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Tuesday 31 May 2011

Tech News Flash

Tech News Flash: Tuesday -- May 31, 2011

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Headline Scan
Intel Envisions the Rise of the Ultrabook
Is Microsoft Finally Ready to Put Its Tablet Talents on Display?
Apple Confirms iCloudy Forecasts for WWDC
So, What's the Deal With MicroSkype?
OtterBox Defender: Handsome and Heavy iPad 2 Armor
The Tech Market on Stranger Tides

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Podcast
ALM: The Workflow Conqueror (16:59 minutes)
"ALM goes a long way to be able to conquer the various workflows," says
Todd Eaton, director of ALM tools and services at McKesson. "Within an
organization, there will be various workflows being done, but you're
still able to bring up those measurements, like another point that you
are bringing up, and have a fairly decent comparison."
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/shared/audio/ect-gardner-2011-01-31.mp3

Today's Story Highlights

Intel Envisions the Rise of the Ultrabook
Intel has unveiled details of its plans for the breed of super-thin,
rapid-on, tablet-like laptops which it calls "Ultrabooks" at China's
Computex Taipei 2011. The computer chip giant expects Ultrabooks to take
over 40 percent of the laptop market within six to nine months. The new
super-thin laptops run on Intel's Sandy Bridge processor.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72556.html

Is Microsoft Finally Ready to Put Its Tablet Talents on Display?
Microsoft will preview specially made Windows tablet software as soon as
this week, Bloomberg recently reported. It will showcase the operating
system's touchscreen interface running on hardware that uses an Nvidia
Tegra chip, according to the report. "Right now, the stated strategy is
to have Windows 8 run on everything except smartphones," Rob Enderle,
principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72551.html

Apple Confirms iCloudy Forecasts for WWDC
Apple on Tuesday gave a thumbnail sketch of what will be demoed at its
World Wide Developers Conference, scheduled to kick off June 6. On
opening day, CEO Steve Jobs will deliver a keynote address together with
a team of company executives, Apple said. The keynote will include the
unveiling of iCloud, Apple's cloud services offering, as well as
information about Mac OS X Lion and iOS 5, Cupertino stated.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72555.html

So, What's the Deal With MicroSkype?
Well, the Linux bloggers down at the blogosphere's Broken Windows Lounge
had just barely finished chanting Skype's funeral dirge last week when
word came that there might be reason to belt out another round. Sure
enough, turned out Skype has decided to cut its ties with the free and
open source Asterisk telephony system.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72549.html

OtterBox Defender: Handsome and Heavy iPad 2 Armor
When I received my shiny new Apple iPad 2, my first fear was protecting
my new gadget from breaks or scratches. I know the iPad 2 is wicked
strong, but I've also seen tough electronic devices fail in unexpected
ways. So extra-robust protection is a must for me, and a super-
protective case is right for my lifestyle.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72540.html

The Tech Market on Stranger Tides
This is turning out to be an amazing decade, with companies getting a
rebirth, other firms getting new identities, and still others sliding
into delusional obscurity. Microsoft released the impressive Windows
Phone platform and recently added 500, yep 500, new features, which
should give the Android folks a bit of a scare, though Jobs, who is
apparently doing OK, likely thinks they missed a meeting.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72522.html

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Friday 27 May 2011

Tech News Flash

Tech News Flash: Friday -- May 27, 2011

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Headline Scan
Gmail Gives Power to the People Widget
Internet Explorer Flaw Lets Hackers Into the Cookie Jar
Are Android Tablets Stumbling Out of the Gate?
Your Move, Patent Trolls
Investment Firm Pres. Calls on Microsoft to Boot Ballmer

Podcast
Beyond War Room Network Management (36:24 minutes)
"Today, if you were to look into a customer's IT department managing a
network environment, you would often see a war-room-like approach to
managing networks," said HP's Ashish Kuthiala. Spiraling IT complexities
are running headlong into shrinking budgets. This is a job for
comprehensive, automated, integrated network management tools.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/shared/audio/ect-gardner-2011-05-23.mp3

Today's Story Highlights

Gmail Gives Power to the People Widget
Google has introduced a new tool to the social networking world using
one of its strong suits: Gmail. In the next couple weeks, Google will
debut a feature for Gmail called the "People Widget." The widget will
appear to the right of messages and display information about contacts,
including recent messages, shared documents, calendar events, statuses
and, perhaps most striking, photos.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72547.html

Internet Explorer Flaw Lets Hackers Into the Cookie Jar
Italian security researcher Rosario Valotta has discovered a new way for
hackers to steal their victims' online credentials -- stealing the
session cookies from whatever site a victim is visiting. The stolen
cookies can then be used to get victims' computers to download malware,
forge clicks or send messages, according to Valotta's website.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72539.html

Are Android Tablets Stumbling Out of the Gate?
Based on initial sales reports and some tablet market flip flops, the
few Android tablets that have hit the shelves so far seem to have
crashed and burned. Early sales figures indicate that no Android tab is
coming close to being the much-awaited Apple iPad alternative. But will
time heal all? Does the Android tablet just need the same growing time
that consumers gave the iPad?
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72538.html

Your Move, Patent Trolls
What is Lodsys? It's a patent troll company. And by all accounts, when
it comes time to check in at Hell, patent trolls are said to have a spot
right near the front of the line, right next to the people that put
kittens in burlap sacks and throw them into rivers. But Lodsys is not
just any patent troll -- it's the type of patent troll that makes other
patent trolls squirm.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72534.html

Investment Firm Pres. Calls on Microsoft to Boot Ballmer
Time to move over, Ballmer. Greenlight Capital President David Einhorn
has reportedly called for Microsoft's CEO, Steve Ballmer, to step down.
Einhorn spoke on the subject Wednesday at the Ira Sohn Investment
Conference in New York City. Einhorn showed support for Microsoft in
general, recommending the company's stock as a "buy" because the company
trades at what he called a remarkable discount.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72535.html

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Thursday 26 May 2011

Tech News Flash

Tech News Flash: Thursday -- May 26, 2011

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Headline Scan
Google Whips Out an E-Wallet
WinPho Developers Get a Bite of the Mango
New Mac Malware: Passwords? We Don't Need No Stinking Passwords!
Where in the World Is the Linux Desktop Thriving?
Chengdu Blast Heard Loud and Clear in Cupertino

Today's Story Highlights

Google Whips Out an E-Wallet
Google officially unveiled its e-wallet Thursday in a presentation with
its partners at an event in New York. Google executives demonstrated
making purchases and downloading e-coupons with the e-wallet through a
Google Nexus S Android smartphone. They added that eventually consumers
might even store their drivers' licenses in it.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72536.html

WinPho Developers Get a Bite of the Mango
Microsoft has rolled out app development tools for Mango, the Windows
Phone 7 update about which the company released details earlier this
week. Registered developers can download the Mango Beta Windows Phone
Developer Tools from AppHub, Casey McGee, marketing manager for Windows
Phone, told TechNewsWorld.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72531.html

New Mac Malware: Passwords? We Don't Need No Stinking Passwords!
The newest strain of malware aimed at the Mac OS X platform doesn't
require a user password to install and spread, according to a warning
from security company Intego. Like a similar scam that arose weeks ago,
this new version of malware promises visitors of certain websites a free
security scan.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72533.html

Where in the World Is the Linux Desktop Thriving?
The old "market share" debate is one that's all too familiar to most
Linux fans, particularly the tired -- not to mention wildly unrealistic
-- "1 percent" figure detractors love to cite as desktop Linux's
portion. So it was hard not to sit up and take notice earlier this month
when the Pingdom blog published a post entitled "The top 20 strongholds
for desktop Linux."
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72529.html

Chengdu Blast Heard Loud and Clear in Cupertino
Friday's deadly explosion at a Foxconn factory in Chengdu, China,
continues to dog Apple. The blast led Foxconn, one of Apple's major
contract manufacturers, to shut down all its polishing plants. Investors
are concerned supplies of the hot-selling iPad 2 will fall off.
Analysts' estimates of the impact range from miniscule to a production
loss of 2.8 million units.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72524.html

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Wednesday 25 May 2011

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ECT News Network Weekly Newsletter: Wednesday -- May 25, 2011

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This Week's Top News Headlines From the E-Commerce Times

Zynga Could Find Green Pastures With Reported IPO Plans
(Posted 25-May-11)
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/72527.html

Sony Tallies $171M in Data Breach Losses... and Counting
(Posted 24-May-11)
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/72520.html

Nook Lust Drives Liberty Media to Court Barnes & Noble
(Posted 23-May-11)
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/72512.html

Verizon Puts the Squeeze on Smartphone Data Consumption
(Posted 21-May-11)
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/72505.html

LinkedIn IPO Paints Rosy Picture for Other Social Nets
(Posted 20-May-11)
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/72502.html

Heavily Traveled Roads to Netflix Could Face Traffic Jams
(Posted 19-May-11)
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/72489.html

This Week's Top News Headlines From TechNewsWorld

Beyond the Point of No Return: Is There Life in Black Holes?
(Posted 25-May-11)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72493.html

Microsoft Delivers the Mango Juice
(Posted 24-May-11)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72521.html

Firefox 5: Track Me, Just Don't Track Me
(Posted 23-May-11)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72510.html

With No TWIT or FABOO in Sight, Wall Street Gorges on LNKD
(Posted 21-May-11)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72503.html

Intel and Microsoft Nip and Growl Over Windows' Race to ARMs
(Posted 20-May-11)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72492.html

Lone Wanderers: No Warmth of the Sun for Some Planets
(Posted 19-May-11)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72485.html

This Week's Top News Headlines From CRM Buyer

Where's Your Cloud Model?
(Posted 25-May-11)
http://www.crmbuyer.com/story/72519.html

Toyota's Got a Friend in Salesforce.com
(Posted 24-May-11)
http://www.crmbuyer.com/story/72514.html

Fixing a Fundamentally Flawed Marketing-to-Sales Process
(Posted 23-May-11)
http://www.crmbuyer.com/story/72504.html

A Little Silverlight Goes a Long Way in Aplicor's UI
(Posted 20-May-11)
http://www.crmbuyer.com/story/72497.html

3 Early Errors That Can Kill CRM in the Cradle
(Posted 19-May-11)
http://www.crmbuyer.com/story/72484.html

This Week's Top News Headlines From LinuxInsider

gLabels Does the Job but Wouldn't Make Patrick Bateman Sweat
(Posted 25-May-11)
http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/72517.html

Is Android Really the 'Open' Platform?
(Posted 24-May-11)
http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/72516.html

When FOSS Became Mainstream
(Posted 23-May-11)
http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/72507.html

Google Deodorizes Sniffable Android Security Flaw
(Posted 20-May-11)
http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/72494.html

Should Microsoft Be Losing Sleep Over Chrome OS?
(Posted 19-May-11)
http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/72481.html

This Week's Top News Headlines From MacNewsWorld

Chengdu Blast Heard Loud and Clear in Cupertino
(Posted 25-May-11)
http://www.macnewsworld.com/story/72524.html

With PhotoForge2, Hammering Out Great Photos Takes Some Elbow Grease
(Posted 24-May-11)
http://www.macnewsworld.com/story/72509.html

Fooducate: A Brilliant Professor of All Things Edible
(Posted 23-May-11)
http://www.macnewsworld.com/story/72499.html

The iPhone 5... Still Interested?
(Posted 20-May-11)
http://www.macnewsworld.com/story/72496.html

The App Store and the Future of Software: Secure, Sanitized and a Little
Sad
(Posted 19-May-11)
http://www.macnewsworld.com/story/72480.html

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Tech News Flash

Tech News Flash: Wednesday -- May 25, 2011

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Headline Scan
Android Seen Reaching for Its Wallet
Barnes & Noble Tells a Simpler Story With New Nook E-Reader
Beyond the Point of No Return: Is There Life in Black Holes?
gLabels Does the Job but Wouldn't Make Patrick Bateman Sweat
Federal IT Landscape Requires More Gold, Less Glitter

Today's Story Highlights

Android Seen Reaching for Its Wallet
Google will unveil a mobile payment service on Thursday in New York,
according to a recent Bloomberg report. This will be available on
Android smartphones from Sprint Nextel. The service will let Android
smartphone owners with the NFC feature enabled pay for goods and redeem
coupons through their handsets.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72528.html

Barnes & Noble Tells a Simpler Story With New Nook E-Reader
Barnes & Noble has introduced its new Nook -- a more elementary, less
expensive black and white WiFi e-reader device geared toward a simpler
market and hoping to compete in the growing e-reader field. The new Nook
unrolls with some key differences from its predecessors and competitors.
Primarily, it features a touchscreen and offers a battery life of up to
two months.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72525.html

Beyond the Point of No Return: Is There Life in Black Holes?
Few ideas convey the mystery and awe-inspiring nature of space better
than the black hole. Dark, vast and little understood, black holes in
many ways represent all that we still don't know about the universe.
With their seemingly infinite emptiness and general unexplorability,
they're also more than a little terrifying. Imagine what it would be
like, then, to learn that life exists in these expansive regions of no
escape.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72493.html

gLabels Does the Job but Wouldn't Make Patrick Bateman Sweat
It is rare that I lament about a task I cannot do in Linux better than
when I used that Redmond OS that rhymes with lindows. But you can hear
me pining for those commercial and shareware programs every time I have
to create a printing job around business cards or mailing labels on my
Linux rigs. For many of these specialized label and card-making jobs,
gLabels is a very workable solution.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72517.html

Federal IT Landscape Requires More Gold, Less Glitter
Federal chief information officers appear to be heeding the unofficial
Missouri state slogan: "I'm from Missouri -- Show Me." In a challenging
time for procurement of IT systems and services, CIOs are trying to
adopt improved methods for acquiring and managing information resources.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72513.html

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5/25 TechNewsWorld

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Microsoft Delivers the Mango Juice

May 25, 2011 at 3:05 AM

Among its various new features, Mango has smarter Live Tiles that can carry notifications and offer Twitter and LinkedIn support. Windows Live Messenger and Facebook Chat are integrated into Mango out of the box. Mango will also add visual voicemail support. Mango organizes information around people. For example, conversation threads will run across applications so users can switch between text, Facebook Chat and Windows Live Messenger within the same conversation. Users can view multiple email accounts in one linked inbox.

Facebook Wants to Hook 'Em Young

May 25, 2011 at 1:10 AM

Facebook hopes to one day be permitted to draw young children into the Facebook fold. CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently suggested altering legal restrictions that prevent children younger than 13 from signing up for a Facebook account. Currently, the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, a federal law passed in 1998, mandates that 13 is the minimum age at which a child may sign up for accounts on sites like Facebook. Zuckerberg argued that in our increasingly technology-driven society, education in online media is what will set students apart and boost the economy.

Is Android Really the 'Open' Platform?

May 24, 2011 at 8:00 PM

Much has been claimed by Google ever since the infant days of its Android mobile operating system. The claim it has seemed to champion the most is that its platform is open by nature. One of the biggest complaints about iOS has been Apple's lockdown policy, so naturally, Google would want to make its platform's openness a main selling point. Lately, though, it is starting to become apparent that Android isn't as "open" as we were led to believe.

Toyota's Got a Friend in Salesforce.com

May 24, 2011 at 8:00 PM

Salesforce.com is participating in a social media project with Toyota Motor, in what could launch the CRM company into an entirely new industry -- telematics. Or not. The agreement between Salesforce.com and Toyota to collaborate on this offering, called "Toyota Friend," is still very much in its early days, said Robin Daniels, director of product marketing for Salesforce.com. Still, the concept the two companies outlined is intriguing.

With PhotoForge2, Hammering Out Great Photos Takes Some Elbow Grease

May 24, 2011 at 8:00 PM

Among iPhone photography applications, Camera+ simply rules. I said as much back in March after using it only a couple of days, and since then it's been my go-to shooting app. My opinion hasn't changed -- it's a must-have app for anyone who takes photos with an iPhone. One of the things I like about Camera+ are its quick-edit options. You can make an image "Grunge" or "Hipster" or "So Emo" instantly, and you can toggle the depth of the effect. But what if you're more of a darkroom control freak -- someone who wants to use more traditional tools for fine-tweaking an image?

Amazon Goes Shopping for Tablet Baby Clothes

May 24, 2011 at 8:00 PM

Reports indicate Amazon may be poised to surge into the tablet PC market. In an interview with Consumer Reports, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos uttered what might be construed as a hint about the company's plans. In addition, in an article in PC Magazine, analyst Tim Bajarin insists the company is indeed working on a tablet,analyst Tim Bajarin wrote in PC Magazine. "I would be very surprised at this point if they weren't working on a tablet," Tom Mainelli, a research manager at IDC, told TechNewsWorld. "More so than any other company out there, they have built up an ecosystem to support a media tablet."

Firefox 5: Track Me, Just Don't Track Me

May 24, 2011 at 3:09 AM

The Mozilla Foundation launched a beta version of its fifth edition of the Firefox Web browser Monday -- just eight weeks after it rolled out Firefox 4. This includes a mobile version for Android as well as versions for Windows, Mac and Linux desktops. Desktop and mobile versions have a Do Not Track privacy feature, and the desktop version's features include a channel switcher that lets users switch between Firefox's Aurora, Beta and Release channels. Firefox 5 includes a location-aware browsing feature.