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Tech News Flash: Monday -- July 22, 2013

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Beating Apple 101
Linus, Sarah and the Linux Civil Code
Briefly Transforms Images of Your Life Into an Ecstatic Blur
Apple Taps Locationary to Get Maps in the Right Place
The Moon May Soon Become a Stargazer

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Podcast
How the US-French Connection Became a Digital Divide (20:11)
Earlier this week, reports surfaced that the United States had thwarted
France's plans to propose new international tax regulations targeting
digital companies like Google and Amazon. Indeed, this is not the first
time U.S. tech companies have rubbed France the wrong way. This podcast
examines France's philosophy toward tech giants and discusses whether or
not France's annoyance with U.S. tech companies has anything to do with
the fact that they are, well, from the U.S.
http://www.technewsworld.com/shared/audio/tnw-vranicar-2013-07-21.mp3

Today's Story Highlights

Beating Apple 101
This could just as easily be "Beating Microsoft 101," or "Beating ARM
101" -- basically how to beat any vendor that is dominant in a
particular market. There is a way to beat a dominant vendor, but it's
almost never by chasing that vendor from behind. Apple didn't beat
Microsoft by tying to build a better PC, and neither Microsoft nor Sun
ever beat IBM by building a better mainframe.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/78527.html

Linus, Sarah and the Linux Civil Code
Anyone who has ever spent five minutes in the Linux blogosphere is
probably already well-aware of Linux creator Linus Torvalds' propensity
for speaking his mind in the plainest of terms. It was just slightly
more than a year ago, after all, that he dropped an "F-bomb" on Nvidia,
though that's by no means been the only example over the years.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/78536.html

Briefly Transforms Images of Your Life Into an Ecstatic Blur
Before now, it never even occurred to me to try to show 500 photos in
under a minute -- or thousands of photos in just a few minutes. Briefly
lets you do that. How? By quickly and easily converting gobs of photos
into a "still motion video." Oh, and the per-photo slide duration is
fast. Really fast. Sub-second fast. The feeling was all amped-up
anticipation, but then boom, it was over.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/78528.html

Apple Taps Locationary to Get Maps in the Right Place
After suffering considerable backlash for the mapping technology it
included in iOS 6, Apple has now brought in some expert help.
Specifically, it has acquired Locationary, a startup that takes a
crowdsourcing approach to map data. Locationary's Saturn technology uses
Big Data to fill in the blanks in maps. In this case, the Big Data in
question is provided by users.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/78532.html

The Moon May Soon Become a Stargazer
The International Lunar Observatory Association and Moon Express have
definitively announced the first mission to the Moon's south pole,
tentatively scheduled for 2016. It will involve delivering the
International Lunar Observatory to Malapert Mountain, a roughly 3-mile-
high rise on the surface of the Malapert lunar crater, to conduct
astronomical observations and communications with Earth.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/78526.html

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