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Tech News Flash: Thursday -- May 17, 2012

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Headline Scan
Google Answers Questions Searchers Haven't Yet Asked
Android: What, Me Fragmented?
Leaving Your Mark on the Web
DDoS Blitz Floods The Pirate Bay
A Tale of Two Suites: Do We Still Need OpenOffice.org?
Quantum Teleportation Leaps to New Distance Record

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Today's Story Highlights

Google Answers Questions Searchers Haven't Yet Asked
Google is extensively updating its search function with the rollout of a
new Knowledge Graph. The heart of the Knowledge Graph is a database
Google has compiled, via its own research and through its acquisition of
MetaWeb Technologies, of 500 million people, places, things and points
of history.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75136.html

Android: What, Me Fragmented?
There are nearly 4,000 different types of devices running Android,
OpenSignalMaps has found. More than 1,300 of them have custom ROMs that
tweak the android.build model. Android brands are almost as diverse as
the models, OpenSignalMaps discovered. Further, the application
programming interface level, meaning the Android version, has also
become more fragmented over time.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75142.html

Leaving Your Mark on the Web
There are a lot of photographs out there. Photo sharing and album
network Flickr alone reckons it hit the 6 billion image upload mark last
year. If you consider Picasa, Facebook, and the current darling known as
Instagram, we're talking gazillions of images floating around -- all
freely downloadable. It may be time to start protecting your work.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75135.html

DDoS Blitz Floods The Pirate Bay
Today in international tech news: The Pirate Bay is hit with a massive
DDoS attack. Meanwhile, Evernote launches its Chinese service, saying,
"It's like we unlocked a whole new Earth that we didn't even know
existed." Also: China is poised to overtake Japan in IT spending by
2013, and a Russian steel tycoon is poised to cash in big time on a
Facebook gamble he made back in 2009.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75139.html

A Tale of Two Suites: Do We Still Need OpenOffice.org?
Would a rose by any other name still smell as sweet? Or would it,
perhaps, end up sweeter? That, essentially, is the question at the heart
of the forking process, which in turn is at the heart of a key situation
today. Namely: Now that we have LibreOffice, do we still need OpenOffice
as well? In the wake of Apache OpenOffice's new update , that's been the
question du jour down at the Linux blogosphere's Punchy Penguin Cafe.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75138.html

Quantum Teleportation Leaps to New Distance Record
Scientists in China have transmitted quantum bits, or qubits, over a
record distance of 97 km, or roughly 60 miles. This is more than six
times the distance of the previous record of 16 km, set by another team
of Chinese researchers in May of 2010, as reported in Nature.com.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75130.html

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