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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

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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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