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• 11 May 2013

• News: At Google I/O, expect Android, Chrome, and some privacy questions about Glass

  Google kicks off its I/O developer conference next Wednesday and if there's one thing that could steal the limelight from Android, Chrome and all the other Google projects, it's Glass.

• 10 May 2013

• News: Smartphones driving violent crime across US

  On Feb. 27th in the middle of the afternoon, a 16-year-old girl was walking through San Francisco's Mission district when she was ordered at gun point to hand over her cellphone. The robbery was one of 10 serious crimes in the city that day, and they all involved cellphones. Three were stolen at gun point, three at knife point and four through brute force.

• News: Can Verizon's Lumia 928 succeed where the Lumia 920 failed?

  There's a new Lumia town, and it's just like the old Lumia, only redder and crisper. Nokia and Verizon said Friday that the long-expected Lumia 928 Windows Phone be available on May 16.

• News: No touching! 10 Bluetooth solutions for hands-free talking

  A lot of people have negative feelings about Bluetooth headsets. Theyemit radiation! They're super lame! They make it somewhat difficult to tell if that guy walking next to you is crazy homeless or just talking to his agent on a tiny device tucked into his ear!

• News: ESPN's rumored offer to subsidize mobile data is a slippery, treacherous slope

  It sounds like a great idea in theory: Instead of racking up a huge wireless data bill on streaming video, let the media companies cover the cost of data instead.

• News: Facebook Home hits HTC One and (unofficially) the Galaxy S4

  Facebook Home's ratings may be lukewarm, but the social network interface is spreading to more smartphones. Home for Android is now available on the flagship HTC One and unofficially it works with Samsung's Galaxy S4.

• News: Desktop chips zip past 4GHz; next stop 5GHz?

  Mobility has all but eclipsed speed and anything else as the capability garnering the most attention in desktop processors.

• News: AT&T offers iPhone 5 through pre-paid Aio Wireless

  AT&T launched a new wireless subsidiary called Aio Wireless on Thursday that offers phones like the iPhone 5 with no annual contract.

• News: iPhone 6 rumor rollup for the week ending May 10

  An unstable hot air mass troubled the iOSphere this week, the sky blackened by contradictory rumors, sometimes in the same blog post.

• News: Nokia Lumia 928 gets unveiled

  Nokia's not so secret Lumia 928 has been unveiled with specs, release date and price.

• News: Nokia's Lumia 928 to sell via Verizon on May 16

  Nokia has announced the long-rumored Lumia 928, which will be an exclusive to Verizon Wireless when it goes on sale next week.

• News: Canonical staff to get working Ubuntu phones by late May

  Canonical on Wednesday announced its next moves on the way to market with a Linux-powered phone.

• News: Flexible-display smartphones just a novelty'.... for now

  Although multiple manufacturers are expected to release smartphones with flexible display screens by the end of this year, the technology will be little more than a novelty until about 2015, one analyst says.

• News: Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom, Galaxy S4 mini and Galaxy S4 Ativ release dates

  Samsung is expected to announce three new smartphones by the end of May, the Galaxy S4 Zoom, Galaxy S4 mini and Galaxy S4 Ativ.

• News: Bill would put mobile app vendors on the hook for privacy

  The mobile industry's efforts to convince lawmakers that self-regulation alone is the best way to address growing concerns over privacy-invading mobile applications appears to be running into some headwind.

• News: YouTube rolls out paid subscription channels

  Not everything on YouTube is free any more. The video-sharing website will now charge users a monthly fee to view certain content offered through subscription channels, the Google-owned site announced Thursday.

• News: Go digital for last-second gifts this Mother's Day

  I hate to break this to you, but Mother's Day is just a few short days away. And unless you enjoy greater control over the properties of space and time than the rest of us mere mortals, the window of opportunity to find, buy, and ship mom a present is slamming shut.

• 09 May 2013

• News: YouTube rolls out paid subscription channels

  Not everything on YouTube is free any more. The video-sharing website will now charge users a monthly fee to view certain content offered through subscription channels, the Google-owned site announced Thursday.

• News: IDC: Cloud, mobility exposing limitations of existing networks

  The combination of highly virtualized environments inside enterprise networks, along with an explosion of mobile traffic, are exposing the limitations of existing networks, and driving the need for a new era of dynamic and scalable networks of the future, IDC researchers said in a panel discussion at Interop this week.

• News: PayPal Says It's Time to Ditch Passwords and PINs

  PayPal CISO Michael Barrett took the keynote stage at Interop today to announce the impending death of passwords and their replacement with more robust authentication protocols based on an open standard. Apple may lead the way with its next iPhone.

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