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Tech News Flash: Thursday -- November 7, 2013

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Headline Scan
Lowlives Once Again Congregating on Silk Road
How to Use Social Media Dashboards
Google's Leaked EU Proposal Goes Over Like Lead Balloon
Ubuntu's Saucy Salamander is a Slick but Spiritless Upgrade
Los Angeles, City of Fiber-Optic Lights?

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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

Lowlives Once Again Congregating on Silk Road
The notorious Silk Road website is back in business a month after
federal authorities seized it and arrested its alleged proprietor. The
FBI shut it down following a two-and-a-half year investigation, claiming
that it served as an underground marketplace for people to trade in
contraband materials including narcotics, weapons and false documents --
and even to arrange murders for hire.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79378.html

How to Use Social Media Dashboards
Social media are becoming an ever-increasing part of marketing. If
you've been finding one-user, consumer-oriented clients for Twitter and
Facebook cumbersome for your business, it may well be time to move over
to a social media management tool like Hootsuite. These kinds of tools
allow you to manage more than one social network, schedule posts like
messages and tweets, and more.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79373.html

Google's Leaked EU Proposal Goes Over Like Lead Balloon
Google's rivals are none too impressed with the company's most recent
round of proposals designed to appease antitrust concerns and end what
is now a 3-year-old case with the European Commission. Google's
previous stab at concessions was roundly rejected in April because the
changes did next to nothing to rectify Google's abuse of its dominant
market position, according to rival companies.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79377.html

Ubuntu's Saucy Salamander is a Slick but Spiritless Upgrade
Ubuntu's latest desktop OS release, Ubuntu 13.10, is more of a plain-
Jane release than its "Saucy Salamander" nickname might otherwise
suggest. This release comes six months after the Raring Ringtail
version, which was also a bit of a yawner in terms of offering any must-
have-the-upgrade enthusiasm. Like the last release, Ubuntu 13.10 also
does not deliver much "wow."
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79365.html

Los Angeles, City of Fiber-Optic Lights?
Los Angeles reportedly is moving forward with a plan to establish a
citywide high-speed fiber network. Beginning next month, the Los Angeles
Information Technology Agency will issue a request for proposals to
bring access to a high-speed fiber network to every residence, business
and government entity in the city limits. The city wants to provide free
broadband to every residence and business.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79356.html

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