Amazon Wants its Prime Cut

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Amazon Wants its Prime Cut
Number 2738
Broadcast Date APRIL 18, 2016
Episode Length 37:24
Hosts Tom Merritt
Guests Lamarr Wilson

Amazon Prime is an incubator! Why Amazon breaking out video as its own subscription may point the way tot he future. Lamarr Wilson and Tom Merritt discuss.

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Headlines

Amazon introduced a $10.99/month payment option for Prime and a separate $8.99/month plan for just Prime Video in the US. Amazon UK already offers Prime Video separately for £5.99/month but no monthly Prime option. The Verge notes Amazon started offering Sprint customers a monthly Prime option last month.
Ars Technica reports that when you ask Siri when the WWDC is it responds June 13 through June 17 in San Francisco. Apple has not yet confirmed this or posted it on its website.
The US Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge from the Authors Guild to a decision allowing Google to scan books for an online library. That leaves in place the October 2015 ruling by the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals in New York that the project was at “The boundaries of fair use.” Google Books scans books in order to index them and make excerpts available in search.
Submitted by Jsnphil
YouTube launched live streaming 360-degree video Monday. Support for spatial audio was added for on-demand 360-degree video. Select concerts from Coachella will be streamed in 360-degrees. Google also launched a LiveAPI for adding the streams into an app or service, though its limited to makers of 360-degree cameras.
CBS 60 Minutes Sunday showed off the well-known but not widely exposed ability to use Signaling System 7 (SS7) to intercept phone communication on a cellular network. German security researcher Karsten Nohl demonstrated the flaw at the Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg in December 2014.
Google has launched its podcast option in Google Play Music. According to a company blog post the service is available in the US and Canada on the web and Android. Creators interested in making their podcasts available on Google Play Music are urged to visit http://g.co/podcastportal.
Submitted by habichuelacondulce
GameStop announced its new project called GameTrust that publish new games. GameTrust will focus on marketing leaving the creative process to game developers it works with. Insomniac Games’ Song of the Deep will be the first GameTrust title launching this summer on PS4, Xbox One and PC. Frozenbyte, Tequila Works and Ready at Dawn are also on board.
The Australia Post will begin making test deliveries by UAV to customer homes later this year. Packages will include medication and online purchases. Australia Post has completed successful field trials for small packages.
But not all the drone news is good. The pilot of a British Airways Airbus A320 from Geneva landing at London’s Heathrow airport reported something struck the front of the aircraft during landing that he believed to be a UAV. The UK Civil Aviation Authority said the operator of the drone could face prison time.
EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager said on Monday that her department is investigating complaints of Google’s exclusive contracts for Android phone makers. The contracts require phone that carry the Google Play store install a suite of other Google apps. A Google spokesman told Reuters that the company does not force phone vendors into exclusive contracts.
WeChat Enterprise 1.0 version launched Monday. Its available in Chinese for iOS, Android, Windows and OS X. Employees can use it for chat, reimbursements and vacation management, and calls. Companies with official business WeChat accounts can take advantage of it right away. Others need to register with an official Chinese business license.
IBM reported a 4.6% decline in quarterly revenue. Revenue in the first quarter ending in March 31 was $18.68 billion down from $19.59 billion a year earlier. This is the 16th straight quarter of revenue decline according to Fortune. Net income fell to $2.01 billion, or $2.09 per share, from $2.33 billion, or $2.35 per share, a year earlier.
Netflix reported 6 cents per share earnings on $1.96 billion in revenue for Q1. Analysts were expecting 3 cents per share earnings on $1.97 billion in revenue. Netflix also reported 4.5 million new international with a total growth of 6.74 new subscribers in the Q1. It originally forecasted 6 million new members for Q1.

Discussion

Pick of the Day

My pick of the day is Playstation Vue, which has finally allowed my wife and I to finally get rid of our $100/month Directv bill and watch our DVR'd content on our iPhones and iPad. We're paying $35/month and getting all of the channels we used to watch, including some of the regional sports networks (Go Capitals!). There are some annoyances:

NBC Universal channels (msnbc, NBC Sports) can't be watched on mobile devices.
Our area (DC/Baltimore) isn't one of the markets where you can get the major networks live through Vue. We use an OTA antenna and on-demand.
No Roku app yet. We had to buy a Fire TV.
But to save $65 a month, it's worth some small annoyances, and from reading other people's posts, a lot of other people feel the same way.
Submitted by Mike in Laurel, Maryland

Messages

Tom and Friends,

Thanks for the show. I've been listening since Day 1. And I've been following Tom's work since Buzz Out Loud. I just had a quick thought on Podcasts on the Google Play Music app.

I'm an avid Android Wear "wearer". And I'm a terrible runner. But one of the things I've always desired is an easy way to bring a podcast with me on a run without my phone, just my smartwatch. I can do this with music, but until now I couldn't do it easily with podcasts. In theory the integration of podcasts would let me offload my podcasts to my watch daily.

It might be a niche case but one I've been hoping would come. And of course by the time you read this email, this thought may be validated by Google's announcement. And hopefully I can listen to DTNS from my watch.
Sent by Keith in Beautiful Brownwood, TX

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