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AP-AM Prep-Cyber Corner
(Canadian Press Broadcast Wire (Canada) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) MORNINGPREP-MORNINGPREP-MORNINGPREP-MORNINGPREP
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IN THE NEWS: GOOGLE-MOTOROLA MOBILITY
WASHINGTON (AP) _ The Google-Motorola deal isn't done yet, but it's a step closer. U.S. regulators have approved Google's $12.5 billion acquisition of cellphone maker Motorola Mobility Holdings. The Justice Department wrapped up a six-month review of the deal after concluding the arrangement won't stifle competition in the mobile device market. European regulators have reached the same conclusion. But, then there's China. The U.S. approval of the deal means Google can take control of Motorola Mobility -- if it can get government approvals in China, Taiwan and Israel. And China looms as the biggest stumbling block, given Google's shaky relationship with the government there. Google wants Motorola's more than 17,000 patents. They could be a key weapon in an intellectual arms race with Apple, Microsoft and other rivals to get more control over smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices.
SOUND: 4:32 a.m.
IN THE NEWS: IRAN-INTERNET
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) _ Many Iranian Web users say their access to foreign email services such as Gmail, Yahoo mail and Hotmail appears to have been restored after a four day outage. The semiofficial Mehr agency had said more than 30 million people in the country were affected by the outage. Authorities in Iran's national telecommunications company declined to comment, saying the outage had no connection to them. Iran has occasionally restricted the Internet since the turmoil that followed the 2009 presidential elections and blocked websites including Facebook, Twitter, Voice of America and the BBC Farsi service. Meanwhile, a senior Iranian military official claims the country's nuclear facilities are immune to cyber attack. He's quoted as saying Iran and its nuclear facilities have the technology and knowledge to deal with malicious software. He didn't say what's been done since 2010, when a virus known as Stuxnet disrupted controls of some nuclear centrifuges. Iran has reported other cyber attacks since, including an infection last April dubbed ``Stars.'' The official said Iran also fought a spy virus called ``Doku.''
ON THE WEB: ECONOMICS COURSE
NEW YORK (AP) _ Introductory economics courses at colleges and universities will soon be taking a giant step forward in the digital age. McGraw-Hill Higher Education and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln are developing the first-ever fully digital curriculum for its economics course. The curriculum will be offered in English and Spanish, and feature a range of multimedia components and will be fully functional on McGraw-Hill's course management platform and through a number of other learning management systems. The curriculum will be sold by subscription. It will include adaptive learning tools for determining a student's strengths and weaknesses, videos for learning objectives, online assessments, and an interactive digital workbook.
Online:
site: http://www.mheducation.com
site: http://unl.edu
IN STORES: DOODLE.LY iPAD APP
NEW YORK (AP) _ Doodle.ly has a new iPad application. It has a lot of the features from the original browser-based Doodle.ly, and has new new colours and pens. The app lets users doodle from anywhere and share their creations instantly within the Doodle.ly community and through their social platforms. The app is free of charge and available for download at the iTunes store.
Online:
site: Doodle.ly: http://doodle.ly.com/
(The Associated Press)
(c) 2012 The Canadian Press
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