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Tech News Flash: Friday -- July 8, 2011

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Toshiba Thrive Arrives on App-Starved Honeycomb Scene
Time for Video Chat's Big Close-up?
iOS Jailbreakers Dig Up a Wormy Little Exploit
What the World's Fastest Systems Say About Linux
iCloud's Dark Security Lining

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Podcast
The Revolution Will Be Video-Chatted (13:40 minutes)
In this episode: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg becomes an instant hit on
Google+, racking up 30,000 followers just days after the new social
network launches; meanwhile, Zuckerberg's own company reveals a new
video chat utility in cooperation with Skype, mirroring Google+'s use of
video chat tech for its Hangouts feature; Microsoft inks a deal with
Chinese search powerhouse Baidu to handle its English-speaking users'
queries via Bing; Amazon offers an unlimited music locker in the
cloud; speculation arises concerning yet another U.S. wireless carrier
on the horizon for iPhone.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/shared/audio/ect-recap-2011-07-08.mp3

Today's Story Highlights

Toshiba Thrive Arrives on App-Starved Honeycomb Scene
Electronics mega-retailer Best Buy will carry the Toshiba Thrive Android
tablet at its online and brick-and-mortar stores this weekend. "I can
confirm that we're going to have in-store availability starting July
10," Best Buy spokesperson Jeremy Baier told TechNewsWorld. The Thrive
runs Android 3.1 Honeycomb and is offered in three models, with 8 GB,
16 GB and 32 GB of storage.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72832.html

Time for Video Chat's Big Close-up?
As Facebook announced on Wednesday that its subscribers will be able to
launch video chats from its site using Skype technology, one sentence --
written by Philip Su, an engineer on Facebook's video calling team --
stood out in particular. "Video chat has been around for years now, but
it's still not an everyday activity for most people," Su wrote.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72827.html

iOS Jailbreakers Dig Up a Wormy Little Exploit
Zero-day vulnerabilities in Apple's iOS that are used to jailbreak
iPhones and iPads could also be used to access confidential information,
according to the German Federal Office for Information Security. The
bug, exposed by a team of hackers at JailbreakMe.com, exploits
vulnerabilities on PDFs.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72835.html

What the World's Fastest Systems Say About Linux
I've been tracking the Top500 Supercomputer List with a particular eye
on Linux for some time now, highlighting how Linux continues to power
the majority of the world's fastest supercomputing systems. So it's no
surprise to see continued dominance for Linux, but there are some
interesting changes every six months when the new fastest supercomputer
system list comes out.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72830.html

iCloud's Dark Security Lining
Apple's announcement of its upcoming iCloud service has sparked a flurry
of excitement in the industry. Some expect the iCloud will help Apple
keep customers closer to its bosom -- make them "stickier," in
analystspeak. Others think the iCloud will give a boost to cloud
computing. The iCloud will automate the backup and storage of data --
music, photos and what-have-you -- and make it easy to set up new
iDevices.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72825.html

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