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Headline Scan
Can a Software Update Quench Kindle Firestorm?
Google's Native Client Makes Web Apps More Desktoppy
Google+ Tiptoes Into Facial Recognition Territory
The Evolution of Online Data Access: Keeping It Secure
IBM's Watson: Why Politicians Will Hate It but We May Love It
Microsoft's Windows Store: FOSS Welcome Here
Blood & Glory Delivers the Goods but Might Bleed Your Wallet Dry
Motorola Bests Apple in German Patent Fight
WebOS Crawls Out of Purgatory and Into Open Source
BYOD and IT: The Tail Wagging the Dog?

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Twitter Rolls the Dice (11:19 minutes)
In this episode: Twitter takes a gamble on a major redesign that will
give users more options but could strike some as overly complicated;
RedBox reportedly teams up with Verizon to build Zoetrope, a video
streaming and download service; RIM renames its upcoming OS "BlackBerry
10" after a setback in its fight for the name "BBX"; Google pulls Wallet
functionality from the Verizon edition of the hotly anticipated Galaxy
Nexus phone; websites of all varieties snap up .xxx domains the moment
they go on sale.

http://www.ecommercetimes.com/shared/audio/ect-recap-2011-12-09.mp3

Today's Story Highlights

Can a Software Update Quench Kindle Firestorm?
Amazon.com will release a software update for the Kindle Fire in about
two weeks, according to company spokesperson Kinley Pearsall. "We're
rolling out an over-the-air update ... that will improve performance,
touch navigation, and give customers the option to choose what items
display on the carousel," Pearsall elaborated.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/73951.html

Google's Native Client Makes Web Apps More Desktoppy
Google showed off the results of its Native Client SDK at an in-house
event recently, highlighting some of the ways early adopters such as
Square Enix, Unity Technologies and Bungie have used the Web development
technology. Google originally launched the Native Client SDK in beta
toward the end of last summer in an effort to integrate Web-building
tools with compiled code in one easy-to-use browser.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/73949.html

Google+ Tiptoes Into Facial Recognition Territory
Google+Photos is adding facial recognition technology that will let
users be tagged automatically in photos. To pre-empt privacy concerns,
Google has made the feature opt-in, said Matt Steiner, engineering lead
on the Google+ Photos team. For it to work, the user must turn on the
new "Find My Face" feature in the Google+ settings.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/73948.html

The Evolution of Online Data Access: Keeping It Secure
In today's reality of numerous high-profile data thefts, the last thing
IT managers or department heads need is their company becoming part of
the news headlines and the next big data breach. Thankfully, there is no
shortage of solutions and techniques to consider for maintaining data
security.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/73941.html

IBM's Watson: Why Politicians Will Hate It but We May Love It
IBM's Watson supercomputer became famous when it beat the top "Jeopardy"
champions on TV. What folks didn't know is that Watson did that with
significant handicaps that wouldn't be applied were the same system
actually deployed to answer real questions. What Watson is particularly
good at is providing the right answers to questions, which apparently,
humans (at least, individually) are really bad at.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/73940.html

Microsoft's Windows Store: FOSS Welcome Here
Here in the world of FOSS, watching Microsoft can be like riding on the
proverbial roller-coaster, with no shortage of ups and downs. Sometimes
-- like pretty much all the time when it comes to Android, for example
-- things look pretty bad. Other times, however, there can appear faint
glimmers of hope. Such was the case just last week, in fact, when
Redmond began to reveal details about its upcoming Windows Store.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/73946.html

Blood & Glory Delivers the Goods but Might Bleed Your Wallet Dry
When I stumbled across the iPhone and iPad game "Blood & Glory," I
instantly got the feeling that it was like "Infinity Blade," the popular
fantasy slasher fighting game. That alone wasn't enough to pique my
interest, but when I saw that it was free, sported lush graphics, and
had an eye-popping 43,000 customer ratings with a five-star average, I
had to download the 111 MB beast and take a look for myself.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/73936.html

Motorola Bests Apple in German Patent Fight
A regional court in Mannheim, Germany, has ruled in favor of Motorola
Mobility in one of several patent infringement lawsuits the company has
brought against Apple in the country. This relates to European Patent
1010336, which covers a technology that's essential to wireless
communications.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/73935.html

WebOS Crawls Out of Purgatory and Into Open Source
HP announced Friday it will contribute webOS to the open source
community. The decision seals the fate of the operating system, which HP
acquired when it purchased Palm for $1.2 billion in April 2010. Since
then, the Pre smartphone line running webOS flickered out, and HP's
TouchPad tablet, launched in July, only took off when production was
discontinued and prices sank to $99.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/73937.html

BYOD and IT: The Tail Wagging the Dog?
There was perhaps no hotter topic in 2011 than the consumerization of
IT, and for good reason. The rise of personal technology -- smartphones,
tablets, storage devices and cloud services -- has forced the hand of IT
departments across every industry sector, from SMB to enterprise.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/73932.html

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