02

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  1. [00:00] google aquires songza w/Jason Hiner TechRepbulic,
    1. x] is this a community play with curation, social curation for music
    2. x] maybe a g+ angle, create your own radio channel
    3. x] 360 deals, leverage pop stars to sell things around music
    4. x] trend in the industry, streaming music is winning
    5. x] xperiment (social + music) dont care much about what friends and family are listening to, people want a 'good curator'
  2. [00:00] FTC suing Tmobile for cramming w/John Brodkin arstechnica.com
    1. - tmobile charging customers for premium services like horoscopes, dating services, ...
    2. - tmobile gets 35-45% of revenues billed from these services
    3. - charges are not explained well OR buried in multi page bills
    4. - hundreds of consumer complaints prompted FTC to get involved
    5. - TMobile response 'disingenuous' because the said they already 'dealt with' it in agreement signed in 2013-11 along with the other major carriers
  3. [00:00] msft is making an android version of office
    1. x] how late is too late?, if they would have been on this years earlier, coulda, shoulda , woulda, they left a lot of money on the table?
    2. x] a lot of people, who were forced to find alternatives, arent going to go back to msft products.
    3. x] office has a lot of features not available in g docs
    4. x] g docs does somethings better, team collaboration
  4. [00:00] FTC told amazon to make it harder for kids to buy stuff without their parent permission
    1. x] FTC asking for same rules applied to apple last year
    2. x] amazon said NO, we will see you in court, we want our own set of rules
  5. [00:00] new sw for routers
    1. x] rewards kids for homework by giving them facebook time
    2. x] integrated with khan academy
    3. x] complete lessons at khan and then get rewards
    4. x] rewards = ....
    5. x] parents have already been doing this kind of thing for 'eons' ... non technically, this is just a technological implementation 
  6. [00:00] new farm robot
    1. x] has robot arm that pulls weeds
    2. x] reports back to farmer

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DESCRIPTION: [30:00] VIDEO-SUMMARY-show-10## - google aquires songza ] FTC sueing TMobile ] MSFT office for Android ] FTC tells amazon to make it harder for kids to shop ] new SW for routers offers rewards ] new HW farm robots

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