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Your most hated buzzwords -- and who's to blame

Coding error protects some Android apps from Heartbleed

What kind of tablet does $5,000 get you?

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April 23, 2014
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Who came up with your least favorite tech buzzwords?

Some buzzwords evolve from the foam of language; others are invented in strokes of evil genius.

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Issue highlights

1. Coding error protects some Android apps from Heartbleed

2. What kind of tablet does $5,000 get you?

3. Aereo argues that ruling against it could hurt cloud storage business

4. NSA spying revelations have tired out China's Huawei

5. While Heartbleed distracts, hackers hit US universities

6. New rumors suggest 3D isn't the only thing bizarre about Amazon's phone

7. Toshiba, SanDisk NAND flash memory shrinks to 15-nanometer process

8. It's the little things that matter in Amazon Redshift upgrade

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Coding error protects some Android apps from Heartbleed

Some Android apps thought to be vulnerable to the Heartbleed bug were spared because of a common coding error in the way they implemented their own native OpenSSL library. READ MORE

What kind of tablet does $5,000 get you?

Can your tablet withstand a 2-meter drop or be submerged in water for 30 minutes and keep functioning? The new $5,000 tablets from Xplore Technologies can. READ MORE

Aereo argues that ruling against it could hurt cloud storage business

If the U.S. Supreme Court rules that streaming video provider Aereo violates the copyrights of TV networks, it may also put cloud storage services at risk, the company's lawyer argued Monday. READ MORE

NSA spying revelations have tired out China's Huawei

Revelations about U.S. secret surveillance programs have left China's Huawei Technologies exhausted on the public relations front, a top company executive said Wednesday. READ MORE

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While Heartbleed distracts, hackers hit US universities

The panic over the Heartbleed bug is proving to be a convenient distraction for hackers using standard techniques in a fresh wave of attacks targeting at least 18 U.S. universities, according to a computer security researcher. READ MORE

New rumors suggest 3D isn't the only thing bizarre about Amazon's phone

Last week we heard that Amazon would be announcing a phone with a 3D interface. This week we learn that you'll control it by tilting it. And that's weird. READ MORE

Toshiba, SanDisk NAND flash memory shrinks to 15-nanometer process

Partners Toshiba and SanDisk have developed 15-nanometer process technology for NAND flash memory widely used in smartphones and tablets. READ MORE

It's the little things that matter in Amazon Redshift upgrade

Amazon Web Services has increased the number of simultaneous queries its hosted data warehouse Redshift can handle, improving performance in cases where many small queries are now forced to wait. READ MORE

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