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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

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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

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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