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Tech News Flash: Thursday -- October 2, 2014

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Headline Scan
EFF Raises Alarm Over ComputerCOP's Spying Ways
Apple Shrinks Market for Stolen iPhones
Data Divination: Big Data Strategies -- A Great Hip-Pocket Tool
Microsoft Earns Forgiveness With Windows 10
Google's Augmented Reality 'Ingress' Gives Players New Creative Outlets
How to Bring Out the Best of iOS 8's Photography and Sharing Tricks
How to Turbocharge Your iOS 8 Web-Surfing Experience
Scribbleton Has a Ton of Potential
Consumers Fed Up With Data Breaches

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Today's Story Highlights

EFF Raises Alarm Over ComputerCOP's Spying Ways
ComputerCOP software, a parental monitoring application that long has
been recommended and distributed by law enforcement agencies, is little
more than spyware with significant potential for abuse, the EFF reported
Wednesday. The software includes a keylogger that could expose a
family's personal information by transmitting what's typed to third-
party servers without encryption, the EFF said.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/81141.html

Apple Shrinks Market for Stolen iPhones
Apple on Thursday closed a gap in its efforts to combat mobile device
theft with the announcement of a service for checking the Activation
Lock status of its iPhone, iPad and iPod product lines. The Find My
iPhone Activation Lock requires that an owner's Apple ID and passcode be
entered into an iOS device before Find My iPhone can be turned off or
the device can be erased or reactivated.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/81136.html

Data Divination: Big Data Strategies -- A Great Hip-Pocket Tool
Most of today's books about Big Data delve into highly technical tools,
cloud technology, and high-level computer-assisted math calculations and
algorithms. For most people in the business world, this is far from
motivating readers to appreciate just what Big Data does and how to let
it get you there. However, that's not so with Data Divination: Big Data
Strategies by Pam Baker.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/81133.html

Microsoft Earns Forgiveness With Windows 10
Microsoft on Tuesday pulled back the veil on the successor to Windows 8
-- Windows 10. Windows 10 is a combination of the best elements of the
popular Windows 7 OS, along with some of the touchscreen-friendly
features and functionality of Windows 8. Microsoft also kicked off its
largest-ever open collaborative development effort with the new Windows
Insider Program.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/81130.html

Google's Augmented Reality 'Ingress' Gives Players New Creative Outlets
Google's Niantic Labs last week announced a new Missions feature that
can incorporate user-generated content in its Ingress augmented reality
game. Now available to Android users, Missions challenges players to
visit a series of places, complete a game action such as hacking or
capturing a portal, or use clues to solve a puzzle in order to advance,
said Niantic Labs head John Hanke.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/81106.html

How to Bring Out the Best of iOS 8's Photography and Sharing Tricks
If you haven't yet taken the iOS 8 plunge, you may not know what you're
missing. True, iOS 8 has the familiar iOS 7 look and feel, but it's
chock full of both new and improved features and functionality. And it's
free. Some of the new features evoke a sigh of relief -- we've been
waiting for these, Apple. Others are downright pleasantly surprising and
altogether cool.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/81118.html

How to Turbocharge Your iOS 8 Web-Surfing Experience
Think iOS 8 is just an expanded version of iOS 7? Take a closer look,
and you might think again. For owners of iPhone models from the 4s to
the 6 Plus, Apple has introduced not only improvements to familiar
features but some altogether new -- and cool -- functionality. Here's
your guide to the most useful and welcome iOS 8 changes for accessing
the mobile Web.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/81117.html

Scribbleton Has a Ton of Potential
Scribbleton is a very infant -- as in alpha -- release of an innovative
note-taking app for Linux that provides cross-platform access with
Windows and Apple computers. It creates a personal wiki for storing
everything from quick notes to detailed checklists to outlines. It
creates links between pages in Scribbleton. Think of this as an easy-to-
use database to link words, phrases and pages.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/81113.html

Consumers Fed Up With Data Breaches
Consumers are beginning to lose their patience with the custodians of
their personal information. Survey results from 2,000 consumers released
last week by HyTrust, suggest that 51 percent of those polled would bolt
from any business involved in a data breach that compromised personal
information such as address, Social Security number or credit card
details.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/81124.html

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