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Tech News Flash: Tuesday -- August 23, 2011

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RIM Throws Smartphone Newbies a Curve
Hacker Smack Talk Escalates
Minimash: The Lazy DJ's Friend
It's a Roll of the Dice for Linux Game Makers
SMBs, the Cloud and the Difference Between Disaster and Recovery

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Today's Story Highlights

RIM Throws Smartphone Newbies a Curve
In the wake of its largest-ever global launch of smartphones earlier
this month, Research In Motion on Tuesday announced three new BlackBerry
Curve devices. These -- the Curve 9350, 9360 and 9370 -- run the
BlackBerry 7 operating system. They are aimed at the newbie smartphone
user and have an optical trackpad in addition to the standard BlackBery
keypad.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/73131.html

Hacker Smack Talk Escalates
This past week saw considerable hacker activity: AntiSec released to the
Internet 1 GB worth of emails and documents stolen from the account of
VanGuard Defense Industries SVP Richard Garcia. A related hacker
community, Anonymous, hacked into the servers of the BART Police
Officers' Association. Anonymous also breached the servers of another
BART website, releasing data on about 2,000 BART riders.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/73128.html

Minimash: The Lazy DJ's Friend
Earlier in the year I reviewed an app called "Tap DJ," a set of virtual
turntables for mixing songs on an iPhone. I had some good things to say
about it, but on the downside, I thought the controls were too difficult
to manage on a small touchscreen. Really good DJs aren't just standing
there slapping turntables and flipping switches at random; it takes a
lot of finesse to produce sound that doesn't cause physical nausea.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/73122.html

It's a Roll of the Dice for Linux Game Makers
If you had the option to pick your own price for a computer game that
only runs on your Linux rig, would you pay to play? Not if you are a
typical Linux gamer. At least, that's the popular perception of fans of
free and open source software. Linux is available freely. So why pay for
a game -- or any other Linux app -- when the FOSS mantra is based on a
no-cost buy-in?
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/73121.html

SMBs, the Cloud and the Difference Between Disaster and Recovery
Many small-business owners may not realize that the cloud plays a big
role in their business operations, and its importance is growing every
day. I'm often asked, "What exactly is the cloud, and why does my
company need it?" Simply put, the cloud hosts resources and applications
that are accessed through the Internet.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/73114.html

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