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Flickr users now have a full Terabyte of storage for their photos and videos. Flickr also revealed a completely overhauled user interface. The new design displays images at full resolution. The new homepage focuses on social interactions, with an activity feed that displays recent uploads from friends, as well as social activity on the user's photos. The upgrade was revealed on the same day that Yahoo announced its acquisition of Tumblr. Microsoft has announced The Music Room, its first venture into original content. The series is exclusive to Xbox Live. The program will only be seen on Xbox 360 consoles, which allowed Microsoft to include a unique, interactive viewing experience. The Music room is hosted by Laura Jackson, and has several special guests from the music industry. While watching, viewers will be able to choose from a list of options to determine what course the show will take. Amazon Web Services has earned the accreditation of the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. FedRAMP, as its often called, is a U.S. government wide standardized approach to security assessment. Amazon's cloud computing program went through the certification process in order to continue working with the Department of Health and Human Services. Local, state, and federal government agencies now have a streamlined process for taking advantage of Amazon's cloud infrastructure. Charlie Ergen, the Chairman of Dish Network, has offered to buy the radio frequency assets of LightSquared Inc. for $2 Billion. Ergen has a successful track record with this type of acquisition. Should Ergen succeed again, he'll have acquired a wireless spectrum that hasn't been approved for use by the FCC. Regulators blocked LightSquared from building on its network due to the interference it would create with GPS signals. Facebook's new share dialog for app developers is out of beta. The update allows programmers to enable sharing from the app to Facebook with one line of code. Facebook users won't have to login to the social network when sharing from apps that use the new code. Bypassing the steps of logging in takes users directly to the action they wanted. The new share dialog also allows users to tag friends. Square has become popular for providing normal people a way to easily run their own business, turning phones into cash registers with a credit card readers. Now, they're further expanding their offerings with a new service called "square cash". It lets you send money directly to someone's debit card with a simple email. They'll be given a link to attach a debit card with their first received payment, which serves as a fantastic way to bring in new Square users. Dell's Project Ophelia, a thumb drive-sized "computer-on-a-stick" can plug into any monitor's USB port and transform it into a makeshift computer. The Android-based device will plug into a display's HDMI port so that it can run applications or access files stored remotely. It will have Wi-Fi and Bluetooth capabilities and is aimed at users who do most of their computing on the Web. LG Display will unveil its new flexible smartphone panel at the Display Week conference this week. The OLED technology used by LG is extremely thin. It's said to go beyond the tough, conventional LCD displays with a promise of being unbreakable Samsung unveiled its own flexible display technology at the Consumer Electronics Show in January. The Intel Foundation has awarded the Young Scientist Award to eighteen year old Eesha Khare for her super-capacitor invention. The tiny energy device can charge quickly, store large amounts of energy, and hold the charge for long periods of time. A smartphone battery outfitted with Khare's super-capacitor technology would potentially be able to completely charge in less than twenty seconds. It would last for ten-thousand charge-recharge cycles.