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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 ...
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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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How to keep using Microsoft Windows XP after April 8

It's not hard -- or problematic -- if you know how to use XP after April 8 --

How can I keep using XP after April 8? | The Tech Guy:
1. Stop using XP as an administrator. Use it as a limited user instead. Add an account as an administrator and then demote your existing account to limited user. This will stop over 90% of all the exploits out there.
2. Stop using Internet Explorer. Go with Google Chrome [browser]. It's free and far more secure.
3. Don't click on links in email.
4. Only get your software from original vendors.
5. Keep your anti virus software up to date.- See more at: http://techguylabs.com/episodes/1067/how-can-i-keep-using-xp-after-april-8#sthash.IgWradIJ.dpuf

Obama's move to relieve snooping fears | TheHill: "“When our engineers work tirelessly to improve security, we imagine we're protecting you against criminals, not our own government,” Zuckerberg wrote, adding that revelations about NSA spying programs had left him “confused and frustrated.”"

Intel's desktop of the future very tablet-ish, tired | ZDNet: "Intel thinks the desktop PC has legs, but the future is going to feature either large portable tablet-like devices or tiny computers that resemble bricks."

Your next corporate computer might be a Chromebook | ZDNet: "Quick, name a personal computing device that's simple and painless to operate, has a very low learning curve, is virus and malware resistant, is extremely secure, requires no extra software, and is inexpensive—less expensive than a phone, tablet, or laptop computer. Hint: It's a Chromebook. It might be hard to imagine that there's such a device available to you and your users, that is all those things, but it's true. The Chromebook comes very close to being the perfect corporate computing device.  What makes it the perfect educational computer also makes it the near perfect corporate computer...."

This is no way to buy a Windows PC | ZDNet: "There's no shortage of Windows PCs and tablets from which to choose, but there's still no good way to make the choice." -- Mary Jo Foley

Crytophones Encrypt Calls Against Surveillance | MIT Technology Review: "....Goldsmith’s company sells a $3,500 “cryptophone” that scrambles calls so they can’t be listened in on. Until recently, the high-priced smartphone was something of a James Bond–style novelty item. But news of extensive U.S. eavesdropping on people including heads of state has sent demand from wary companies and governments soaring. “We’re producing 400 a week and can’t really keep up,” says Goldsmith...."

Guardian: Apple reserves the right to read your iCloud e-mail
Fortune
FORTUNE -- Microsoft (MSFT) is not the only company that reserves the ... accept --Apple (AAPL), Google (GOOG) and Yahoo (YHOO) do as well.

Google speeds WebP image format, brings animation support to Chrome
CNET
Stephen Konig, a Google product manager, discusses the WebP image ... Google has built a new version of its WebP software into Chrome to let ... makers to support WebP, despite some urging from sites such as Facebook and Netflix. ... Microsoft revises privacy policy in wake of Hotmail search case.

Google Fights Back to Defend Google Glass Against 'Myths'
eWeek
Google tries to improve public perceptions of its Google Glass eyewear-mounted computers. Several analysts give their views on the company's ...

Facebook releases Hack programming language for HHVM
Phys.Org
(Phys.org) —Facebook this week unveiled Hack, a programming language they had in use for a year but have now released as per an official ...

Apple reportedly considering on-demand music service and iTunes for Android
tuaw.com
Apple may be considering a number of intriguing changes to its music ... an iTunes App for Android phones, the Google rival that has been growing ...

Facebook love notes keep gal's hope for missing beau alive
New York Post
Sarah Hamil Bajc and American boyfriend Philip Wood, from missing Malaysian flight MH370. Photo: Sarah Hamil Bajc and American boyfriend Philip ...

Should Apple allow 'Flappy Bird' developer to bring his game back to the app store?
VentureBeat
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Most of Us Are Part Neanderthal by Steven Mithen | The New York Review of Books: "....Archaeologists and physical anthropologists have long debated the evolutionary relationship between modern humans and Neanderthals, relying on the similarities and differences between their designs of stone artifacts and the shapes of their bones, with little real understanding of how these might have arisen. Interminable academic arguments have been swept away by the revolution in studies of ancient DNA, led by Pääbo (now at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig) and brilliantly recounted in his new book, Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes...."

The Making of Myths, by Laurent Bossavit | Model View Culture: "...To paraphrase Jack Sparrow (or Virginia Satir, if you prefer): "the problem is not the problem; the problem is the myth that conditions our attitudes about the problem."... open your eyes to the pervasive influence of culture on all the things you deplore; to acquire and use whatever tools, from semiotics or literary criticism or whatever, seem to be handy in understanding the water of myth around you. And when you get there: write about it (or sing, or make movies). This, really, is the key thing. Not only do we need to talk more, not less, about how we develop software, we also need to talk about the things we say: we need critique...."
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