Who is Xiaomi? Meet China's hottest smartphone maker

Full Moto 360 details leaked by premature Best Buy listing Hackers steal data on 4.5 million US hospital patients ITworld Tonight August 18, 2014 Share this email Who is Xiaomi? Meet China's hottest smartphone maker The upstart Chinese company is making waves in the smartphone business. Here's a look at how it became successful, and what's in store for the international consumers who are its next target. READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. Full Moto 360 details leaked by premature Best Buy listing 2. Hackers steal data on 4.5 million US hospital patients 3. 10 changes Twitter needs to make right now to stop abuse 4. Baidu partners with U.N. to tackle e-waste in China 5. Facebook tests 'satire' tag, makes the Internet slightly less confusing (and less fun) 6. Patent trolls under attack, but not dead yet 7. The easiest way to create a GIF from a YouTube video 8. Kill switches might let the government brick your smartphone 9. ICYMI: Bill Gates blows away other techies with his ALS Ice Bucket Challenge video Full Moto 360 details leaked by premature Best Buy listing Was that a Moto 360 price tag we just saw or is Best Buy messing with us? You be the judge. READ MORE Hackers steal data on 4.5 million US hospital patients A major U.S. hospital operator says hackers based in China broke into its computer systems and stole data on 4.5 million patients. READ MORE 10 changes Twitter needs to make right now to stop abuse Harassment is all too common on Twitter. We have a few ideas the network can use to become a safer space. READ MORE Baidu partners with U.N. to tackle e-waste in China Chinese search engine Baidu and the United Nations Development Program are hoping to streamline the recycling of e-waste in China with a new app that can help users easily sell their old electronics for cash. READ MORE Facebook tests 'satire' tag, makes the Internet slightly less confusing (and less fun) Facebook is experimenting with a new feature that may help you determine that the story you saw is, in fact, an attempt at humor. READ MORE Patent trolls under attack, but not dead yet The patent wars keep going and going and we keep paying and paying. READ MORE The easiest way to create a GIF from a YouTube video Turn any YouTube video into an animated GIF by adding "gif" to the URL. READ MORE Kill switches might let the government brick your smartphone In today's open source roundup: Kill switches might let the government brick your smartphone. Plus: A full review of KDE's Plasma 5, and is systemd evil? READ MORE ICYMI: Bill Gates blows away other techies with his ALS Ice Bucket Challenge video If you have to watch just one more ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, make it this one from Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates. He geeks out as only Bill Gates can do by drawing up and demonstrating quite the contraption. READ MORE BOOK GIVEAWAYS: We've got 5 copies of each of these new books to give away to some lucky ITworld readers. Enter now for your chance to win! The Official Ubuntu Book, 8th Ed. Essential Mobile Interaction Design DON'T MISS... Why many programmers don't bother joining the ACM Top 25 free tools for every Windows desktop 10 amazing (and bizarre) drone discoveries Just their type: 10 keyboards beloved by programmers 11 colorful characters seen at Comic-Con International 2014 Follow ITworld Share this email You are currently subscribed to itworld_today as garn14.tech@blogger.com. Unsubscribe from this newsletter | Manage your subscriptions | Subscribe | Privacy Policy Learn about INSIDER When accessing content promoted in this email, you are providing consent for your information to be shared with the sponsors of the content. Please see our Privacy Policy for more information. If you are interested in advertising in this newsletter, please contact: sean_weglage@itworld.com Copyright (C) 2014 ITworld, 492 Old Connecticut Path, Framingham, MA 01701 ** Please do not reply to this message. To contact someone directly, send an e-mail to online@itworld.com. **