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Tech News Flash: Monday -- March 24, 2014

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Headline Scan
Haunted Empire - Biased Author or Biased Readers?
NSA Lifts Middle Finger to Middle Kingdom
Twitter Offers Trip Down 8-Year-Long Memory Lane
Linux Goes to the Head of the Class
Apple Will Light the Wearable Tech Fire

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Today's Story Highlights

Haunted Empire - Biased Author or Biased Readers?
What really surprises me about the book Haunted Empire , which predicts
the decline of Apple, isn't that Apple fans don't like it. That's a
given -- Apple fans only want positive books and stories. It is the
level of effort that has gone into killing it, and how much that
apparently has accelerated sales. There is an old saying: The only thing
better than bad publicity is no publicity.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/80177.html

NSA Lifts Middle Finger to Middle Kingdom
Oh, there have been some good National Security Agency revelations. Like
the one about the NSA tapping German Chancellor Angela Merkel's phone.
Or the one about the NSA planting agents inside World of Warcraft , or
impersonating Facebook in a global quest to spread malware. Delicious as
all those stories are, however, last weekend's NSA bombshell may take
the cake.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/80182.html

Twitter Offers Trip Down 8-Year-Long Memory Lane
It's been eight years since Twitter first began to impose its 140-
character regime on the social world, and to celebrate, the company this
week launched a new, nostalgically minded tool. At First-Tweets.com,
Twitter users now can fondly reminisce about -- and, of course, tweet
and share -- what they said the first time they ever took to the
twittersphere.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/80179.html

Linux Goes to the Head of the Class
A new book on open source education teaches school leaders and parents
why kids need to see coding as more than cool. Energizing Education
through Open Source: Using Open Source Software to Enhance Learning by
Christopher Whittum makes a strong case for deploying the Linux OS and
its academic software in schools. This book should be required reading
for developing computer-driven curricula.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/80176.html

Apple Will Light the Wearable Tech Fire
I'm usually not a prediction sort of guy because it's cosmically silly
-- we're tiny little humans on a tiny little rock spinning in a very
large universe. Yet here I am, looking at 2014 and the latest batch of
smartwatch efforts from Samsung, Google, Motorola and LG. Here's what I
see: None of these manufacturers has created anything that will
resurrect the watch for whole generations of people.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/80173.html

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