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Tech News Flash: Friday -- March 22, 2013

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SimCity Is More Magical Than Mundane
Holy Spirit, Batman! Superhero Story on Vatican Website Not a Hack
Microsoft Pulls Back the Curtain on Law Enforcement Requests for Data
A Slightly Improved iPhone May Not Mute Apple's Critics
Pie Control Pro Is a GUI Delight
Schmidt: One Google OS to Rule Them All Not Happening Soon
Yontoo Trojan Unleashes Adware Assault on Mac Browsers

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China's Great Big Holey 'Twitter' Net (18:51)
It is supposed to be the social media-powered enabler of free speech in
China. However, Sina Weibo's reputation is under a microscope following
a new study showing more than half of user accounts surveyed were empty,
and there weren't many postings of original content. In a country with
so much repression, though, maybe a few voices being heard is better
than silence.
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Today's Story Highlights

SimCity Is More Magical Than Mundane
The latest version of the long-running SimCity was a long time coming,
and when it finally arrived, server issues kept many gamers from getting
to the good stuff. It's been nearly a decade since the release of
SimCity 4 , and now the fifth version -- titled simply SimCity -- is
offering gamers the chance to once again build the city of their dreams.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/77565.html

Holy Spirit, Batman! Superhero Story on Vatican Website Not a Hack
No, this isn't the Catholic Church's way of appealing to comic book
fans. On Thursday, the website of the Vatican communications office and
Vatican Twitter account ran stories on Batman. While some initially
suspected hacking, Vatican officials are instead saying that there was
an "internal system failure" caused by a non-native English speaker --
and apparent Batman enthusiast -- who posted the story.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/77605.html

Microsoft Pulls Back the Curtain on Law Enforcement Requests for Data
Microsoft on Thursday released its first transparency report, detailing
what information was sought from the company last year by governments
and law enforcement agencies around the world -- and what information
Microsoft gave up to those authorities. The 2012 Law Enforcement
Requests Report covers all the company's major online services.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/77602.html

A Slightly Improved iPhone May Not Mute Apple's Critics
Although the iPhone 5 is less than a year old, speculation is already
rampant about the next version of Apple's iconic handset. That guessing
game was fueled Thursday by a report that suggested the next iPhone
won't break any new ground in features or design.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/77603.html

Pie Control Pro Is a GUI Delight
The early-90s Windows 3.11 operating system offered a graphical user
interface that was a breakthrough for me. It was, in fact, my first GUI.
I'd been using command-line, error-prone MS-DOS for two or three years
before that, and it was a delight to suddenly be able to maximize
screens, switch programs, and point around with a mouse, after living
with the syntactically regimented MS-DOS.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/77597.html

Schmidt: One Google OS to Rule Them All Not Happening Soon
Google will keep its Chrome and Android operating systems separate, but
company executive chairman Eric Schmidt said this week that
the two will have more features in common. Schmidt's comments at a
conference in India came a week after Google reassigned Android head
honcho Andy Rubin and gave his duties to Chrome OS boss Sundar Pichai.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/77599.html

Yontoo Trojan Unleashes Adware Assault on Mac Browsers
New malware is making the rounds with Mac users in its sights: Yontoo.1
can download and install an adware browser plug-in to an infected
system. Adware for Mac OS X has been increasing since the beginning of
this year, according to Doctor Web, the antivirus company that
identified Yontoo.1, but so far it is the most prominent of them all.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/77601.html

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