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Tech News Flash: Wednesday -- November 6, 2013

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Insecurity and the Internet of Things, Part 2: Dangers Lurk
NSA-Bashing Brazil Claims It Spied Better
iQi Mobile Wireless Charging for iPhone Is a Cool Convenience
How to Back Up Data on Your Android Smartphone
RagTag Army Fights to Rescue America in New Call of Duty
Kepler's Search for Life: Cosmic Haystack Just Got a Lot Bigger

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Podcast
When Film Distribution Fails, Piracy Wins (22:24)
Last month, researchers at George Mason University's Mercatus Center
launched a website, PiracyData.org, to determine whether or not there
are legal alternatives for viewing the world's most pirated movies. The
researchers will quantify the validity -- or invalidity -- of copyright
holders' claims that pirates are thieving material that is indeed
available elsewhere.
http://www.technewsworld.com/shared/audio/tnw-vranicar-2013-11-02.mp3

Today's Story Highlights

Insecurity and the Internet of Things, Part 2: Dangers Lurk
In early September, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's first action
involving security and the Internet of Things came to fruition. The FTC
came to a settlement with Trendnet, which makes Internet-connected video
cameras, over the firm's lax security practices. The settlement was over
intrusions that occurred in January 2012, when hackers posted live feeds
from about 700 Trendnet cameras online.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79359.html

NSA-Bashing Brazil Claims It Spied Better
Few if any countries have been more outspoken, incredulous and chest-
thumping over U.S. spying revelations than Brazil. Last summer, after
Edward Snowden's leaks had made the rounds, Brazilian lawmakers proposed
a law that would require e-businesses to store data in Brazil -- and
only Brazil. Then, after it was revealed that the U.S. had spied on
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, Rousseff canceled a state visit to
the U.S.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79364.html

iQi Mobile Wireless Charging for iPhone Is a Cool Convenience
iQi Mobile, created by Fonesalesman, aims to bring wireless charging to
iPhones. Thinner than a credit card, it uses a flexible ribbon and a
tiny Lightning connector to get power into an iPhone's battery. It's
designed to be placed flat against the back of an iPhone 5, 5s, or 5c
and folded around to meet the Lightning port on the bottom of the phone.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79361.html

How to Back Up Data on Your Android Smartphone
We all back up our PCs, right? Okay, well, we should back up our PCs,
right? Well, smartphones and tablets have become so ubiquitous that we
need to back them up now too. It's time. Important photos, videos,
contacts and music are now strewn across small, easy-to-lose, easy-to-
break, highly pilferable devices. Fail to back up this stuff at your
peril.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79358.html

RagTag Army Fights to Rescue America in New Call of Duty
Activision on Tuesday released Call of Duty: Ghosts for the Sony
PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii U and PC. The game will
be released later this month for the upcoming PlayStation 4 and Xbox
One. Ghosts is the latest arrival in the popular first-person franchise,
which has generated billions of dollars in sales and has been an annual
hit for the company.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79355.html

Kepler's Search for Life: Cosmic Haystack Just Got a Lot Bigger
Around a fifth of the Sun-like stars in the Milky Way are orbited by
Earth-sized planets capable of sustaining life, suggests a study of data
obtained by NASA's Kepler and the Keck Observatory. Those planets, up to
twice Earth's size, are orbiting their stars in the so-called habitable
zone -- that is, the range of orbits that would permit liquid water to
exist on the surface.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79352.html

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