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• 29 October 2013

• How-Tos: How to connect printer to iPad or iPhone

  We explain how to print from an iPhone or an iPad using AirPrint, and via third-party printer apps.

• News: Hadoop is not enough for 'big data', says Facebook analytics chief

  The Hadoop programming framework may be synonymous with the "big data" movement but it's not the only tool companies need to derive insights from massive stores of unstructured information, according to Facebook analytics chief Ken Rudin.

• News: Smartphone growth still racing ahead at record pace

  Smartphone shipments grew by 9% in the third quarter, a record for a single quarter, which continues a record-setting trend, research firm IDC said Tuesday.

• News: Google's putting the finishing touches on a Google Now smartwatch, says WSJ

  Lucky technophiles who get in on the next production round of Google Glass may soon be able to pick up a Googley wristwatch to go with it. A new report says Google is very close to producing its own Android-based smartwatch, following Samsung's roll out of the Galaxy Gear earlier in October. And unlike Samsung's multipurpose wrist rider, Google's watch will reportedly center around delivering Google Now updates.

• News: Grab these ghost-hunting PC tools when paranormal activity is at its peak

  Paranormal activity has met its match in the PC: Not a Gregory-Peck-like Exorcist, but a ghost-hunting Scooby-Doo and his teen sidekicks. The following programs claim to detect visitors from the Great Beyond, or even organize your next ghost hunt for you.

• News: Intellinote brings social note-taking to businesses

  Evernote is popular with business people for good reason. Whatever you want to remember--whether it's travel itineraries, photos of receipts for tax deduction or expense report purposes, or articles you clip while surfing the Web--it's helpful to have a central repository for your notes that you can access with whatever device you have in hand. Evernote isn't particularly collaborative, however, and sometimes your work notes involve other people.

• News: Reports: Google close to manufacturing a smartwatch

  Google could be a few months away from mass production of a smartwatch, a move that would put it in competition with vendors Pebble Technology, Sony and Samsung Electronics, according to media reports. Apple is widely expected to enter the fray soon as well.

• News: Juniper unveils new fabric switch, architecture

  Juniper Networks this week unveiled a new top-of-rack data center access switch, as well as a new fabric architecture that features that switch along with the company's MX edge router and SRX security platforms.

• How-Tos: How to watch the NBA anywhere, on any device

  While the TV and couch will probably always be the preferred method of watching pro hoops, the NBA is finally starting to make moves to accomodate fans' poly-gadget, on-demand lifestyles.

• News: Happy birthday, Internet! Here are your lamest lifetime moments

  It all began on October 29, 1969, when a host computer at UCLA sent a few packets of data to another host computer at Stanford. The plan was for Leonard Kleinrock, who oversaw the ARPANet lab at UCLA, to send a message containing the word "log" to his colleagues at Stanford, who would then respond with the word "in."

• News: Microsoft may turn to Windows Defender for unprotected PCs

  Microsoft may eventually automatically turn on Windows Defender for PCs that are left-- deliberately or not--in an unprotected state, executives said Monday afternoon.

• News: Scramble to fix Healthcare.gov site heightens security risks

  The ongoing scramble to fix glitches affecting the troubled Healthcare.gov website could heighten security risks and introduce fresh vulnerabilities into an already fragile system.

• News: Motorola's Project Ara aims to create a customizable mobile platform

  Motorola is developing a free, open hardware platform for creating highly modular smartphones.

• News: Apple iOS apps subject to man-in-the-middle attacks

  Many Apple iOS applications are vulnerable to a man-in-the-middle attack that can result in permanent manipulation by the attacker, according to start-up Skycure, which released its research findings on this today during the RSA Europe conference.

• News: Start-up unveils alert system for malware

  Start-up Cylance unveils its first product today, software called CylanceV that determines what is a malware threat against Windows-based machines by using an analysis technique it refers to as "machine learning algorithms."

• News: Subscription model has benefits besides reduced costs: Zuora

  Benefits with the "pay for the hour" SaaS model goes beyond cost saving for customers, according to Zuora CEO, Tien Tzuo.

• How-Tos: 10 Mobile Marketing Tips for Small Businesses

  Consumers are increasingly using their mobile devices to connect to businesses of all shapes and sizes. From optimizing your website to capturing holiday sales on mobile devices, these tips will help improve your mobile marketing strategy.

• News: Optus to sell LG G2 next week

  The LG G2 will go on sale through Optus in Australia from next week, it was announced today.

• News: Nokia sold 8.8 million Lumia smartphones in Q3

  Nokia once again sold a record number of Lumia smartphones during the third quarter, helping the company narrow its net loss.

• How-Tos: Have I been blocked in iOS 7

  Have I been blocked in iOS 7? Here's how to tell if someone has blocked your number on their iOS 7 iPhone.

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