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tnt - 11-18

[07:30] Payphones in New York will ultimately become WiFi hotspots, w/Ross Miller

] payphones are no longer phone booths
] citys plan, link nyc, public/private consortium, will build 10K pillars, offer free public 24*7 wifi, speeds upto 1GB
] rollout starting next year, could take up to 5 years to complete to all 5 burrows
] kiosk has keyboard where 1 user can surf the inet on that , up to 250 devices
] citybridge will be building it, 200 M contract, will pay for itself through advertising, plus 500M in additional revenues
] a 1 year deadline for getting the first unit installed,
] reaction from broadband providers - nothing super vocal at this point
] no one is going to be using this to replace their home wifi?
] other city wifi projects have been either hit or miss
] because of the range of the wifi, some apartments may be able to access
] if they pull it off, AMAZING, if NOT, well thats par for the course

] enabled by payment servce square
] ties to your debit card
] when you enter $ symbol and then amount in a chat, a "green" send money button appears, when that is tapped the money is transferred
] essentially it is the "square cash service", built into snapchat
] money recipient must also sign up for feature to recieve money, as square must know bank account details of both sender/reciever
] snapchat CEO Evan Spiegal says service doesnt compete directly with venmo or paypal, its just a fun feature
] available for android now, coming for iOS
] NO FEE for users, likely snapchat OR square is absorbing the transaction fees to pick up users
] will it be ongoing relationship with Square or maybe adding support for credit cards, google wallet, etc
] likely testing user adoption for now, future to be determined

[19:00] Intel shares more details about its MICA fashion bracelett, Ed Baig @USAToday

] wearable - fashionable, high end device ($500)
] snakeskin - black and white
] comes with 2 year AT&T data plan,
] device does NOT pair with your phone
] believes it will be opened up to developers, initial dev partners include TomTom and Yelp
] has gps
] more of a fashion accessory play then a high tech, currently only womens version available
] "time to go" feature, that ties into partner tomtom, lets you know ahead of time when to leave for your next appointment, similar to google now
] claims 2 days of battery life, which is a huge issue with these types of devices

[23:00] CAL Judge Ernest goldsmith says search engine results qualify as free speech w/Greg Sterling @searchengineland.com

] consistent with other US court decisions and wildly inconsistent with European law
] plaintiff Louis Martin alleges search engine provider Google, showed advertisements instead of links to his website
] these types of cases started in the us in 2003, most cases are at the state level, so far consistent rulings in these us cases
] search results are an "editorial decision"
] eu is very different, they are very much of the opinion google is a monopoly(they have 90% european search market vs 67% in us)
] google reached a decision for ...
] also in eu, right to be forgotten legislation complicates matters
] many different things working against google from a eu political standpoint
] google filed an "anti slap", used to prevent suppression of criticism,
] ....

] may miss out on people who buy things unexpectedly as they are focused on the app instead of walking

] China is blocking websites and apps that work with Verizons Edgecast, China has to block everything from cloud provider like Edgecast to ban the few bad sites
] Google and Stanford build hybrid neural networks that can explain whats happening in photo's - can identify objects in photos, car, animals, people, then describe whats happening, big data could collate
] Fitbit data now being used in court - lawfirm in canada is using fitbit data that shows how low claimant activity was much lower after an accident.

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