TNT Shownotes #6 (2014)


1	TITLE: Does YouTube Have the Key to Music Streaming? * 1135	CO-ANCHOR: Lee Hutchinson

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5	Tech News Today is the show where we talk about the tech news with the journalists who report it.			Does YouTube Have the Key to Music Streaming?
6	Welcome to the show, I'm Mike Elgan.		BRIDGEURL LINK
7	[Anthony Nielsen]
8	[Lee Hutchinson Senior Reviews Editor, Ars Technica]
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16	Twitter yesterday held its first-ever "Analyst Day," and took the opportunity to announce new features coming in the next year and a new strategy to go with them.		http://recode.net/2014/11/12/twitter-to-wall-street-were-still-bigger-than-you-think/
17	Kurt Wagner is a reporter for Recode. Q: Twitter's new mission statement is too long for a tweet. It's: "Reach the largest daily audience in the world by connecting everyone to their world via our information sharing and distribution platform products and be one of the top revenue generating Internet companies in the world." This looks amatuer-hour to me. Is there any quality or value in this mission statement that you can see?	Kurt Wagner Reporter, Recode @KurtWagner8
18	A: New strategy: Unbundled apps * Statement: "Reach the largest daily audience in the world by connecting everyone to their world via our information sharing and distribution platform products and be one of the top revenue generating Internet companies in the world." A: New metrics or numbers: * Twitter reaches more than 500 million people each month * active user total, which is now at 284 million users * 125 million come to Twitter’s homepage and either don’t sign in or leave before creating an account * 185 billion impressions each month through what it calls syndicated tweets (embedded elsewhere) * 284 million logged-in users A: Private messaging * to compete with Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Snapchat, etc. A: Shareable Video * video capturable from inside the app A: Timeline Highlights * “while you were away” feature A: Instant timeline * recommended tweets before new users follow anyone A: Location * tweets from "near me" or in hometown A: Exapansion of Live event curation * like the World Cup
19	Kurt Wagner * recode.net * @KurtWagner8
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23	Facebook re-wrote its privacy policy. The company made it shorter and clearer. The new policy even includes an interactive tutorial called "Privacy Basics." The company's chief privacy officer says that the company's goal is to make the information about Facebook as clear as possible.” The company is inviting users to comment on the policy for a week. After reading the comments, Facebook plans to release a final version.	https://www.facebook.com/about/terms-updates	http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/11/13/facebook-gives-its-privacy-policy-a-makeover/
24	Reed Albergotti covers Facebook and other topics for The Wall Street Journal. Q: Were you impressed by the new privacy policy? Is Facebook getting better at communicating with users?	Reed Albergotti Reporter, The Wall Street Journal @ReedAlbergotti
25	A: Erin Egan, Facebook’s chief privacy officer A: final version that will take effect 30 days later. A: 70% shorter than the previous version A: color-coded with graphics marking major subject areas A: In 2011, it entered into an agreement with the Federal Trade Commission, requiring it to ask users’ permission before changing the way personal information is gathered and handled. A: September offered a “Privacy Checkup” A: changes don't affect privacy practices, only communication A: specifies that Facebook may collect location information from users on its mobile apps through GPS, Bluetooth or WiFi networks A: purchases made on Facebook, specifies that Facebook collects credit-card information, shipping locations and contact details!!
26	Reed Albergotti * wsj.com * @ReedAlbergotti
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28	YouTube yesterday unveiled YouTube Music Key, a service that offers high-quality audio songs and zero advertising for 10 dollars a month. A "beta" version of the service will be available in the United States, Britain and a few European countries by invitation only, with a public rollout scheduled for next year. The beta version will be free for six months, then cost $8 dollars a month.	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMQxeb5ERps http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2014/11/youtube-music-2014.html
29	Joan E. Solsman is a reporter for cnet. Q: What do we know about the benefits and qualities of this new music service. For example, what kind of catelog are they likely to have by the time they open to the public?	Joan E. Solsman Reporter, CNET @joan_e
30	A: music industry suffering a steep decline in sales A: growing dependent on payments from Spotify, Pandora and Apple’s Beats Music A: Spotify = 28 million subscribers globally A: first half of 2014, for example, album sales were down 13 percent A: YouTube has been negotiating with music companies for well over a year
31	Joan E. Solsman * cnet.com * @joan_e
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33	Hackers from China recently breached the US government's national weather system, forcing cyber-security teams to withhold vital weather data used for disaster planning, aviation, shipping and other uses for two days, according to an exclusive in The Washington Post. The outage degraded the accuracy of National Weather service long range forecasts. The Washington Post also reports that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which includes the National Weather Service, covered up the breach, and failed even to notify authorities within the US government. The agency has not disclosed whether classified data has been stolen. China routinely denies hacking charges.		http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/chinese-hack-us-weather-systems-satellite-network/2014/11/12/bef1206a-68e9-11e4-b053-65cea7903f2e_story.html
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35	A: Announced only “unscheduled maintenance” A: Geng Shuang of the Chinese Embassy: “Cyberattack is quite common in today’s cyberspace,” he said. “Jumping to conclusions on its origin without hard evidence is not responsible at all.” The embassy also urged “relevant U.S. parties to stop this kind of unfounded accusation.” A: NOAA confirmed to Rep. Frank R. Wolf (R-Va.) that China was behind the attack
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38	Samsung announced some really interesting products at its developers conference yesterday.		http://www.cnet.com/news/samsung-simband-flow-gear-vr-project-beyond-everything-you-need-to-know/
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40	A: Samsung Flow (like Apple Handoff, which is part of Apple's Continuity) * shoot open tasks like directions on google maps from phone to tablet to laptop * shared notifications across devices, including samsung tv A: Simband wearable (unveiled second version) * health tracker sensors - biometric data, including blood flow, EKG levels and skin temperature. Stored on SAMI, the company's open and cloud-based database A: Gear VR Innovator Edition (price announced) * will launch in the US in December in two versions: $199, and with a Bluetooth controller for $249 A: Project Beyond * in conjunction with the Gear VR headset; captures 360-degree video in 3D - 16 full-HD cameras, a cooling system and wide-angle optics.
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43	The University of California, Berkeley and Deutsche Telekom Innovation Laboratories are working on a smartphone app that can warn people of earthquakes seconds before they strike. It's called the MyShake app. Berkeley already has a desktop app called ShakeAlert that uses data from 400 seismometers to warn about earthquakes. What's interesting about the MyShake app is that it collects data, too. It uses sensors in users' smartphones to detect when the phone is on a table or other surface, then can recognize vibrations caused by movement in the earth, sending that data back to a central place to be combined with seismometer data. The app will use a freemium model. Earthquake information is free, but alerts customized by severity and location for subscriptions of $2.99 for three months, $5.99 for six months or $9.99 for one year.	http://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/just-in/2014-08-26/earthquake-alert-app-way
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50	The toy maker Hasbro is in talks to buy DreamWorks Animation. The combined company would be called DreamWorks-Hasbro and Hollywood mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg would chair the combined company. Deadline is reporting that any deal would be at least two months away.		http://deadline.com/2014/11/dreamworks-animation-hasbro-merger-negotiations-in-works-1201282751/
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55	Sony is launching a new web-based television service called PlayStation Vue. Just as you might expect, the service will initially require a PlayStation gaming console. PlayStation View will offer live and on-demand TV that's searchable and personalizable. The company plans to announce the service today in New York.		http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/13/business/media/sony-to-introduce-web-based-tv-service.html
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57	A: package of about 75 TV channels A: service will include the broadcast networks CBS, NBC and Fox in some regions, with dozens of popular cable networks such as USA, FX, Discovery, Bravo, MTV, Comedy Central and the Food Network.
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65	We've been covering the rancorous pricing negotiations between book giant Amazon and Hachette, a major publishing company. During the dispute, Amazon was accused of leveraging its book-selling dominance to squeeze Hachette by withholding pre-orders of Hachette books. Even major authors got involved in letter-writing campaigns to Amazon's board of directors. This morning the companies have announced that they have resolved their differences and have signed a new multiyear contract.		http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/14/technology/amazon-hachette-ebook-dispute.html
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73	Researchers at NASA's Ames Research Center in California have created a biodegradable drone. The idea might be useful as a spy drone that might melt away after crashing, leaving little evidence that it was ever there. The bio-drone prototype is made of a fungus called mycelium. and its covered cellulose sheets grown in the lab using bacteria. The electronic circuits were printed in silver nanoparticle ink. The propellers and battery are pretty standard, and won't biodegrade. The team is working on the creation of sensors using e Coli bacteria.		http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22429952.400-biodrone-simply-melts-away-when-it-crashes.html
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