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Thursday - May 2, 2013

News, in particular, breaking news and events, is now easily obtained through Twitter feeds. Here's how to go about building a news feed, and how to follow breaking news events through this new medium. Start by accessing Twitter with a Web browser and sign in to your account. Then click on the cogwheel icon in the top right corner of the default Profile page. Click on Lists and then Create List. Give the list a name like "News" and select a privacy setting. Now you're ready to select your news sources. [More...]

The Real Mozilla Stands Up to Firefox-Cloaked Spyware

Thursday - May 2, 2013

Mozilla, the creator of the Firefox browser, has sent a cease-and-desist letter to Gamma International, a German company that sells spyware to governments and law enforcement agencies. The move was a reaction to the news that a booby-trapped Microsoft Word document -- sent out for upcoming Malaysian elections -- embeds a copy of Gamma's FinSpy spyware that masquerades as a Firefox executable. [More...]

World's Smallest Movie Is IBM's Science Blockbuster

Wednesday - May 1, 2013

IBM has released the world's smallest movie. Company researchers moved thousands of atoms to create a miniature stop-motion movie titled A Boy and His Atom.. The movie, which has 242 frames, was made with a scanning tunneling microscope which IBM has been using to conduct research into storage. The movie has been certified as the world's smallest by the Guinness World Records. [More...]

WHICH APPS DO I NEED?
All Things Appy: Top 5 Android Camera Apps

Wednesday - May 1, 2013

As the geek world drools over the first 13-megapixel smartphone camera -- the Android-driven Samsung Galaxy S4 -- we take a look at the current state-of-play in the must-have camera app genre for Android. Ready, set, go. Occasionally an app comes along that blows everything else away. [More...]

Airbnb Declares No Vacancies for Anonymity

Wednesday - May 1, 2013

Authentication requirements for some travelers looking for shared accommodations around the world will be getting a little tougher. Airbnb -- which allows people to list, discover and book unique accommodations through a sharing model -- announced Tuesday that it will be asking for more personal information from U.S. consumers who want to use its services. [More...]

Expect Labs' Anticipatory Computing Draws A-List Support

Wednesday - May 1, 2013

The investment arms of Intel and Samsung have sunk money into Expect Labs, which has developed a new class of technologies that can understand the meaning of continuous conversations in real-time, and can leverage that to proactively serve up information users may need. The support will be used to enable new types of context-aware, predictive intelligence in a variety of devices. [More...]

IBM Builds Traffic Cop for Internet of Things

Tuesday - April 30, 2013

IBM on Monday launched MessageSight, an appliance designed to handle machine-to-machine communications of the future. Such communications will develop exponentially to create what's known as the "Internet of Things." In announcing MessageSight, IBM cited a 2010 report that predicted more than 22 billion Web-connected devices by 2020, which will generate more than 2.5 quintillion bytes of new data daily. [More...]

BlackBerry's Heins Gives Tablets 5 Years to Live

Tuesday - April 30, 2013

BlackBerry CEO Thorstein Heins made some bold claims on Monday. For one, he predicted a big turnaround for the company, suggesting that BlackBerry could once again become the absolute leader in mobile computing. What raised more eyebrows, though, was Heins' prediction that in five years, tablets might be out. [More...]

Digging Into Garden Planning Software

Tuesday - April 30, 2013

When Catherine Kasper Place in Fort Wayne, Ind., needed to help refugees plan garden plots for themselves and for the organization's community supported agriculture, it turned to GrowVeg.com's Garden Planner and its affiliated iPad app, Garden Plan Pro. "It's challenging just to manage one garden," said Holly Chaille, Catherine Kasper Place's director. "This is 36 different ones, with 36 different designs." [More...]

Samsung Throws Galaxy Tab 3 Into Mini Tablet Mix

Monday - April 29, 2013

Samsung on Monday announced the Galaxy Tab 3 7-inch mini tablet. The device will come with 8 or 16 MB of internal storage and up to 64 MB of expandable memory. A WiFi-only version of the Galaxy Tab 3 will be available worldwide in May, and a 3G version will be launched in June. Product availability will vary by market in a gradual rollout. [More...]

Microsoft's IllumiRoom Blends Gaming, Real-World Environments

Monday - April 29, 2013

While Microsoft isn't taking the wraps off its upcoming next-generation video game console until next month, it did cast a little more illumination on its IllumiRoom projection system on Monday. The system has been described as a proof-of-concept technology that augments the area surrounding a television to enhance the gaming experience. [More...]

SPOTLIGHT ON SECURITY
Report: Criminals Put a Bull's-eye on Web Infrastructure

Monday - April 29, 2013

Cybercriminals have begun focusing their malicious endeavors on the sinew of the Internet to reap greater rewards. For months now, Net bandits have targeted key infrastructure elements -- from the domain-naming service to certificate-issuing authorities to hosting services -- in order to spread cash-producing malware. "They're going after the infrastructure of the Internet," said Dave Jevans, chairman of Marble Security. [More...]

OPINION
What Happens When Android Fails?

Monday - April 29, 2013

I've just finished doing yet another news program on the increasing risks of using an Android phone, and the discussions have started to drift to the potential for class-action lawsuits, commercial plane crashes, and cyberdisasters that would make 9/11 seem trivial -- all connected to this platform. [More...]

Report: Galaxy S4 Matches iPhone5 in Display Dazzle

Saturday - April 27, 2013

The Samsung Galaxy S4, scheduled to launch worldwide Saturday, has a display that's on par with the trendsetting Retina Display of Apple's iPhone 5, according to display experts DisplayMate Technologies. The company conducted tests on screen reflections, brightness and contrast, colors and intensities, viewing angles, display power consumption and running time on battery. [More...]

The Future Is Now With AT&T's New Home Automation Tech

Friday - April 26, 2013

AT&T has introduced Digital Life, a home security and automation system that realizes a goal the company set more than a decade ago of creating tools that would allow people to manage lights and security systems remotely. Digital Life will allow homeowners to control appliances, lock and unlock doors, and monitor their homes remotely using a number of mobile apps. [More...]

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