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Tech News Flash: Wednesday -- December 4, 2013

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Digital Santa, Part 2: Tech Tools of the Trade
Guardian Blasts US, UK 'Intimidation' Over Snowden Leaks
Apple Patents In-Your-Face Technology
Shoot Super Widescreen Films With an iPhone? Seriously?
How to Manage Your Android Device From Your PC
Salesforce.com Drops $1M to Make Hackathon Results Fair

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Digital Santa, Part 2: Tech Tools of the Trade
Steady mall work might be the bread and sugar-plum butter for many
working Santas, but there are good fees and tips to be earned at Santa
gigs -- photo studios that invite Santa in for special portraits,
kids' preschool events, private parties and more. Today, old-style
Santas just won't do for techie tykes who want their Yuletide magic
plugged in and amped up.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79545.html

Guardian Blasts US, UK 'Intimidation' Over Snowden Leaks
Alan Rusbridger, the top editor for The Guardian, told British
parliament that government agencies in Britain and the U.S. have tried
to "intimidate" the newspaper since it obtained and leaked loads of
secret documents from Edward Snowden. American and British government
made it clear that the outlet is damaging national security and aiding
hostile governments, Rusbridger said.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79556.html

Apple Patents In-Your-Face Technology
Facial recognition may be added to fingerprint scanning in Apple's
device security repertoire. Apple has been using facial recognition for
some time to manage images in its iPhoto app, but a patent awarded to
the company on Tuesday combines that tech with facial detection to
control a computing device. Apple's facial recognition system could be
used to identify the authorized user of a device.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79555.html

Shoot Super Widescreen Films With an iPhone? Seriously?
Budget filmmakers, here's one for you: Scott Cahall, a lens designer at
Moondog Labs, has invented a 1.33x anamorphic adapter lens for the
iPhone 5 and 5s and is offering it through a Kickstarter project. What's
anamorphic? An anamorphic lens let you capture expansive panoramic
images and film in gorgeous widescreen. It introduces organic lens
flares and distortion that add character and depth.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79550.html

How to Manage Your Android Device From Your PC
Despite the ever-increasing sizes of mobile-device screens -- many
smartphones are now close to or even more than 5 inches -- it's still a
pokey and fiddly affair to configure them -- or even look at them, for
that matter. Stabbing around those minuscule on-screen keyboards can be
a tedious affair. However, there are PC-based solutions out there.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79549.html

Salesforce.com Drops $1M to Make Hackathon Results Fair
Salesforce.com has taken an interesting step in stemming the fallout
from its recent hackathon by deciding to award a second prize of $1
million to another team of developers. At the Dreamforce software
conference last month, Salesforce.com held a Salesforce1 Hackathon, in
which more than 4,500 developers were encouraged to build apps using the
company's customer relationship management platform.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79547.html

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