Tech Blog New: December 2013

Friday, 20 December 2013

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Tech News Flash: Friday -- December 20, 2013

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Headline Scan
Verizon to Disclose Some of What It's Disclosing to the Government
All Things Appy: Top 5 Android Apps for Outdoor Adventures
Japanese Robot Shoots Breeze With Astronaut
Startup Manager Renews Shine on Android's Boot
Surveillance Report Blasts NSA, Recommends Overhaul

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Today's Story Highlights

Verizon to Disclose Some of What It's Disclosing to the Government
Verizon on Thursday said it will release a semiannual report about the
data requests it receives from the government. It is the first major
telecom to make such a move. Verizon and other tech industry giants have
come under fire for cooperating with government surveillance programs.
Verizon and AT&T in particular were named in documents leaked by former
NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79683.html

All Things Appy: Top 5 Android Apps for Outdoor Adventures
Accelerometers, GPS receivers and other sensors in your smartphone let
you track your outdoor activities in ways that go beyond just the common
map. In this week's All Things Appy, we take a look at the top five free
apps for exploring, including options for fine-tuning your GPS,
measuring headings and bearings, logging your tracks and reckoning
distance.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79670.html

Japanese Robot Shoots Breeze With Astronaut
A humanoid robot named "Kirobo" has had a chat with a Japanese astronaut
on the ISS. The robot, also from Japan, is designed to process questions
and construct answers from its vocabulary bank, as opposed to
regurgitating preprogrammed responses. Asked if he could handle zero-
gravity conditions, the robot replied, "I'm used to it now, no problem
at all."
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79682.html

Startup Manager Renews Shine on Android's Boot
For some inexplicable reason, probably related to egocentric human
nature, software developers can't seem to resist designing their
programs as if they were default services: always on and ready. If
you're familiar with maintaining a PC and like tinkering with programs,
you'll know that you need to periodically disable or get rid of
accumulating programs that automatically run processes.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79669.html

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Thursday, 19 December 2013

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ECT News Network Weekly Newsletter: Thursday -- December 19, 2013

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This Week's Top News Headlines From the E-Commerce Times

40 Million Target Customers Fall Prey to Hackers
(Posted 19-Dec-13)
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/79674.html

Microsoft Honcho Tapped to Clean Up Healthcare Mess
(Posted 18-Dec-13)
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/79662.html

Facebook's Donate Button Spurs Social Giving
(Posted 17-Dec-13)
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/79655.html

Softbank May Be Gearing Up for T-Mobile Bid
(Posted 16-Dec-13)
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/79644.html

Corporate Boards Quake as Microsoft Scours for CEO
(Posted 14-Dec-13)
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/79634.html

AmazonFresh Grocery Trucks Hit Streets of San Francisco
(Posted 13-Dec-13)
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/79630.html

This Week's Top News Headlines From TechNewsWorld

Surveillance Report Blasts NSA, Recommends Overhaul
(Posted 19-Dec-13)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79676.html

Google Glass Just Got Creepier
(Posted 18-Dec-13)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79659.html

NSA's Latest Threat: Constitutional Law
(Posted 17-Dec-13)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79653.html

Google Buys Military Robot Maker Boston Dynamics
(Posted 16-Dec-13)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79643.html

A Cybersecurity Strategy for Citizens
(Posted 14-Dec-13)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79626.html

Ford Steps on the Driverless-Car Gas
(Posted 13-Dec-13)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79638.html

This Week's Top News Headlines From CRM Buyer

CFPB Suit Targets Predatory Online Lending Practices
(Posted 19-Dec-13)
http://www.crmbuyer.com/story/79666.html

Community Will Steal the CRM Show in 2014
(Posted 18-Dec-13)
http://www.crmbuyer.com/story/79654.html

The Emerging Real-Time Business Traveler Market Takes Flight
(Posted 17-Dec-13)
http://www.crmbuyer.com/story/79645.html

Let's Hear It for Metadata
(Posted 16-Dec-13)
http://www.crmbuyer.com/story/79632.html

KlearGear Admitted to Social CRM Hall of Shame
(Posted 13-Dec-13)
http://www.crmbuyer.com/story/79619.html

This Week's Top News Headlines From LinuxInsider

Kazam Screen-Recording: Do Try This at Home
(Posted 19-Dec-13)
http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/79657.html

How to Set Up Email on a New Android Phone
(Posted 18-Dec-13)
http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/79652.html

A Definitive Guide for the Cloud Enterprise: 'Systems Performance'
(Posted 17-Dec-13)
http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/79582.html

Ubuntu's Lonely Road
(Posted 16-Dec-13)
http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/79637.html

Remote Video Security Is Mydlink+'s Weak Link
(Posted 13-Dec-13)
http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/79616.html

This Week's Top News Headlines From MacNewsWorld

When Freemium's Good, It's Very Good and When It's Bad, It's Horrid
(Posted 19-Dec-13)
http://www.macnewsworld.com/story/79667.html

Apple's Sleek New Mac Pro Hits the Market
(Posted 18-Dec-13)
http://www.macnewsworld.com/story/79660.html

DaisyDisk Helps Keep Your Hard Drive Fresh
(Posted 17-Dec-13)
http://www.macnewsworld.com/story/79627.html

'Anchorman' Scotchy Toss App Might Be Better After a Shot or 2
(Posted 16-Dec-13)
http://www.macnewsworld.com/story/79636.html

Apple Breaks Legal Serve in Samsung's Home Court
(Posted 13-Dec-13)
http://www.macnewsworld.com/story/79625.html

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Tech News Flash

Tech News Flash: Thursday -- December 19, 2013

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Headline Scan
Smithsonian Crowns 2 Video Games 'Art'
How to Keep Your Devices Juiced Up on the Road
Chinese Man Heads to US Prison for Microchip Smuggling Attempt
When Freemium's Good, It's Very Good and When It's Bad, It's Horrid
Kazam Screen-Recording: Do Try This at Home
Google Glass Just Got Creepier
Tech Firms Vie With Telecoms for Internet Infrastructure Control
Apple's Sleek New Mac Pro Hits the Market

Today's Story Highlights

Smithsonian Crowns 2 Video Games 'Art'
The Smithsonian American Art Museum this week announced the addition of
two video games to its permanent collection: the 2009 title Flower by
Jenova Chen and Kellee Santiago of the Thatgamecompany; and the 2010
title Halo 2600 by Ed Fries, former head of Microsoft Games Studios.
These new acquisitions will build upon the museum's collection of film
and media arts.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79658.html

How to Keep Your Devices Juiced Up on the Road
You can almost date a hotel room's last remodel by the number and
location of jacks. In the old days, you'd be lucky to find a usable
power outlet -- one that wasn't taken up with lamps or TV. Plug-in phone
jacks were nonexistent. We then went to bedside phone jacks and later to
desktop phone jacks and on to Ethernet jacks for supposed broadband;
eventually, we went over to WiFi, with no jacks.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79665.html

Chinese Man Heads to US Prison for Microchip Smuggling Attempt
A Chinese citizen was sentenced to three years in U.S. prison Wednesday
for trying to smuggle American-made microchips from California to China.
The man, Philip Chaohui He, was targeted in a 2011 sting at a Los
Angeles-area port. He was nabbed while approaching a Chinese freighter,
toting with him 200 radiation-hardened microchips tucked inside a tub of
baby formula.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79672.html

When Freemium's Good, It's Very Good and When It's Bad, It's Horrid
When I read a new report on app store trends for 2013 recently, my most
irritating fear was confirmed: The freemium app business model has not
only won the app sales model, it has handily crushed the paid app model
-- squeezed it down into a tiny sliver of relative revenue. The results
are so tilted that even more new apps will apparently be written
entirely with the freemium model in mind.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79667.html

Kazam Screen-Recording: Do Try This at Home
Kazam is a screencasting and screenshot application that shows much
potential, but it is not yet fully suitable for anything more than
personal use. Screen-recording tools are a step or two beyond single-
frame screen-capture applications. Kazam performs both functions and can
record input from the computer's microphone as well as from the
speakers.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79657.html

Google Glass Just Got Creepier
Google on Tuesday released XE 12, the latest update to its Google Glass
product. One of its new features lets users take a photo with a wink,
something that previously could be done by using a third-party app. "If
I were Google, I'd keep quiet about ... how quickly people can take
photos of unsuspecting targets," said Joshua Flood, an analyst at ABI
Research.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79659.html

Tech Firms Vie With Telecoms for Internet Infrastructure Control
Several major tech firms are making a strong push into Internet
infrastructure, leading to increasingly fraught relationships with
telecoms. Google and Facebook in particular have drastically invested
more in Internet infrastructure over the last year, installing new
undersea and underground cables, creating their own networking hardware
systems, and cutting long-term dark fiber deals.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79663.html

Apple's Sleek New Mac Pro Hits the Market
Apple has announced that its new Mac Pro will be available to order
starting Thursday. It unveiled the system in June at the Worldwide
Developers Conference, surprising attendees with its cylindrical design.
The aluminum body is just an eighth of the size of a standard tower unit
-- 9.9 inches tall, 6.6 inches in diameter and weighing in at around 11
pounds.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79660.html

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Wednesday, 18 December 2013

Tech News Flash

Tech News Flash: Wednesday -- December 18, 2013

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Headline Scan
Portrait of the Artist as a Social Media Fan
Brazil Shoots Down Snowden Asylum Speculation
How to Set Up Email on a New Android Phone
Here's a Great iPhone Charging Case With Built-In Zoom Lens
Tesla's More Affordable Model E May Hit the Road in 2015

Today's Story Highlights

Portrait of the Artist as a Social Media Fan
Artists are using social media to market their work, communicate their
ideas and even create new forms. Kiran Umapathy's Headphones Project,
for example, documents what randomly selected headphone-wearing
strangers are listening to with a story, photo and link to the song.
This project -- like many other art projects these days -- lends itself
well to social media sharing.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79648.html

Brazil Shoots Down Snowden Asylum Speculation
Brazil reportedly does not plan to grant asylum to Edward Snowden.
Snowden stoked the Brazil asylum speculation Tuesday when he offered,
via an open letter, to help Brazil investigate the extent of spying on
Brazilian citizens and President Dilma Rousseff. Snowden's temporary
asylum in Russia, where he fled to after a stint in Hong Kong, is set to
expire in August.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79661.html

How to Set Up Email on a New Android Phone
Setting up a brand-new phone can involve numerous aggravations, but if
you don't rely on one of the majors like Yahoo and Gmail for email, one
of the worst is surely the manual email server configuration. If you use
a customized domain name, your Android device's email client is likely
to need this extra step. This could become an even more prevalent
problem with the January U.S. launch of the Moto G smartphone.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79652.html

Here's a Great iPhone Charging Case With Built-In Zoom Lens
A new Kickstarter campaign for a built-in case, battery and 3.5x optical
camera lens aims to hit three key enhancements many people want for
their iPhones: a better camera, better battery life and a protective
case. Specifically, BricWave's [BRIC+] Productivity Case for iPhone 5
and 5s is a slickly designed, slim case with a built-in battery pack and
a handy camera lens that snaps on and off.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79649.html

Tesla's More Affordable Model E May Hit the Road in 2015
Tesla plans to debut its Model E electric vehicle, with a price tag
south of $40,000, at the 2015 North American International Auto Show in
Detroit, according to reports that surfaced Monday. Tesla has not
confirmed the rumor, saying instead that it's made no change to its
timeline, which would presumably place the vehicle's debut in 2016 or
later.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79656.html

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Tuesday, 17 December 2013

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Tech News Flash: Tuesday -- December 17, 2013

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Headline Scan
Snowden Amnesty Idea Kicked Around
myLifter Turns Smartphone Brains Into Bulk-Hoisting Brawn
US, Canada Take Heat for Fighter Jet-Escorted Santa
DaisyDisk Helps Keep Your Hard Drive Fresh
Google Buys Military Robot Maker Boston Dynamics

Today's Story Highlights

Snowden Amnesty Idea Kicked Around
NSA official Rick Ledgett, who has been with the agency for 25 years,
suggested offering whistleblower Edward Snowden amnesty, but Gen. Keith
Alexander squashed the idea. About 31,000 of the possibly 1.7 million
documents Snowden stole from the agency contain information that could
be helpful to enemies of the U.S., Ledgett said, and it would be worth
discussing a Snowden amnesty to secure them.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79647.html

myLifter Turns Smartphone Brains Into Bulk-Hoisting Brawn
Having been asked by a neighbor to help haul her kayak onto her SUV one
weekend morning last summer and finding it quite difficult -- that's
with two of us doing the lifting -- I saw myLifter as an obvious choice
for this week's Crowdfunding Spotlight. myLifter is a
smartphone-controlled mini-winch now looking for funding through a
Kickstarter campaign.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79640.html

US, Canada Take Heat for Fighter Jet-Escorted Santa
Some people are objecting to North American Aerospace Defense Command
online updates on the whereabouts of Santa. The Campaign for a
Commercial Free Childhood is particularly off-put by a video that shows
Santa's sleigh being escorted by fighter jets. NORAD maintains that the
images are safe for children, pointing out that it has depicted jets
accompanying Santa, Rudolph and Co. since the 1960s.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79646.html

DaisyDisk Helps Keep Your Hard Drive Fresh
Since the dawn of personal computing, managing storage has been a
persistent challenge. Certainly the pressure has eased up on the desktop
with the proliferation of 1 TB hard drives, but for laptops and
lightweight notebooks, the struggle continues. One of the problems with
grappling with all the data on a hard drive is transparency. Eyeballing
thousands of file names in the Finder is both tiresome and inefficient.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79627.html

Google Buys Military Robot Maker Boston Dynamics
Google has added to its portfolio of robotics acquisitions by snapping
up Boston Dynamics. The company has conceived research robots for the
military and is renowned for its agile robots that have a firm sense of
balance. One can run faster than any human. While Boston Dynamics has
not sold commercial robots, it has carried out extensive research and
experimentation in the robotics field.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79643.html

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