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Audit shows Hillary Clinton's private emails broke federal rules

Hillary Clinton's email woes are far from over. Earlier this morning, the State Department's inspector general delivered a report to Congress stating the Democratic presidential candidate violated federal rules by using a private email server for official business during her tenure as secretary of state. "At a minimum, Secretary Clinton should have surrendered all emails dealing with Department business before leaving government service," the report reads. [Read more...]

'Pokémon Go' beta arrives on mobile devices

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Rumors are flying about new Xbox consoles and streaming devices

E3 kicks off on June 12th and Microsoft will be there in full-force, showing off the latest and greatest Xbox games and hardware. [Read more...]

You can play the new 'Legend of Zelda' early in New York City

You won't be left out of the E3 festivities just because you can't make it to Los Angeles for E3 Live. [Read more...]

Xiaomi's Mi Drone is pretty affordable for what it does

We knew it was coming, so it's not a total surprise. But, the very fact that Xiaomi -- best known for its phones -- is getting into the drone business is a bit of an eyebrow raiser. [Read more...]

Microsoft kills what's left of the old Nokia

Last week, Microsoft sold off what remained of Nokia's feature phone business while Windows Phone's market share slid below a single percent. [Read more...]

Mom behind most-watched Facebook Live video visits its HQ

It's only been a few months since Facebook opened up live video streaming to everyone, but with over a billion daily users the emergence of a massive hit was inevitable. [Read more...]

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E-Commerce Minute

E-Commerce Minute: Wednesday -- May 25, 2016

The E-Commerce Times -- E-Business Means Business
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Headline Scan
Oculus Riles Users Over Piracy Block That Fails Anyway
Yahoo Bids Could Seriously Underwhelm
New SF Store Showcases Apple's Trademark Creativity
Vendors Gain Congressional Support on IT Pricing
Deeper Connections
Hacker Hawks 2-Year-Old Cache of 117M LinkedIn User IDs

Today's Story Highlights

Oculus Riles Users Over Piracy Block That Fails Anyway

It took a hacker just a day to come up with a workaround for the
platform update Oculus released last week, which blocked users from
running the company's games on rival virtual reality systems. Version
1.4 of the Oculus App blocked a hack from LibreVR called "Revive" that
allowed users to play Oculus games on rival systems, including the HTC
Vive and Valve.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83544.html

Yahoo Bids Could Seriously Underwhelm

Bids for Yahoo's core assets were expected to come in at between $2
billion and $3 billion, far below prior estimates that it could fetch $4
billion to $8 billion at auction, according to a news report published
last week. Verizon, which remains the leading candidate for Yahoo's
assets, and other contenders met with CEO Marissa Mayer at the company's
Sunnyvale, California, headquarters
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83541.html

New SF Store Showcases Apple's Trademark Creativity

Apple last week opened a San Francisco flagship store in the city's tony
Union Square shopping district. The store has a 42-foot-tall sliding
glass door and a 50-foot tall green wall and is powered by 100 percent
renewable energy. "We have a deep commitment to the cities we work in
and are aware of the importance that architecture plays in the
community," Apple's Jonathan Ive said.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83540.html

Vendors Gain Congressional Support on IT Pricing

Selling information technology to the U.S. government is never easy, and
it's even harder when a vendor cannot highlight the qualitative
differences it believes separates its competencies from other providers
competing for the same work. Yet a major contracting tool federal
agencies use in seeking IT products and services tends to smother those
differences in skills and competencies.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83537.html

Deeper Connections

Salesforce held its Connections 2016 user event in Atlanta earlier this
month. About 7,000 people attended, but in the Georgia World Congress
Center and airplane hangar, attendance seemed smallish. Attendance might
have been held down by Gov. Nathan Deal's slow response to vetoing a
religious freedom law largely seen as discriminating against the LGBT
community.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83538.html

Hacker Hawks 2-Year-Old Cache of 117M LinkedIn User IDs

A hacker reportedly has offered to sell the account information of 117
million LinkedIn users, which was stolen in a 2012 hack. The data
includes users' email addresses and passwords.The hacker, who goes by
the handle "Peace," reportedly offered the data on The Real Deal -- a
site on the dark web -- for 5 bitcoins -- about $2,200. LeakedSource
last week announced it had more than 167 million stolen records.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83535.html

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ECT News Network Weekly Newsletter: Wednesday -- May 25, 2016

ECT News Network -- Where Business Meets Technology
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This Week's Top News Headlines From the E-Commerce Times

Oculus Riles Users Over Piracy Block That Fails Anyway
(Posted 25-May-16)
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83544.html

Yahoo Bids Could Seriously Underwhelm
(Posted 24-May-16)
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83541.html

New SF Store Showcases Apple's Trademark Creativity
(Posted 24-May-16)
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83540.html

Vendors Gain Congressional Support on IT Pricing
(Posted 23-May-16)
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83537.html

Hacker Hawks 2-Year-Old Cache of 117M LinkedIn User IDs
(Posted 23-May-16)
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83535.html

Google Challenges Right to Be Forgotten in French High Court
(Posted 20-May-16)
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83533.html

Nokia Stages Smartphone Comeback
(Posted 20-May-16)
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83529.html

China Subjects Tech Imports to Heavy Security Scrutiny
(Posted 19-May-16)
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83526.html

Tweets May Soon Breeze Past 140-Character Limit
(Posted 19-May-16)
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83522.html

This Week's Top News Headlines From TechNewsWorld

OnePlus Offers Free Headsets to Lure Crowd to VR Smartphone Launch
(Posted 25-May-16)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83545.html

Google's Abacus May Count Out Passwords
(Posted 24-May-16)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83543.html

Versatile iBot Wheelchair to Make a Comeback
(Posted 24-May-16)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83542.html

The Rise of Drone Racing, Part 1
(Posted 24-May-16)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83515.html

Microsoft Tightens Screws on Terrorists Posting Online
(Posted 23-May-16)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83539.html

Google's New Custom Chip May Not Live Up to the Hype
(Posted 23-May-16)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83531.html

Using the Scientific Method to Pick the Best US President
(Posted 23-May-16)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83521.html

Hyperloop Dreams Are Getting Real
(Posted 21-May-16)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83490.html

Gang Surrenders Key to TeslaCrypt Ransomware Kingdom
(Posted 20-May-16)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83534.html

Google Patents Tech to Limit Injuries in Vehicle-Pedestrian Accidents
(Posted 20-May-16)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83527.html

Gadget Ogling: Speedy Tortillas, Racing Robots, and Real-Time 3D
(Posted 20-May-16)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83532.html

Flaw Puts a Billion Wireless Mice at Risk
(Posted 20-May-16)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83528.html

Google Plots Home Invasion
(Posted 19-May-16)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83525.html

BitTorrent Live Aims to Iron Out Live-Streaming Kinks
(Posted 19-May-16)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83523.html

This Week's Top News Headlines From CRM Buyer

Deeper Connections
(Posted 23-May-16)
http://www.crmbuyer.com/story/83538.html

Selling Imagination in the IoT Era
(Posted 19-May-16)
http://www.crmbuyer.com/story/83524.html

This Week's Top News Headlines From LinuxInsider

Rebellin Linux Offers Best of Both Gnome Worlds
(Posted 24-May-16)
http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/83536.html

Apache Guru Behlendorf to Helm Hyperledger Project
(Posted 20-May-16)
http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/83530.html

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Tech News Flash

Tech News Flash: Wednesday -- May 25, 2016

TechNewsWorld -- All Tech - All The Time
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Headline Scan
OnePlus Offers Free Headsets to Lure Crowd to VR Smartphone Launch
Google's Abacus May Count Out Passwords
Versatile iBot Wheelchair to Make a Comeback
The Rise of Drone Racing, Part 1
Rebellin Linux Offers Best of Both Gnome Worlds
Microsoft Tightens Screws on Terrorists Posting Online
Google's New Custom Chip May Not Live Up to the Hype
Using the Scientific Method to Pick the Best US President

Today's Story Highlights

OnePlus Offers Free Headsets to Lure Crowd to VR Smartphone Launch

The 30,000 virtual reality headsets OnePlus announced it would give away
as part the unveiling of its OnePlus 3 smartphone were snapped up
Monday, the day they became available. OnePlus has set up a VR space
called "The Loop" in which it will unveil the OnePlus 3. The Loop can be
accessed only by users of the OnePlus Loop VR headsets, made by AntVR.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83545.html

Google's Abacus May Count Out Passwords

By the end of the year, Android devs will be able to use a trust API
from Google's Project Abacus in their apps, Google ATAP Director Dan
Kaufman suggested at last week's I/O conference. The API, which will run
in the background continually, is aimed at doing away with passwords. It
will use a smartphone's sensors to create a cumulative trust score that
will authenticate users.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83543.html

Versatile iBot Wheelchair to Make a Comeback

Toyota and DEKA Research and Development last week announced an
agreement that will revive development of the iBot, a wheelchair that
can climb stairs. The companies revealed their pact to develop mobility
solutions for the disabled community at the annual convention of the
Paralyzed Veterans of America. One of the first initiatives under the
agreement will be to resurrect the iBot.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83542.html

The Rise of Drone Racing, Part 1

Tearing through open spaces and timing each turn to burst out of them, a
seeming continuum of drones weaves through a set of obstacles lap after
lap, until the stutter of a pilot's joystick breaks the cadence of this
competitive concert and destroys the illusion. It's the drama --
anticipating and reacting to those human moments -- that has propelled
drone racing to the spotlight.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83515.html

Rebellin Linux Offers Best of Both Gnome Worlds

Rebellin Linux is a smart-looking, fast distro that is both lightweight
and secure. It is well worth checking out. The Rebellin line avoids the
pitfalls that befall many Debian GNU/Linux derivatives. It does not
maintain a warehouse full of desktop versions. It is neither a
minimalistic Linux line nor a distro stuffed with bloat from packages
typical users will never need.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83536.html

Microsoft Tightens Screws on Terrorists Posting Online

Microsoft last week announced plans to crack down on terrorist content,
perhaps in response to the Obama administration's intense effort to get
Silicon Valley's help in preventing organizations like ISIS from using
social media as a recruiting and fundraising tool. Microsoft has amended
its terms of use to prohibit the posting of terrorist content on its
various platforms.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83539.html

Google's New Custom Chip May Not Live Up to the Hype

Google last week announced the Tensor Processing Unit, a custom
application-specific integrated circuit, at Google I/O. TPU was built
for machine learning applications and has been running in Google's data
centers for more than a year. Google's AlphaGo software, which thrashed
an 18-time international Go champion in a match earlier this year, ran
on servers using TPUs.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83531.html

Using the Scientific Method to Pick the Best US President

I've been thinking a lot this week about what it takes to select a
strong CEO and being annoyed by robocalls from the different campaigns.
On one such call, when asked what I'd do if given the choice between
Clinton and Trump, my response was "move to Canada." That apparently
wasn't what they were looking for. Boards often have to select from a
very small pool of CEO candidates, and they don't get the "move to
Canada" option.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83521.html

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