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Tech News Flash: Wednesday -- March 28, 2012

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Adobe Squeezes More Security Into - and More Cash Out of - Flash
Google Guns for Facebook With Third-Party Comment Platform
Fork Skewers Photoshop Skin GimpShop
Nokia Gets Serious About US Market With Lumia 900 Debut
HP's Realignment: Back to the Future?

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Today's Story Highlights

Adobe Squeezes More Security Into - and More Cash Out of - Flash
In its ongoing quest to keep Flash relevant in the face of strong
competition from HTML5, Adobe on Wednesday announced Flash Player 11.2,
featuring a silent updates option to enhance the platform's security.
Improving the security of Flash Player through silent updates is
critical because more than 99 percent of malware installations succeed
by targeting out-of-date software installations, Adobe said.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74741.html

Google Guns for Facebook With Third-Party Comment Platform
Google is reportedly planning to launch its own third-party commenting
system soon. It will apparently be tied into its Google+ social
platform, its Web services and the company's Web search products.
Google, according to reports, will make the platform available to third
parties in much the same way Facebook offers its platform.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74735.html

Fork Skewers Photoshop Skin GimpShop
I thought I had found image-manipulating Nirvana with GimpShop. But the
wide world of open source software and the Linux community failed me
this week. My quest for a better GIMP tool to give me a Photoshop-like
Windows experience turned into a fool's folly. Actually, my faith in the
Linux OS is still intact.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74731.html

Nokia Gets Serious About US Market With Lumia 900 Debut
Nokia's Lumia 900 will make its U.S. launch on April 8, at which point
AT&T will begin selling the phone for a relatively modest $99. The
handset isn't the first Windows Phone-powered Nokia device to hit the
U.S. market -- T-Mobile has carried the Lumia 710 for months. However,
the LTE-enabled Lumia 900 is a more powerful and feature-filled model
that rivals existing flagship phones in many respects.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74730.html

HP's Realignment: Back to the Future?
Major corporate realignments happen for any number of reasons. First and
foremost, they aim to pursue and capture improved leverage of financial
and human capital. Second, they can alter inefficient habitual behaviors
and deconstruct unwanted corporate fiefdoms. Finally, they provide
tangible proof to the markets of executive leaders' strategic vision.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74721.html

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