TechByter Worldwide 2013.08.04: The Car that Knew Too Much; Searching for Just One Great Music Player; and Short Circuits.

Published: Aug. 4, 2013, 4 a.m.

Two researchers showed this week that the various computers in a car can be taken over wirelessly. Itunes has never worked well on Windows computers (or Apple computers, for that matter) and, if you're looking for a replacement, I have some suggestions. In Short Circuits: Microsoft wanted to call the Windows 8 interface Metro, but ran into legal trouble with the name. Now the same thing has happened to SkyDrive. A class-action suit says that Apple failed to pay employees for time they spent in Apple stores. And Google boots AT and T out of Starbucks stores.