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Tech News Flash: Thursday -- June 16, 2011

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Drums of War Pound as Facebook Musters Spartan App Army
Senators' Bill Would Muzzle the Tracker in Your Pocket
No Time Like the Present for Detecting Data Breaches
Ubuntu Gets Some Love
The Cruel Tutelage of LulzSec

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Today's Story Highlights

Drums of War Pound as Facebook Musters Spartan App Army
Facebook is working on an HTML 5-based platform code-named "Project
Spartan" that will seek to distribute apps to iDevices, TechCrunch has
reported. The project purportedly has about 80 outside developers,
including people from Zynga and Huffington Post, creating a variety of
apps for the upcoming platform. The apps are reportedly scheduled to be
rolled out in the next few weeks.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72678.html

Senators' Bill Would Muzzle the Tracker in Your Pocket
Federal legislation aimed at eliminating loopholes that allow companies
like Google and Apple track users using GPS location-based technology
was proposed by Senators Al Franken, D-Minn., and Richard Blumenthal, D-
Conn., on Wednesday. If signed into law, the Location Privacy Protection
Act of 2011 could force companies to obtain explicit consent from
smartphone users before gathering their personal data.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72676.html

No Time Like the Present for Detecting Data Breaches
For almost a year, service providers and their clients have been the
focus of spear-phishing and other intrusions that have resulted in
large-scale direct and indirect data breaches. It's scary stuff, and the
worst of it is far from over. Largely, these breaches have come in two
flavors: system intrusion with direct compromise of data, and client
credential compromise.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72672.html

Ubuntu Gets Some Love
Say "Linux" these days, and most people automatically think, "Ubuntu."
Such is the level of mainstream awareness and success Canonical's
distribution has achieved, even as such goals have proven more elusive
for other distributions. Of course, it can't be denied that the fact
that mainstream users think *anything* when they hear the word "Linux"
is a good thing -- and an improvement over how things stood not so very
long ago.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72671.html

The Cruel Tutelage of LulzSec
LulzSec, the shadowy group of hackers that has hammered Sony, blown
raspberries at the FBI and tweaked the nose of the United States Senate,
set up a hotline Tuesday over which people can request hacks. Response
was overwhelming, according to a tweet from the group. It claimed to
have 2,500 voice mails and missed another 5,000 calls within hours.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72669.html

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