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Tech News Flash: Tuesday -- October 4, 2011

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Zune's Flesh Is Weak, but Its Spirit Is Willing
Facebook Enlists Websense for Neighborhood Watch
HTC's on the Hotseat for Allowing Critical Smartphone Security Flaw
GoodPlayer: The Stronger, Faster, Pricier Media Player
Kindle Touch 3G: A Step Up and a Step Down

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Today's Story Highlights

Zune's Flesh Is Weak, but Its Spirit Is Willing
Five years after it first launched its Zune portable digital media
player, Microsoft has reportedly decided to stop making the device.
However, it will apparently continue to offer the Zune music and media
service on Windows Phone 7 smartphones, as well as the Xbox 360.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/73423.html

Facebook Enlists Websense for Neighborhood Watch
Facebook, long a darling of cybercriminals looking to lure in
unsuspecting cybersocializers, has partnered with content security
vendor Websense to help protect members from links that lead to malware
and malicious sites. That may prove good news to corporations, where
many IT managers consider employees' use of social media a security
threat but where few of them do much about it.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/73416.html

HTC's on the Hotseat for Allowing Critical Smartphone Security Flaw
A vulnerability in a logging tool that HTC has installed on some of its
Android devices poses a serious security problem for users. The devices
at risk are the Evo 3D, Evo 4G and Thunderbolt. The vulnerability allows
hackers to collect a great deal of information about the device and its
user -- information that the smartphone has been collecting for HTC --
if the user downloads certain malware designed for this purpose.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/73418.html

GoodPlayer: The Stronger, Faster, Pricier Media Player
Long ago, I reviewed an app called "VLC Media Player," and though I was
less than amazed by the app's performance at the time, I'll admit that
it grew on me. VLC made it easy to play a wide variety of videos on an
iPhone without futzing with an MP4 converter. You could just load up
videos through iTunes directly to VLC, then play them regardless of what
format you were dealing with.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/73413.html

Kindle Touch 3G: A Step Up and a Step Down
Turns out there is a catch with the Kindle Touch 3G Amazon announced on
Wednesday. The Touch 3G offers the addition of 3G wireless connectivity
and sells for $149 -- $50 more than the Kindle Touch, which allows Web
access over WiFi networks only. However, when you're using the 3G
connectivity you can only access Amazon's Kindle Store and Wikipedia.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/73412.html

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