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Tech News Flash: Monday -- January 30, 2012

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New Email Spec Aims to Tangle Phishing Lines
Nintendo Greases Wii U Wheels
FBI Looking to 'Friend' Terrorists
Ubuntu's New 'HUD' Factor: A Step Forward or Back?
Apple's Textbooks Improve Everything but the Text
Microsoft's Misunderstood 'Avoid-Ghetto' Tech
Twitter Builds a Better Gagger
FBI's Most Wanted: A Social Media Monitoring Tool

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Apple Does the Money Dance (13:15 minutes)
In this episode: Apple posts a record-setting quarter, thanks to its
latest iPhone and holiday sales; RIM ousts its coCEOs and cochairmen,
although their replacement does little to settle investors' nerves;
developers from rival social networks take Google to task over Search
Plus Your World; Google moves to consolidate the user data its
services save; a U.S. federal judge rules disk encryption isn't
protected by the Fifth Amendment.

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Today's Story Highlights

New Email Spec Aims to Tangle Phishing Lines
Fifteen leading email service providers and tech companies have
announced a joint effort to fight phishers. Google, Facebook, PayPal,
Yahoo and Agari are among the companies behind the Domain-based Message
Authentication, Reporting and Conformance spec. DMARC is a technical
specification that standardizes how email receivers perform email
authentication using well-known mechanisms.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74303.html

Nintendo Greases Wii U Wheels
Nintendo's Wii U will be out in time for the 2012 holiday season and
will feature NFC technology, according to the company. The next-
generation Nintendo Wii will also have a handheld controller with a
touchscreen that can interact with what's showing on the TV screen.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74300.html

FBI Looking to 'Friend' Terrorists
Social networks are popular with lots of folks, including terrorists.
That's why the FBI is looking for a contractor that will design an
"early warning system" for it based on monitoring chatter on the likes
of Facebook, Twitter and Google+.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74295.html

Ubuntu's New 'HUD' Factor: A Step Forward or Back?
Some of us here in the Linux blogosphere may have hoped for a quieter
2012 than 2011 turned out to be, but so far at least, it doesn't look
like we're getting our wish. January appears to have started the year
off with a bang. Do we get a little break now that it's the end of the
month? No, we don't, thanks to the arrival of Ubuntu's "HUD."
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74298.html

Apple's Textbooks Improve Everything but the Text
After Apple announced that it had "reinvented" textbooks at its
education media event in New York earlier in the month, I knew I had to
take one for a spin myself. I downloaded the new iBooks 2 iPad app and
launched it to get to the refreshed iBooks Store. I tapped the big
"Introducing Textbooks" graphic and started looking.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74278.html

Microsoft's Misunderstood 'Avoid-Ghetto' Tech
Earlier this month, Microsoft applied for a patent related to a
technology that would highlight areas of high crime and route people
around them. Folks seemed to get upset because areas like this tend to
struggling due to a lack of revenue, and this would route people who
might otherwise shop there to other safer and likely more lucrative
areas. While true, I think it comes down to choice.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74287.html

Twitter Builds a Better Gagger
Twitter announced that it can now withhold content from users country by
country on demand, while still making that content available to the rest
of the world. The news sparked widespread anger as critics accused the
microblogging service of censorship and warned that the policy might
impede popular anti-government movements such as those seen during the
Arab Spring.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74291.html

FBI's Most Wanted: A Social Media Monitoring Tool
The FBI wants to keep its eye on social media users, according to a job
post that invites software developers to submit applications capable of
mining through sites such as Twitter and Facebook to identify possible
threats. The post can be found on FedBizOpps.gov. The bureau has a
detailed list of requirements for the app.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74290.html

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