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Tech News Flash: Thursday -- January 30, 2014

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Smartphone Could Hold the Key to Your Room
What Went Wrong With the iPhone 5c?
This Is Your Game on Glass
Installing Linux: The Good, Bad and Ugly

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Today's Story Highlights

Smartphone Could Hold the Key to Your Room
Starwood Hotels & Resorts is rolling out a program in two of its hotels
-- one in New York City's Harlem and one in Cupertino, Calif. -- that
will allow customers to try a new lock system. Guests can download a
mobile app that will allow them to virtually check in once they've
arrived at the hotel. Then they'll be able to open their room door with
the tap or wave of their smartphone.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79886.html

What Went Wrong With the iPhone 5c?
The iPhone 5c has been bugging me. As a product, it's so good -- and yet
so wrong. By not saying much at all during the financial conference call
with analysts this week, Apple has confirmed doubts while presenting new
questions. Does the iPhone 5c represent a colossal misstep by Apple? Or
is it just a mediocre product that remains profitable? Can it be both at
the same time?
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79885.html

This Is Your Game on Glass
Google on Monday announced that it had hacked together five simple games
that take advantage of the unique features of Glass. The company
presented a brief demo of the five-title mashup as Mini Games Glassware,
and it encouraged Glass developers to offer feedback.Google emphasized
that voice commands could minimize the time it would take a gamer to get
into the action.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79880.html

Installing Linux: The Good, Bad and Ugly
Good or bad, useful or not, implementation of the Unified Extensible
Firmware Interface and Microsoft's Secure Boot extension might well foul
the fuel driving consumer migration to the Linux desktop. It was not
until I attempted to do a Linux installation on a new Gateway Series DX
desktop with Windows 8 installed that I stared that UEFI monster down.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79883.html

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