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Tech News Flash: Thursday -- January 16, 2014

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Headline Scan
The App Store and Children, or Tim Cook's Latest Crock of Bull
Pentagon Wary of New Chinese Missile Vehicle
Blackphone Aims to Keep Spooks in the Dark
NSA's Radio Spying Could Backfire
Net Neutrality Takes a Licking

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Today's Story Highlights

The App Store and Children, or Tim Cook's Latest Crock of Bull
I was pleased last year when Apple finally took a proactive stance and
reached out to 28 million App Store customers who might have been
bamboozled by shady in-app purchases in games designed to take advantage
of children. However, even that action had dubious beginnings stemming
from a class action lawsuit that Apple settled this summer. Most
recently, Apple settled a similar issue with the FTC.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79800.html

Pentagon Wary of New Chinese Missile Vehicle
Last week, China's military took its new "ultra-high speed missile
vehicle" -- or "hypersonic glide vehicle," if you prefer -- for its
first test drive, raising eyebrows among U.S. defense officials. The
hypersonic aircraft, capable of maneuvering at a mindboggling 10 times
the speed of sound -- that's more than 7,500 miles per hour -- is
designed to deliver warheads through U.S. missile defenses.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79804.html

Blackphone Aims to Keep Spooks in the Dark
Silent Circle and Geeksphone have teamed up to create the Blackphone --
a smartphone designed to truly protect users' privacy. Carrier- and
vendor-independent, the Blackphone allows users to make and receive
phone calls securely, as well as transfer and store files, swap secure
text messages, and conduct video chats without compromising their
privacy, the companies claim.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79796.html

NSA's Radio Spying Could Backfire
The United States National Security Agency's surveillance efforts
reportedly include radio transmissions from circuit boards and USB cards
inserted surreptitiously into computers. This apparently has been going
on since 2008. "This is pretty cool," said Jim McGregor, principal
analyst at Tirias Research. "You could embed a transmitter in a USB
dongle or memory card or mouse plugin or USB plugin."
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79797.html

Net Neutrality Takes a Licking
Net Neutrality received a body slam from a federal appeals court
Tuesday, but the door was left open for resuscitating the policy. In a
case brought by Verizon against the FCC, the judges on the U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia found the agency lacked
the authority to impose antidiscrimination and antiblocking rules on
providers of Internet broadband services.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79793.html

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