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1. [00:00] google settles with rockstar consortium w/Jeff John Roberts,@gigaom.com
1. ] rockstar owns the patents from the failed canadian networking company nortel,
2. ] rockstar is backed/owned by apple, blackberry, ericsen, microsoft and sony
3. ] google lost the bidding war for the patents, rockstar paid 4.5 B in 2010, google offered 4.4 B
4. ] rockstar also sued HTC, Huawai , other android makers
5. ] and cisco, anyone who made a router, ....
6. ] litigiousness may have been a steve jobs thing, going thermonuclear on android
7. ] suggests that the patent wars may be over
8. ] its getting really expensive, companies can afford it, but better to focus on their products
9. ] helped apple in that it established that other companies were copying apple, more the marketing and mystyel of app
2. [06:00] AD braintree
1. ] payments platform for your website, ] 10 lines of code to implement, ] accept payments from multiple credit cards, ] secure, uses tokenization ] OFFER first 50K of transactions w/out any processing fees
3. [07:30] amazon planning to launch a travel service Dennis Schaal skift (travel site)
1. ] service will launch as early as jan 2015
2. ] amazon would get a 15% commission from hotels, comparison to expedia's 25% commission
3. ] going to the drive market, looking at independant hotels other then just the major industry players 
4. ] different then previous amazon attempts in 2001 and 2006
5. ] will amazon expand into flights and other services, like car rentals, vacations ? maybe
4. [11:45] amazon planning to launch a free ad supported streaming video service nypost
1. ] service will co exisit with their current paid streaming service
2. ] service could be used to attract new viewers to amazon and then try to upsell them on their paid streaming options
3. ] service was previously denied by amazon when reported in the wall street journal  
5. [12:30] google contributor service offers ad free viewing
1. ] service allows users to view specific sites without any ads
2. ] users pay a 1, 2 or $3 per month contribution
3. ] ads are then replaced with a "thank you" message
4. ] testing now with several sites including theonion.com ScienceDaily, Urban Dictionary, Mashable and six other sites
6. [13:00] FOLLOWUP - chinas plan to end internet censorship for conference .... goes awry
1. ] China's lifted internet censorship but was for 1 city only, and only during the conference event. Chinese officials also tried and failed to rush through a 9 point "internet declaration" - ] a draft of declaration was slipped under the doors of conference attendees the night before the conference after 11PM ] conference attendees were given 9 hours in the middle of the night to submit suggestions for change ] vague concepts , but didnt get passed
2. ] Areeo - NYC TV streaming service is going bankrupt, launched 2 years ago, laid off staff 2 weeks ago,
3. ] China and 1 or 2 other countries have the ability to shut down the US electrical grid says NSA cyber command cheif Michael Rogers. The identity of the other countries is classified. (allies like isreal, germany, uk, canada)
7. [16:20] Google Chromebook promotion offers 1TB of Drive storage free for 2 years
1. ] Google today announced a holiday promotion that gives new Chromebook buyers one terabyte of Google Drive storage free for two years. That's a $240 value that can be had with the purchase of a Chromebook costing less than $200. The offer has to be redeemed before January 1. Read more at google.com.

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