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Tech News Flash: Tuesday -- November 26, 2013

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Headline Scan
Potential for Abuse Stalls Cellphone Kill Switch Debate
China Targets Qualcomm With Antitrust Probe
Kubo Electric Scooter Packs Cargo Space Into a Sleek Ride
MacBooster Can Help Keep Your Mac Humming
A Tale of Two Browsers: Chrome v. Chromium
Jellyfish-Bot Swims Through the Air
Samsung Gussies Up Phablet Line With Galaxy Grand 2

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Today's Story Highlights

Potential for Abuse Stalls Cellphone Kill Switch Debate
Law enforcement officials and mobile phone makers last week knocked
heads with wireless carriers over planting "kill switches" in
smartphones. Led by San Francisco's DA and New York's AG, law
enforcement wants smartphones to contain firmware that allows a consumer
to "brick" a mobile that's lost or stolen. The largest mobile phone
maker in the world, Samsung, is on board with the program.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79514.html

China Targets Qualcomm With Antitrust Probe
Perhaps to celebrate the anniversary of last year's U.S.-China telecoms
showdown, Beijing has launched an antitrust probe into U.S. chipmaker
Qualcomm. The announcement comes on the heels of comments from Qualcomm
CEO Paul Jacobs that the company was "definitely seeing
increased pressure" in China, in part because of ongoing NSA
revelations.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79515.html

Kubo Electric Scooter Packs Cargo Space Into a Sleek Ride
Kubo is a cargo-carrying electric scooter now seeking crowdfunding on
Kickstarter that offers potential far beyond the realm of personal
transportation. Ask any e-commerce analyst what the hottest upcoming
trend will be in e-commerce circles next year -- the Amazons and eBays
of this world -- and you're likely to get the same answer: Same-day or
even same-hour delivery.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79511.html

MacBooster Can Help Keep Your Mac Humming
Surf over to the Mac App Store, and you'll find plenty of utilities for
keeping your Apple personal computer in tip-top shape. There are tools
for freeing up RAM and cleaning files from disks and thoroughly
uninstalling apps. Have you ever wished, however, that you had a an app
to perform all those tasks under the same hood? IObit is doing that with
MacBooster.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79512.html

A Tale of Two Browsers: Chrome v. Chromium
If you've ever used Google's free Chrome browser, you may be
aware that it's closely related to another, similarly named Google
project called "Chromium." Chrome and Chromium share a heavy portion of
their core browser code, but Chrome is a proprietary Google product,
while Chromium is open source. Both serve Linux, Windows and Mac OS X
platforms, however.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79510.html

Jellyfish-Bot Swims Through the Air
NYU researchers have designed a flying machine that appears to use the
same pulsating motions as a jellyfish. They wanted to create a small
robot that could serve practical purposes such as monitoring traffic.
The device has four wings arranged like flower petals, which pulsate up
and down. Its tiny motor is tethered to a power cord. It can fly and
hover.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79504.html

Samsung Gussies Up Phablet Line With Galaxy Grand 2
Samsung has unveiled the latest model in its line of phablets, the
Galaxy Grand 2, bearing a string of enhancements over its predecessor.
The company's latest device has a 5.25-inch screen with a 16:9 ratio.
The TFT screen is 0.25 inches larger than the previous model and has a
1280 x 720 resolution, compared with the 800 x 480 pixels of the Galaxy
Grand's WVGA screen.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79505.html

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