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Tech News Flash: Monday -- February 25, 2013

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Headline Scan
North Korea Widens 3G Coverage - for Outsiders Only
Hacks, Hijacks and Hunts for Chinese Data Thieves
And Now, Ubuntu for Tablets - Wait, What?
Week of Weird: Sony Jumps the Gun, Google Luxury-Prices Its Yugo
Scientists on Unparticle Hunt Give Earth a Spin
Sony's PS4 Launch: Too Little Too Soon?

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Podcast
Inside the Hunt for Chinese Hackers (19:05)
The recent report from the security company Mandiant about Chinese
hacking practices has been international fodder all week -- for media
outlets eager to report and Chinese officials eager to deny. In the
process, the firm has found itself in the public spotlight. Dan
McWhorter, managing director of Mandiant's threat intelligence unit,
discusses the roots of the investigation.
http://www.technewsworld.com/shared/audio/tnw-vranicar-2013-02-22.mp3

Today's Story Highlights

North Korea Widens 3G Coverage - for Outsiders Only
North Korea is modernizing its technologies -- as only North Korea can.
Foreigners are now able to bring their phones, with the caveat that
they must purchase North Korean SIM cards upon arrival. Now Koryolink, a
North Korean mobile phone provider, plans to launch a 3G data service --
but only foreigners can use it.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/77386.html

Hacks, Hijacks and Hunts for Chinese Data Thieves
Still smarting from a recent attack on its systems, Facebook started its
week with a discovery by researchers at Bitdefender that an infected
add-on at the Chrome Web Store was planting malware on its members'
computers. The malware, among other things, was padding the Like counts
on dummy Facebook pages.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/77384.html

And Now, Ubuntu for Tablets - Wait, What?
Six weeks have passed since Canonical's splashy debut of Ubuntu for
phones, but for many here in the Linux blogosphere, the memory is still
crystal-clear. It came as some surprise, then, to see follow-up news
announced so soon afterward. The news this time? None other than Ubuntu
for tablets.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/77383.html

Week of Weird: Sony Jumps the Gun, Google Luxury-Prices Its Yugo
This really has been an entire month of the strange. We had Boeing's
Dreamliner sidelined for batteries that catch fire. We had Tesla locking
horns with the NYT. We had Sony announce its new game system nearly
nine months before it would be available -- but not actually show it.
Biggest of all, despite Chromebooks failing to sell in the $250 range,
we had Google offer a refresh priced at $1,500.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/77377.html

Scientists on Unparticle Hunt Give Earth a Spin
The CERN team in Switzerland uses the Large Hadron Collider to search
for the elusive Higgs-Boson. A small team of researchers led by Larry
Hunter, a professor of physics at Amherst College, can top them in one
aspect: It is using the entire planet as a particle detector that could
open up new areas of physics.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/77375.html

Sony's PS4 Launch: Too Little Too Soon?
Sony unveiled its PlayStation 4 video game system this week -- sort of.
It didn't display the console itself or reveal its physical dimensions
and form factor. It also left unanswered a raft of questions about its
capabilities. How compatible -- or incompatible -- will the PS4 be with
Sony's current-generation PlayStation 3 system, for example, which was
launched in November of 2006?
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/77380.html

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