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Predicting that transmission of TV will move to the Internet eventually, Cablevision Systems Corp. CVC +0.20% Chief Executive James Dolan says "there could come a day" when his company stops offering television service, making broadband its primary offering.

The company can put a terabyte of data, or about 250 hours of high-definition movies, on a single chip that is smaller than the equivalent flash memory chip (as pictured at top). It could also perform its storage functions at 20 times lower power, extending the battery life of devices using it to weeks, months, or years. Crossbar also says it has 10 times the endurance of NAND flash chips that it could replace.

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US Government says Android is a malware magnet thanks to OS fragmentation http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/27/4666080/fbi-dhs-study-says-android-fragmentation-leads-to-malware-exposure via @prismatic

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What else do they do? Apparently they’re involved in what’s known as “computational photography”. That’s a fancy way of saying developing software that can make your photos look better. For example, if you snap a photo while you’re moving, and you get a blurry shot, the the phone knows how to “unblur” the photo based on how you moved the phone, that’s computational photography.

The result is an in-the-works project called Flutter. It’s what Taylor calls a “second network”—an alternative to Wi-Fi that can cover 100 times as great an area, with a range of 3,200 feet, using relatively little power, and is either the future of the way that all our connected devices will talk to each other or a reasonable prototype for it.

File under, "Your tax dollars at work": The NSA sent a cease-and-desist letter to Zazzle, the T-shirt site, asking it to remove a series of NSA parody T-shirts. The shirts featured the NSA's eagle logo and the motto, "The only part of the government that actually listens."

The tragedy in the deal, as I hinted at earlier, is that I think Microsoft ought to abandon Windows Phone. The war is over, and iOS and Android won. It would be far better for Microsoft to focus on serving and co-opting those devices, instead of shooting the most promising parts of their business in the foot for the sake of a platform that is never going to make it.

Regardless, the ultimate point here is that Microsoft is doing exactly what it said when the Ballmer retirement was announced: It’s becoming a devices and services company. And because of that, the days of licensing Microsoft software — at least in the case of Windows Phone and Windows RT — are coming to a close.

So the question for the Microsoft Nokia deal is what is Microsoft buying? Resources? Sure, there is IP and a team. But the chances are that not all the team members will be kept on. See what happened to Motorola after it was acquired by Google. Processes? Absolutely. Microsoft needs device development processes desperately. They may seem a commodity but it turns out that running great hardware businesses is hard, very hard. Priorities? Here we have to pause. To acquire Nokia’s priorities means acquiring its business model; its belief system. Perhaps they will be discarded and they’re not valued. Perhaps, as is often the case, the acquirer becomes allergic to the new priorities.

After Google gave its Nexus 4 a $100 price cut last week, the 8GB version of the phone is now sold out on the Play store. It appears that the price reduction was more of a clearance sale, however, as Google tells The Verge that the cheaper model will not be restocked.

Neither company is saying how much TWC will pay for CBS content, or disclosing any other terms of the deal, but comments from both companies suggest that CBS came out on top. In a memo to employees, CBS CEO Les Moonves wrote that "The final agreements with Time Warner Cable deliver to us all the value and terms that we sought in these discussions."

Neil Young issued a statement on Facebook today that Pono is now set to launch early next year, and confirmed that audio leader Meridian will make its music sound better: