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Tech News Flash: Tuesday -- July 23, 2013

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Google Play Misses Dangerous Apps at Border Control
Facebook's Latest Mobile Strategy: Dumbphones
Eternal Storms: A Little Flotsam and Jetsam With the Cool Stuff
Leaping Lizards! The Leap Motion Controller Has Landed
Security Breach Knocks Apple for an Infinite Loop
Germany Caught Nuzzling With NSA
SIM Card Flaw Could Wreak Havoc on Millions of Phones

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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

Google Play Misses Dangerous Apps at Border Control
Despite yeoman efforts by Google to close a critical hole in its Android
mobile operating system that allows any app to be turned into a
malicious Trojan, programs are still appearing in the company's Google
Play store with the flaw. A number of apps containing the so-called
MasterKey vulnerability were discovered by cybersecurity firm
Bitdefender last week.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/78553.html

Facebook's Latest Mobile Strategy: Dumbphones
In a nod to developing nations like India and Brazil, Facebook will
unveil plans for "Facebook for Every Phone," which is designed to make
Facebook accessible on technologically humble feature phones. Facebook,
which already boasts more than 1.1 billion users, now wants to target
the 100 million people worldwide who access the site on feature phones.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/78552.html

Eternal Storms: A Little Flotsam and Jetsam With the Cool Stuff
Independent software makers are the backbone of any platform's
ecosystem. They've made Apple's app stores exciting places. "There's an
app for that," as Will Sonnett used to say, isn't brag -- just fact. One
independent code warrior who recently caught our eye is Matthias
Gansrigler, the principal of Eternal Storms Software. Gansrigler's apps
for the Mac are narrowly focused but inventive.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/78540.html

Leaping Lizards! The Leap Motion Controller Has Landed
A day after announcing that it has begun shipping to early backers, Leap
Motion on Monday officially launched its widely anticipated gesture
control system for the PC and Mac. The system, which has been compared
to the Microsoft Xbox Kinect and Nintendo Wii, had been delayed for
several months but will finally arrive in stores next week.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/78539.html

Security Breach Knocks Apple for an Infinite Loop
Three days after Apple took down its developer website claiming it was
performing unscheduled maintenance, the company emailed devs admitting
the site had been hacked and some data may have been stolen. It also
posted a message on the site stating that some developers' names,
mailing addresses and email addresses may have been exposed, but that
sensitive information could not be accessed.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/78543.html

Germany Caught Nuzzling With NSA
It turns out that Germany, Europe's most outspoken critic in the wake of
U.S. snooping revelations, has itself used a National Security Agency
spying program and collaborated with the NSA on surveillance. Takes one
to know one. Germany's foreign intelligence service, called the "BND,"
and its domestic intelligence agency, or "BfV," have reportedly
supported the NSA and its counterterrorism efforts.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/78542.html

SIM Card Flaw Could Wreak Havoc on Millions of Phones
About 25 percent of mobile phones currently in use may be vulnerable
because they rely on 1970s-era Data Encryption Standard security,
according to Security Research Labs. Out of 1,000 SIM cards it tested
over two years, 250 used DES instead of more advanced approaches such as
triple DES or the Advanced Encryption Standard, the lab said. About 7
billion SIM cards are used worldwide.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/78541.html

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