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Mobile Minutes: Snapchat’s permanence; Samsung disables Note 7; Election hacking; Fox buys Sky

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When MTV launched on August 1, 1981, the world watched a now classic video: A rocket sits ready to blast off from its launchpad as a voice from NASA Mission Control counts down to T-minus one. The voice-over fades, the rocket fires and we cut to an astronaut planting a flag with the network’s logo on the moon’s surface. “Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll,” a new voice says.
Read more at CNET

Samsung to disable Note 7 phones in the U.S. via software update
Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Friday that a software update for Galaxy Note 7 smartphones will be released mid-December in the United States preventing them from charging and functioning as mobile phones, rendering them useless.
Read more at Reuters

Obama orders review of election hacking
WASHINGTON — President Obama has ordered a full review of hacking-relating activity possibly linked to attempts to disrupt the November presidential election. He wants the report before he leaves office on January 20.
Read more at USA Today

21st Century Fox agrees to buy Sky
21st Century Fox Inc. reached a preliminary deal to acquire full control of Sky Plc for 11.2 billion pounds ($14.1 billion), as billionaire Rupert Murdoch seeks to consolidate his television empire.
Read more at Bloomberg