tnt - 10-24
[subjects]
- [00:00] amazon earnings
- ] fire phone failure
- ] earnings reported
- [00:00] gamer gate
- ] women threatened online by
- [00:00] facebook app "rooms"
- ] forum topic based
- [00:00] msft earnings w/alex wilhelm techcrunch
- ] surface did well - 908, a lo
- ] phone rev 2.6B, 9.3M up from last qtr,
- ] offically announced nokia lumia brand will be changed to msft lumia
- [00:00] new service - shuddle w/liz gannes recode
- ] uber for children
- ] service to chauffer your children around
- [00:00] car features
- ] Honda has launched enhanced driver-assistive system called "Sensing," ..can sense vehicles and pedestrians blocking path. Using radar in the grille & a camera on the windshield. gives audio and visual warnings. breaks if you don't.
- ] system can also make sure you're driving in the middle of the lane, recognizes traffic signs. will launch alongside the newest Acura luxury sedan (known elsewhere as Legend) before end of the year
- ] ?? - sounds like the systems that hyundai is showing in their current ads
- ] Ford's new 2015 Mondeo will also use radar and cameras to scan the road and sidewalks. Ford first previewed tech last year as new Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS) . included in new Ford and Lincoln vehicles, starting with Mondeo in Europe later this year.
- [00:00] aquisitions
- ] Yelp has bought Restaurant-Kritik, a restaurant review service in Germany. Restaurant-Kritik claims to have over 330,000 reviews of more than 94,000 restaurants across Germany.
- ] Yelp also announced a partnership with Hipmunk earlier this week that will allow people to place hotel and travel bookings from inside its site
- ] Deezer buys stitcher ] Deezer, French music streaming service has bought podcast and talk radio programming app Stitcher. Stitcher has a catalog of 35,000 radio shows and podcasts, including NPR, BBC, Fox News, Wall Street Journal, This American Life, and of course, TWiT shows! Deezer says Stitcher’s standalone iOS and Android apps and website will continue, and will also be integrated into Deezer’s existing platform as a free service called Talk.
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- ] twit.tv - tnt show
- ] show url - shows home page with video of show and links
- ] show notes - detailed show notes, transpcript, links to resources
- ] show notes summary -
- ] twit chat room -
- ] subreddit - News item submissions for TWIT's Tech News Today
> advantges - connected car VS iphone connected
- the car's nav data can be live with 4G data as well as weather, movie times and gas prices info
- : nav data , directions on a large indash screen VS
- should be no problem to update the software, the hardware will likely be another story, likely MFG dependant
- JohnG: forget your iphone?, iphone battery is dead?, no problem when your car is connected
- JohnG: connected car - multi tasking - what happens to your nav directions on your iphone, when your phone rings?
> chevy AD- connected car
- car is like a rolling mobile hotspot - all passengers can connect their smartphone, tablets, laptops and access internet cloud service
- its not just the services that the car and its systems (nav,ent,etc) require, its about
- obviously you can use your smartphone as a mobile hotspot