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Tech News Flash: Wednesday -- June 29, 2011

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Microsoft Wants to Patent High-Tech Snoop Software
Google Enters the Ring for Social Smackdown, Round 2
US National IT Security in a Post-Lulz World
Arista Transcoder: Media Conversions Without the Inquisition
Americans Hot for E-Readers, Tepid About Tablets

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The Consumerization of IT (24:03 minutes)
IT organizations are being pulled in opposite directions: They're being
asked to become simultaneously more open and more secure. Is that even
possible? Increased mobility "is cool for the consumer, but that creates
some very serious complexities for the enterprise security folks," said
HP's Rafal Los. "Often you get devices that aren't meant to be consumed
in an enterprise."
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/shared/audio/ect-gardner-2011-06-27.mp3

Today's Story Highlights

Microsoft Wants to Patent High-Tech Snoop Software
Microsoft has applied for a patent on technology that may let its user
secretly intercept Voice over IP communications, amend the content and
store it. The application was filed in December 2009 and was recently
made public. The technology could allow the monitoring of conversations,
voice messages and video conferences over a variety of devices,
including smartphones, laptops and gaming devices.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72771.html

Google Enters the Ring for Social Smackdown, Round 2
Google took a second stab at social networking Tuesday with the launch
of Google+, a program designed to interactively connect users and
challenge worldwide social networking king Facebook. The search engine
giant failed with its first attempt at an online social network, last
year's Google Buzz.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72770.html

US National IT Security in a Post-Lulz World
Between the repeated attacks on the United States government's IT
infrastructure by foreign hackers and incursions by LulzSec, a hacker
community whose members wandered in and out of government cybersystems
before publicly disbanding this week, it's not difficult to conclude
that the U.S.'s federal IT infrastructure is the cybersecurity
equivalent of Swiss cheese.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72767.html

Arista Transcoder: Media Conversions Without the Inquisition
Converting media files can be a huge chore. The lack of standardization
results in competing audio and video file standards. The file conversion
fiasco is further compounded by a lack of choices that do not require a
computer degree to use. Frustration mounts in using various media
players and conversion tools that handle some but not all of the
available file types.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72768.html

Americans Hot for E-Readers, Tepid About Tablets
E-reader ownership jumped to 12 percent of adult U.S. consumers in May,
doubling from 6 percent in the past six months, the first time sales
have been in double digits, according to a new report from the Pew
Research Center's Internet & American Life Project. The growth spurt is
outpacing that of tablet computers.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72762.html

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