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Tech News Flash: Thursday -- February 20, 2014

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Internet of Things, Part 2: The Lighter Side
WhatsApp Gives BlackBerry a Bounce
Artemis Shoots for Wireless Networking Breakthrough
Comcast-TWC Customers: Be Afraid, Very Afraid

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Today's Story Highlights

Internet of Things, Part 2: The Lighter Side
So there I was, grinding my coffee beans when the grinder's AMOLED
screen lit up with a message. "We're watching you, boy," it read. OK, I
must've spilled some grinds, so I cleaned up the machine and brewed me
up some coffee. Ten minutes later, cup in hand, I wandered down to the
laundry room and began loading up the washing machine. "Peekaboo!" read
the message that appeared on its screen.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/80006.html

WhatsApp Gives BlackBerry a Bounce
Facebook's $19 billion purchase of mobile-messaging service WhatsApp
appears to have buoyed the value of BlackBerry Messenger -- and by
extension, BlackBerry. BlackBerry shares went up nearly 10 percent in
after-hours trading because, in the words of Reuters, Facebook's
purchase "put a rough valuation metric around the smartphone maker's own
BlackBerry Messaging service," also known as "BBM."
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/80012.html

Artemis Shoots for Wireless Networking Breakthrough
Technologist and serial entrepreneur Steve Perlman on Wednesday
announced his new company, Artemis, and demoed its pCell technology.
pCell technology "consistently delivers full-speed mobile data to every
mobile device concurrently, regardless of how many users are sharing the
same spectrum at once," he claimed. Instead of trying to suppress
interference, the pCell exploits it.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/80003.html

Comcast-TWC Customers: Be Afraid, Very Afraid
While federal regulators mull the possible antitrust ramifications of
the proposed $45 billion merger between Comcast and Time Warner Cable,
the companies' customers also are considering the fallout from this
deal. Both companies have a reputation for poor customer service, and
the fear is that a combination of the conglomerates may result in the
achievement of a new low.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/80008.html

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