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Tech News Flash: Friday -- October 21, 2011

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Headline Scan
Irish Authorities to Investigate Facebook's 'Shadow Profiles'
Scientists Have Fun With Quantum Levitation
iPhone 4S Dissection: Gutsier Guts for the Money
Titanium Backup Pro Makes Moving Apps a Snap
LA's Google Apps Rollout Hits the Skids

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Podcast
Will Microsoft Get Lucky With Yahoo? (13:16 minutes)
In this episode: Microsoft may once again be interested in Yahoo now
that the ailing Web empire could be acquired for significantly less than
the $47 billion Redmond tried to pay for it in 2008; Google is
reportedly readying a new online music store, though it may have some
kinks to work out with record labels; Apple scores some big wins in its
international patent war with Samsung; Wall Street cringes at last
quarter's iPhone sales despite a more recent iPhone 4S sales bonanza;
RIM and Google preview what's to come with their next mobile OSes -- BBX
and Ice Cream Sandwich, respectively.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/shared/audio/ect-recap-2011-10-21.mp3

Today's Story Highlights

Irish Authorities to Investigate Facebook's 'Shadow Profiles'
The Office of the Data Protection Commissioner of Ireland will launch a
"comprehensive audit" of Facebook Ireland before the end of the month,
DPC spokesperson Ciara O'Sullivan told TechNewsWorld on Friday. The
audit will assess Facebook's compliance with the requirements of the
Irish Data Protection Acts as they apply to its users outside of the
U.S. and Canada.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/73563.html

Scientists Have Fun With Quantum Levitation
"Quantum levitation" may not be a household term, but one look at a
YouTube video now nearing 3 million views, and you'll soon get the gist
of what's going on. In essence, it's a thin but solid disc floating in
mid-air. Magic and science fiction might be what spring to mind, but in
fact what's being demonstrated is real, live science.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/73556.html

iPhone 4S Dissection: Gutsier Guts for the Money
While making weighty hardware improvements in the iPhone 4S, Apple has
managed to keep the costs of producing the phone flat. That's what the
results of a teardown of the phone released Thursday by IHS iSuppli
revealed. Teardowns take a product apart piece by piece to analyze its
components. In the iSuppli teardown, the firm estimated that the total
cost of the parts that went into a 16 GB iPhone 4S amounted to $188.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/73559.html

Titanium Backup Pro Makes Moving Apps a Snap
Anyone who's gone through the painful task of buying a new smartphone
knows that the process of re-installing apps and getting the phone
configured just-so is a major job. While the Android Market does keep a
list of your apps in its library, automatic syncing is hit-or-miss. You
can manually send each app to the new device with a desktop Web browser,
but that's time-consuming.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/73544.html

LA's Google Apps Rollout Hits the Skids
Google Apps seems to have stubbed its toe in providing services to the
30,000 employees of the city of Los Angeles. Google and CSC, which had
contracted to implement Google Apps in the city's IT infrastructure in
2009, have apparently failed to meet security requirements as promised,
and the city is out for blood.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/73557.html

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