Adobe has announced that in future all its Creative Suite software will be subscription only. It’s upset some users but could be a much better business model.
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Barnes & Noble announced that its two high end tablets are getting Google Play through a software update that started yesterday.  By allowing Nook HD and HD+ owners to access Google Play from their tablets, the company is giving them access to over 700,000 apps, movies and TV shows not previously available and sets the Nook apart from the Amazon Kindle. 
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It’s amazing what you’ll find floating around the patent office.  One item that recently popped up was an Apple patent filed March 28, 2013 for a new iPhone with a wrap around screen, no buttons and a conical shape.  This is not your father’s iPhone nor yours for that matter.
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Barnes and Noble had a rough Christmas season and that means some Nook bargains for us. Right now you can buy a Nook HD + and get a Nook Simple Touch for free. So for $269 you get the high resolution nine inch tablet and the $79 E-Ink reader for free. Best of all, you can purchase a separate memory card to turn the HD+ into a true tablet.
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The Obama administration and the Federal Communications Commission said Monday that consumers should be allowed to unlock their smartphones — or switch carriers and keep their devices.
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You would think that WebOS would be virtually worthless since a few years back HP essentially torpedoed all the products it developed with WebOS. Last year, HP offered the operating system to developers and other companies. Now LG has bought the OS from HP.
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Mozilla, the non-profit software company which made the Firefox web browser and Thunderbird email client, announced its new mobile operating system will be work on 17 different mobile carriers during the Mobile World Congress show in Barcelona, Spain. The system, dubbed Firefox OS, will be loaded onto phones from five different handset manufacturers and is set to launch sometime around June.
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It looks like car-sharing and summoning services hare getting a second chance in California, after state regulators struck deals with both Lyft and Uber which will eliminate each company’s $20,000 fines for violating public utilities code.
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If you don’t have a backup plan for your computer you’re courting disaster. And if you’re in a disaster an external drive might get damaged. Fortunately there’s a variety of services out there for online backups, and they just happened to make it to Macworld 2013. Here’s a breakdown of the various backup programs which made an appearance on Macworld 2013′s expo hall floor. 
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Backblaze is an online back-up startup with plan: to sell data back-up that’s simple enough for your grandmother to use, and to sell it at $5 a month.
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The next major security maze set for the tech industry to navigate isn’t Washington, nor is it apps, it’s things. Stuff. Objects like an internet-connected thermostat which can gather data on your preferred temperatures and automatically adjust. An object which could heat your living room before you return from work. This is, as Wired‘s Andrew Rose writes, the next big security problem. This is the “Internet of Things.”
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Evernote Corporation, based in California has spun off a subsidiary called Evernote GmbH based in Zurich, Switzerland. The subsidiary is wholly owned by the California company but it will be the entity managing the service for users outside the United States.  This allows the subsidiary to handle all business outside the US in accordance with Swiss law. 
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Remember the days when owning a BlackBerry phone was considered cool? Yeah, its hard but Research In Motion’s (RIMs) continued decline is getting worse.  By the end of the year, it is expected that the number of phones with BlackBerry OS will be less than those sporting Windows Phone OS.  That’s low.  Windows Phone doesn’t even have to pick up much market share because BlackBerry is falling so fast.
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A “brain transplant” is what NASA is calling the multi-step software update that is taking place from August 10-13.  Apparently, the Mars rover was and is going to have its software upgraded as needed.  This ability to upgrade the software gives NASA a way to tune Curiosity’s software to the task at hand.
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Anyone who has ever played one of the simulated farming games on Facebook knows that it can be hard to keep up with when you need to check back in to reap your crops or water your plants.  Imagine a several thousand acre real farm with a variety of different crops in different fields and you can imagine the logistical issues that could, ahem, crop up. FarmLogs helps keep up with all the details and makes them easy to find for daily, weekly and monthly planning purposes.
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Patent “holders” who bring frivolous lawsuits could be forced to pay the legal costs of defendants under proposed legislation. A bi-partisan bill would apply to trolls and “legitimate” users alike.
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IPhone and iPad users were frustrated on Wednesday when a “rogue” server added digital rights management (DRM) software to more than 100 apps being downloaded.  Many of the apps affected were popular ones like Instapaper and Angry Birds Space. The DRM software prevented users from being able to open their updated or new apps.  Developers got upset when they started getting feedback that their apps and updates weren’t working.
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