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Tech News Flash: Monday -- October 3, 2011

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Headline Scan
Facebook's Timeline Tension
What iPhones May Come
Amazon and Microsoft Take the Battle to Google
From Moblin to MeeGo to Tizen, Oh My!
Color Splash Is a One-Trick Pony, but It's a Beautiful Trick

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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

Facebook's Timeline Tension
Facebook's Timeline feature has been a focus of controversy since it was
announced by CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the company's f8 developers'
conference last month in San Francisco. Privacy advocates immediately
raised concerns. A coalition of 10 privacy and consumer groups has
written to the Federal Trade Commission pointing out the security and
privacy risks posed by Facebook features like Timeline.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/73409.html

What iPhones May Come
Invitations to Apple's big Tuesday iPhone event started going out last
week, and since the notoriously tight-lipped Apple has managed to keep
facts about its next smartphone scarce, the new technologies and
design the device will feature are anyone's guess. There are even
questions regarding just how many new handsets the public will see
Tuesday.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/73410.html

Amazon and Microsoft Take the Battle to Google
Windows Phone Mango and Kindle Fire represent far more of a threat to
Google than to Apple. The first appears to be a better alternative than
Android currently is, and the second basically usurps Google's control
over its own OS to build a better competitor. That is far more
embarrassing to Google and its model, because it makes the firm look
like it is made up of idiots who can't protect their own IP.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/73398.html

From Moblin to MeeGo to Tizen, Oh My!
"Moblin, Maemo, Meego, Tizen in less than 2 years? STOP ALREADY!"
exclaimed Slashdot blogger Barbara Hudson. "Nobody cares. Really. All
this latest name change does is shout 'Disorganized!'" ... "They should
have just renamed Meego 'Me-gone' and been done with it. Going by past
performance, it's only a matter of time before tizen becomes tiz-ain't."
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/73406.html

Color Splash Is a One-Trick Pony, but It's a Beautiful Trick
One of the things I like most about the Apple App Store for iOS -- and
now, the Apple Mac App Store -- is that you can find and buy highly
focused apps that just do one cool thing. Instead of shelling out for a
powerful application with features you won't ever need, much less truly
understand, you can buy a simple app, for example, that turns your
snapshots into black and white marvels with a spritz of color.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/73399.html

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