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• 14 June 2013

• News: Digital surveillance programs in other countries trigger controversy

  Last week's disclosure of massive data collection efforts at the U.S. National Security Agency has generated heated debate in the U.S. and across the world about privacy. The NSA is collecting metadata on U.S. residents' phone calls made on Verizon's network and Internet records from nine Web companies, including Facebook, Google and Microsoft, according to reports in the Guardian and The Washington Post newspapers. But intelligence agencies in other countries have similar goals, according to reports, and in some cases there are few details about what data these governments are collecting.

• News: As once-mighty Symbian enters hospice, will it be missed?

  Shipments of new Symbian smartphones from Nokia are rapidly dying, less than three years after the last time it topped the list of the world's most-used mobile platforms.

• News: Facebook to announce mysterious new product next week

  Facebook appears to have a new product up its sleeve that it will unveil next week at its headquarters in Menlo Park, California.

• News: Facebook sets new product reveal for June 20

  Facebook is gearing up for a product announcement on June 20, but isn't saying what it has planned.

• News: Oxford English Dictionary breaks own rule, lists 'tweet'

  Tweeting has become so popular that the Oxford English Dictionary broke one of its own rules to add 'tweet' to its lexicon.

• News: 'Stop Watching Us' Coalition Aims to Stop NSA's PRISM Surveillance Program

  Reddit, Mozilla, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and others from across the political spectrum join forces to flood members of Congress with letters seeking revisions to the Patriot Act and reforms that will rein in the NSA's surveillance of Internet and phone records via a program known as PRISM.

• News: Google Glass could get a look at the enterprise

  While the curious are looking to get their hands on a pair of Google's Glass, companies also may be looking to weave the computerized eyeglasses into their businesses.

• News: Nextdoor, your neighborhood social network, buddies up with New York City

  For better or worse, life is nothing like the Andy Griffith Show. Unless you live in Mayberry, chances are that you barely even know your neighbors, let alone borrow cups of sugar from them.

• News: Game maker writes a love letter to classic strategy games with Massive Chalice

  Brad Muir is a Double Fine man with a mission: Build the best tactical strategy game possible with money and feedback from the people who want to play it.

• News: Office Mobile for iPhone: What you need to know

  A week that began with a flurry of Worldwide Developers Conference announcements from Apple is ending with its once-fiercest rival making a little news of its own. Microsoft on Friday announced a mobile version of its Office productivity suite for the iPhone. The software giant's move answers a longstanding demand for a version of the world's most widely used office software for one of the world's most popular mobile platforms--though there are a couple of big caveats that could limit just how widely this iOS-friendly version of Office gets adopted.

• News: Apple to increase Bluetooth integration in iOS 7, OS X Mavericks

  Bluetooth enhancements are among the big changes to be found in the next versions of iOS and OS X, according to a Bluetooth trade group. Unveiled at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference, iOS 7 and OS X 10.9 Mavericks will, among other things, allow Bluetooth-connected devices to use Notification Center. The changes are part of an "unprecedented" effort to more fully integrate the wireless technology into the Apple ecosystem and accessories such as game controllers, keyboards, and wearable health monitors.

• News: What is the new Mac Pro 2013 made of?

  One of the most often asked questions about the Mac Pro is what is the case made from? Find out here.

• News: NYC wants its old mechanical-lever voting machines back

  The New York City Board of Elections is hoping to replace state-of-the art optical scanning voting machines with decades-old mechanical-lever machines for the city's mayoral primary in September.

• News: iPhone 6 rumor rollup for the week ending June 14

  Think of Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference this week as a giant tea cup, drained to the dregs of loose leaf tea and the entire iOSphere leaning-in to read the soggy remains and figure out what the heck is happening with iPhone 6.

• News: Best Buy gets the best of Microsoft in Windows Store deal

  While Microsoft gained space in 600 Best Buy stores yesterday, the electronics retailer got the better end of the deal, an analyst said.

• News: Does encryption really shield you from government's prying eyes?

  If you're thinking about encrypting email in light of revelations about U.S. government spying, you may be wasting your time.

• News: CEO paychecks: Winners and losers

  The U.S. tech industry has fared well amid the fiscal doom and gloom, and its economic fortitude is reflected in the jumbo pay packages of some tech CEOs.

• News: Startup uses new technology to out-Akamai Akamai

  Instart Logic is taking on the likes of Akamai and Amazon Cloudfront with a Web app-streaming service it says can cut in half the time it takes to load pages and applications to wireless devices.

• News: Office Mobile for iPhone: What's really at stake for Microsoft and Apple?

  Few people actually open and edit documents on their smartphones, let alone actually create them there. From a short-term perspective, then, placing a version of Microsoft Office on Apple's iPhone shouldn't dramatically change the world.

• News: IBM remolds DB2 10.5 as a Hadoop killer

  In the new update of DB2, released Friday, IBM has added a set of acceleration technologies, collectively code-named BLU, that promise to make the venerable database management system (DBMS) better suited for running large in-memory data analysis jobs.

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