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2017-04-01

Tech Review | Samsung All-in-One Android Smartphone Computer (video)

Domain Mondo's weekly review of technology news:

Features • 1) Samsung DeX: Android Smartphone & Desktop, 2) Q1 2017 Earnings Season, 3) Digital Learning, Browsers, and Apps, 4) PayPal On The Edge, 5) The End of Retail as We Knew It, 6) ICYMI Tech News: 12 Quick Takes, and 7) One Last Thing.

1) Android desktop: all you need is a smartphone and dock + external monitor + keyboard + mouse--Samsung’s DeX dock for the Galaxy S8 costs $150 and will ship in April--T-Mobile is giving a free dock to its @Work enterprise customers who reserve the Galaxy S8 in-store. The Samsung Galaxy S8 or S8 Plus connects to the DeX Station via USB-C and lets you also plug in an external monitor, keyboard, and mouse.--TheVerge.com

UPDATE April 3, 2017: Android overtakes Windows for first time | StatCounter.com: "Android now world’s most popular operating system in terms of internet usage."

Samsung DeX puts your Galaxy S8 on your desktop:

Video above published Mar 29, 2017: Samsung's new DeX dock uses special Android apps to give you a full-screen experience, like a PC. More info here. See also CNET.com's first Galaxy S8 impressions.

Reminiscent of Motorola's Atrix 4G Lapdock (no longer produced), you can expect other Android manufacturers will come out with competing products similar to Samsung's DeX. Will Apple's iPhone and iOS ever catch up with Android?

Android desktop demo:

Video above published Mar 29, 2017: Currently compatible with Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8+, Samsung DeX provides an Android-based, desktop-like experience that enables users to seamlessly access mobile apps, edit documents and browse the web. See also: [Hands-On] 8 Galaxy S8 Features You Should Know About | Samsung.com

Other Tech News:

2) Q1 2017 earnings season: Apple: Panic Time, Again? | Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) | SeekingAlpha.com: Significant share loss in China. Challenges in penetrating Indian market. Declining gross margins for iPhone. A mature and slowing smartphone market. See also Apple iCloud hack threat gets worse: Here's what we've learned | ZDNet.com. Q1 2017 earnings coverage on Domain Mondo (alphabetical order): Alibaba BABA; Alphabet GOOG / GOOGL; Amazon AMZN; Apple AAPL; Facebook FB; GoDaddy GDDY; Rightside NAME; Tucows (TO:TC) (NASDAQ:TCX); Twitter TWTR; Verisign VRSN.

3) Digital Learning, Browsers, and Apps | Technology and Learning | insidehighered.com:

"Many of us working in edtech thought that the app would supplant the browser for digital learning. The app seemed to have so much going for it. First, we thought that digital learning would follow social media - migrating from the computer (and the browser) to the mobile device (and the app). Next, we also believed that the app was a more robust and powerful platform to design immersive learning environments than the browser. Web applications were thought to be clunky as compared to the potential elegance of the app. We were wrong. In 2017 online courses continue to be designed for, and run mostly through, our browser based learning management systems (LMS). Every LMS platform has a mobile app, but they continue to be mostly add-ons and appendages to the primary action that occurs in the browser. Nobody has come up with a mobile-first, or mobile-only, LMS app that has the potential of supplanting the browser-first design of the dominant learning management systems."

4) PayPal On The Edge Of A Cliff (NASDAQ:PYPL) | SeekingAlpha.com: PayPal will likely face off either directly or indirectly with the big ecosystem plays--Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), Facebook (NASDAQ: FB), Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), Amazon (AMZN), Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), in the next five years.

5) The End of Retail As We Knew It--The Retail Death Spiral Continues | SeekingAlpha.com Mar 28, 2017--"... eBay CEO Devin Wenig, March 27, 2017, cnbc.com:

"The fourth quarter, the last holiday season, was a really important inflection point. That was the end of retail as we know it. The restructuring of retail is going to happen much faster than many people expect. I'm not sure that many retailers will make it to the next holiday season." ... Oracle of Omaha, Warren Buffett, recently dumped his decades-old position in Wal-Mart (WMT), and he almost NEVER sells ..."

6) ICYMI Tech News: 12 Quick Takes:

7) One Last Thing: "... Google’s geopolitical aspirations are firmly enmeshed within the foreign-policy agenda of the world’s largest superpower. As Google’s search and internet service monopoly grows, and as it enlarges its industrial surveillance cone to cover the majority of the world’s population, rapidly dominating the mobile phone market and racing to extend internet access in the global south, Google is steadily becoming the internet for many people. Its influence on the choices and behavior of the totality of individual human beings translates to real power to influence the course of history. If the future of the internet is to be Google, that should be of serious concern to people all over the world—in Latin America, East and Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent, the Middle East, sub-Saharan Africa, the former Soviet Union, and even in Europe—for whom the internet embodies the promise of an alternative to US cultural, economic, and strategic hegemony ..."--Julian Assange, Google Is Not What It Seems | wikileaks.org

-- John Poole, Editor, Domain Mondo

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2017-03-25

TechReview | The Billionaire Whose Brands Stung Apple in China Last Year

Domain Mondo's weekly review of technology news:

Feature • Duan Yongping, The Billionaire Whose Brands Stung Apple in China Last Year:

The Billionaire Who Stung Apple in China Last Year

Video above published Mar 21, 2017: Duan Yongping is the reclusive billionaire who founded Oppo (oppo.com) and Vivo (vivo.com), the twin smartphone brands that dealt Apple a stinging defeat in China last year. Bloomberg's Edwin Chan reports on "Bloomberg Markets."

See also:

Apple & China: Apple Plans Two More Chinese Research Hubs as iPhone Sales Slow | Bloomberg.com: "Company intends to spend at least $500 million on such centers" and Is Apple’s Big Problem in China Its Small-Minded Outlook? | TechnologyReview.com: In China, people would rather buy a handset made by Huawei, Oppo, or Vivo.
Apple & India: Apple to Start Making iPhones in India Over Next Two Months | WSJ.com: Contract manufacturer Wistron will manufacture iPhones at its Bangalore plant.

Other Tech News:

• Encryption & Spies: "As far as is publicly known, the encryption is strong. Even if it is somewhat weak, modern cryptosystems don't fall in an instant; it takes a fair amount of computation to crack each instance. The CIA is hacking [the endpoints] because that's what's left ... .to get around encryption ..."--Steven Bellovin, Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University.

• Google | Project Shield | Free DDoS protection | projectshield.withgoogle.com: "Project Shield is a free service that uses Google technology to protect news sites and free expression from DDoS attacks on the web."

• FCC launches crackdown on fraudulent robocalls | TheHill.com: "FCC voted unanimously to move forward with, would allow telecom providers to block calls from numbers that are not assigned to phones and that are no longer in use."

• Digital Divide: Could New York State’s Plan to Erase Its Digital Divide Work for America? | TechnologyReview.com: New York’s initiative requires a 100-megabit-per-second connection be made available for $60 a month--New York has huge rural areas, but aims to bring broadband Internet to all its residents by next year.

• Apple's iPad Non-Event | SeekingAlpha.com: "Google's Android doesn't shrink from convergence; it assumes it. In my view, Android is well on its way to becoming the universal personal computing operating system that Windows aspires to be and that iOS declines to be. Android is by far the most forward looking and innovative personal computing OS available today, even if not always the most stable and reliable."

• Alibaba to Expand Mobile Game Distribution Globally | TheStreet.com: Alibaba (BABA) is planning to expand its mobile gaming platform, investing 1 billion yuan into partnerships with a few gaming firms to distribute mobile games between China and other parts of the world. China is the world's largest online gaming market.

ICYMI Tech News--15 Quick Takes:

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2016-10-22

TechReview | FTC FinTech Series | FCC Robocall Strike Force Meeting

Domain Mondo's weekly review of technology news:

UPDATE: AT&T announces half-stock, half-cash deal to acquire Time Warner, valuing the company at $85.4B AT&T to Acquire Time Warner | att.com: Oct. 22, 2016 "AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) and Time Warner Inc. (NYSE:TWX) today announced they have entered into a definitive agreement under which AT&T will acquire Time Warner in a stock-and-cash transaction valued at $107.50 per share. The agreement has been approved unanimously by the boards of directors of both companies. The deal combines Time Warner's vast library of content and ability to create new premium content that connects with audiences around the world, with AT&T's extensive customer relationships, world’s largest pay TV subscriber base and leading scale in TV, mobile and broadband distribution ..." See also: List of assets owned by Time Warner | Wikipedia.org and Here’s why it doesn’t make sense for AT&T to own Time Warner | Recode.net.

Feature • FinTech Series: Crowdfunding & Peer-to-Peer Payments | Federal Trade Commission | ftc.gov: The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will host a forum – the second in its FinTech series – on crowdfunding and peer-to-peer payment systems 1:00 pm, October 26, 2016, Constitution Center, 400 7th St SW, Washington, DC 20024. Crowdfunding is the process by which companies and individuals raise money from the public to fund new products, projects or individual needs. Peer-to-peer payment systems are online services – often in the form of mobile apps – that allow consumers to share money electronically. These systems make it easier for consumers who may not carry cash to send and receive money from other people quickly. The half-day forum will bring together industry participants, consumer groups, researchers, and government representatives. The forum will examine the various models of crowdfunding and peer-to-peer payments used by companies, the potential benefits to consumers, and possible consumer protection concerns. In addition, the forum will look at how existing consumer protection laws might apply to companies participating in these areas. Panelists will include Kickstarter.com general counsel Michal Rosenn and FinancialInnovationNow.org executive director Brian Peters. More information, including full agenda, here.

Feature • Robocall Strike Force:

Second Meeting of Industry-Led Robocall Strike Force: "The Federal Communications Commission will host another meeting of the Robocall Strike Force on Wednesday, October 26, 2016 from 1-2 p.m. in the Commission Meeting Room, located at 445 12th Street, SW, Washington, DC 20554. The event will be open to the public. We anticipate remarks from Chairman Wheeler, Commissioners Clyburn, Rosenworcel, Pai, and O’Rielly, and AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson, the Chair of the Robocall Strike Force. The Robocall Strike Force is an industry-led group which has been working for two months to develop comprehensive solutions to prevent, detect, and filter unwanted robocalls. Robocalls and telemarketing calls are the number one source of consumer complaints received by the FCC. However, giving consumers meaningful control over the calls and texts they receive requires collective action by the industry." For more information and to watch the LIVE webcast: Federal Communications Commission | fcc.gov.

Other Tech News:

• Did ICANN Just Break the Internet? No, But It Could Have, and May Yet: "If you live in the U.S., you may have noticed or been affected by the internet outage on Friday caused by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack ..."

• iPhones also explode and burn:" ... Recent reports show iPhones have similar problems [as Samsung Galaxy Note 7] with explosions and fires ..."--SeekingAlpha.com

• Mossberg: Why does Siri seem so dumb? | Recode.net: "... in its current incarnation, Siri is too limited and unreliable to be an effective weapon for Apple in the coming AI wars ..."

• Google Pixel review: Google's new smartphones are expensive, fast, powerful, have long battery life, and have a great camera though lacking optical image stabilization, but the software needs polish--TheVerge.com.

• Twitter Is Not Dead Money, Even Though It Looks A Lot Like Dead Money | Twitter, Inc. (NYSE:TWTR)--SeekingAlpha.com. What to do? 1) Time for Dorsey to go? Twitter Jumps The Shark | SeekingAlpha.com; OR 2)Twitter To Be Taken Private? | SeekingAlpha.com OR ???

• US Government and Cuba Telecom Development--Bloomberg | BNA.com: Cuba’s famously laggard internet market may be getting a major boost from the U.S. government.

• Facebook.com's Sheryl Sandberg headed to D.C. or NOT? "She's a proxy for this growing problem that is the hegemony of five to 10 major Silicon Valley platforms,” David Segal, executive director of advocacy group Demand Progress, told POLITICO.com, but Sandberg, who worked at Treasury during Bill Clinton’s administration, is being mentioned as a possible pick to run the Department of Commerce, as she“would bring many advantages to Clinton’s administration: Clinton's advisers view her as both highly progressive and experienced in the corporate sector through her years at Facebook and Google. She would be a high-profile woman in a Cabinet that Clinton has said would be at least 50 percent female.”

• T-Mobile will pay a $48 million fine for throttling 'unlimited data' plans--TheVerge.com: "According to the FCC, the problem isn’t the throttling, but the way T-Mobile marketed the plan. Marketing the system as an unlimited data plan was deceptive to customers, and a violation of the 2010 Open Internet transparency rules. "Consumers should not have to guess whether so-called ‘unlimited’ data plans contain key restrictions, like speed constraints, data caps, and other material limitations," said FCC Enforcement Bureau Chief Travis LeBlanc in a statement."

• Qualcomm & The Next Generation of mobile devices: by shaping the 5G wireless standard, Qualcomm.com (NASDAQ:QCOM) is setting itself up as the leading provider of 5G chipsets.--SeekingAlpha.com. See also Qualcomm Said to Be Near Final NXP Deal, May Announce Next Week | Bloomberg.com.

• Amazon Internet Service in Europe? According to TheInformation.com, Amazon.com is considering offering internet service directly to consumers in Europe that would allow Amazon to bundle internet access with its Prime streaming video offering, making it more competitive with cable operators which already offer a similar broadband-video package.

• Microsoft reported Q1 FY2017 revenue of $20.5B, beating estimates, with Intelligent Cloud revenue up 8% to $6.4B, OEM revenue flat YoY as phone revenue dropped 72%--TheVerge.com

• NETFLIX exceeded expectations in its Q3 2016 earnings results with $2 billion in quarterly revenue for the first time, a 36 percent jump YOY. It reported 3.6 million subscribers, far in excess of its projection of 2.3 million. Hit original shows, like “Stranger Things” and “Narcos,” helped, but the main driver was Netflix's international growth. See Netflix $NFLX Q3 2016 Earnings Boosted by Surge in International Growth.

Q3 2016 financial results coverage this coming week on Domain Mondo:

Apple AAPL Oct 25 5:00pm EDT
Neustar NSR Oct 27 4:30pm EDT
Alphabet GOOG Oct 27 4:30pm EDT
Verisign VRSN Oct 27 4:30pm EDT
Twitter TWTR Oct 27 5:00pm EDT
Amazon AMZN Oct 27 5:30pm EDT

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2015-08-10

Defcon video: FTC, Cybersecurity, Crowdstrike, Bruce Schneier, NSA

UPDATE: Video No Longer Available

Bloomberg West from Defcon and Blackhat, Las Vegas (August 7, 2015). Guests: FTC Commissioner Terrell McSweeny on robocalls, Google, Apple Music, Internet of Things, IoT; also Crowdstrike President Shawn Henry; and Resilient Systems CTO Bruce Schneier on the TSA and breaking up the NSA. (Source: Bloomberg.com)

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