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Tech News Flash: Tuesday -- April 8, 2014

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Amazon Fire TV Fails to Rage but Glows Hot
Courtroom Drama: Hollywood Sues Megaupload
XP Users Have a Bad Headache Coming On
Lessons Learned from Mozilla's Edgy Eich Episode

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Today's Story Highlights

Amazon Fire TV Fails to Rage but Glows Hot
The Amazon Fire TV, available for $99 from Amazon, hasn't yet made any
jaw-dropping leaps forward, but it is an excellent set-top box that, in
some ways, breaks ahead of the Apple TV, Google Chromecast and Roku
competition. There's a lot to explain here. First, the Amazon Fire TV is
just another box that lets you stream movies and video to your living
room HDTV. It's solid, svelte, sexy and fast.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/80236.html

Courtroom Drama: Hollywood Sues Megaupload
Six Hollywood studios have banded together in a copyright infringement
lawsuit against Megaupload, the wildly popular though now shuttered site
that, in its heyday, was ground zero for file-sharing. The suit doesn't
specify an amount of damages, but does say that the studios should be
entitled to $150,000 per copyright infringement, as well as profits
earned by Megaupload.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/80259.html

XP Users Have a Bad Headache Coming On
Money will be the biggest problem users of Windows XP will face when
Microsoft officially stops supporting it on Tuesday. As a last resort,
Microsoft is offering custom support for Windows XP as a temporary
stopgap. That could cost as much as $200 per PC per year, Gartner
estimated. The UK government reportedly has paid Microsoft about $9
million to extend Windows XP support for one year.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/80256.html

Lessons Learned from Mozilla's Edgy Eich Episode
It seems fair to say that we here in the Linux blogosphere are no
strangers to difficult topics, but over the past few weeks FOSS fans
have been struggling with what may be one of the trickiest yet. It is,
of course, the matter of Brendan Eich. Cofounder of Mozilla, creator of
JavaScript, Mozilla CTO for years and then CEO for just 10 days, Eich's
term at the helm was cut short as a result of a firestorm of protest.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/80257.html

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