How To Avoid Android Smartphone Malware: Only Install Apps From Google Play Store

Beware: New Android malware is ‘nearly impossible’ to remove. - The Washington Post: "... luckily, there is a pretty easy way to avoid them: Only install apps from Google's official Play Store." (emphasis added)

Here's the "money quote"--

 "Malicious actors behind these families repackage and inject malicious code into thousands of popular applications found in Google Play, and then later publish them to third-party app stores," Lookout noted in a blog post about the malware. That means the victims here were people who went outside of Google's official channels to install the imposter apps."

Buyer beware!

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Google Play Music, Free Music For Everything You Do (video)

Google Play Music: Free Music For Everything You Do - Google Play Music provides free, ad-supported radio for what you’re doing, how you’re feeling, or what you want to hear. Instantly start radio stations based on songs, artists, or albums, or browse by genre, mood, activity, decade, and more. (available now in the U.S.)

Bring your own music collection with you by uploading 50,000 of your own songs; then listen to them across Android, iOS, and the web, for free.

https://play.google.com/music/

The new free, ad-supported version of Google Play Music is launching first in the U.S. It’s available on the web and is rolling out to Android and iOS.  Blogged 50.  http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2015/06/play-music-ad-supported.html


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Buyology Author Martin Lindstrom on Alipay, Global Retailing (video)

Will Alipay Revolutionize America?: Video - Bloomberg:
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“Buyology” Author Martin Lindstrom discusses the impact Alipay will have on global retailing. Bloomberg’s Joe Weisenthal also speaks on “Bloomberg Surveillance.” (Source: Bloomberg Nov.28)


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Report: Sony Prepping E Ink Watch
PC Magazine
Details are scant on Sony's FES Watch, but it sure looks like a novel offering....


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Recalls this week: battery packs, doors
Charlotte Observer
A line of battery packs used to charge electronic devices are being recalled this week because they can overheat and cause a fire....


Daily Digest
Roku, Chromecast Or Fire TV: Which Streaming Stick Is Right For You?
Forbes
If you're looking to add streaming capability to your TV without taking up extra shelf space, a streaming stick can be a good—and less expensive—alternative to the standard set-top box . Roku, Google GOOGL +0.27%, and now Amazon all make sticks that let ...


ZDNet
Sony Pictures corporate files stolen and released in cyberattack
ZDNet
Sony has quite the history with hacking and cyberattacks affecting its networks, and now a subsidiary of the company is coping with intrusion on internal networks. Sony Pictures Entertainment, the television and movie arm of the tech giant, was hijacked this ...


ZDNet
Two-thirds of iPhone and iPad users now running iOS 8.0/8.1
ZDNet
It's been slow progress, but figures released by Apple show that iOS 8.0/8.1 usage has finally hit the 60 percent mark. See also: Compared to iOS, Android Lollipop adoption rates suck. Data released by Apple shows that almost two thirds of users accessing ...


Firstpost
How the Samsung Galaxy Note got its pen in CNET UK podcast 412
CNET
The Samsung Galaxy Note almost came with a toothpick, we're going back to "Jurassic World", and BT has its sights on O2 -- or maybe EE...


NDTV
Google Play Deals Include Nexus 9, Smartwatches
PC Magazine
On Black Friday through Cyber Monday, get Google Play credit and some extra discounts on Nexus 9 and Chromecast. 0shares. Hands On With the Google Nexus 9. Big box retailers aren't the only ones offering Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales. On the ...


Christian Science Monitor
Windows 10 Consumer Preview May Come In January
Tom's Hardware
Just days after Microsoft indicated that no more builds of Windows 10 will be pushed off to Insiders this year, unnamed sources are now talking about a large-scale event that will take place in January. This event will happen later in the month and will reveal ...


Mobile Burn
Tutorial: Google Play Store and All Apps on Your Windows PC
Mobile Burn
Some recent all-in-one PCs (we're thinking the HP Slate 21) came with Android instead of Windows and the truth is Android is not robust enough as a full machine OS. Of course, some laptops come with both Windows and Android, but these hybrids have ...

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Jack Ma, Wealthiest in China (video)

Found Assets Make Jack Ma China’s Wealthiest : Video - Bloomberg:
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On "Movers & Shakers," Bloomberg's Betty Liu and Matt Miller report on discovered hidden assets that taken into account make Jack Ma China’s wealthiest person. They speaks on Bloomberg Television's "In The Loop." (Source: Bloomberg Aug 28)

Motorola teases Moto 360 smartwatch, new phones for 9/4 event - CNET: "The company plans the unveiling of its eagerly anticipated smartwatch and possibly new versions of its Moto X and Moto G smartphones."

Apple announces special event for Sept. 9: "...It’s widely expected that Apple will introduce new iPhones at the event, which makes perfect sense—Apple has used the September event to launch new iPhones for a number of years now. Getting new products out in the fall sets the company up for a solid holiday shopping season, the busiest time of the year for consumers...."

Amazon: Not an E-commerce Company | stratechery by Ben Thompson: ".... Amazon is not an e-commerce company. No more pointing at the fact that e-commerce is only 6% of U.S. retail, or that Amazon’s multi-sided network of merchants and customer base are the key factors in determining their future success. No, the company is going for something a whole lot bigger, even as their foundation is being slowly watered down by the same Internet that made Bezos feverish nearly 20 years ago."

Google’s Smith Is Top Candidate for U.S. Chief Technology Officer - Bloomberg: "America is close to getting a new chief technology officer: Megan Smith, a longtime executive at Google Inc. and most recently a vice president at its secret lab, Google X...."

Broadcom's WICED Sense Is A $19.99 Developer Kit To Aid In Rapid Prototyping of Internet of Things Apps | The Digital Letter: "....With applications and devices centered around everything from retail, infrastructure, and transport to clinical health, medical devices, and biometric technology, and also to home automation, entertainment, and of course, wearables, the common thought is that soon everything we touch and look at will be connected to the Internet in some way...."

It's Over: The Rise & Fall Of Google Authorship For Search Results: "...In short, proper adoption of rel=author markup was extremely low. Google clearly went to extreme efforts to try and make the connection between author and publisher, even in the face of many challenges. From a broader perspective, this tells us quite a bit about the difficulties of obtaining data from publishers. It’s hard, and the quality of the information you will get is quite low...."

How to fix Google Play errors - CNET: "Thanks to XDA member mohamedrashad, there's a thread with the error codes and what they mean, along with ways to fix each issue. Here's a sample of that list with some of the most common error codes:"

US courts trash a decade’s worth of online documents, shrug it off | Ars Technica: "...PACER has long been criticized as a deeply dated system that already does too little and charges too much for access to things like judicial orders that are important public documents. Its inefficiency spawned a project called RECAP, which worked with the Internet Archive to make PACER documents available for free, instead of the 10 cents per page PACER charges. (PACER actually raised its charge from seven to ten cents per page, all while bandwidth and storage costs plummeted.)..."

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Top Microsoft Lawyer Blasts Secret Surveillance Court -- Unaccountable, Unjust

Microsoft’s Top Lawyer Slams Secret Surveillance Court - Digits - WSJ: "The U.S.’s secret surveillance court is unaccountable to the public and not “inclined to promote justice,” Microsoft’s top lawyer said Tuesday. General counsel Brad Smith said the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court [FISA Court], which reviews applications and appeals involving U.S. government data-collection efforts in the name of national security, acts unlike most other courts because “only one side gets to tell its story.” The surveillance court also effectively creates law “that the American public is not permitted to read,” Smith said Wednesday in a speech at the Brookings Institution. The 35-year-old court was cast into the spotlight following revelations about National Security Agency’s data-collection programs. The court’s decisions and most documents submitted to the court are secret, which Smith said made it tough for those opposing the government’s data demands to have a fair hearing. “This is not an approach inclined to promote justice,” Smith said, as he showed an image of what he implied was a government document before the surveillance court, with all text blacked out...."

Google I/O 2014 LIVE, June 25-26:
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Google Courting Developers as Device Sprawl Spurs Choices - Bloomberg:“....This year at Google I/O, we’re focusing on three key themes: design, develop and distribute -- to help developers build their apps from start to finish, with tools for the entire development cycle,” the company said in an e-mailed statement. “Our large, open platforms -- Android and Chrome -- provide the foundation for developers to evolve their offerings for phones, tablets and other new form factors.” Amid the sprawl, Google has put more emphasis on developers at I/O ... In total, there are more than 1 million apps in the Google Play store. Android-based smartphones made up 78 percent of the global industry in 2013, up from 66 percent in 2012, according to Gartner Inc. The No. 2 player was Apple’s iPhone, which had 16 percent, down from 19 percent...."

Google Play Emerges as Powerful Weapon for Internet Giant - WSJ: "....There are now more apps available in the Play store, 1.5 million, than the App Store, 1.2 million, according to market researcher App Annie. App downloads from the Play store surpassed those from the App Store for the first time in 2013. The App Store still generated more than twice as much revenue for developers last year, but that was down from six times as much in 2012. Google Chief Business Officer Nikesh Arora told investors in April that Play store payments to developers quadrupled in 2013 from 2012...."

Microsoft Exchange Online Suffers Service Outage
InformationWeek
Microsoft's Exchange Online hosted email service suffered a disruption Tuesday morning, leaving many users without email for much of the morning.

Microsoft's 'First' Android Phone Aims Low
InformationWeek
Microsoft on Tuesday revealed the Nokia X2, a smartphone that can officially ... The X2 doesn't use any Google services and instead uses Microsoft's.

Amazon's Fire Phone May Be Too Magical for Its Own Good
Wired
After several years of rumors, Amazon finally announced the launch of its very ... In a landscape dominated by Apple, Samsung, Google, and other ...

How Amazon's Product Design Is Governed by the Whims of Jeff Bezos
Businessweek
When Amazon (AMZN) released its new phone last week, one of the most notable ... 

[From POLITICO's Morning Tech]:
Apple Starts Production of BIG iPhone
Bloomberg story on Chinese suppliers' plans to begin mass production of 4.7-inch and 5.5-inch iPhones: http://bloom.bg/V7CbZt

FCC HIRES INVESTMENT BANKERS TO ADVERTISE INCENTIVE AUCTION. The agency hired New York-based Greenhill & Co. to develop educational material to persuade broadcasters to participate in the auction http://bit.ly/1rrMcLg

AMAZON, WARNER BROS. CLOSE TO RESOLVING PRICING DISPUTE. The e-commerce giant is no longer forcing backorders of Warner Bros. DVDs http://on.wsj.com/V7AoU7

TECH MOGULS BACK MAYDAY SUPERPAC. Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak, Union Square Ventures' Fred Wilson and Paypal exec Peter Thiel and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman will work to raise $12 million to support candidates this fall who are willing to fight for campaign finance reform Reuters:http://reut.rs/V7BlM3

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Apple iPhone 6 to Cost $100 More? (video)

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Will Apple iPhone 6 Cost $100 More?: Video - Bloomberg: "Jon Erlichman reports on what Apple may charge for the iPhone 6. He speaks on Bloomberg Television’s “Bloomberg West.” (Source: Bloomberg, April 14)"

Lavabit held in contempt of court for printing crypto key in tiny font [Updated] | Ars Technica: "In the opinion, Judge G. Steven Agee of the Fourth US Circuit Court of Appeals didn't rule on the merits of Levison's claims and found that a procedural error on his part forced the court’s hand. Judge Agee, who was joined in his ruling by Judge Paul Niemeyer and Judge Roger Gregory, ruled that Levison should have brought his claims that the government allegedly exceeded its authority under the US “pen register” and “trap and trace” statutes prior to the district judge holding him in contempt of court last year...."

Google Play Still Tops iOS App Store Downloads, And Now Narrowing Revenue Gap, Too | TechCrunch: "....App Annie’s Q1 2014 Market Index report includes data from over 150 countries around the world, examining apps on both Google Play and the iOS App Store. However it doesn’t take into account Amazon’s Appstore, which is found to be more lucrative for Android developers than Google’s own marketplace. The key finding in terms of revenue from the Q1 report appears, at first glance, to be more of the same – that is, Apple generates more revenue for developers, despite Google’s massive install base. However, what’s interesting is that Google Play is now narrowing that revenue gap, according to App Annie...."

Google Fiber: New York City could be next on the list | BGR: ".... Google Fiber has already been a roaring success in its initial launch markets, but Google has avoided the staunch competition of large metropolitan regions thus far. Although New York did not make it on the most recent list of cities that would be receiving Google Fiber, this job opening seems to signal that Time Warner and Verizon FiOS will have some competition in the near future...."

Google’s modular Ara phones to go on public sale in Jan 2015 via configurator tool | 9to5Google: "If you’re keen to get your hands on one of Google’s modular Ara phones, the bad news is you’re going to be waiting a while: the company has said at its first developer’s conference they won’t go on public sale until January of next year. You will, though, be able to configure your own phone using a Moto Maker style tool that will allow you to not only select your components but add customized colors and designs to them as you do … "

Samsung executive says Galaxy S5 to outsell S4, sees second quarter rollout for Tizen phone | Reuters: "...Yoon said that although Android "still needs to be our main business", Tizen or Windows would be used for markets that Android could not address. "We had tried to launch (Tizen) with DoCoMo and Orange ... but couldn't because of poor market conditions. We have changed our strategy and will release the phones in a few countries where we can do well," he said, adding that he thought Tizen would have to account for up to 15 percent of Samsung's total smartphone shipments to become a successful platform...."

Google Remote Desktop Lets Android Users Access Their PCs, but iOS Users Have to Wait
TIME
If you're an Android user, you can now access any computer running Google's Chrome web browser remotely, courtesy the company's just-unveiled ...

Google Revenue Jumps, but Misses Forecasts
New York Times
Google has been on a buying binge that has had little to do with its core ... $5 billion, which is more than the total ad revenues of Yahoo or Microsoft. The only viable threat toGoogle comes from Facebook, whose ad revenues are ...

Microsoft chops the price of custom Windows XP patches
ZDNet
While Microsoft has pulled the plug on Windows XP support, it continues to provide Windows XP security patches to large enterprise users who are ...

Google Wants to Make 'Science Fiction' a Reality—And That's Limiting Their Imagination
The Atlantic
Self-driving cars, extreme life extension, and global wifi provided by weather balloons:Google makes projects that sound like science fiction into ...

Facebook users targeted by iBanking Android trojan app
PCWorld
Cybercriminals have started using a sophisticated Android Trojan app designed for e-banking fraud to target Facebook users, possibly in an attempt to ...

Amazon Workers in Germany to Strike Again, Union Says
Wall Street Journal
Amazon Workers in Germany to Strike Again, Union Says. Action Continues Protracted Dispute Over Pay. Email; Print. Save ↓ More. Save to ↓ More.

Google's 10 Big Bets On The Future
InformationWeek
Its direct competitors in the computing market, Apple and Microsoft, tend to ... Each has taken a page from Google's playbook in moving into cloud ... Amazon is following a similar path, though it is hampered by its reliance on retail .... Facebook · LinkedIn · Google+ · RSS · UBM Tech. Featured UBM Tech ...

Samsung And Amazon Team Up For Custom Galaxy Kindle E-Book App | TechCrunch
By Ingrid Lunden
That still some way behind Apple and the iPad (which took 36% of all sales) but Samsung is gaining ground fast, picking up several percentage points ...
TechCrunch

Twitter Goes After a Facebook Cash Cow - The New York Times
By VINDU GOEL
The category has been a lucrative franchise for Facebook. ... hundreds of thousands of other apps in the Apple and Google stores, the ads are a great ...
NYT Bits

CEO Satya Nadella: Microsoft needs a 'data culture' - Fortune Tech
By Adam Lashinsky, Sr. Editor at Large
FORTUNE -- Neophyte CEO Satya Nadella held an event in San Francisco Tuesday, his third public appearance in three weeks. Unlike his last outing, ...

CAPTCHAs Are Becoming Security Theater
The Atlantic
CAPTCHAs are a time-worn way for humans to tell computers that ...

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Primary Video Source No Longer TV

A complete disintermediation in video viewing -- Losers: Live TV, television networks, local TV stations, cable TV operators. Winners: online video, YouTube, Netflix, Amazon, iTunes, Google Play, Daily Motion, Vimeo, etc. --

Off the Grid National Survey from Targeted_Victory

As viewing habits change, political campaigns must change their habits, as well - The Washington Post:

"....For the first time, fewer than half (48 percent) of [the 800 likely voters surveyed, 30% on cell phones] say that live TV is their primary source for watching video content. The second-most-preferred form for viewing is through recorded programming, but a majority said they skip 100 percent of the ads when they watch. ... Seventy percent of those surveyed said they had watched live television in the previous week. But fully 30 percent said that, other than live sporting events, they had watched no live television in the previous week. For younger voters, it's closer to 40 percent...Over time, this will require a substantial reorientation in thinking about how to allocate advertising dollars...."

Cameras on cops: Coming to a town near you: "Who watches the watchers? It's an age-old question, but police across the country may have a new answer. The Los Angeles Police Department is currently testing body-mounted cameras that record officers' interactions with citizens. The New York Police Department says it's reviewing the technology...."

The Future of Internet Freedom - NYTimes.com: ".... Much of the fight against censorship has been led by the activists of the Internet freedom movement. We can join this open source community, whether we are policy makers, corporations or individuals. Money, coding skills or government grants can all make a difference. Given the energies and opportunities out there, it’s possible to end repressive Internet censorship within a decade. If we want the next generation of users to be free, we don’t see any other option."

Google patches $310K worth of Chrome, Chrome OS bugs
Computerworld
While all four targeted browsers -- Chrome, Apple's Safari, Mozilla's Firefox andMicrosoft's Internet Explorer -- fell to researchers at the cash prize contest, Google's was the only one to have fixed flaws as of Sunday. Four vulnerabilities were ...

Notification overload: Why I'm turning off my phone alerts ... at least until my apps know me better | VentureBeat | Mobile | by Andy Hickl, A.R.O.: "I’ve decided not to receive any more notifications on my phones. No, I’m not a Luddite. Just someone who’s escaping the noise and anxiety caused by a mostly broken system...."

Look, Smartphone: No Hands! | MIT Technology Review: "Controlling an iPhone or Android phone with just your voice and a noise-cancelling headset is doable, but frustrating.....People might not mind chattering alone in the car, but not everyone is comfortable doing so on the bus. “I think giving people choice is always the best option when you can,” he says. I agree, in part because I couldn’t shake the feeling that I looked completely bizarre muttering to myself while using the Era in public. I suspect erasing that feeling will prove to be even more difficult than improving the speech recognition."

Google’s Chromecast streaming stick set to go on sale in the UK this week | Technology | theguardian.com: "The Chromecast plugs directly into a television via the HDMI port and acts as a receiver for media sent from Android smartphones and tablet apps, Apple devices as well as computers via the Chrome browser...."

Glenn Greenwald’s Encryption Guru - Alex Carp - POLITICO Magazine: ".... Schneier is a legendary encryption specialist who has written or edited 13 books on the subject, and worked for the Department of Defense, telecommunications companies, banks and governments. Most recently, he’s been a vocal advocate of the idea that the best security systems accept a reasonable amount of risk; a blind focus on protecting against every threat, he says, usually comes with unexpected costs....."

Google improves game content for players and developers
PFhub
This week, the Game Developers Conference kicks off at San Francisco's Moscone Center. While that is taking place, Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) has announced a bevy of positive changes it is making on games for players and developers. This is a move ...

Google's chat service crashes-- now Fixed
San Jose Mercury News
Google has been building up its professional offerings to challenge Microsoft's dominant enterprise offering of the Office productivity tools and Outlook email program, offering paid versions of its free Web-based suite to corporations. Google's non ...

Alibaba plans IPO that could break Facebook's record, Yahoo shares jump - San Jose Mercury News: "...."There are certainly some smart investments that I owe to my predecessors. Very notably, Jerry Yang's investment in Alibaba is something that people are very excited about," Mayer said at a conference in San Francisco last year. While Alibaba has not established how many shares it expects to sell nor a preliminary price range, experts say the company is currently worth as much as $200 billion, topping Amazon's market capitalization, $172 billion. An IPO that comes anywhere near that type of valuation would easily top Facebook's $104 billion value during its May 2012 IPO, when the Menlo Park social network raked in $16 billion, the most ever for a technology company...."

Android phone battery suffering? Here's a simple fix | ZDNet: "Google services aren't the only culprits; third-party apps can also get stuck and drain the battery. If your phone keeps killing the battery too fast even after a reboot, check the battery information in Settings. If an app is using the battery too much, Android settings will show it clearly as the offender. If that's the case, you'd better uninstall the app immediately."

Government computers running Windows XP will be vulnerable to hackers after April 8 - The Washington Post: "...Federal officials have known for more than six years that Microsoft will withdraw its free support for Windows XP on April 8, 2014. Despite a recent rush to complete upgrades, an estimated 10 percent of government computers — out of several million — will still be running the operating system on that date, company officials said...."

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New Google Play Games platform coming

Google going full-tilt gaming!--A Google-built alternative to Game Center on iOS and Games Hub on Windows Phone--

Google reportedly readying new Google Play Games platform
CNET
Massive update will make games on Android more social with multiplayer functionality and cloud syncing, according to code reviewed by the Android Police.  ...

'Google Play Games' uncovered as Android's home for invites ...
By Richard Lawler
A Google-built alternative to Game Center on iOS and Games Hub on Windows Phone surfaced last month, and we know even more about it. Android ... Amazon releases Amazon Cloud Drive Photos to compete with Apple Photo Stream ...
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Google Opens Up Push Messaging for Chrome, Chrome OS
PC Magazine
According to Google, the company is now allowing developers to make use the company's GoogleCloud Messaging for Chrome feature throughout all Chrome channels – a long and convoluted way to say that Google's finally unlocking push notifications ...

Windows 8 woes spark questions over Microsoft chief's future
Telegraph.co.uk
Last October, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer was striding across a stage in New York hailing Windows 8 as the start of “a new era” for the technology empire. In typically gung-ho fashion, the former salesman said he was willing to “bet the company” ...

Telegraph.co.uk

Nokia, Verizon Prepare for Lumia 928 Smartphone Launch - eWeek
eWeek
The Lumia 928 is available in white or black at Verizon Wireless stores and online beginning Thursday for $99 after a $50 mail-in rebate. Handset manufacturer Nokia announced the impending launch of the Lumia 928 smartphone, the latest installment in the ...

Google Plus struggles to attract brands, some neglect to update
NDTV
Rival services from Twitter to Amazon.com Inc are increasingly competitive in vying for corporate attention and marketing budgets, while technical shortcomings of Google+ have put off some companies accustomed to the flexibility of Facebook, marketing ...

Apple Rumored to be Enhancing AppleCare
PC Magazine
New changes are in the works for AppleCare, Apple's helpful service and support plan that combines hardware warranties and technical support for product purchasers — can you say Genius Bar, anyone? And in a bit of a departure from the usual way this ...

Ice Cores Reveal Green Arctic: Scientific American Podcast: "Analyses of sediment cores show that Arctic summers 3.6 million years ago were a good 8 degrees C warmer than they are today, and supported Douglas Fir and hemlock. Sophie Bushwick reports."

Google Glass not out yet, and already banned
Indian Express
A pair of lens-less frames with a tiny computer attached to the right earpiece, Glass is promoted byGoogle as "seamless and empowering". It will have the ability to capture any chance encounter, from a celebrity sighting to a grumpy salesclerk, and ...

Protect your privacy on Google
Fox News
Alternative search sites DuckDuckGo and IxQuick parallel Google Search in features and performance, but don't collect any private information about you. Microsoft's Bing Maps is a good replacement for Google Maps. Try using the venerable Firefox Web ...

Rumor: Microsoft set-top box in prototype stage, supports Kinect ...
By Mike Suszek
With the next Xbox reveal just ten days away, it's as good a time as ever to revisit a report that dates back to November 2012: Microsoft's reported interest in developing a set-top box, or "Xbox TV." Anonymous sources recently told the Wall ...
Joystiq

Amazon Cloud Drive Photos Syncs Your iPhone's Camera Roll
By Shep McAllister
iPhone: Apple's Photo Stream, which automatically backs up and syncs your last 1000 photos for up to 30 days, is a boon for iPhone photographers, but Amazon just rolled out an app that tops it with lots of free storage.
Lifehacker

Microsoft: That Windows 8 “New Coke” Analogy is Silly - AllThingsD
By John Paczkowski
Will the launch of Microsoft's forthcoming update to Windows 8 next month be the company's “New Coke” moment? Is its rumored plan to revive the traditional “Start” button it killed when it debuted Windows 8 a massive and humiliating reversal ...
AllThingsD

Official Blog: We're going live from Google I/O
That's why we look forward to bringing Google developers together year after year at Google I/O, our annual developer conference. In one week, we'll welcome ...
googleblog.blogspot.com/.../were-going-live-from-google-io....

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