Samsung Is On The Note-Fly List
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| Samsung Is On The Note-Fly List | |
| Number | 2854 |
| Broadcast Date | SEPTEMBER 12, 2016 |
| Episode Length | 33:15 |
| Hosts | Tom Merritt |
| Guests | Veronica Belmont |
The XOXO conference won’t be coming back next year. Veronica Belmont attended and talks with Tom Merritt about what makes it special and how its independent Web spirit can live on.
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- Samsung will spin off its printer business and sell it to HP Inc. for $1.05 billion. HP says it intends to "disrupt and reinvent" the copier industry. HP says, ""Copiers are outdated, complicated machines with dozens of replaceable parts requiring inefficient service and maintenance agreements." and it implies it will fix that. Samsung also announced that vice chairman Jay Y. Lee will be nominated to the Samsung board. Lee is the son of hospitalized Samsung Chairman Kun-Hee Lee.
- Facebook Messenger head David Marcus spoke at TechCrunch Disrupt today. Among his comments were the announcement that Messenger bots will allow native payments using credit card information stored in Facebook. Another new feature, Web views will let bots show Web content. Marcus also said bots on Messenger got overhyped and the first ones to hit the platform were not as good as the native apps they were meant to replace. There are now more than 30,000 bots on the Messenger platform. .... In a later TechCrunch Disrupt conversation, Twilio co-founder and CEO Jeff Lawson also described bots as overrated and cited news uses as the best implementations so far.
- TiVo announced an update to its TiVo Bolt DVR, called the Bolt+ for $499 (+$200 over orig). It can record up to 6 channels at once (2 more than orig) has a 3TB hard drive (vs. 1 TB orig) and come in glossy black instead of white. While it does 4K as does the original Bolt, it does not do HDR yet, but that could come in update. The TiVo Bolt+ goes on sale Thursday Sept. 15.
- Instagram launched a new comment moderation tool for everyone Monday. The tool was available to business accounts in July. It adds a "Hide Inappropriate Comments" switch that when on, automatically hides comments with words in a default list. Users can add their own custom keywords to block as well. Instagram will also start showing more personal relevant comments in the preview seen on posts instead of just the two most recent.
- Saturday afternoon on Tom's flight from Tokyo, the cabin crew announced the usual guidance on electronic devices with a twist. Owners of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 were told specifically they could not charge their phone on the flight on must keep the phone off for the duration. Samsung itself told all users Saturday to turn their phones off whether they were in the air or not and keep them off. Samsung asks all 2.5 million Note 7 users to turn in the phones as soon as possible. Replacements will be available in South Korea, France and the US starting Sept. 19. One Reddit user said he was told defective Note 7s would be remotely deactivated after Sept. 30. Replacements will arrive in Australia September 21 where safe Note 7s will be marked with a blue S sticker and a small black box on the UPC label. Sales will resume in Australia in October.
- Sunday Tesla announced Version 8 of its Autopilot system. The update changes the priority of the radar system in the car, making it a primary control sensor. Previously radar was supplemental, requiring the camera system to have a positive object recognition hit before beginning braking. The update will also disable the AutoPilot feature if a driver repeatedly ignores warnings to keep their hands on the wheel. Tesla CEO Elon Musk believes the update would have saved Josh Brown's life in an accident in May involving the use of autopilot. The over the air update is expected to go live in 1 to 2 weeks for all Teslas from 2014 and later.
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- How well is comscore regarded? Reason I ask is that all though they headlined the story in July:
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- What struck me was the makeup of the Top15 Mobile by visitors. There were only 2 music streaming apps, Apple Music and then the one that nobody talks about, since it is not cool and moribund - Pandora. In fact , Pandora has about 10% more visitors than Apple Music.
Further more, half the apps above Pandora are the "click-and-leave" types, so Pandora is probably a top 3 app for user engagement time. Yet when it comes to streaming music, I just hear about Spotify and Songza. Where is the love for Pandora? Being a top app after all these years, they obviously are doing something correct.
(all this presumes comscore is legit.) - Sent by seepea
- What struck me was the makeup of the Top15 Mobile by visitors. There were only 2 music streaming apps, Apple Music and then the one that nobody talks about, since it is not cool and moribund - Pandora. In fact , Pandora has about 10% more visitors than Apple Music.
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