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Tech News Flash: Monday -- October 24, 2011

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FoamBot Builds Baby Bots for Any Occasion
Verizon Dulls Razr
Gates, Palmisano or Branson for President
All About Jobs and Hiring in Linux Land
SkyView: A Jam-Packed, Reality-Augmenting Key to the Sky

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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

FoamBot Builds Baby Bots for Any Occasion
Those tactical robots some police departments use to deal with dangerous
situations are great, but they have one drawback -- they're specialized
and so are limited to a few uses. What if a police or fire department
could create a bunch of robots as needed for different uses? That's the
idea the University of Pennsylvania's ModLab goes after with its
FoamBot.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/73569.html

Verizon Dulls Razr
Verizon Wireless has disabled the bootloader unlock feature in the
software on the Droid Razr, the Android smartphone that Motorola
unveiled last week. Motorola had shipped the Droid Razr with a
bootloader that can be unlocked and relocked, company spokesperson Becki
Leonard told LinuxInsider.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/73577.html

Gates, Palmisano or Branson for President
With the U.S. elections ramping up and IBM's 100-year anniversary event
in New York focusing like a laser on what makes a good leader, I'm
finding it hard not to compare both the incumbent and Republican
challengers to the top leaders in technology and find them wanting. I'm
starting to wonder if the problem that the U.S. and most democratic
countries have is lack of a clear definition of what is needed in a
leader.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/73542.html

All About Jobs and Hiring in Linux Land
Well it's been a busy month of October here in the Linux blogosphere.
There's been the ongoing Windows 8 secure boot saga -- which just last
week gained the voice of the Free Software Foundation. There's also been
the long-awaited arrival of Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot," with all the
associated angst about Unity and Linux desktops.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/73571.html

SkyView: A Jam-Packed, Reality-Augmenting Key to the Sky
Even if you don't care about stars, planets, satellites and other
celestial objects in the night sky, this point alone may sway you to
take a look anyway: SkyView -- Explore the Universe, an app by Terminal
Eleven LLC, has a solid five-star rating by users in the Apple App
Store. Not 4 or 4.5. All those little stars are filled in with color.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/73564.html

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