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Tech News Flash: Monday -- September 12, 2011

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Headline Scan
AT&T Plans Mango Feast
Can an Anti-Child Porn Bill Go Too Far?
Passion Is the Thin Line Between Success and Failure
Linux and the Giant Breach
Scan: A Neat Way to Solve the Mysteries of QR Codes

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Podcast
Can Yahoo Escape the Valley of the Dulls? (11:38 minutes)
In this episode: Carol Bartz is fired from her position as CEO of Yahoo
as the company remains in a years-long rut; AT&T weighs its options in
light of the lawsuit the U.S. Department of Justice filed to block the
company's purchase of T-Mobile; Sprint attempts to further stifle AT&T's
efforts with a lawsuit of its own; Groupon reportedly gets cold feet
regarding its planned initial public offering; a judge significantly
reduces the damages SAP must pay Oracle over the TomorrowNow incident.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/shared/audio/ect-recap-2011-09-09.mp3

Today's Story Highlights

AT&T Plans Mango Feast
AT&T announced on Monday that it would add three new 4G smartphones
running Windows Phone 7.5, aka "Mango," in the fourth quarter. It also
pledged to update existing WinPho7 devices to Mango this fall. The three
new devices are the HTC Titan, with a 4.7-inch screen; the Samsung Focus
S, with a 4.3-inch display; and the Samsung Focus Flash, with a 3.7-inch
screen.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/73262.html

Can an Anti-Child Porn Bill Go Too Far?
H.R. 1981, a U.S. federal bill which apparently seeks to combat child
pornography, has stirred up opposition from various lawmakers as well as
civil rights groups. The proposed law, introduced in May and now under
consideration in Congress, is the joint creation of Rep. Lamar Smith, R-
Texas, and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/73259.html

Passion Is the Thin Line Between Success and Failure
Carol Bartz got fired last week -- the Yahoo Board handled it badly, and
she went ugly. Steve Ballmer is also seen as a failure both inside and
outside Microsoft, and it is widely held that the only reason he hasn't
been fired is that he and his best friend, Bill Gates, own the Microsoft
Board. President Obama's approval ratings indicate that if the U.S.
could "Bartz" him, we would.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/73252.html

Linux and the Giant Breach
Security scares are so commonplace in the tech industry today that it's
virtually impossible to keep track of them all. Security scares in the
Linux world, however, are still rare enough as to cause at least a small
collective gasp of consternation. That, indeed, is just what happened
recently when it was discovered that the Kernel.org site had been
breached last month.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/73261.html

Scan: A Neat Way to Solve the Mysteries of QR Codes
As you are out and about, walking around the world, if you ever bother
to look up from the screen on your iPhone, you've probably seen a QR
code -- a black and white square with three ringed black squares in the
corners and a bunch of seemingly random white and black pixels scattered
all over it.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/73256.html

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