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Tech News Flash: Tuesday -- February 21, 2012

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Microsoft Calls Google a Cookie Monster
DOT Asks Carmakers to Help Curb Distracted Driving
The Great Google Cookie Caper
Avaya Gives Sneak Peak of Upcoming Healthcare Apps
GroupShot Magically Melds Photos to Get the Perfect Pic
The New Face of Ubuntu
Is Windows 8 a Linux Copycat?
Apple's and Motorola's Slip-Slidey Patent Scrap
Anonymous Acts Out Over ACTA

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Today's Story Highlights

Microsoft Calls Google a Cookie Monster
Google is tracking users of the Internet Explorer Web browser without
their knowledge, Microsoft has asserted. After news emerged last week
that Google had bypassed the privacy settings of Apple's Safari browser,
Microsoft researchers began looking into whether the search giant was
also playing fast and loose with IE's settings.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74474.html

DOT Asks Carmakers to Help Curb Distracted Driving
The U.S. Department of Transportation has proposed guidelines that
advise automakers to disable certain in-vehicle electronic features. The
DOT wants to crack down on any action that requires drivers to give the
task more than a two-second single glance, or 20 seconds of total glance
time, to control.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74473.html

The Great Google Cookie Caper
Google's privacy practices came under fire again last week for
undermining the privacy practices of someone else. Namely, Apple. Apple
is one of the few browser makers that turns off by default a website's
ability to push third-party cookies to a Web surfer. Cookies can perform
a valuable service to users.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74469.html

Avaya Gives Sneak Peak of Upcoming Healthcare Apps
Avaya has provided a sneak preview of several healthcare IT-based mobile
applications it will be rolling out later this year. These include Avaya
Mobile Activity Assistant, Avaya Flare Communicator for iPad, and other
collaborative service offerings in telehealth and social media.
Healthcare is one of Avaya's chief verticals, said Sanjeev Gupta,
general manager of Avaya's Healthcare Solutions group.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74472.html

GroupShot Magically Melds Photos to Get the Perfect Pic
As the name suggests, GroupShot is all about creating photos of groups
of people. In my experience, any time you're trying to take a photo of
two or more people, someone is either looking in the wrong direction,
smiling with a smile that implies there's something odd happening in
their bowels, or their eyes are closed.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74467.html

The New Face of Ubuntu
Canonical expects to start rolling out the first phase of Ubuntu's new
heads-up display in the April release of Ubuntu 12.04. But HUD will
supplement Unity, Ubuntu's default desktop interface, rather than fully
replace it. The move to radically change the desktop's default interface
is being made out of necessity, according to Canonical's founder and
former CEO Mark Shuttleworth.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74460.html

Is Windows 8 a Linux Copycat?
Here in the world of technology, there's no denying that developers of
even the most creative new products and ideas "stand on the shoulders of
giants," just as innovators in most other realms do too. New ideas
inspire more new ideas over time, after all, so it's not surprising to
see myriad commonalities and linkages among them. Lately, however, that
notion is being examined a little more closely than usual.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74465.html

Apple's and Motorola's Slip-Slidey Patent Scrap
A regional court in Munich, Germany, has ruled that most of Motorola
Mobility's smartphone products infringe on Apple's slide-to-unlock image
patent. Users of Apple's iOS devices slide a virtual button across the
screen in order to "unlock" the device -- in other words, wake it up and
make it ready to accept other input. It's meant to prevent so-called
pocket dials on the device's touch-sensitive screen.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74455.html

Anonymous Acts Out Over ACTA
Anonymous has struck again -- this time taking down the U.S. Federal
Trade Commission's consumer protection business center website as well
as one touting National Consumer Protection Week. In their place was a
German language video mocking ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade
Agreement.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74462.html

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