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	BART strike provides stark contrast to tech's non-union world The strike by San Francisco Bay Area transit workers this week is a clear and naked display of union power, something that's probably completely alien to tech professionals. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Mobile Application Monitoring Breeds Business Possibilities Mobile applications are radically altering the way businesses operate and how they interact with their employees and customers. Ensuring performance of these mobile apps is critical, yet performance is difficult to monitor. Read Now! In this Issue From Morse code to Marimba: The noisy history of technology alerts IE10 pushes past predecessor to take second place among Microsoft's browsers Most Americans don't want wearable tech like iWatch, Google Glass Bolivian President's plane diverted over suspicion Snowden on board Pluto's moons named Styx and Kerberos, despite vote for Vulcan US police go high tech to tackle Fourth of July celebratory gunfire State AGs say Google profits from harmful YouTube videos Malware steals Litecoins, Bitcoin's younger sibling FCC approves Google's white spaces database Software vendor Trend Micro to sell home photo storage device Ubisoft warns of account database breach after website attack Google doesn't plan to change its privacy policy for Glass Darlene Storm: Brute-force cyberattacks against critical infrastructure, energy industry, intensify Richi Jennings: Motorola Moto X phone teased, independently of Google WHITE PAPER: EasyVista Domtar Case Study Domtar, the largest integrated manufacturer and marketer of uncoated free sheet paper in North America, centralized IT worldwide with EasyVista. Learn More From Morse code to Marimba: The noisy history of technology alerts Since we invented communications devices, we've had to come up with ways they can let us know we should pay attention to them. Based on what we see in the world today, maybe they do too good a job. Read More IE10 pushes past predecessor to take second place among Microsoft's browsers Internet Explorer 10 (IE10) jumped into second place among Microsoft's browsers last month, pushing past IE9 through an enforced upgrade. Read More Most Americans don't want wearable tech like iWatch, Google Glass Apple's anticipated iWatch and Google Glass have provoked plenty of headlines, but a recent poll shows that a majority of well-heeled Americans with college degrees wouldn't consider buying or wearing such devices. Read More Bolivian President's plane diverted over suspicion Snowden on board A plane carrying Bolivian President Evo Morales was reportedly forced into making an unscheduled stop in Austria after France and Portugal denied the plane passage over their airspace on the belief that document leaker Edward Snowden was on board, reports say. Read More Pluto's moons named Styx and Kerberos, despite vote for Vulcan The International Astronomical Union vetoed a public vote to name one of Pluto's two most recently discovered moons Vulcan and named the moons Styx and Kerberos. Read More US police go high tech to tackle Fourth of July celebratory gunfire Police in some U.S. cities will have a high-tech advantage this July 4 in their battle to deter and detect those who celebrate the country's birthday by firing bullets into the air. Read More State AGs say Google profits from harmful YouTube videos Google is benefiting in terms of advertisement revenue from YouTube videos that depict and even promote dangerous or illegal activities, two state attorneys general in the U.S. have stated in a letter to the company. Read More WHITE PAPER: 8x8 eGuide: 8 Reasons Why you Need Hosted VoIP In this eGuide, see how Hosted VoIP can give your business a competitive edge while saving you money. See the top 8 reasons why you need it now. Read Now. Malware steals Litecoins, Bitcoin's younger sibling A simple piece of malicious software is circulating that steals Litecoins, a virtual currency based on the Bitcoin system. Read More FCC approves Google's white spaces database The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has approved for public use a Google database that shows so-called spectrum white spaces available for mobile broadband devices. Read More Software vendor Trend Micro to sell home photo storage device Japan-based security software vendor Trend Micro is planning a rare foray into hardware, with a home storage device for managing photos from multiple cameras and smartphones. Read More Ubisoft warns of account database breach after website attack Game maker Ubisoft said on Tuesday an account database was breached due to unauthorized access of one of its websites, revealing users' personal information. Read More Google doesn't plan to change its privacy policy for Glass Google Glass may be a new and innovative product with the potential to change the world, but one thing that won't change because of Glass is the search giant's unified privacy policy. Read More Darlene Storm: Brute-force cyberattacks against critical infrastructure, energy industry, intensify DHS's Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT) warned of increasing brute-force cyberattacks against critical infrastructure, especially the energy sector such as gas companies across the Midwest and Plains. Some critical infrastructure systems are still using default passwords from the manufacturers. Both ICS-CERT and the FDA also warned of an 'uptick' in cyberattacks remotely exploiting medical devices. Read More Richi Jennings: Motorola Moto X phone teased, independently of Google Let's hope that Moto X phone is waterproof. Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) subsidiary Motorola Mobility is excited. It wants you to know that its new Android smartphone release date will be "soon" (whatever that means). And that you can "design it yourself" (whatever that means). And that it'll be "made in the USA" (whatever that means). 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