Newslinx

• Fifty Shades boosts UK book sales - TG Daily
  Wed, 01 May 2013
  The UK's Publishers Association reveals that spending on digital books rose by 66% in 2012.
  
• Possible invasion of air-breathing, predatory fish has NYC officials on alert - Fox News
  Wed, 01 May 2013
  

  The state's Department of Environmental Conservation is asking fishermen in the Harlem Meer to be on the lookout for the northern snakehead fish, a predatory creature native to Asia.

  
  
• Firefox maker says British surveillance company has hijacked its brand to help spy on targets - Fox News
  Wed, 01 May 2013
  The maker of one of the Internet's most popular browsers is taking on one of the world's best known purveyors of surveillance software.
  
• Atoms star in world's smallest movie - TG Daily
  Wed, 01 May 2013
  IBM scientists use a few dozen atoms as stars in their film A Boy and his Atom, which has garnered the title of world's smallest movie.
  
• 50 Free Awesome Android Apps - LinuxToday News
  Wed, 01 May 2013
  

   Datamation: These free apps for Android smartphones and tablets are among the best available.

  
  
• Apache servers ambushed by sophisticated backdoor attacks - LinuxToday News
  Wed, 01 May 2013
  

   NetworkWorld: Apache servers are being ambushed by a particularly pernicious malware program called Linux/Cdorked.

  
  
• The Internet's most dangerous sites - CNN -- Tech News
  Wed, 01 May 2013
  Some things just shouldn't be connected to the Internet. With Shodan, a search engine that finds connected devices, it's easy to locate dangerous things that anyone can access without so much as a username or password.
  
• Nevada opens first online poker site - TG Daily
  Wed, 01 May 2013
  Nevada has become the first US state to allow residents to play poker online for money.
  
• Wikipedia Migrates to MariaDB - LinuxToday News
  Tue, 30 Apr 2013
  

  OSTATIC: Last week, Asher Feldman, a site architect at Wikipedia, posted on the Wikipedia Tech Blog an announcement that they had migrated to MariaDB from the Facebook fork of MySQL.

  
  
• Ubuntu 13.04 Samba Standalone Server With tdbsam Backend - LinuxToday News
  Tue, 30 Apr 2013
  

  HowtoForge: This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on Ubuntu 13.04 and how to configure it to share files over the SMB protocol as well as how to add users.

  
  
• Trisquel GNU/Linux flies the flag for software freedom - LinuxToday News
  Tue, 30 Apr 2013
  

  ComputerWorld: Trisquel is a 100 per cent 'free as in free speech' GNU/Linux distribution started by Rubén Rodríguez Pérez nine years ago.

  
  
• Announcing Outreach Program for Women Internships for the Linux Kernel: Please Apply - LinuxToday News
  Tue, 30 Apr 2013
  

  Linux.com: The Linux Foundation is funding three Linux kernel internships through the Outreach Program for Women administered by the GNOME Foundation.

  
  
• Fuduntu Done Now, All Hail FuSE - LinuxToday News
  Tue, 30 Apr 2013
  

   OStatic: Naturally, there just doesn't seem to be any interest in developing Fuduntu anymore.

  
  
• Router Linux OpenWRT 12.09 released - LinuxToday News
  Tue, 30 Apr 2013
  

  The H Open: The OpenWRT team has released version 12.09 (code name: Attitude Adjustment) of the Linux distribution for routers.

  
  
• Mobile phone data redraws bus routes - TG Daily
  Tue, 30 Apr 2013
  A competition which released billions of mobile call records in Africa has been used by IBM to redraw bus routes in Ivory Coast.
  
• Skype now available for Outlook.com - TG Daily
  Tue, 30 Apr 2013
  Microsoft adds Skype video calls and instant message to its Outlook.com webmail product, but analysts say it may not be enough to catch up with Gmail.
  
• Cern to re-create first web page - TG Daily
  Tue, 30 Apr 2013
  A team at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern) launch a project to re-create the first web page.
  
• Apple taps markets for record $17bn - TG Daily
  Tue, 30 Apr 2013
  Apple raises $17bn (£10.9bn) via a bond sale, the biggest ever by a non-banking company, to help fund its plan for extra payouts to shareholders.
  
• News companies warned by Twitter - TG Daily
  Tue, 30 Apr 2013
  After a spate of high-profile and damaging hacks, Twitter warns news organisations to tighten up their internal security practices.
  
• Carphone Warehouse buys out Best Buy - TG Daily
  Tue, 30 Apr 2013
  Mobile phone retailer Carphone Warehouse agrees to buy out its joint venture partner Best Buy, giving it full control of its retail operations across Europe.
  
• New adverts 'could track your eyes' - TG Daily
  Tue, 30 Apr 2013
  Technology which can locate your eyes and track your gaze has been developed by a team at Lancaster University.
  
• Q&A: Breaking the Bluetooth Bond - NY Times -- Technology News
  Tue, 30 Apr 2013
  You can easily manage your connected Bluetooth devices in the Mac OS X Bluetooth preferences box.
  
• Python4Kids New Tutorial: A Different View on Our Chess Model - LinuxToday News
  Tue, 30 Apr 2013
  

  Python Tutorials for Kids 8+: In the last tutorial we saw how to model the position on a chess board. However, the interface was pretty basic.

  
  
• Apple raises $17 billion in record-breaking bond offering - CNN -- Tech News
  Tue, 30 Apr 2013
  Its six-part debt issue was immediately oversubscribed.
  
• Skyrocketing inflation: Russia now charging NASA $70 million per seat to fly US astronauts - Fox News
  Tue, 30 Apr 2013
  NASA is blaming Congress for the need to pay $424 million more to Russia to get U.S. astronauts into space.
  
• Florida deputy wrangles 10-foot alligator found in parking lot - Fox News
  Tue, 30 Apr 2013
  

  Workers at a Florida business complex got a surprise Tuesday morning when they arrived for work: an alligator in the parking lot, snapping at cars. 

  
  
• Best Buy quits Europe - CNN -- Tech News
  Tue, 30 Apr 2013
  Best Buy's turnaround is gathering pace.
  
• Peter Thiel: Twitter will outlast the New York Times - CNN -- Tech News
  Tue, 30 Apr 2013
  Tech visionaries Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen disagree on the promise of Twitter but both see a relatively long lifespan for the social media firm. At least in Internet years.
  
• Here's why it's a great time to buy a new TV - Fox News
  Tue, 30 Apr 2013
  

  Obsolescence may be the biggest fear shoppers face when considering a high-tech purchase. Perhaps the most difficult choice of all tech decisions: Is it the right time to buy a new TV? The answer: yes.

  
  
• Mysterious Hebrew stone depicts archangel Gabriel, called a 'Dead Sea Scroll in stone' - Fox News
  Tue, 30 Apr 2013
  

  An ancient limestone tablet covered with a mysterious Hebrew text that features the archangel Gabriel is at the center of a new exhibit in Jerusalem, even as scholars continue to argue about what it means.

  
  
• Video games embrace non-white protagonists - Fox News
  Tue, 30 Apr 2013
  

  Compared to the pasty, bearded programmers of the 1980s, the pasty, awkward nerds of the 1990s or the pasty, shrieking teenagers of the 2000s, gamer culture is finally learning to embrace people from all races, genders and lifestyles.

  
  
• Happy birthday, Web! Public Internet turns 20 - Fox News
  Tue, 30 Apr 2013
  

  On April 30, 1993, the European science agency CERN where Tim Berners-Lee worked officially made its W3 software public domain, letting the public at large access it.

  
  
• British archaeologists plan to exhume second tomb at site where Richard III's skeleton found - Fox News
  Tue, 30 Apr 2013
  Archaeologists who unearthed the skeleton of England's King Richard III under a municipal parking lot say they want to dig up a 600-year-old stone coffin found nearby.
  
• Sir Richard Branson plans orbital spaceships for Virgin Galactic, 2014 trips to space - Fox News
  Tue, 30 Apr 2013
  

  Following the historic first rocket-powered flight of its SpaceShipTwo vehicle, Virgin Galactic plans to build a fleet of spaceships and begin ferrying hundreds of tourists into space in 2014. And after that? A whole new kind of spacecraft, Sir Richard Branson said.

  
  
• Marissa Mayer's first-year pay: $6 million - CNN -- Tech News
  Tue, 30 Apr 2013
  Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer took home a pay package of nearly $6 million for her first year on the job.
  
• Wall Street analysts: Accuracy is the least of their concerns - CNN -- Tech News
  Tue, 30 Apr 2013
  What they care most about, a survey of 365 sell-side analysts found, are hedge funds.
  
• The mobile world according to Kantar - CNN -- Tech News
  Tue, 30 Apr 2013
  Android took 64% of smartphone sales in 9 countries surveyed. iPhone led only in Japan.
  
• The biggest deterrent for women in tech - CNN -- Tech News
  Tue, 30 Apr 2013
  New survey results from job marketplace Elance.
  
• Don't count Elon Musk out yet - CNN -- Tech News
  Tue, 30 Apr 2013
  Tesla's founder has suffered setbacks in trying to expand sales of his innovative electric vehicles across the U.S. Don't expect him to stop any time soon.
  
• Facebook needs to keep mobile momentum - CNN -- Tech News
  Tue, 30 Apr 2013
  Facebook finally decided to concentrate on mobile late last year, and its shares have recovered nicely from their post-IPO doldrums. To keep that momentum going, Facebook needs to prove that its mobile strategy is working.
  
• Sony patent is hilarious, terrifying - CNN -- Tech News
  Tue, 30 Apr 2013
  Is this the future of interactive advertising? Hopefully not.
  
• R.I.P. SMS - CNN -- Tech News
  Tue, 30 Apr 2013
  Services like Apple's iMessage and WhatsApp that transmit messages over the Internet are wiping out billions in revenue.
  
• Marissa Mayer extends Yahoo's maternity leave - CNN -- Tech News
  Tue, 30 Apr 2013
  Read full story for latest details.
  
• Alibaba buys stake in China's Weibo - TG Daily
  Mon, 29 Apr 2013
  Alibaba, China's biggest e-commerce group, buys an 18% stake in Weibo, China's Twitter-like service, as it looks to tap into the social media sector.
  
• 9 ways smartphones are getting scary smart - CNN -- Tech News
  Mon, 29 Apr 2013
  Innovations range from phones that watch users watching them to keyboards that think.
  
• Video game studio pirates its own game - CNN -- Tech News
  Mon, 29 Apr 2013
  The makers of "Game Dev Tycoon" turned the tables on those downloading their game from notorious piracy site The Pirate Bay.
  
• Alibaba takes stake in 'China's Twitter' - CNN -- Tech News
  Mon, 29 Apr 2013
  In a wedding of China's leading Internet darlings, online retailer Alibaba has taken a $586 million stake in the country's most popular micro-blogging service.
  
• Chart: Apple's wild weekend - CNN -- Tech News
  Mon, 29 Apr 2013
  Some strange doings in Apple's share price while the markets were asleep.
  
• The truth about social media: It's a risk - CNN -- Tech News
  Mon, 29 Apr 2013
  Last's week's Twitter-fueled crash erased $136 billion in value in minutes, underscoring concerns about companies' use of social media.
  
• Google's best app now on the iPhone - CNN -- Tech News
  Mon, 29 Apr 2013
  The Siri rival from the search giant is available for Apple's iOS devices.
  
• Photographers' anger at law change - TG Daily
  Mon, 29 Apr 2013
  New legislation that allows the use of copyrighted material even if the owner cannot be contacted is defended by the government.
  
• Google Now service comes to iPhone - TG Daily
  Mon, 29 Apr 2013
  The Google Now service - which aims to anticipate searches by offering information before it is asked for - extends to Apple's iOS devices.
  
• Snake robot teams up with rescue dog - TG Daily
  Mon, 29 Apr 2013
  US-based researchers test pairing a robotic snake with a search-and-rescue dog in a simulated exercise in a collapsed building.
  
• First curved OLED TVs to go on sale - TG Daily
  Mon, 29 Apr 2013
  LG starts taking orders for the world's first curved OLED television and plans to begin deliveries next month.
  
• China 'becomes biggest PC market' - TG Daily
  Mon, 29 Apr 2013
  China overtakes the US as the world's biggest market for personal computers, according to a market data report.
  
• Suspicious spending: $605K for coffee with Apple's CEO - CNN -- Tech News
  Mon, 29 Apr 2013
  Last week's high bid for a charity coffee with Tim Cook was made on a stolen credit card.
  
• Hack suspect 'had mobile attack van' - TG Daily
  Mon, 29 Apr 2013
  A Dutch man accused of mounting one of the biggest cyber-attacks was able to target networks from the back of a van, police say.
  
• Chat app messages 'overtake texts' - TG Daily
  Sun, 28 Apr 2013
  Instant messaging on chat apps, such as WhatsApp, has overtaken the traditional SMS text message for the first time, research firm Informa says.
  
• Google acquires news stream Wavii - TG Daily
  Sun, 28 Apr 2013
  Google acquires Wavii, a service that offer customised news streams to users, for roughly $30m (£18m) in cash.
  
• Q&A: Adjusting a Camera’s Image Quality Settings - NY Times -- Technology News
  Fri, 26 Apr 2013
  Most digital cameras include settings that internally adjust the quality and size of the photos you take.
  
• App Smart Extra: Dictionaries on the Go, Both Fancy and Simple - NY Times -- Technology News
  Fri, 26 Apr 2013
  Looking up words on a mobile phone is easy, with a variety of apps that can help you with definitions, pronunciation, synonyms, even crossword puzzle questions.
  
• Delays dog UK launch of Samsung S4 - TG Daily
  Fri, 26 Apr 2013
  Many Britons keen to get their hands on Samsung's Galaxy S4 phone look set to be disappointed as stock problems make it scarce.
  
• Q&A: Changing How iTunes Automatically Downloads Files - NY Times -- Technology News
  Thu, 25 Apr 2013
  Apple's iTunes program can automatically download prepurchased music and videos, but you can turn off the setting on a specific computer.
  
• A $2 App That Refocuses Photos Like a $400 Lytro - NY Times -- Technology News
  Thu, 25 Apr 2013
  A $2 iPhone app called FocusTwist uses some software processing tricks to refocus a photo after it's taken, similar to what the Lytro camera can do. But using it to best effect requires a tripod for your phone.
  
• Martian Watch Brings Wristphone Technology to Earthlings - NY Times -- Technology News
  Wed, 24 Apr 2013
  The Martian Watch, due out next month, sends voice commands to your Apple or Android phone through a Bluetooth connection. It also functions as a speakerphone and can read text messages and e-mails aloud.
  
• Tip of the Week: Customize the Microsoft Office Ribbon - NY Times -- Technology News
  Wed, 24 Apr 2013
  Adding your personal touch to the Microsoft Office Ribbon can make it easier to find your favorite commands.
  
• Q&A: Linking a Samsung Tablet to a TV - NY Times -- Technology News
  Tue, 23 Apr 2013
  Samsung's Galaxy Tab 2 tablets need extra equipment to play video on a television screen.
  
• Reading a Bedtime Story Together from Afar - NY Times -- Technology News
  Tue, 23 Apr 2013
  Kindoma Storytime, an iPad app, allows two people to read an e-book together, with both faces and the book appearing on each person's screen.
  
• A Coat With Pockets for Every Gadget - NY Times -- Technology News
  Tue, 23 Apr 2013
  The Tropiformer polyester shell has 22 pockets, including ones that are specifically designed for tablets, phones, glasses and pens. There are even pockets within pockets.
  
• That’s One Loud Battery - NY Times -- Technology News
  Mon, 22 Apr 2013
  The JBL Charge combines an auxiliary battery with an amplifier and speaker in a package about the size of an oversize soda can.
  
• Q&A: Uninstalling Toolbars in Internet Explorer - NY Times -- Technology News
  Mon, 22 Apr 2013
  Internet Explorer has options for removing unwanted third-party toolbars and other add-ons from the browser window.
  
• This Tablet’s Top Attraction? Its $80 Price. - NY Times -- Technology News
  Mon, 22 Apr 2013
  If you’re not sure you need a tablet, $200 is a lot to spend just to find out. But Ematic has reduced the risk with the Genesis Prime, a 7-inch Android tablet that lists for $80.
  
• Q&A: Replacing a Dead Drive - NY Times -- Technology News
  Mon, 22 Apr 2013
  Replacing a failed hard drive in a desktop computer can be a do-it-yourself project, as long as you have the time and the right parts.
  
• Free Lightroom 5 Photo Editing Software - NY Times -- Technology News
  Sat, 20 Apr 2013
  Adobe is giving away its newest version of its photo editing software, Lightroom 5, although you'll have to buy it eventually if you want to keep using it.