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Tech News Flash: Monday -- June 3, 2013

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Headline Scan
Hack Reports Fly Ahead of China, US Presidents' Meeting
Could Windows 8.1 Be the New XP?
US, China to Hold Regular Cybersecurity Chats
Canonical Declares Victory on Ubuntu's No. 1 Bug
Make Your Kids Stars With a Little Disney Movie Magic
Razer Unwraps Sharp New Blade
Google Goes All-American With Moto X
How to Get Music Onto Your Smartphone
Runtastic Turns Workouts Into Enjoyable Data-Crunching Exercises
Win 8.1 Puts a Stop to the No-Start Blues

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Today's Story Highlights

Hack Reports Fly Ahead of China, US Presidents' Meeting
Numerous new accusations have kept cyberespionage firmly in the media
spotlight in the run-up to President Barack Obama's meeting this week
with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Within 24 hours, stories broke about
Chinese hackers pinching the designs for some of Uncle Sam's critical
weapons systems and nicking the architectural plans for the $630 million
headquarters for Australia's top spy agency.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/78180.html

Could Windows 8.1 Be the New XP?
Windows has been through four major changes. Huge numbers of folks
really didn't like them -- each one was painful. Windows almost had five
major changes, but Microsoft Bob was so badly received Microsoft killed
it. Windows 8 may seem like the most painful, but since I've lived
through all of these I can say from experience that it isn't even close.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/78173.html

US, China to Hold Regular Cybersecurity Chats
Increasingly testy rhetoric and increasingly legitimate concerns have
prompted the United States and China to announce that they will hold
regular high-level talks on standards of cyberbehavior. The announcement
precedes a meeting between President Obama and Chinese president Xi
Jinping scheduled for Friday.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/78179.html

Canonical Declares Victory on Ubuntu's No. 1 Bug
Declaring a thing may not make it so, but it certainly gets tongues
wagging. Case in point: Canonical's announcement last week that Ubuntu's
longstanding Bug No. 1 -- which read simply, "Microsoft has a majority
market share" -- has now been closed. "We have both competition and good
representation for open source in personal computing," said Canonical
founder Mark Shuttleworth.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/78177.html

Make Your Kids Stars With a Little Disney Movie Magic
If you're a parent, there's a great chance that your iPhone will house a
whole series of photos and videos featuring your kids following a road
trip, a visit to the beach, a hike or a soccer game. Enter Story, a free
app from Disney for the iPhone. Story accesses the photos and video
stored on your iPhone and -- using the metadata -- combines them into a
story. There are some limited editing options, but not enough to
overwhelm.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/78174.html

Razer Unwraps Sharp New Blade
Razer this week unveiled the Blade and Blade Pro, two thin and light
notebook computers designed to handle the rigors of video gaming. The
14-inch Blade is actually a slimmed down version of the refreshed 17.3-
inch Blade Pro, and it's perhaps the more interesting of the two, due to
its diminutive size. It's a mere 0.66-inches thick and packs more power-
per-cubic-inch than any laptop available today, says its maker.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/78172.html

Google Goes All-American With Moto X
Google company Motorola has announced a new smartphone that will be
designed, engineered and assembled in the United States -- the Moto X.
It will be manufactured in a factory in Fort Worth, Texas. "There are
more than 130 million smartphones in use in the U.S., but not one of
them is made here. That changes with Moto X," said Motorola spokesperson
Danielle McNally.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/78165.html

How to Get Music Onto Your Smartphone
One of the advantages of carrying a smartphone is that it's an all-
arounder, and one of its killer features is that it can function as a
personal media player. It's functionality that an iPod or MP3 player
would have provided a few years ago -- and Sony Walkman before that. The
principal difference between a smartphone and a classic MP3 player is
that the smartphone now includes connectivity.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/78169.html

Runtastic Turns Workouts Into Enjoyable Data-Crunching Exercises
If you've used any of the free tracking apps -- like Google's My Tracks,
which records your path, speed, distance and elevation change while you
exercise and then maps the route, charts elevation and speed, and tots
it all up in a set of statistics -- you'll understand the concept behind
Runtastic Pro. Runtastic Pro additionally promises to help you reach
goals and track health improvements.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/78162.html

Win 8.1 Puts a Stop to the No-Start Blues
Seven months and countless complaints after Microsoft launched Windows
8, it has announced that Windows 8.1, aka "Blue," will restore the much-
missed Start button. Microsoft also will deliver a host of new features
and functionality in Blue, and make it easier for people to navigate the
operating system using a mouse and a keyboard.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/78161.html

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