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Tech News Flash: Tuesday -- April 22, 2014

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Wearables Just Don't Do It for Nike
Popular UK Sports File-Sharing Site Shuttered
Data Center Fire Fries Samsung's Un-Backed-Up Servers
Heartbleed and Heartache in FOSS Town

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Today's Story Highlights

Wearables Just Don't Do It for Nike
Nike appears to be retreating from its vanguard position in the computer
wearables market. The company reportedly has begun slashing the
engineering team working on its FuelBand product, a fitness computer
that can be worn on a wrist, laying off as many as 55 of the 70-person
team working on FuelBand. However, Nike subsequently insisted the
FuelBand was still an important part of its business.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/80335.html

Popular UK Sports File-Sharing Site Shuttered
The Sports Torrent Network, a brazenly named file-sharing site, shut
down after UK police threatened to put its operators behind bars for up
to 10 years. TSTN was a hotbed for illicit broadcasts of European
soccer, the National Hockey League, Formula 1 races and more. The site
reportedly had about 20,000 members, making it "possibly the largest
site of its type."
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/80337.html

Data Center Fire Fries Samsung's Un-Backed-Up Servers
A fire that erupted at the data center of Samsung SDS in Gwacheon, South
Korea, reportedly took out services to Samsung smartphones, tablets and
smart TVs for several hours. The company reportedly stopped all services
offered through its website and smartphone apps, and said consumers
could not use its online payment services or receive text message
confirmations of payments made.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/80333.html

Heartbleed and Heartache in FOSS Town
Well it's been a wild few weeks here in the Linux blogosphere, thanks
not just to XP's demise but also the long-overdue discovery of the all-
pervasive Heartbleed bug. That the bug is "catastrophic" appears to be
beyond dispute; in fact, "some might argue that it is the worst
vulnerability found ... since commercial traffic began to flow on the
Internet," as at least one commentator suggested.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/80334.html

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