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• 18 June 2013

• News: Steve Jobs' draft email plays pivotal role in antitrust case

  An email composed, but never sent, by former Apple CEO Steve Jobs may prove instrumental in the Justice Department's case that Apple, along with the five largest book publishers, colluded to fix prices for electronic books.

• News: Tablet downsizing trend to quicken in second half of 2013

  The shift toward smaller tablets will accelerate in the second half of the year when a slew of tablet makers, including Apple, introduce new models with screens 8-in. or smaller, said Richard Shim, an analyst with DisplaySearch.

• News: NASA needs help hunting down killer asteroids

  NASA wants to find asteroids that could threaten Earth and figure out what to do about them. They want your help doing it.

• Opinion: Solar-powered smartphone charging stations land in New York City

  Last summer, Brooklyn design studio Pensa decided to test out a public solar-powered charging station for mobile devices in the studio's home borough. The idea immediately took off and what started as a trial project in Dumbo, Brooklyn's Pearl Street Triangle in 2012 has become a citywide effort in 2013. On Tuesday, Solar power technology firm Goal Zero, Pensa, and AT&T unveiled the first of many solar-powered charging stations that will keep New Yorkers powered up this summer between work and a night out on the town.

• News: Expanded '2-person rule' could help plug NSA leaks

  The National Security Agency is creating new processes aimed at making it harder for systems administrators to misuse privileged access to agency systems, NSA officials told the U.S. House Intelligence Committee Tuesday.

• News: Nvidia updates programming tools to boost mobile device speed

  Nvidia wants to accelerate mobile-device performance with underlying tools that enable CPUs and graphics processors to work in a coherent manner.

• News: States tackling Google on human trafficking, drugs

  The attorneys general of several states are turning up the heat on Google, concerned that the search engine giant makes it easier for criminals to sell illegal drugs online, engage in human trafficking and peddle pirated intellectual property.

• News: US states' attorneys general to take aim at Internet 'safe harbor' law

  Frustrated by their difficulty prosecuting cases involving online content that is illegal or damaging to individuals, a group of state attorneys general are taking action.

• News: Startup beams your text msgs to extraterrestrials

  For 25 cents, would you send a short message deep into outer space in the hopes that an alien race might receive it?

• Opinion: Autoloop is a digital-analog synthesizer with a robot drummer that rocks out

  Last weekend, Brooklyn was home to its own rendition of SXSW called the Northside Festival, an event filled with music, tech startups, and most importantly, the Red Bull Creation completion. This year's Red Bull Creation challenge was called Signal to Noise: Makers had only 72 hours to build themselves a DIY instrument from scratch.

• News: Microsoft slashes Surface RT prices by 60% for schools

  Microsoft today confirmed that it has heavily discounted the Surface RT tablet to universities and K-12 schools, cutting the price of the entry-level model by 60%.

• News: Power to the people: AT&T sets up free mobile charging stations in NYC

  AT&T today announced a pilot project of solar-powered charging stations across all five of New York City's boroughs where the public can charge phones, tablets and other devices for free.

• News: Caterham F1 IT chief drives Grand Prix end user support

  Head of group IT at the Caterham F1 team Bill Peters bellieves a connected mobile workforce will help the struggling Formula 1 team improve their fortunes on the track.

• News: Canonical taps international cell carriers for mobile advice

  Canonical announced Tuesday that it has formed an advisory group of international wireless carriers – including big names like Deutsche Telekom and Korea Telecom, but excluding all of the big four U.S. networks.

• News: Forrester: PaaS makes developers happy

  Although the platform as a service (PaaS) market is smaller than both IaaS and SaaS segments of the cloud computing industry, research firm Forrester says this technology could be one of the most important cloud-based services for businesses moving forward.

• News: Think like an attacker -- not a consultant

  A provider doing an ICT security review should give the client what they need, not what they want, says security specialist Daniel Ayers.

• News: SMBs having problems with backup, recovery: study

  A recent study of small- and medium-sized businesses in the US and Europe revealed that many of them are facing challenges in implementing backup and recovery solutions that can help protect their businesses.

• News: Regional mobile roaming improves in Asia Pacific

  Regional mobile roaming is set to significantly improve in Asia Pacific as nations in the region have come together to meet the burgeoning demand for mobile broadband.

• News: South Korea and Hong Kong beat Singapore in smartphone penetration: Ericsson

  Last year, Singapore was the world's leading country in smartphone usage or penetration (74 percent), followed by Hong Kong, UAE and South Korea. This year, South Korea and Hong Kong have beaten Singapore in the tally: Singapore is No.4 in rank, after Norway at No.3.

• News: Google puts $7M into fighting child porn, abuse

  Google said it's spending $5 million to wipe images of child abuse off the Internet and another $2 million to create tools to find the images and eradicate them.

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