5 October 2014 - NOTS News

This week, Microsoft can't count, GNOME is really popular, and online advertising just sucks.

Sources/notes:

- Windows 10 Technical Preview Released: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2690339/how-to-install-the-windows-10-technical-preview-everything-you-need-to-know.html

- Bing Doesn't Care about Encryption: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2691613/unlike-google-bing-gives-no-rankings-boost-for-encrypted-websites.html

- Facebook Still Plans to Study You: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2691199/facebook-still-plans-to-study-you-but-promises-to-learn-and-improve.html

- Online Ads are Really Bad: http://www.computerworld.com/article/2690822/security0/why-do-contextual-ads-fail.html

- Online Ads are Held to a Higher Standard than Commercials: http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/04/online-native-ads-are-held-to-higher-standards-than-those-on-tv/

- GNOME 3.14 Gets Large Media Coverage: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2691192/how-gnome-3-14-is-winning-back-disillusioned-linux-users.html

- LG Working on a webOS Watch: http://www.theverge.com/2014/10/2/6888445/lg-webos-smartwatch

- Microsoft Complains about Android: http://www.computerworld.com/article/2691660/samsung-paid-microsoft-1b-last-year-to-build-android-phones.html

- iOS 8 Keyboard Permissions: http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/04/everything-you-need-to-know-about-ios-8-keyboard-permissions-but-were-afraid-to-ask/
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