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Is Amazon Shopping for WebOS?
DoJ Doc Reveals Cellphone Providers' Long, Long Memories
The Kindle Fire's Browser: Mostly Smooth as Silk
Giving a Clunky Old CMS the WordPress Treatment
Reps Call on FTC to Probe Facebook's Fast-and-Loose Privacy Practices

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Podcast
Amazon's Kindle Catches Fire (12:59 minutes)
In this episode: Amazon reveals the Kindle Fire, a 7-inch Android
tablet that sells for $199; reports of Apple scaling back iPad
production raise questions of whether the company's scared of Amazon's
tablet; RIM's gloom continues as activist investor Carl Icahn reportedly
shows up on its radar; Facebook takes flack for putting cookies on
users' browsers that could allow the network to track activities even
after a member has signed off the site; Microsoft bags Samsung in its
hunt for Android patent profits.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/shared/audio/ect-recap-2011-09-30.mp3

Today's Story Highlights

Is Amazon Shopping for WebOS?
In the wake of Amazon's launch of its Kindle Fire tablet on Wednesday,
the company's reportedly looking at buying the Palm webOS operating
system from ailing HP. Amazon spent quite a bit of time, effort and
money tweaking Android for the Kindle Fire, which reportedly presold
95,000 units on its first day. So why would it think of getting a new
operating system?
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/73401.html

DoJ Doc Reveals Cellphone Providers' Long, Long Memories
A recently revealed U.S. Department of Justice document has provided
details about what kind of usage information is retained by the nation's
largest mobile phone providers, as well as how long they retain it. In
some cases, information is stored for many years. The document, a
single-paged memo, was obtained by the North Carolina ACLU.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/73400.html

The Kindle Fire's Browser: Mostly Smooth as Silk
The Kindle Fire made its big debut this week as Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos
introduced the tablet along with other new members of the Kindle family
on Wednesday. The Fire's been touted as a challenger to the Apple iPad,
but the real threat to Apple's iconic tablet may come from the Silk
browser that will run on the Fire.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/73395.html

Giving a Clunky Old CMS the WordPress Treatment
When it became clear eMusic's old, custom-built content management
system was becoming a drag on the company, the search was on for a
replacement. WordPress offered an open source tool with a passionate
developer community. The CMS switch worked out well for eMusic in the
end, but it wasn't always easy. Here are some lessons learned in the
process.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/73391.html

Reps Call on FTC to Probe Facebook's Fast-and-Loose Privacy Practices
Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., and Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, co-chairmen of
the Congressional Bi-Partisan Privacy Caucus, have sent a letter to Joe
Leibowitz, chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, addressing
Facebook's use of cookies to gather information from members who surf
the 905,000 sites that display its "like" button.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/73390.html

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