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		<title>Panel: Apple Uses Firms Outside U.S. to Avoid Taxes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 21:21:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Associated Press</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(WASHINGTON) — Apple Inc. employs a group of affiliate companies located outside the United States to avoid paying billions of dollars in U.S. income taxes, a Senate investigation has found. The world&#8217;s most valuable company is holding overseas some $102 billion of its $145 billion in cash, and an Irish subsidiary that earned $22 billion in 2011 paid only $10 million in taxes, according to the report issued Monday by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. The strategies Apple uses are legal, and many other multinational corporations use similar tax techniques to avoid paying U.S. income taxes on profits they reap overseas. But Apple uses a unique twist, the report found. The company&#8217;s tactics raise questions about loopholes in the U.S. tax code, lawmakers say. MORE: Apple vs. Google vs. Microsoft: One Platform Will Not Rule Them All<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163133&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fun Fact: There Was Once a Yahoo DVD Player</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 21:14:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, will you look this? Isn&#8217;t that a sight for sore eyes? Forget Yahoo the web portal, forget Yahoo the e-mail service, forget Yahoo the company that just bought Tumblr: Back in 2005, there was a Yahoo DVD player. As CNET&#8217;s John Falcone tweets: Remember when Yahoo made a DVD player? reviews.cnet.com/dvd-players/ya…&#8212; John P. Falcone (@falconejp) May 20, 2013 Yes, John Falcone. Yes, I do. But it&#8217;s been&#8230; oh, eight years since I&#8217;ve thought about it. Man, what a gem. Now, this was no ordinary DVD player. Well, it was sort of ordinary in its functionality, but it sure didn&#8217;t look like ordinary DVD players. Yahoo&#8217;s YDP-530 had two superfluous analog meters flanking the disc tray; one measured audio volume, its needle bouncing back and forth as dialogue ebbed and flowed. The other supposedly measured the bit rate of the video being played as it made its way from the DVD player to your TV set. To say that CNET&#8217;s 2005 review of the YDP-530 is interesting doesn&#8217;t do it justice. This quip, for instance, is marvelous: Facing pressure from Google on the search, maps, and e-mail front, Yahoo has decided to strike back with…a DVD player? While the $100 YDP-530 bears the Yahoo brand, it&#8217;s actually manufactured by Diamond Electronics, a company that, as its press release states, &#8220;supplied the DVD player that Forbes Magazine (September 2003) referenced as Wal-Mart de Mexico&#8217;s single largest dollar volume product in the entire country.&#8221; As for those cool analog meters? [W]hile they look pretty nifty and even light up, we can&#8217;t really imagine any practical purpose for them. Unfortunately for the geek who wants to know how many bits that last chase sequence averaged, the bit-rate meter is wildly inaccurate; it kind of just bounces up and down, even on still images. Standard OSD meters are much better for actually showing video bit rates. Do yourself a favor and read the entire review. It&#8217;s not long. The video embedded at the top of it shows off those funky meters, too. Yahoo YDP-530<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163127&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Senate Panel Says Apple Uses Firms Outside the U.S. to Avoid Taxes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 21:10:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / Marcy Gordon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; Apple Inc. employs a group of affiliate companies located outside the United States to avoid paying billions of dollars in U.S. income taxes, a Senate investigation has found. The world&#8217;s most valuable company is holding overseas some $102 billion of its $145 billion in cash, and an Irish subsidiary that earned $22 billion in 2011 paid only $10 million in taxes, according to the report issued Monday by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. The strategies Apple uses are legal, and many other multinational corporations use similar tax techniques to avoid paying U.S. income taxes on profits they reap overseas. But Apple uses a unique twist, the report found. The company&#8217;s tactics raise questions about loopholes in the U.S. tax code, lawmakers say. The spotlight on Apple&#8217;s tax strategy comes at a time of fevered debate in Washington over whether and how to raise revenues to help reduce the federal deficit. Many Democrats complain that the government is missing out on collecting billions because companies are stashing profits abroad and avoiding taxes. Republicans want to cut the corporate tax rate of 35 percent and ease the tax burden on money that U.S. companies make abroad. They say the move would encourage companies to invest at home. Apple CEO Tim Cook, the company&#8217;s chief financial officer and its tax chief are scheduled to testify and explain the company&#8217;s tax strategy at a hearing by the subcommittee Tuesday. Apple spokesmen didn&#8217;t immediately respond to a request for comment Monday on the subcommittee report. The company has made clear that given current U.S. tax rates, it has no intention of repatriating its overseas profits to the U.S. The subcommittee also has examined the tax strategies of Microsoft Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co. and other multinational companies, finding that they too have avoided billions in U.S. taxes by shifting profits offshore and exploiting weak, ambiguous sections of the tax code. Microsoft has used &#8220;aggressive&#8221; transactions to shift assets to subsidiaries in Puerto Rico, Ireland and Singapore, in part to avoid taxes. HP has<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163134&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Empowering Our Digital Sixth Sense with Google Glass, Augmented Reality and Wearable Health Gadgets</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 11:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Bajarin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all know about our five senses: sight, smell, taste, touch and hearing. Many people believe we also have a kinesthetic sense, which is what some folks believe is a sort of spiritual sense &#8212; for instance, when they perceive another person is in a room with them even though the other person is behind them and hasn&#8217;t made a sound. It&#8217;s as though they sensed them unconsciously. Personally, I seem to have another type of sense that I don&#8217;t know what to call, but it relates to anticipating things just before they happen; a lot of my experiences with this have been unsettling at times. These extra senses are difficult to qualify and in many cases even hard to explain, but we are about to enter an era where a digital sixth sense will become a reality. Not only can this sixth sense be qualified, but it can be repeated as needed. One of the more basic examples of a digital sixth sense comes from the many new wearable health monitors popping up these days: products like the Nike Fuel, Jawbone UP and Fitbit, to name just a few. For the past eight months I have been wearing the Nike Fuel on my wrist, a Fitbit clipped to my belt and a watch that can give me a pulse readout on demand. I have to admit that monitoring my health in any way was foreign to me until I had a triple bypass last June. Let&#8217;s just say that this was a serious wake-up call that got me more interested in my health on a lot of levels. Part of my recovery process included walking, simple weightlifting and various movements to get my heart health back and to help my body recover from this very invasive surgery. Luckily, these digital health monitoring tools had just come onto the market and my wife and son made sure I had at least two of them to help monitor myself and motivate me to move. In every sense of the word, these became<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163030&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Four Location-Enabled Apps to Try This Summer</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 09:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Courtney Subramanian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s face it: location-enabled apps are not going anywhere. With more than 770 million GPS-enabled smartphones worldwide, a new crop of geo-location apps are announced every month. Regardless of user hesitation and drawn out privacy battles, which includes a recently proposed &#8220;Apps Act&#8220; to make privacy policies more transparent, a continued surge in mobile traffic means that location-enabled apps are bound to be a permanent fixture on smartphones. So if you have yet to embrace geo-location, here are four free apps to help ease into the inevitable. Ribbon While living in the Fiji Islands, Ribbon founder and California native Tony Alfaro resorted to using an excel spreadsheet to keep track of friends and family when he made his annual trips to the U.S. So Alfaro hatched a plan to coordinate his future trips with travel plans of friends and professionals by combining a calendar with Facebook&#8216;s social graph. The &#8220;Ribbon feed&#8221; allows users to see future trips, invite others along as well as see friends&#8217; trips displayed with pins using a &#8220;TimeMap.&#8221; The app also organizes trips by city, eliminating privacy hesitations about revealing exact locations. Rather than perusing Facebook to see which friends are living where, you can use Ribbon to organize and plan meet-ups with old college roommates, colleagues and friends. The app also allows you to manage privacy settings to allow certain people to see your trips, naturally filtering out those residual Facebook friends you haven&#8217;t gotten around to unfriending. Though it&#8217;s only available for iOS at the moment, an Android release is expected this month. Link: Ribbon [iTunes] Tinder Tinder, a dating app that rolls off the tongue and easily doubles as a verb, has propagated the idea of meeting potential hook-ups or dates through an anonymous game of &#8220;hot or not.&#8221; It&#8217;s a simple concept of matching geo-located users by pressing a green heart to like or a red X to move on. Once two users are matched, the app introduces the users in a private chatroom to carry on a conversation. There are no profiles involved,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162975&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Is Tumblr?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 00:56:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greetings, old-timer. In light of the recent Yahoo-buys-Tumblr news, my overlords at TIME have asked me to put together a guide of sorts explaining what Tumblr is. A Tumblr for Dummies, if you will. (Note: there is an actual Tumblr for Dummies book already. I did not write it.) If you&#8217;re a regular reader here at TIME Tech, you can skip this post entirely, as you already know what Tumblr is. For the rest of you, make sure your Depend elastic-leg undergarments are cinched really, really tightly, because what you&#8217;re about to read can only be fairly categorized as a technoerotic thriller. Let&#8217;s begin. What is Tumblr? Before there was social networking, there were blogs. And in an effort to muddle things, at one point in time the concept of blogging without trying too hard became known as microblogging. Tumblr is part microblogging, part social networking. If you want to write a several-thousand-word opus about something, Tumblr isn&#8217;t the place to do it. If you want to share a moving picture of a little kid acting like a detective as quickly and easily as possible, Tumblr is a good place to do it. That&#8217;s the microblogging aspect to Tumblr. Then, other Tumblr users who like moving pictures of little kids acting like detectives can follow you on Tumblr so they&#8217;re sure to see every moving little-kid-acting-like-a-detective picture you post. That&#8217;s the social networking aspect to Tumblr. For very little information about what Tumblr does, visit the main page of Tumblr.com. For more information, visit Tumblr&#8217;s About page, which says: Tumblr lets you effortlessly share anything. Post text, photos, quotes, links, music and videos from your browser, phone, desktop, e-mail or wherever you happen to be. You can customize everything, from colors to your theme&#8217;s HTML. Why is the E in Tumblr missing? Tumblr Yes, it&#8217;s very unprofessional. For a website to try to convince people that it&#8217;s cool, sometimes it will drop a random vowel from its name. You&#8217;ll notice the Tumblr logo also has a cool period at the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163048&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yahoo-Tumblr: It&#8217;s Not What You Buy, It&#8217;s What You Do With It</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 19:25:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Yahoo first approached us eons ago, we were pretty skeptical. But after meeting the people on the Yahoo team and getting a picture of where they were going, we got religion. Maybe that&#8217;s too strong. We realized we were all eating at the same church potluck. The things that were important to us were: being open, building innovative stuff and kicking ass. Were these people our people? Yes. See the stuff Yahoo&#8217;s announced recently [including, of course, this]? They&#8217;re evolving in really interesting ways — and from our look inside, we know that there&#8217;s a lot more coming. Yahoo won&#8217;t be the Yahoo you&#8217;ve come to take for granted. Nope, that isn&#8217;t David Karp, CEO of Tumblr, talking about Yahoo&#8217;s $1.1 billion acquisition of the microblogging service he co-founded. Kara Swisher of All Things D is reporting that the deal is done and that her sources say it&#8217;ll be announced on Monday. We&#8217;ll hear from Karp then, presumably. Flickr in 2004, before it was a Yahoo property But the sound bite above is from March 2005, and the start-up founder who&#8217;s explaining a Yahoo buyout is Caterina Fake, the co-founder of Flickr. At the time, the photo-sharing start-up was as cool as any site on the Web; just as buying Tumblr is allegedly a gambit to make Yahoo cool again, buying Flickr was supposed to help reboot Yahoo, a company that was feeling a tad shopworn even eight years ago. The Flickr acquisition came at a time when Yahoo was snapping up interesting small companies by the carload — among the other ones it purchased in 2004–05 were Dialpad, del.icio.us, Konfabulator, Musicmatch, Stata Labs and Upcoming.org. All came with cool reputations, innovative services and smart people. Some of the acquisitions instantly stopped mattering under Yahoo ownership; others did O.K., at least for a while. (Flickr continued to boom at first, but eventually became staid and backward-looking; it was only in December that it released a really first-rate iPhone app.) None of them had a transformative effect on Yahoo, which is<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163033&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Report: Yahoo Board Approves Billion-Dollar Tumblr Deal</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2013/05/17/purple-power-yahoo-reportedly-in-talks-to-buy-tumblr-for-up-to-1-billion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 17:31:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Gustin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Internet icon Yahoo is in talks to buy New York-based social blogging platform Tumblr for as much as $1 billion, according to multiple reports. via Purple Power: Yahoo! Reportedly in Talks to Buy Tumblr for Up to $1 Billion &#124; TIME.com.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162973&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook&#8217;s Stock Price Is the Least Important Thing About Facebook</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/18/facebooks-stock-price-the-least-important-thing-about-facebook/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 12:34:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is fond of telling his cohorts that their journey is only one percent finished. Even if you quibble about the exact percentage, he&#8217;s right that his company&#8217;s vision is boundless and that the service, in its current incarnation, is nowhere near done exploring its potential. The man is nothing if not both ambitious and patient. Wall Street, unlike Zuck, is famously bad at taking the long view of things. When Facebook went public, a year ago today, shares were snapped up by speculators hoping to make an insta-windfall from a pop in its stock price. At the end of the first day of trading &#8212; bedeviled by NASDAQ technical gremlins &#8212; the stock flatlined rather than popping. In the year since, as my colleague Sam Gustin reports, it&#8217;s bumped around without ever returning to the initial offering price of $38. Some people are still brooding about it. If you&#8217;ve lost money on Facebook stock, I feel for ya. Really. But the fact that it didn&#8217;t turn out to be a convenient way to turn a quick buck doesn&#8217;t have much bearing on the company&#8217;s importance to the world. It doesn&#8217;t even say much about the its long-term prospects to do well by investors. Plenty of tech companies have had happier IPOs than Facebook did, but a happy IPO has never been a reliable sign of a bright future. Consider Netscape, the browser pioneer which went public in 1995, in what may remain the most iconic tech-company IPO of them all. In 2003. Jim Cramer, now the host of CNBC&#8217;s Mad Money, wrote a wistful remembrance of it for TIME: We didn&#8217;t know what it was. We had never opened a browser. We had never gone on the Net. But we had heard that the deal would be hot, so we at Cramer &#38; Co., my $250 million hedge fund, dutifully put in our share of stock in the initial public offering of Netscape. We got several thousand shares. And we, along with most everyone who got some,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163011&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google Play Game Services Is Just What Android Needs, but Who Will Use It?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/17/google-play-game-services-is-just-what-android-needs-but-who-will-use-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 20:43:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Out of all the things Google announced at its I/O developer conference this week, Google Play Game Services is the one new product I started using right away. Think of it as the Google equivalent of Xbox Live. For games that support it, the service lets you earn achievements, find and host multiplayer games and compete in online leaderboards. It also supports cloud saves, so you can continue your game across multiple devices&#8211;not just on Android, but on iOS and web-based games as well. As someone who owns multiple Android and iOS devices, that last part is crucial. In the past, I&#8217;ve avoided playing lengthier games on my phones, because I didn&#8217;t want to bother re-doing everything on my tablets. So far, I&#8217;ve tried Google Play Game services on my HTC One and my Nexus 7. Cloud saving works as well as it should. Some games, such as Beach Buggy Blitz, will detect an online save and ask to replace your local device&#8217;s data. Others, such as Riptide GP, replace your local progress automatically. When you unlock an achievement, a slick notification bar pops in, providing a little addictive kick. I also tried a few rounds of Riptide 2 multiplayer at a Google I/O demo booth. This is also pretty straightforward. You can either join a quick match, and get paired with anyone in the world, or invite specific friends to play with you. Google Play Game Services supports both real-time and asynchronous multiplayer. So far, I&#8217;m satisfied with the service. If game developers do nothing but support cloud saves, it&#8217;ll be a useful addition to the Android platform. I wonder, though, how many normal users will take advantage of the service, for several reasons. Jared Newman / TIME.com First of all, the name &#8220;Google Play Game Services&#8221; is targeted at developers. To players, the service is branded as &#8220;Google+,&#8221; the name of Google&#8217;s own social network. Games that support the service present a Google+ logo on their title screens, but it&#8217;s not obvious what this logo does. The average<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162997&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If You Expect Jaw-Dropping Things from Nintendo Direct, You&#8217;re Missing the Point</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/17/if-you-expect-jaw-dropping-things-from-nintendo-direct-youre-missing-the-point/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 18:48:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I caught my first Nintendo Direct last year, just before E3. It was somewhat&#8230;unexpected. Instead of crazy editing, hipster quips and frenetic sizzle reels, Nintendo president and CEO Satoru Iwata stood beneath a picture with the Japanese characters for a phrase that he explained meant &#8220;creating something unique,&#8221; addressing viewers in English and speaking slowly with long pauses at the end of sentences. You might even have called the tone struck as he introduced and elaborated on the Wii U something approaching &#8220;dignified.&#8221; This was Nintendo working to define itself as definitively unlike its rowdier rivals. The latest of these briefs aired this morning, a full 30 minutes packed with information about several upcoming games, some of it stuff we already knew, some of it stuff we didn&#8217;t, but none of it significant in the &#8220;Look, a new Super Mario Galaxy game!&#8221; sense. We heard a little about some new Sega games (a lovely-looking Mario and Sonic Winter Olympics game that made me think Diddy Kong Racing meets SSX; plus a new Sonic-series action/adventure/platformer dubbed Sonic: Lost World), were walked through snippets of upcoming or recently released games including Mario &#38; Donkey Kong: Minis on the Move and Animal Crossing: New Leaf, finally got a release date for The Wonderful 101 (Sep. 15), learned about a Luigi-based rethink of New Super Mario Bros. U that existing owners of the latter can download on June 20 for $20 (or, if you don&#8217;t own New Super Mario Bros. U, buy standalone on Aug. 25 for $30) and had a fairly detailed look at Pikmin 3, Shigeru Miyamoto&#8217;s forthcoming real-time strategy opus. And yet I wonder how many people watching today&#8217;s show walked away disappointed, like the dopamine-starved blogosphere after some press-concocted Apple fantasy part fails to materialize during a WWDC keynote. Judged as such, you&#8217;d probably find most of these Nintendo Direct videos boring. You&#8217;ve tuned in hoping to spy something jaw-dropping instead of merely explanatory (or, you know, insightful), something like footage from a new Zelda game, Shigeru Miyamoto decapitating a Master Chief mannequin with his mock Link-sword or some wildly unexpected add-on<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162964&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Syrian Electronic Army Compromises Financial Times Blogs and Twitter Feeds</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/17/syrian-electronic-army-compromises-financial-times-blogs-and-twitter-feeds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 17:23:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / Raphael Satter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[LONDON (AP) &#8212; A clutch of blogs and Twitter accounts maintained by the Financial Times were hacked Friday, the latest in a series of cyberattacks claimed by the Syrian Electronic Army, a pro-government group which often attacks media organizations it sees as sympathetic to the country&#8217;s rebels. A few of the FT&#8217;s dozens of Twitter feeds and blogs broadcast messages in support of Syrian President Bashar Assad and attacking Syria&#8217;s opposition. One described the Syrian rebel group Jabhat al-Nusra as terrorists and linked to a graphic video of a hooded man shooting kneeling prisoners in the back of the head. &#8220;Syrian Electronic Army Was Here,&#8221; the group crowed on one of the FT&#8217;s Twitter feeds. One of the hackers said his group was behind the attack but declined to answer further questions. The group has apparently spent much of the past 24 hours trying to break into the FT&#8217;s system. One internal company memo distributed Thursday and seen by The Associated Press warned FT employees not to click on suspicious emails, while a second earlier Friday warned the FT was &#8220;facing a phishing attack.&#8221; Phishing describes the use of innocuous-looking emails or websites to trick users into giving up their passwords or other details. The Syrian Electronic Army has routinely used the tactic to take control of Twitter feeds of other media organizations. Recent targets have included the BBC, al-Jazeera, E! Online, and satirical newspaper The Onion. Last month the group claimed responsibility for hacking The AP&#8217;s Twitter feed.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162969&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google Opens Up About Glass Privacy, Zombification</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 17:15:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Until now, Google has stayed eerily quiet on the privacy implications of Google Glass, seemingly content to let the tech world debate the issue among themselves. But during a &#8220;fireside chat&#8221; about Glass at Google&#8217;s I/O conference, Google employees opened up. Their responses represent the company&#8217;s most thorough take yet on the privacy issues surrounding Google Glass. Google Glass, if you&#8217;re unaware, is a pair of mock spectacles with a mounted display, camera, microphone and touch panel. So far, Google has only sent out Glass to a couple thousand developers, along with a few members of the press. And over the last few weeks, there&#8217;s been a lot of discussion about whether society would be better or worse off with head-mounted displays and cameras. Steve Lee, the product director for Google Glass, offered a few responses to the criticisms so far: Google purposely mounted the display for Glass just above the eye, forcing users to look up at the screen. &#8220;Once you&#8217;re around someone with Glass, you&#8217;ll know they&#8217;re paying attention to you because they&#8217;re looking at you,&#8221; Lee said. Later in the session, Lee said the screen&#8217;s high placement makes it hard to look at for long periods of time, encouraging quick sessions instead. That was also by design. &#8220;We don&#8217;t want to create zombies staring up at their display for long periods of time,&#8221; Lee said. Regarding the potential for surreptitious recording, Lee said Glass purposely requires &#8220;social queues&#8221;&#8211;that is, tapping the side of the device, or speaking&#8211;to snap a photo or start taking video. Engineering director Charles Mendis added that &#8220;you kind of notice&#8221; when someone&#8217;s staring at you. &#8220;If you walk into the restroom, even without Glass, and someone&#8217;s just looking at you, I don&#8217;t know about you but I&#8217;d get out of there,&#8221; Mendis said. Lee pointed out that when you use Glass, the display lights up, so other people will always know when Glass is active. Google won&#8217;t allow Glass apps that don&#8217;t light up the screen while the device is in use. Granted, a lot<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162942&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>EA Isn&#8217;t Making Wii U Games: Do You Care?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/17/ea-isnt-making-wii-u-games-do-you-care/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 13:45:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;re reading that correctly: Electronic Arts, one of the world&#8217;s largest gaming companies with billions in annual revenue, just confirmed that it&#8217;s not designing games for Nintendo&#8217;s Wii U. Speaking to Kotaku, EA spokesperson Jeff Brown said &#8220;We have no games in development for the Wii U currently.&#8221; I assume Brown&#8217;s talking about this now to soften the reaction when EA showcases its product lineup at E3 next month. And yes, Brown&#8217;s hedging with that word, &#8220;currently,&#8221; but as we know, original games can take years to bring off. Even ports require significant effort, especially if you have to figure out how to rejigger a game to take advantage of an idiosyncratic peripheral like the Wii U GamePad. If EA truly has nothing in the pipeline for Wii U, you&#8217;re looking at a year, probably more, for something &#8212; casual, core, family, whatever &#8212; to appear, and that&#8217;s if EA or one of its subsidiaries signed on to something today. Remember this? Kotaku did. It&#8217;s Ex-EA CEO John Riccitiello, speaking at E3 2011 about the Wii U. What Nintendo&#8217;s new console delivers speaks directly to the players of EA Sports and EA Games. Nintendo&#8217;s new console will produce brilliant high-definition graphics and new gameplay opportunities. We look forward to seeing great EA content on this new platform. How times have changed. While EA has released Wii U games, specifically ports of FIFA 13, Madden 13, Mass Effect 3 and Need for Speed Most Wanted, Brown told Kotaku that those early games were simply EA wrapping up its E3 2011 obligations. (EA confirmed earlier this month that Madden 14 would skip the Wii U this year.) From a business standpoint, whoever this reflects poorly on (at least one friend&#8217;s reaction was &#8220;These guys are jerks, man&#8221;), it&#8217;s bad news for Nintendo. Whatever you think of EA&#8217;s games or the company&#8217;s business practices overall, it owns some of the industry&#8217;s biggest ticket franchises, including Madden, NHL, FIFA, Battlefield, Mass Effect, Need for Speed, Dragon Age, The Sims and most recently, the exclusive rights to develop future<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162952&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Twitter Data Maps Show How Interconnected Our World Really Is</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 12:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Techlicious / Fox Van Allen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twitter moves so fast that if you blink, you’re bound to miss something. Each minute, an estimated 40,000 tweets are sent off blindly into world on the social network. Have you ever wondered where these tiny messages are coming from, or where they’re going? Some scientists at the University of Illinois did, leading them to create some stunning maps that appeared in the peer-reviewed journal First Monday to show just how interconnected our world really is. To create the maps, researchers analyzed the 46.7 million tweets posted between October 23 and November 30, 2012, looking specifically at those with a tagged geographic location. They also noted what languages were used, and to where Twitter replies were being sent. First Monday Two maps really stick out in particular. The first is a map, shown above, that charts “geographic tweet density” in the United States, with each individual tweet appearing as a tiny pinprick of light. The most tweet-dense areas, predictably, include New York, Los Angeles, Denver, and Boston – anywhere younger people are densely packed. But there are a couple of other interesting areas that stick out, like the bright smear of white that follows Interstate 85, the high-tech corridor of the South. First Monday Another map shows peoples’ interactions with each other, connecting those who post a tweet with the folks who retweet them. Scientists found that the people who reply to your tweets live, on average, about 1,118 miles from you. Americans make most of their international Twitter connections with Europe (especially England), though there are some interesting connections with Indonesia and South America as well. This article was written by Fox Van Allen and originally appeared on Techlicious. More from Techlicious: Parent&#8217;s Guide to Social Networking Music Discovery App Twitter #music Launches The Value of Your Facebook Friends &#160;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162908&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Apple Says App Store Hit 50 Billion Downloads</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 11:43:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Associated Press</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) &#8212; Apple says its customers have downloaded more than 50 billon applications from its App Store since its launch in 2008. Apple Inc. said Thursday that the 50 billionth download was a game called &#8220;Say the Same Thing&#8221; by Space Inch. The App Store had 500 apps when it first opened. It now has more than 850,000 individual apps for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. The store hit the 10 billion downloads mark in early 2011 and 25 billion in March 2012. The 50 billion milestone does not include updates or re-downloads. Apps range from newspapers and magazines to games, business tools and travel applications.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162948&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to Unfriend on Facebook Without Offending</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/17/how-to-unfriend-on-facebook-without-offending/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 09:45:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Techlicious / Christina DesMarais</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a Facebook friend who constantly is firing off preachy religious or contentious political posts that are clogging up my social stream with stuff I don’t care to read. At the same time, the guy is the dad of one of my son’s best friends and I have to see him on the sidelines of school sporting events, so the last thing I want to do is offend him. If this scenario sounds familiar, take heart. There are ways to rid your Facebook News Feed of annoying posts. First, you can unfriend the person—Facebook will not notify the person you have done so. Of course, if the person starts to wonder why he or she is no longer seeing your posts and searches for you, your former connection will find your profile page and see an “Add friend” box on the top of it, a dead giveaway pointing toward what you&#8217;ve done. Facebook As an alternative, you can tell Facebook to show you fewer posts from a particular person. To do it, click on the little drop-down arrow on the top of something he or she has posted, then choose “Hide.” Facebook then tells you it has hidden the story from your News Feed and gives you the option to “Change what updates you get from (so and so)” or “Organize who you see in news feed.” If you click on the former, you can uncheck—and tell Facebook you don’t want to receive certain kinds of information about this person—things like life events, status updates, photos, games, comments and likes, music and videos and other activity, essentially everything a person is doing on Facebook. There’s also an option to simply unfollow a person. Facebook If you opt to organize your News Feed, you can put people on an acquaintances list so that their posts show up less frequently there as well as get the ability to share things with friends but not acquaintances. Again, nobody will know you’ve put them on this list. But what about the people who you really care about—the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162912&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google&#8217;s New Hangouts App Has an AT&amp;T Caveat</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/16/googles-new-hangouts-app-has-an-att-caveat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 21:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Google announced its new Hangouts app on Wednesday, it didn&#8217;t mention an exception for AT&#38;T customers: the app&#8217;s free video calling won&#8217;t work on AT&#38;T&#8217;s network. To use Hangout video chat on an AT&#38;T Android phone, you must be connected to Wi-Fi. Apparently, AT&#38;T is falling back on the same excuse it used to restrict the use of Facetime video chat on the iPhone last year. AT&#38;T believes that if a video chat app is pre-installed on a phone, the carrier can block it without running afoul of net neutrality rules. (The FCC says wireless carriers aren&#8217;t allowed to block apps that compete with the carriers&#8217; own voice offerings.) For that reason, Hangout video chat is not barred from AT&#38;T&#8217;s network on the iPhone. On Android, Google+ video chat works fine, because the Google+ app is not pre-installed. On my HTC One, I was also able to receive a pair of chat invitations from my editor Doug Aamoth&#8211;one from Google Chat on his desktop, and one from Google+ Hangouts. In a statement to the press, AT&#38;T reiterated its earlier claim that it can block video chat on pre-installed apps. But it also suggested that the ball is in Google&#8217;s court to make the app work over cellular: For video chat apps that come pre-loaded on devices, we offer all OS and device makers the ability for those apps to work over cellular for our customers who are on Mobile Share, Tiered and soon Unlimited plan customers who have LTE devices. It&#8217;s up to each OS and device makers to enable their systems to allow pre-loaded video chat apps to work over cellular for our customers on those plans. Unfortunately, this statement doesn&#8217;t offer much clarity. I&#8217;m not sure, for instance, if Google can enable Hangout video chat and have it work across all Android devices, or if phone makers like Samsung and HTC will also have to get involved. For that matter, what does &#8220;enable their systems&#8221; even mean, and why wouldn&#8217;t an OS or device maker just enable video<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162932&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Maybe the Point of Chromebooks Isn&#8217;t Chromebooks</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/16/maybe-the-point-of-chromebooks-isnt-chromebooks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 20:40:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here at Google&#8217;s I/O conference, it&#8217;s safe to say that many attendees entered yesterday morning&#8217;s keynote expecting that it would involve the announcement of at least one or two major new gadgets. It didn&#8217;t, unless you count the pure-Android version of Samsung&#8217;s Galaxy S 4 that Google will begin selling on June 26. And the one gadget which was doled out to attendees, the Chromebook Pixel, wasn&#8217;t an I/O debutante: it was announced back in February. Some of the folks I chatted with after the keynote were disappointed by its lack of gadgetry. I wasn&#8217;t. As my colleague Jared Newman explains, this year&#8217;s keynote was mostly devoted to building out existing Google services and software &#8212; search, Android, Google Maps, Google+ and more &#8212; in ways which aim to make them more useful and appealing. The stuff the company has in store looks meaty and ambitious; add it all up, and it matters more than a new tablet or phone would have. And even though Google didn&#8217;t announce any new Chromebooks, I think I left the keynote with a better understanding of why Google thinks Chromebooks matter. Almost four years after Google unveiled Chrome OS, it&#8217;s had, at most, a modest impact. Chromebooks are hits on Amazon.com and have gained at least some traction at brick-and-mortar stores. There&#8217;s a market for these things, but they&#8217;re not going to drum conventional PCs out of business anytime soon. I wonder if Google might be perfectly fine with the possibility that Chromebooks will wind up occupying a niche rather than changing the world. When the company announced at the keynote that conference attendees were getting Chromebook Pixels, it said that the idea was to encourage development of great apps. But there really aren&#8217;t such things as Chromebook apps &#8212; that&#8217;s the whole point of a Chromebook, which offers a browser as its user interface and the Internet as its back end. If a developer uses a Chromebook to create something cool, it&#8217;ll be a web app &#8212; one which will also work in<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162924&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nvidia Shield Not Priced to Move? No Problem for Nvidia</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 19:15:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At a price of $350, Nvidia doesn&#8217;t expect to sell huge volumes of Nvidia Shield, its Android-based handheld gaming device due out in June. The company has a different goal with its first move into consumer electronics devices: It wants to show hardware makers and gamers what&#8217;s possible with its Tegra 4 processor. &#8220;We wanted to have a reference device that shows Tegra 4 in the best light it can possibly be shown,&#8221; Bill Rehbock, Nvidia&#8217;s general manager of mobile games, said in an interview. Shield looks like an oversized console game controller, but with a 5-inch touch screen that unfolds from the top. The device runs Android 4.2, and can hook up to a TV via HDMI for big-screen gaming. It also has a streaming feature&#8211;in beta at launch&#8211;that promises to let users play modern PC games over a local network connection. I had a chance to speak with Rehbock and Richard Seis, Nvidia&#8217;s developer support manager, during Google I/O 2013, where Nvidia was showing off the nearly-finished version of Shield. Rehbock explained that Shield is a way to show off high-end Android games with real game controls, running on the company&#8217;s Tegra 4 processor. Although Nvidia&#8217;s been doing mobile processors for a while, and the idea of using a physical controller for Android games isn&#8217;t new, Nvidia didn&#8217;t manage to turn heads with Tegra until it built its own device. &#8220;Until we had Shield to go along with Tegra, we didn&#8217;t get nearly the attention that we had at CES,&#8221; Rehbock said, referring to the annual consumer electronics show in January where &#8220;Project Shield&#8221; was revealed. I had suspected that selling large quantities wasn&#8217;t the primary objective for Nvidia Shield. Back in January, I theorized that Shield would succeed even if it didn&#8217;t sell well, because it would help legitimize Android gaming, in which Nvidia has a vested interest. As gaming on phones and tablets grows, chip makers need Android to take market share away from the iPhone and iPad, which use custom chips made by Apple. Jared Newman / TIME.com<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162886&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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