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Tech News Flash: Friday -- July 1, 2011

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Headline Scan
Gmail Goes Under the Knife, Other G Products Next in Line
Google+ Doesn't Quite Add Up to a Social Powerhouse
New Botnet: The Horror of the Many-Headed Hydra
Can Apple Learn a Thing or Two About Handset Design?
Google+ Privacy Complaints - Faint Voices in the Wilderness?

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Podcast
Google's Social Blowout (14:35 minutes)
In this episode: Google gives social networking another go with Google+;
Amazon swiftly severs ties with its California affiliates immediately
after the state enacts a law that would turn many online retailers into
California state sales tax collectors; the U.S. Supreme Court strikes
down a state law that would impose criminal penalties on video game
vendors caught selling violent games to minors; News Corp. boots MySpace
out of the house after six years and hundreds of millions of dollars in
losses; Microsoft sends its latest set of office tools skyward.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/shared/audio/ect-recap-2011-07-01.mp3

Today's Story Highlights

Gmail Goes Under the Knife, Other G Products Next in Line
Google is making over the interface on its Gmail email service as part
of a larger overhaul of the look and feel of all its offerings. The
renovation project will be ongoing over the next several months,
according to Chris Wiggins, creative director of digital at Google.
Google's emphasis in the redesign will be on focus, elasticity and
effortlessness.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72793.html

Google+ Doesn't Quite Add Up to a Social Powerhouse
Fresh off failure from its first social network attempt, Google decided
it'd give the tech trend another shot and launched Google+, the
company's hope for rivaling networking leaders Facebook, Twitter and
LinkedIn. I was lucky enough to be able to give Google+ a trial run and
play around with the site before unlimited users are allowed in.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72791.html

New Botnet: The Horror of the Many-Headed Hydra
A new malware package is running wild on the Internet, according to
Kaspersky Labs, and its creators are attempting to create an
indestructible herd of zombified machines. The botnet has been dubbed
"TDL-4," which Kaspersky describes as "the most sophisticated threat
today." The creators use the same methods as legitimate Web-based
businesses to spread -- they pay affiliates to install the malware.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72786.html

Can Apple Learn a Thing or Two About Handset Design?
With the highly anticipated iPhone 5 coming out soon, predictions of new
features are everywhere. Though Apple is quick to sue copycats looking
to improve their products by adding Apple-inspired features, it might
not be a bad idea for the company to ask itself, "who can we copy?"
Upgrading features is not exactly copying, though -- it's more like a
natural progression.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72789.html

Google+ Privacy Complaints - Faint Voices in the Wilderness?
Not even 24 hours had passed following Google's sneak preview of its new
social networking initiative -- Google+ -- before the grumbling began.
Briefly, one of the key features of the service, which is still in
field-test mode, is +Circles, which allows users to group people into
different classes or categories such as work friends, family and so on.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72784.html

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