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tnt - 07-31

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1. [00:00] [technology-software] people checking out of foursquare in swarms
1. ] guest cohost Elise Hu wrote article on people leaving foursquare, because of their new swarm app
2. ] twitter acount @killswarmapp retweets all people declaring they are leaving
3. ] swarm takes away all the features that foursquare users liked, ] check in's ] badges ] mayorship of ..
4. ] ratings for the app in the store is plummeting
2. [02:45] [business/finance] Samsung posted a 25 percent drop in second-quarter profits, w/ Dan Seifert, Shara Tibken @cnet.com
1. ] the third straight quarter of profit declines for the company, stock took a hit
2. ] The company also said the rest of the year would “remain a challenge.”
3. ] chinese handset makers are "eating their lunch", in china, taking away market share of samsungs low end devices
4. ] high end devices like their galaxy s5 are doing well in north america, 10% better then s4 model of last year BUT
5. ] bulk of samsung's profits come from it's low end phones
6. ] abondoning low end, turning focus to new premium mobile devices, with new premium materials
7. ] what does that mean?
8. ] long time user complaints about look and feel of samsung phones, cheap plasticy materials compared to high end competitors
9. ] looks like company is saying we are going to address that, 
10. ] re assure shareholders, their new number 1 priority is 
11. ] there high end devices, their other number 1 is low end mid range, and wearables
12. ] more diverse portfolio on wearables, ] some hints at smartglasses
13. ] is the loss of share inevitable, because of their dominance
14. ] low end competitors (lenovo, huawai) have seen up to 95% per quarter share growth
15. ] mobile division made 4.31 B in profits in a market where only 2 companies made any noteable profit
16. ] it's less money than what made previously, thats all that Shareholders/Wall Street care about.
17. ] comparable to apple's ipad market share, first mover,
18. ] samsung said they overestimated smartphone demand
3. [13:00][government] Canada is accusing China of hacking the NRC network w/ Steven Chase,@The Globe and Mail
1. ] National Research Council(NRC) is the main computer network of its leading research body.
2. ] NRC works with people who've discovered things, patented, ip,
3. ] But this isn't the first time China has been accused by other governments of hacking into national security resources ... on of the most recent accusations has been of hacking Isreals Iron Dome missile defence system
4. ] China takes a very broad approach to hacking, when confronted, they say "irresponsible accusation", then they start investigating companies from the country
5. ] first time the Canadian government has acknowledged chinese hacking, some apprehension about how its going to play out
6. ] when will the escalating claims have an economic impact?
7. ] Canadian PM (Stephen Harper) planning trip to China this fall
8. ] Canada already has a "frosty" relationship with Chinese gov., blocked some of their access to oilsands projects, they blocked canadian financial institutions(banks/insurance) access to their market
9. ] havent heard of any companies in canada being impacted by this yet
10. ] in US mainstream, is not a lot of outrage anymore,  because its so prevelant,
11. ] public reaction in Canada, not sure yet, everyones on summer vacation
12. ] whats different this time is the Canadian government is involved directly.
13. ] China's foreign ministry calls this an irresponsible accusation.
4. [19:00][government] European regulators are getting ready to take action against Google  w/Alexei Oreskovic,
1. ] for abusing Android’s 80 percent market share, according to a report by Reuters. The action will come after a nearly four year investigation.
2. ] What abuses are we talking about?
3. ] currently, more of a fact finding mission, have sent questionaire to handset mfg's, telecom operators that use android
4. ] trying to discover policies to licence android
5. ] any requirements that preclude companies from using any services other than google's services
6. ] that would impede other rivals in the space
7. ] google has made statement, it's committed to keeping android open
8. ] their is an open source version of android, anyone can use
9. ] most recent versions, require licence, there are multiple different licences, details on licences are not public
10. ] 80% android market share is combination of licenced google android and open source android
11. ] 40 questions on questionare, going back to 2007(androids beginning), questions include ...
12. ] details on revenue sharing agreements with google
13. ] requirement to NOT use competing services
14. ] experiences and difficulties with using app store other then googles app store
15. ] what are penalities if they are found guilty?
16. ] EU has ability to fine companies up to 10% of their annual revenue
17. ] no matter what, Europe is always un happy with google
5. [25:00] BREAKING NEWS - CIA director John Brennan apologizes to Senate Intelligence Committee
1. ] admitted to CIA hacking a Senate computer network,(Senator Feinstein) interesting because she has been a big supporter of NSA and CIA, then found out senate was being hacked by them
2. ] apologized and admitted it
6. [25:30][government] Verizon is planning to throttle or slow down the service of its unlimited data plan users starting in October  w/ Jon Brodkin @arsTechnica
1. ] the FCC Chairman isn't happy about it. In a letter, Chairman Tom Wheeler calls the plan "disturbing" and "deeply troubling".
2. ] what is verizon doing and why is Wheeler troubled when others are also doing it?
3. ] a few years ago, Verizon started throttling 3G users, limited it to users with Unlimited plans and to when they connected to "congested towers"
4. ] whats new is, they are now doing throttling with 4G users also
5. ] every carrier has to do some throttling to keep networks operating effectively
6. ] what verizon is doing, is because of customers with 'grandfathered' unlimited data plans,
7. ] verizon wants to get these customers to move to new plans with limited data, where they will be able to charge users additional for over data limits
8. ] thats the reason for Wheelers objection
9. ] is part of the problem of the FCC's own making, vague interpretaion of terms like "reasonable network management"
10. ] reasonable network management, doesnt apply to wireless carriers, rules for wireless carriers are really weak,
11. ] what could the FCC do?
12. ] could issue a stronger set of net neutrality rules
13. ] other countries like South Korea have super fast wireless network, are they doing this(throttling) instead of building up their wireless infrastructure
14. ] juggling systems instead of systems that perform like in other countries
15. ] throtting is pretty universal when it comes to the heaviest data users on the most congested cell sites
16. ] AT&T is doing the same thing
7. [31:00][technology-software][humor] Thats how websites work w/Will Oremus
1. ] Facebook and OkCupid have been in the news lately because we learned they’ve been doing experiments on users.
2. ] Facebook changed some users’ News Feeds to be more negative to see if that would change what they did on Facebook.
3. ] The OKCupid online dating site lied to some users about their compatibility with other users to see if that changed their relationships. Slate senior technology writer Will Oremus wrote a humor piece on the subject, where he quoted OKCupid co-founder Christian Rudder saying: “Guess what, everybody: If you use the Internet, you’re the subject of hundreds of experiments at any given time, on every site. That’s how websites work.”
4. ] is it the norm, do all websites do this experimentation?
5. ] most do experimentation of some sort, all the time, likely that most are NOT of this type, on a personal level
6. ] example testing - A/B testing, ex different headlines - same story, OR changing styles site design, layouts to determine which creates a higher clickthrough rate for visitors
7. ] A/B testing of headlines doesnt affect the relationships people have IRL
8. ] thing is, we dont know which sites are doing or what they are doing
9. ] we have to trust the sites we use
10. ] this is a violation of trust, for some people
11. ] if users dont like it
12. ] you can vote with your feet and go elsewhere,
13. ] BUT is where you go, doing the same thing?
14. ] some services like facebook, which are ubiquitous
15. ] people wont leave, but these types of incidents erode users trust
16. ] could be harming themselves, they rely on the data that users feed into their system to sell ads,
17. ] if users continue to lose trust, its 'possible' that they may feed less of their data into the system
18. ] facebook is realizing it, OK Cupid maybe not so much
19. ] example experiments from humour article - YELP experiment
20. ] switch reviews and ratings from the worst sushi restaurants and best restaurants, see if people then try worst and give it a good rating
21. ] example Yahoo mail - delete all user email
22. ] see how people react to having no emails, are they happier or not?
23. ] example busch could switch beer with fake beer and
24. ] see how people react, do they still act drunk
8. [38:30] #howdoyouwatchTNT 
1. ] police officer watches from his police cruiser, says suspects dont care for the show so much, but he hopes to convert one of them someday

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DESCRIPTION: [30:00] VIDEO-SUMMARY-show-1061 - ] Samsung profits drop, again ] Canada accuses China of hacking top research ] EU regulators ready to act against googles android ] Verizon plans to throttle unlimited plan users ] FaceBook, OKCupid Experiments ] FCC ..

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