Tech Blog New: July 2011

Friday, 29 July 2011

Tech News Flash

Tech News Flash: Friday -- July 29, 2011

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Headline Scan
Dell's 10-Inch Streak Is Business Up Front, Party Out Back
Time Travel a No Go? No Way
New Initiative Aims to Stamp Out Cloud Lock-In
Security Wonks Urge iPhoners to Patch 'Em Up
Sprint, LightSquared Bank on Iffy Multibillion-Dollar Network Deal

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Podcast
Anonymous and PayPal:The Grudge That Keeps On Grudging (15:08 minutes)
In this episode: Anonymous calls for a PayPal boycott as the Internet
payment provider continues to blockade WikiLeaks donations; Mozilla
makes plans to use Android as the basis of a new, Web-centric mobile
operating system; certain iOS apps get a little trickier to use as Apple
begins enforcing its rules concerning in-app purchases; rumors that
Apple may want to buy Hulu make the rounds, though skeptics have their
doubts; Google gets into a tangle with certain users over what names are
and are not acceptable to use in its new Google+ social network.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/shared/audio/ect-recap-2011-07-29.mp3

Today's Story Highlights

Dell's 10-Inch Streak Is Business Up Front, Party Out Back
Dell on Friday launched the Dell Streak 10 Pro tablet in China. This is
the company's first 10-inch tablet. It runs Android Honeycomb 3.1. The
device has work and personal modes, with a firewall of sorts between
them so there's no leakage of information between the two.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72974.html

Time Travel a No Go? No Way
It appears that scientists at the Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology proved recently that you can't travel faster than the speed
of light in a vacuum. That discovery, howled many popular publications,
means time travel is impossible. "Impossible," however, is a very
powerful word.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72969.html

New Initiative Aims to Stamp Out Cloud Lock-In
Members of the cloud computing industry this week announced the Open
Cloud Initiative, a nonprofit organization to advocate open standards
in cloud computing, at the OSCON 2011 open source convention in
Portland, Ore. The organization maintains a set of Open Cloud
Principles, adherence to which will determine whether a given product or
service can indeed bear the open cloud label.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72971.html

Security Wonks Urge iPhoners to Patch 'Em Up
The iOS vulnerability for which Apple issued a security patch on July 25
is very severe, according to security experts who are warning iOS device
users to apply that patch as soon as possible. The vulnerability lies in
a failure to validate SSL certificates correctly. That lets hackers use
a tool called "sslsniff" to take over victims' iOS devices by using fake
certificates.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72970.html

Sprint, LightSquared Bank on Iffy Multibillion-Dollar Network Deal
Sprint and LightSquared have entered a 15-year agreement to collaborate
on spectrum hosting, network services, 4G wholesale and 3G roaming.
LightSquared will pay Sprint to implement a nationwide LTE network that
hosts L-Band spectrum licensed to or available to LightSquared.
LightSquared will be able to sell the 4G broadband capacity produced in
this deal to Sprint, other wireless carriers, and retail partners.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72968.html

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Thursday, 28 July 2011

Tech News Flash

Tech News Flash: Thursday -- July 28, 2011

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Headline Scan
Gig U Hopes to Seed Development With Ultra-Speedy Campus Networks
Seeking Tomorrow's Security Solutions Today, Part 2
Google+: A Social Network Even Geeks Can Love?
Farewell, My Little Plastic Discs
Kinder, Gentler Anons Call for PayPal Boycott

Podcast
Mythbusting the Private Cloud (45:19 minutes)
Under the right implementation, clouds and hybrid clouds can save on
costs, improve productivity, cut energy use and enhance efficiency.
Sound too good to be true? A certain level of skepticism is a good
thing, but there are many myths and half-truths surrounding private
clouds that are ripe for debunking.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/shared/audio/ect-gardner-2011-07-25.mp3

Today's Story Highlights

Gig U Hopes to Seed Development With Ultra-Speedy Campus Networks
Twenty-nine U.S. universities are hoping that Gig U, a project that
brings ultra-high-speed Internet access to campuses and the surrounding
areas, can spur economic growth and research development to their
communities. The initiative will arm universities and neighboring hubs
with Internet speeds up to 1 Gbps, enough to download a full-length HD
movie in seconds.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72967.html

Seeking Tomorrow's Security Solutions Today, Part 2
A widely held view in the security community is that currently available
security technology just can't cope with the new types of attacks being
launched on IT infrastructures. Some security vendors, in fact, have
acknowledged their inability to fight advanced persistent threats and
are calling for new approaches to fighting hackers.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72960.html

Google+: A Social Network Even Geeks Can Love?
Google+ may still be in its invitation-only early days, but with all the
wild excitement and skyrocketing numbers of users, it's awfully hard to
tell. Quibbles about real-name policies notwithstanding, eager users
from virtually every walk of life seem to be flocking to the new social
network -- even those of us who are perhaps less than entirely socially
minded.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72963.html

Farewell, My Little Plastic Discs
I'm not sure that we can say Apple is the barometer for the consumer
tech industry, but it's been either eerily prescient or a powerful
catalyst in the demise of certain technological habits. Apple ditched
the old 3.5-inch floppy drive back in the '90s and followed up by
creating the iPod, which brought attention to digital MP3 players and
then dominated the mobile music space, even changing how people buy and
consume songs.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72961.html

Kinder, Gentler Anons Call for PayPal Boycott
Notorious hacktivist groups Anonymous and LulzSec on Wednesday urged
people to boycott PayPal for the online payment system's refusal to
facilitate donations to WikiLeaks. The hacktivists set up a Twitter
thread, #OpPayPal, and claim that at least 20,000 people have canceled
their PayPal accounts in response to their call. PayPal denies that.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72958.html

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Wednesday, 27 July 2011

ECT News Network Weekly Newsletter

ECT News Network Weekly Newsletter: Wednesday -- July 27, 2011

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

Kinder, Gentler Anons Call for PayPal Boycott
(Posted 27-Jul-11)
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/72958.html

Walmart.com Wades Into Online Video Stream
(Posted 26-Jul-11)
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/72951.html

Citadel's Squeeze Makes E-Trade Squeak
(Posted 25-Jul-11)
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/72939.html

Great Expectations: New Revenue Metrics for Today's CMO
(Posted 23-Jul-11)
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/72931.html

It's Google+ vs. Facebook in the Battle for Web Domination
(Posted 22-Jul-11)
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/72925.html

AT&T May Ride Out Verizon iPhone Storm
(Posted 21-Jul-11)
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/72921.html

This Week's Top News Headlines From TechNewsWorld

Microsoft Throws a Juicy Mango to Manufacturers
(Posted 27-Jul-11)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72956.html

Mozilla's Head Is in the Cloud With New Mobile OS Idea
(Posted 26-Jul-11)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72950.html

Google+ Name Game: Who Are the Biggest Losers?
(Posted 25-Jul-11)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72941.html

Apple Comes In Like a Lion
(Posted 23-Jul-11)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72933.html

Tablets, Desktops, Notebooks: Who's Eating Whom?
(Posted 22-Jul-11)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72926.html

NATO Hack Shines Spotlight on Widespread Data Security Weaknesses
(Posted 21-Jul-11)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72924.html

This Week's Top News Headlines From CRM Buyer

Dealing With Emotional Data
(Posted 27-Jul-11)
http://www.crmbuyer.com/story/72953.html

Lawmakers Spar Over Cybersecurity Legislation
(Posted 26-Jul-11)
http://www.crmbuyer.com/story/72945.html

CRM and MBAs
(Posted 25-Jul-11)
http://www.crmbuyer.com/story/72938.html

Oracle Gives Road Warriors More Options With CRM On Demand 19
(Posted 22-Jul-11)
http://www.crmbuyer.com/story/72912.html

How Real Social CRM Systems Will Deal With Google+
(Posted 21-Jul-11)
http://www.crmbuyer.com/story/72918.html

This Week's Top News Headlines From LinuxInsider

For Personal Finance Tracking, You Can Bank on Eqonomize
(Posted 27-Jul-11)
http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/72949.html

Android Apps and the Honeycomb Holdup
(Posted 26-Jul-11)
http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/72946.html

Is Microsoft Linux's New BFF?
(Posted 25-Jul-11)
http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/72937.html

Mozilla to Enterprise: We Never Meant to Make You Cry
(Posted 22-Jul-11)
http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/72923.html

In a Flash, Adobe's 64-Bit Flash for Linux Is Back
(Posted 21-Jul-11)
http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/72917.html

This Week's Top News Headlines From MacNewsWorld

The Apple Heat Wave
(Posted 27-Jul-11)
http://www.macnewsworld.com/story/72952.html

Slim, Slick App Mobilizes Google+
(Posted 26-Jul-11)
http://www.macnewsworld.com/story/72942.html

Apple Sticks to Its User-Unfriendly Guns With New Rule
(Posted 25-Jul-11)
http://www.macnewsworld.com/story/72943.html

The iPhone 5: Surprise Me
(Posted 22-Jul-11)
http://www.macnewsworld.com/story/72927.html

Lion's Roar Is Powerful - and Disorienting
(Posted 21-Jul-11)
http://www.macnewsworld.com/story/72916.html

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Tech News Flash

Tech News Flash: Wednesday -- July 27, 2011

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Headline Scan
Microsoft Throws a Juicy Mango to Manufacturers
Kinder, Gentler Anons Call for PayPal Boycott
Luminate Appifies Web Images
Cyberwarfare Policy Should Make Enterprises Sweat the Insider Threat
For Personal Finance Tracking, You Can Bank on Eqonomize

Today's Story Highlights

Microsoft Throws a Juicy Mango to Manufacturers
Mango, the largest update yet to Microsoft's still-young Windows Phone 7
mobile OS, was released to manufacturers Tuesday in what the software
company called an "important milestone" in its fight to gain some ground
in the competitive smartphone marketplace. The update was first shown
off in May and is being viewed as a dramatic upgrade from the basic
Windows Phone 7 platform, released in 2010.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72956.html

Luminate Appifies Web Images
Luminate, formerly known as "Pixazza," has unveiled a new platform for
image apps. The apps available on the Luminate platform will allow
consumers to conduct activities such as shopping, sharing, commenting
and navigating directly from the image. The platform can also facilitate
new services made possible by the development of apps specifically for
images.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72957.html

Cyberwarfare Policy Should Make Enterprises Sweat the Insider Threat
The recent spearphishing attacks on security firm RSA and on the
International Monetary Fund are both suspected of being attacks by
foreign powers to steal data that could be used in a cyberoffensive
against the United States. In fact, the CIA website and the U.S. Senate
were also breached by the hacking group LulzSec, and government
contractors Lockheed Martin and Booz Allen Hamilton were attacked more
recently.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72954.html

For Personal Finance Tracking, You Can Bank on Eqonomize
Eqonomize is a personal accounting package that is fast becoming my app
of choice for all things financial. It is packed with features and is
simple to learn. Plus, its KDE interface makes it an ideal solution to
handle my small household economy. Keeping track of personal and
business finances is one of my essential computing tasks.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72949.html

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Tuesday, 26 July 2011

Tech News Flash

Tech News Flash: Tuesday -- July 26, 2011

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Headline Scan
Mozilla's Head Is in the Cloud With New Mobile OS Idea
Microsoft's Avatar Kinect: I Chat the Body Electric
Android Apps and the Honeycomb Holdup
Slim, Slick App Mobilizes Google+
Apple Comes In Like a Lion

Today's Story Highlights

Mozilla's Head Is in the Cloud With New Mobile OS Idea
The Mozilla Foundation is looking into creating a stand-alone mobile
operating system for the open Web. A team of programmers from the
organization has set up the Boot to Gecko project to work on this idea.
This OS is based on the notion that the Web can displace proprietary,
single-vendor stacks for application development.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72950.html

Microsoft's Avatar Kinect: I Chat the Body Electric
Microsoft on Monday released Avatar Kinect, a feature for the hands-free
controller that will let users set up a virtual presence to interact
with up to seven other friends in up to 24 virtual stages. Avatar Kinect
for the Xbox 360 is a chat service that will leverage the Kinect's
camera, which tracks users' gestures and facial expressions.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72944.html

Android Apps and the Honeycomb Holdup
Android Honeycomb tablets are now on store shelves and vendor websites.
Six months from Honeycomb's release, tablet makers have finally
optimized their hardware to fit the new made-for-tablets OS version to
their larger-than-smartphone screens. But where are the apps?
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72946.html

Slim, Slick App Mobilizes Google+
I'm not quite sure what I think about Google+ as a social network yet.
First, I'm not certain I need it. To the best of my knowledge, Facebook
has never wronged me severely enough to make me want to decamp. I'm also
withholding my opinion on its privacy options pending further
exploration, though I don't know whether they could possibly be more
labyrinthine than Facebook's.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72942.html

Apple Comes In Like a Lion
Apple finally pushed out a much-anticipated raft of new products this
week. Its new desktop OS, OS X Lion, had been promised for a July
release last month at the Worldwide Developers Conference, and some Mac
followers had been getting downright antsy for a new MacBook Air, which
also touched down.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72933.html

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Monday, 25 July 2011

Tech News Flash

Tech News Flash: Monday -- July 25, 2011

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Headline Scan
Google+ Name Game: Who Are the Biggest Losers?
Making Room for Android, Making Movies and Making Everything Secure
How Google Could Murder Your Digital Identity
SAS Survival Guide: Want to Stay Alive on the Edge?
Is Microsoft Linux's New BFF?

Podcast
Apple Comes In Like a Lion (12:32 minutes)
In this episode: Apple unleashes OS X Lion, its latest desktop operating
system, along with a MacBook Air refresh and a new Mac mini; Wall Street
pushes AAPL to new heights as the company reports on yet another
record-breaking quarter; Cupertino also wins a preliminary ITC judgment
against smartphone rival HTC regarding patent infringement; AT&T
weathers its first full quarter with Verizon as an iPhone competitor;
the News Corp. scandal proves too tempting for hacker group LulzSec to
resist; Anonymous hackers dig their way into NATO servers and access
classified documents.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/shared/audio/ect-recap-2011-07-22.mp3

Today's Story Highlights

Google+ Name Game: Who Are the Biggest Losers?
Google has begun cleaning up its recently launched Google+ service, and
in doing so, it's deleted some legitimate users' accounts. Those with
dumped accounts include a user calling himself "Dylan M," who has the
Twitter handle @thomasmonopoly, as well as Limor Fried, aka
"Ladyada."
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72941.html

Making Room for Android, Making Movies and Making Everything Secure
Occluded by the opposition and battered by poor financial results,
Research In Motion on Friday made announcements aimed at shoring up its
sagging fortunes. The mobile device maker announced it has received FIPS
140-2 certification from the United States National Institute of
Standards and Technology.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72936.html

How Google Could Murder Your Digital Identity
I'm in the midst of doing the biggest tablet review I've ever attempted,
and I have to admit I'm rather impressed with a number of the Android
offerings. The funny thing is, the ones closest to the phone work the
best, suggesting there is a bit of a Windows XP/Vista event going on in
this space. While I was doing this, I was sent a link to a Google
customer who got royally screwed.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72928.html

SAS Survival Guide: Want to Stay Alive on the Edge?
In the modern age, the closest many urbanite HDTV watchers come to
survival in the great outdoors is watching quasi-documentaries like
"Survivorman" or "Man vs. Wild." While I'm a fan of those shows, there's
so much entertainment mixed in that I'm not sure that I actually learn
all that much. Enter SAS Survival Guide, an app for the iPhone and iPod
touch.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72932.html

Is Microsoft Linux's New BFF?
Those of us who have been around the block a few times here in the Linux
blogosphere have seen it many times before: With one hand, Microsoft
holds out a small olive branch to the Linux community, while with the
other it prepares a new patent attack, posts a "cautionary" FUD-filled
video, or perpetrates some other kind of anti-FOSS mischief.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72937.html

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Friday, 22 July 2011

Tech News Flash

Tech News Flash: Friday -- July 22, 2011

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Headline Scan
What Does Google+ Want to Be When It Grows Up?
Tablets, Desktops, Notebooks: Who's Eating Whom?
The iPhone 5: Surprise Me
NATO Hack Shines Spotlight on Widespread Data Security Weaknesses
Seeking Tomorrow's Security Solutions Today, Part 1

Today's Story Highlights

What Does Google+ Want to Be When It Grows Up?
Membership in Google+, which was launched only about three weeks ago, is
soaring. Calculations by Comscore indicate the service had 20 million
visitors in just 21 days. Meanwhile, Google is reported to be preparing
to add a social gaming feature to the Google+ service in order to
attract even more subscribers and pose a stronger challenge to its
primary target, Facebook.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72930.html

Tablets, Desktops, Notebooks: Who's Eating Whom?
Eyebrows -- those highly mobile facial features that always get raised
when people are astonished -- got a good workout Tuesday at Apple's
quarterly earnings call. Apple COO Tim Cook surprised analysts by
stating that some customers are spending their money on iPads instead of
new Macs. There's long been suspicion that the iPad has been eating into
sales of laptop and desktop PCs.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72926.html

The iPhone 5: Surprise Me
If somebody asks me who makes the best-looking phone, I tell them it's
Samsung. The phones are sleek, stylish and light, and the Galaxy
smartphones and tablets always have a brilliant display. Despite that,
the iPhone 4 is still great, and my lean toward Apple is just too strong
to permit me to do anything more with a Samsung phone than just mess
around for a while. Yeah, I love my iPhone, and I want to keep it.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72927.html

NATO Hack Shines Spotlight on Widespread Data Security Weaknesses
Days after the FBI arrested a number of alleged members of the hacking
group Anonymous, the hackers struck again. They claim to have stolen a
gigabyte of information from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The
group alerted the world to its latest activities via a series of tweets,
including one with a link to a PDF file as evidence it had the stolen
information.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72924.html

Seeking Tomorrow's Security Solutions Today, Part 1
The growing consumerization of IT, the rapid pace of change in
technology, the rise of new variants of malware, and the hack attacks
carried out by cybercommunities such as LulzSec and Anonymous are
putting enterprise IT under tremendous pressure. Users are increasingly
bringing in their own devices for use in the enterprise, keeping IT on
the hop.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72913.html

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Thursday, 21 July 2011

Tech News Flash

Tech News Flash: Thursday -- July 21, 2011

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Headline Scan
Scientists Untangle Tough Quantum Computing Knot
Labs Go Dark as Google Puts Away Childish Things
In a Flash, Adobe's 64-Bit Flash for Linux Is Back
Lion's Roar Is Powerful - and Disorienting
Lenovo's Tablet Trio to Take On the iPad

Podcast
Tearing Down Silos With Holistic ALM (15:56 minutes)
In order to address shortcomings with application performance and
availability, "we started looking at the technology silos and bringing
them together in one holistic perspective," said Blue Cross and Blue
Shield's Victor Miller. To begin addressing the problems, "we had to
break down the technology silos and really focus on the whole picture of
the application, and not just the individual components of the applications.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/shared/audio/ect-gardner-2011-07-18.mp3

Today's Story Highlights

Scientists Untangle Tough Quantum Computing Knot
A team of scientists has achieved what might prove to be a breakthrough
in quantum computing. The group has managed to partially suppress
quantum decoherence, one of the major obstacles to quantum computing, by
using crystalline molecular magnets. Decoherence, which is a much-
debated topic, is believed to be the loss of information from a system
into the environment that fixes a system into one state.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72922.html

Labs Go Dark as Google Puts Away Childish Things
In a continuing effort to streamline product development, Google
announced Wednesday the company will be shutting down its Google Labs
project. The Google Labs initiative was the tech giant's testing
facility, where employees and engineers were given creative freedom to
tinker with experimental projects that perhaps didn't necessarily fall
within their job descriptions.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72919.html

In a Flash, Adobe's 64-Bit Flash for Linux Is Back
It was only a month ago that Adobe cut off Linux's AIR, so bloggers may
be excused if they were a bit surprised by last week's news. Namely? In
yet another twist in the company's on-again/off-again relationship with
our favorite open source operating system -- a roller-coaster ride that
involved taking away 64-bit Flash for Linux last year -- Adobe has now
apparently seen fit to bring it back again.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72917.html

Lion's Roar Is Powerful - and Disorienting
There's a lot to love and like about Mac OS X Lion, but it's far more
disorienting and confusing than I ever imagined. I've been using Macs
since the early 1990s, and I faithfully upgrade to new versions of the
operating system quickly. The original Mac OS X was a pretty big leap,
but Lion, it sure seems now, offers more in the way of interaction
transformation than I ever expected.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72916.html

Lenovo's Tablet Trio to Take On the iPad
Lenovo unveiled its first round of tablets on Wednesday: the IdeaPad K1
for consumers; the ThinkPad for business customers; and the Windows 7-
powered IdeaPad P1 for home and office use. The IdeaPad K1 and ThinkPad
tablets are the first Lenovo mobile Internet devices to feature the
Android 3.1, or Honeycomb, platform.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72910.html

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Wednesday, 20 July 2011

ECT News Network Weekly Newsletter

ECT News Network Weekly Newsletter: Wednesday -- July 20, 2011

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

Isis Slips Visa, MC and AmEx Into Its Virtual Wallet
(Posted 20-Jul-11)
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/72911.html

Facebook's Rock Bottom Satisfaction Score Leaves Opening for Google+
(Posted 19-Jul-11)
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/72897.html

Amazon Lightens Textbook Load With E-Book Rentals
(Posted 18-Jul-11)
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/72892.html

Make Way for T-Commerce
(Posted 16-Jul-11)
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/72884.html

Google: Everything's Coming Up Pluses
(Posted 15-Jul-11)
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/72885.html

Spotify's Slow Boat Reaches US Shores
(Posted 14-Jul-11)
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/72872.html

This Week's Top News Headlines From TechNewsWorld

Lenovo's Tablet Trio to Take On the iPad
(Posted 20-Jul-11)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72910.html

5 Things You Can Do Right Now to Boost Your Social Engineering Immunity
(Posted 19-Jul-11)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72891.html

Those Crazy People Running the US Government and News Corp. Need New
Jobs
(Posted 18-Jul-11)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72877.html

The Swedish Invasion
(Posted 16-Jul-11)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72882.html

Pentagon Rattles Its Cyber-Saber
(Posted 15-Jul-11)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72880.html

Android's Got Zitmos All Over the Place
(Posted 14-Jul-11)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72873.html

This Week's Top News Headlines From CRM Buyer

The Coming Age of Curation
(Posted 20-Jul-11)
http://www.crmbuyer.com/story/72899.html

Money Crunch Will Change the Way Federal Agencies Acquire IT
(Posted 19-Jul-11)
http://www.crmbuyer.com/story/72896.html

7 Reasons to Embrace MAM for 'Glocal' Marketing
(Posted 18-Jul-11)
http://www.crmbuyer.com/story/72888.html

Aprimo's Marketing App Gets Mobile Chops
(Posted 15-Jul-11)
http://www.crmbuyer.com/story/72868.html

Seeing Yourself Through Others' Eyes, Social CRM-Style
(Posted 14-Jul-11)
http://www.crmbuyer.com/story/72866.html

This Week's Top News Headlines From LinuxInsider

Disk Usage Analyzer Has a Keen Eye for Sizing Up Space
(Posted 20-Jul-11)
http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/72905.html

Google Sweetens the Android Pot With Honeycomb 3.2 SDK
(Posted 19-Jul-11)
http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/72895.html

Discordant Notes Surround IBM's Symphony Move
(Posted 18-Jul-11)
http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/72887.html

Google's Java Jam
(Posted 15-Jul-11)
http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/72871.html

Linux in Cars, or Why Toyota Chose Freedom
(Posted 14-Jul-11)
http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/72867.html

This Week's Top News Headlines From MacNewsWorld

Apple Unleashes the Lion and Electrifies the Air
(Posted 20-Jul-11)
http://www.macnewsworld.com/story/72909.html

New 'Monopoly' Edition: Names Change, Game Remains the Same
(Posted 19-Jul-11)
http://www.macnewsworld.com/story/72889.html

Dragon Go Burns Its Way to the Top of the Mobile Search Heap
(Posted 18-Jul-11)
http://www.macnewsworld.com/story/72881.html

Igniting the Mac-at-Work Revolution
(Posted 15-Jul-11)
http://www.macnewsworld.com/story/72876.html

Netflix's Rate Hike Gives iTunes a New Glow
(Posted 14-Jul-11)
http://www.macnewsworld.com/story/72865.html

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Tech News Flash: Wednesday -- July 20, 2011

TechNewsWorld -- All Tech - All The Time
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Headline Scan
Why Do Email Links Feel So Right When They Do Such Wrong?
Apple Unleashes the Lion and Electrifies the Air
Disk Usage Analyzer Has a Keen Eye for Sizing Up Space
America: It's Time to Snap Out of the Pro-Death Trance
FBI's Anonymous Catch May Be Small Fry

Today's Story Highlights

Why Do Email Links Feel So Right When They Do Such Wrong?
For years, security vendors have warned users to be careful about
unsolicited emails. Clicking on embedded links in these emails, they
say, could be dangerous, as could opening attachments that come with
them. That includes emails purporting to be from couriers such as DHL
and UPS, which could in fact come from malicious hackers and have
attachments that are actually malware.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72903.html

Apple Unleashes the Lion and Electrifies the Air
Apple released its long-awaited Mac OS X Lion operating system
Wednesday, together with a lineup of new MacBook Airs, a refresh to the
Mac mini line, and the world's first display using the next-generation
Thunderbolt port. Thunderbolt technology will offer up to 10 Gbps of
access speed in each direction simultaneously over one cable.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72909.html

Disk Usage Analyzer Has a Keen Eye for Sizing Up Space
When I first left the Big Blue OS behind for the world of Linux, I
wallowed in guesses over how my disk space was filling up. One thing
that was hard to replace from my Windows XP days was the colorful pie
chart of disk ingredients that resulted from right-clicking the lettered
drive names. Linux offers numerous solutions for guessing at the amount
of space consumed.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72905.html

America: It's Time to Snap Out of the Pro-Death Trance
A Swedish hospital recently announced that a cancer patient was saved
after doctors grew him a new windpipe in the lab using a synthetic
structure and the man's own stem cells. That might have sounded like
science fiction just a few years ago, but today it is landmark news.
Regenerative medicine has the ability to usher in radically longer and
healthier lives, yet few are considering the implications.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72907.html

FBI's Anonymous Catch May Be Small Fry
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has initiated a nationwide sweep
targeting the hacking group "Anonymous." Armed with some 30 to 40
subpoenas, the FBI reportedly raided homes in New York, New Jersey,
California and Florida, arresting at least 16 suspects. "Yes, a number
of law enforcement actions have taken place throughout the U.S. today,"
confirmed FBI spokesperson Bill Carter.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72902.html

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