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AT&T Signs Up for House-Sitting Duty
FBI Aims to Pry Open New Channels for Web Surveillance
The Malicious Hacker's Ever-Sharper Eye
Angry Birds, Mad Money
The Un-Death of the PC
Who's Afraid of a Big Bad Hacking Story?
Camping App a Powerful Cure for Cabin Fever
There's a Supermoon Rising on Saturday
Nvidia Levels Up With New Gaming Graphics Card

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Samsung's Galactic Empire (13:15 minutes)
In this episode: Samsung lifts the curtain on the Galaxy S III, its
latest smartphone touting Android Ice Cream Sandwich and an array of new
features; Research In Motion sweats it out at BlackBerry World 2012;
Samsung closes in on -- and perhaps overtakes -- Apple in smartphone
unit sales; Microsoft and Barnes & Noble go from enemies to partners
thanks to a new $300 million deal; Target axes Amazon's Kindle line of
products.
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Today's Story Highlights

AT&T Signs Up for House-Sitting Duty
As if the remote home monitoring and automation market weren't crowded
enough already with players like ADT and utility companies with their
smart meters, AT&T announced on Monday plans for entering the arena. It
will offer consumers Web-based access to automation tools for their home
energy and water controls, as well as professionally monitored security
services.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75046.html

FBI Aims to Pry Open New Channels for Web Surveillance
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is urging Internet companies to
provide back doors that facilitate online surveillance. The bureau and
the White House aim to increase the amount of data they can collect
through online channels.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75044.html

The Malicious Hacker's Ever-Sharper Eye
Targeted attacks on organizations and Web-borne infections like the
recent Flashback outbreak on Macintosh computers will continue to poison
the security landscape in 2012, according to John Harrison, Symantec
group product manager for endpoint threat protection and security
technology and response.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75038.html

Angry Birds, Mad Money
Today in international tech news: The makers of "Angry Birds" report
crazy numbers. Meanwhile, Evernote seeks approval from Beijing to open
up a data center in China, a step that could help the data-storage giant
tap into the world's largest market but also -- if history is any
indication -- subject it to government intervention.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75043.html

The Un-Death of the PC
This occurred to me last Thursday when first-quarter PC sales came out.
Apparently, sales are up 21 percent year-over-year and HP retook the
lead from Apple in this segment. In this report, Apple's numbers include
iPads, and sales for iPads collapsed in the first quarter. This got me
thinking of the scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail when the cart
is picking up dead bodies during the Black Plague and one "corpse" not
only isn't dead but feels like dancing.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75028.html

Who's Afraid of a Big Bad Hacking Story?
It's been a cheerily good spring for FOSS fans here in the Linux
blogosphere, so we may perhaps be forgiven for our utter shock and
disbelief at the affront recently committed against us by a certain
brick-and-mortar purveyor of books and magazines. Barnes & Noble yanked
the very excellent Linux Format magazine from its U.S. shelves --
apparently because of a cover story on the topic of "hacking."
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75037.html

Camping App a Powerful Cure for Cabin Fever
As winter finally releases its clammy grip around my house, I'm getting
cabin fever something fierce. I've got an eclectic travel schedule,
hitting hotels for business then heading off to some dive campground
near an outdoor activity ... or planning a backpacking trip, which
usually requires a base camp before you head off into the mountains.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75034.html

There's a Supermoon Rising on Saturday
It may have been a "bad moon" rising in the famous 1969 song by CCR, but
this weekend's full moon could well inspire predictions for trouble of a
similar kind. That's because it's this year's "supermoon" -- the full
moon that occurs when the moon is closest to Earth -- and supermoons are
often believed to wreak even more havoc on our planet than ordinary full
moons do.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75017.html

Nvidia Levels Up With New Gaming Graphics Card
A new video card from Nvidia or competitor AMD isn't usually all that
newsworthy, but when the latest card arrives with eight Graphics
Processing Clusters, and a total of 4 GB of GDDR5 video memory that runs
at 6.008 GHz over two 256-bit memory, that is enough for hard-core
enthusiasts to take pause. For everyone else, the release of a video
card that carries a price point just under $1,000 will certainly draw
attention.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75027.html

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