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It’s Sunday so it’s time for yet another edition of Adi’s Week in Tech News, your weekly roundup of the week’s tech news stories.

Of course, Apple had their earnings report which comes out once every quarter. For the first time, their profit had declined with earning per share down to $10.09(£6.52) from just $12.30(£7.95).  There has not been a lot of innovations coming out of Apple very recently. This could allow its rivals in the smartphone, desktop, laptop, and tablet spaces to make their moves.

Nokia’s Asha 210 runs on the firm’s proprietary Series 40 operating system and will be targeted at consumers in emerging markets looking for a cheaper alternative to the Finnish firm’s Windows Phone range and other companies’ smartphones. The feature triggers WhatsApp, a cross-platform messaging app, which offers a free alternative to SMS texts. HTC and Nokia have previously released handsets with Facebook-devoted buttons, but this marks a first for WhatsApp.

Canonical has released version 13.04 of Ubuntu.  The latest version of this flavour of Linux gives you better integration with your social networks, new ways to manage your windows and improved sync and bluetooth menus.  You can go ahead and download your copy today from Ubuntu.com. If you still want the previous version of 12.04 which is supported until April 2017.

Google has acquired news stream service Wavii for an estimated $30m (£18m).Wavii, which was launched last year, offers customised news feed to users, summarising news stories, tweets and blogs related to their interests.

Spanish police have arrested a Dutchman suspected of being behind one of the biggest ever web attacks. The 35 year-old-man was detained in Barcelona following a request from the Dutch public prosecutor. The attack bombarded the websites of anti-junk mail outfit Spamhaus with huge amounts of data in an attempt to knock them offline.

So what about you? What has been your favourite tech news story of the week? Let me know in the comments.

Another week down and it’s time for Adi’s Week in Tech News. This is your weekly round up of the week’s tech news stories.

With Apple’s Siri feature in iOS, we know that your queries get sent to Apple’s datacenters.  However, it has just been revealed to us all that Apple stores your Siri queries for two years.

Adobe has announced that they are going to be releasing PhotoShop Lightroom 5 soon. Until then, they have released a public beta version which everyone can download for free. However, you will only be able to use the beta until June 2013.

A 25-year-old man known online as Recursion has been sentenced to a year in jail for hacking Sony Pictures Entertainment. Cody Kretsinger pleaded guilty last April, and admitted being part of an infamous hacking group known as Lulzsec. After his jail term, Kretsinger will be required to do 1,000 hours of community service, a Los Angeles judge ruled. Sony said the hack caused more than $600,000 (£392,000) in damage.

Fourteen pilot shows – including Alpha House and Zombieland – are to be put to the public vote on Lovefilm and Amazon.com. Viewers can submit feedback influencing which shows get made into full series. The 14 shows are made by independent production companies and produced by Amazon Studios, the film and series production arm of Amazon.

The US House of Representatives has passed the controversial Cyber Information Sharing and Protection Act. Cispa is designed to help combat cyberthreats by making it easier for law enforcers to get at web data. This is the second time Cispa has been passed by the House. Senators threw out the first draft, saying it did not do enough to protect privacy.

It’s Sunday so it’s time for yet another edition of Adi’s Week in Tech News, your weekly roundup of the week’s tech news.

Google launched an updated version of their Google Drive iOS app. This gave users the ability to edit documents in landscape mode. There was a bug which did not allow people to log into their google account, however this bug was fixed.

Microsoft have been upping their security this week. They finally gave users the ability to enable two factor authentication on their hotmail/outlook/microsoft account.  This allows them to use a time-sensitive one-time passcode sent to their mobile/cell phone.

It turns out that there is a new currency on the rise called BitCoin. However, the value took a tank due to hackers attacking Mt. Gox(the main BitCoin exchange). Additionally, hackers are also crafting malware which targets owners of BitCoins.

According to AV-Test, an independent testing lab, Bing(Microsoft’s search engine) delivers approximately five times as many malware infested website results compared to Google. AV-Test looked at over 40 million websites. Out of 10 million results, Google returned 272 malicious results. For Bing, 1,285 results out of 10 million were infected.

Twitter are going to be launching a new music application. Only a handful of celebrities are able to access it right now. However, you will be able to get it next weekend.

Almost 60,000 apps have been removed from the Google Play store, probably because a number of apps don’t meet the store’s anti-spam policies. Some may have been pulled by the publishers themselves. But not 60,000… many of these were pulled by Google directly.This is the highest number of apps it has removed in a single month, suggesting a closer focus on apps which contravene its terms & conditions.

It’s Sunday so it’s time for yet another edition of Adi’s Week in Tech News, your weekly round-up of tech news stories!

Of course the big story this week is Facebook’s new launcher for Android phones called Facebook home.  It will allow you to see status updates on the home screen, chat to your friends without leaving an app and comment on pictures or status updates and more right from the home screen.  It will be launching on a select range of Android devices on 12th April 2013 with more devices to follow including some tablets. Facebook has also stated that their won’t be an iOS version.

Google announced it’s forking WebKit and will start using a new rendering engine it calls Blink. Blink will be open-source and based on WebKit. Google said that it decided to move to Blink because the pace of innovation on WebKit has slowed down. Google’s Justin Schuh on his personal Google+ page (not speaking for Google officially) says that he expects Chrome’s security to increase with the move to Blink.

Here in the UK, you can preorder the BlackBerry Q10 at on networks including EE, O2, Three, and Vodafone. An unlocked Q10 will set you back about £580, which is pricier than the touchscreen-only Z10 for £515. The Q10 is free with a 2 year contract that would cost you £35 pounds per month. Delivery is expected by the end of April.

A US supercomputer called Roadrunner has been switched off by the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. The machine was the first to operate at “petaflop pace” – the equivalent of 1,000 trillion calculations per second – when it launched in 2008.  It has been used to model viruses and distant parts of the universe, as well as in nuclear weapons research.

New data from analytics firm Kantar says Windows Phone is gaining marketshare. In the UK, Windows Phone is up from 6.2% to 6.7% in one months’s time. In Italy, Windows Phone is now 13.1% of the market – last year in February, it was a paltry 5.4%. Microsoft’s gain is BlackBerry and Symbian’s loss. Android and iOS are still the top dogs around the globe.

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It’s Sunday so it’s time for yet another edition of Adi’s Week in Tech News. It’s your weekly roundup of the week’s tech news stories.

Apple has finally given users the ability to use two-factor authentication with their Apple IDs.  You will have to log-in via AppleID.Apple.com and answer a few security questions before you are allowed to activate two factor authentication or “two-step verification” as apple calls it.

With Office 2013 on the market, Microsoft has announced that they have discontinued Office 2010. Some retailers are still have stock of office 2010, so if you want a copy then make sure you buy one right now  before the prices get any higher.

MP George Galloway has filed an early day motion that calls for a ban on Twitter within the UK until the site opts to cooperate with local authorities. Filing the motion named “Twitter and the detection of crime”, the MP believes the social-networking site should defer to UK authorities or be sanctioned by the Government – those sanctions involving a ban on the service.

The Evasi0n jailbreak for iOS 6 and 6.1 has reached a total of 18 million devices since its release in early February.?The news comes from Jay Freeman, the administrator of the jailbreak app marketplace Cydia – a man who would certainly know such figures. Speaking to Fortune, Freeman said the number of jailbreaks from Evasi0n has topped former records set by Jailbreakme 3 in 2011. The iOS 6 jailbreak has been distributed to an impressive 12.8 million iPhones, 3.4 million iPads, and 1.1 million iPod touches.

Google launched it’s new note-taking service called “Keep” Wednesday afternoon. You can go to drive.google.com/keep in any Web browser or download the Android app front he Google Play store. The service lets users create notes, lists and photos. The mobile app also allows voice recordings, and transcription.  At the time of writing there is no app for iOS.

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Of course, one of the big stories was Samsung’s big launch event where they announced the Galaxy S4 smartphone.   This device sports a 5″ screen with a Full HD Super AMOLED display. Under the bonnet it will have an 2GB of RAM, up to 64GB of internal storage, a 13-megapixel back camera, a 2-megapixel front-facing camera and a 2600 mAh battery. The Galaxy S4 will be available on EE, Vodafone and Orange.

The other big story from this week was Google announcing the end of Google Reader, possibly the most popular RSS reader out there. The service will shut down 1st July 2013, but you will be able to use Google Takeout to export your feeds to another service.

BlackBerry announced it will bring its mobile device management software to iOS and Android. WorkSpace for iOS and Android will be managed through BlackBerry Enterprise 10. The feature, similar to Balance on BlackBerry phones, lets you keep your personal and work apps and data separate on one phone.

Microsoft also had an outage with for its hotmail and outlook email services. In a blog post, Microsoft blamed the 16-hour outage on an overheating data centre.

When EA launched Sim City for PCs, they had a problem handling the huge amount of traffic to their servers.  In order to apologise for the problems that gamers were experiencing, the company announced that people who purchased a copy of Sim City will be able to get a free EA game of their choice.

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In the wake of their most recent security breach, Evernote has announced that they are going to be increasing their security. As part of this, Evernote has released a software update for their desktop app which means that you would have to reset your password before accessing your notes.  Additionally, they will be adding two-factor authentication.

O2 has launched an app which lets users make and receive phone calls and texts via a tablet, computer or smartphone. Tu Go is available for Android, Apple’s iOS devices and Windows 7 PCs but limited to “pay monthly” subscribers – so excludes corporate accounts. Tu Go deducts charges from the user’s existing call minutes allowance, unlike Skype and other chat apps which involve the purchase of credit.

It turns out that Microsoft are in big trouble with the European Commission. Having removed the browser choice screen in Windows 7 Service Pack 1 due to a technical error, the european commission has penalised Microsoft with a fine of  €561 million(£484 million).

Ongoing problems with the latest version of SimCity led Amazon to briefly stop selling the game. The web retailer stopped sales late on 7 March as players reported continued problems with the city building title. The latest version of SimCity was launched on 5 March and, like many current games, demand players stay online as they play. EA has also taken steps to fix login delays by turning off some features to lighten the load on game servers.

With the launch of Microsoft Office 2013, Microsoft stated in their licensing terms that you could only use a retail copy on one machine and that license was non-transferrable(not even if a computer dies).  However, following the backlash from people who condemned the initial terms, Microsoft has said that they will allow people to transfer their copy to another machine every 90 days.

It’s Sunday so it’s time for Adi’s Week in Tech News, your weekly roundup of the week’s tech news stories.

Note-taking software company Evernote was hacked.  Some malicious hackers were able to break into their servers but Evernote reports that the hackers did not get anything but user names, email accounts.  Thankfully, the passwords were encrypted properly.

A 5-year-old kid who goes by the name of Danny Kitchen had downloaded an iPad game called Zombies vs Ninja.  Danny then got the password for his parent’s Apple account(to which the iPad was signed into).  It was only the day after played the game, that the parents had realised their son had racked up a bill of £1700 consisting of £69.99 purchases made inside of the app. His parents had then contacted Apple and told them what had happened and they refunded their account.

DropBox has hit a big milestone today as the file storage service has reached 1 billion file uploads.  In fact, the company’s CEO has also said that it’s 100 million users upload more files than people tweet.

O2 has launched an app which lets users make and receive phone calls and texts via a tablet, computer or smartphone. Tu Go is available for Android, Apple’s iOS devices and Windows 7 PCs but limited to “pay monthly” subscribers – so excludes corporate accounts.

 There’s an update to BlackBerry 10 that BlackBerry says will improve third party apps as well as provide better Gmail calendar support. The update weighs in at around 150MB and will be available in the coming weeks.

British Sky Broadcasting Group (BSkyB) will buy Telefónica’s UK fixed-line broadband and telephony business for up to £200 million. The deal should close in April if it passes regulatory clearance, at which point customers will be moved off the O2 and BE Broadband brands and become Sky customers.

It’s Sunday so it’s time for Adi’s Week in Tech News, your weekly roundup of the week’s tech news.

Of course the first of the big stories this week is the announcement of the PlayStation 4 games console by Sony.  There was a new controller called the DualShock 4 which has a touchpad and a blue light on the back which is a motion sensor.  There were also a few social gaming features such as live streaming your gameplay or sharing a moment of your gameplay with people. No hardware or pricing but we know that the PlayStation 4 will be released sometime in the holiday season of 2013.

There was some other hardware news coming from Google as well.  Google announced a new Chromebook called the Pixel.  It’s essentially a high-end touch-screen chromebook which runs Chrome OS.  It will come with 1TB of Google Drive storage for 3 years.  The Chromebook Pixel will be available soon for just under £1050 from the Google Play store and Currys/PC World.

HTC also announced a new phone called the HTC one with a 4.7-inch full HD display, a 1.7GHz quad-core CPU, 2GB of RAM and it will run Android 4.1.2. This handset will release in March 2013.

Right now, the digital distribution market is arguably Steam against the world. But EA and Ubisoft are hoping to change that. Ubisoft has announced it is to open up its uPlay service to third-party publishers for the first time, which will see games from firms incuding EA, Bohemia Interactive, Warner Bros., Telltale Games and more become available on the service. Likewise, EA is set to accept Ubisoft’s titles onto its Origin download service, including the likes of Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry 3.

It’s time for yet another edition of Adi’s week in tech news, your weekly round up of the tech news in the week that has just finished.

The folks at Skype are allowing people to test their new video messaging feature. It’s currently available on Macs, iOS devices and Android devices but not on Windows PCs.

Opera Software has decided to make a change to it’s Opera web browser. They have decided to do away with the Presto technology used to render web pages and start using WebkKit.

The folks at BitTorrent have launched a new service called SoShare. Currently in beta, it will allow users to email files up to 1TB in size.

The folks at Mozilla are already at work on a version of the FireFox web browser for Windows 8. At this point in time users can now download the newest version of the Firefox nightly build which will work on both Windows 8 devices and Windows RT tablets.

Valve has finally launched a version of their Steam application for Linux. In celebration of this release Valve is running a 50-75% sale on most Linux titles until 21st February 2013.