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Tech News Flash: Monday -- April 9, 2012

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Flashback's Mac Malware Mess
Sony Busts Out the Ax
How Amazon and Nokia Are Channeling Jobs to Unseat Apple
Bike Baron Is Massively Addictive Daredevil Dynamite
Microsoft's Linux Labors: A Signal of Defeat?
Diamonds Are a Quantum Scientist's Best Friends

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Google Gazes Into the Looking Glass (14:18 minutes)
In this episode: Google reveals Google Glass, its plan to create
high-tech, Web-connected eyeglasses; Research In Motion reports another
dismal quarter and leaves no strategy off the table, including a sale;
Yahoo announces layoffs for 2,000 employees, roughly 14 percent of its
workforce; Groupon gets the stinkeye from the SEC when it admits it
miscounted its Q4 numbers; a creepy mobile app gets the boot from
FourSquare and iOS following an outcry over privacy.
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Today's Story Highlights

Flashback's Mac Malware Mess
In what could be the largest mass infection of Mac computers to date,
the Flashback Trojan was estimated to have reached some 700,000 Macs by
the end of last week. The Trojan is being planted on the Macs by owners
who've been lured to infected Web pages that send a malware downloader
to their computers as soon as they land on the page.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74805.html

Sony Busts Out the Ax
Sony will cut some 10,000 jobs, or 6 percent of its international work
force, according to a Monday report citing anonymous sources familiar
with the situation. The job cuts are part of new Chief Executive Kazuo
Hirai's restructuring plan.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74813.html

How Amazon and Nokia Are Channeling Jobs to Unseat Apple
The top technology company of the 80s was IBM, 90s was Microsoft, last
decade Apple. No company made it across more than one decade as the top
company and the trend was away from IT -- IBM -- and toward the
consumer/buyer, suggesting that RIM's refocus on IT is clearly pushing
upstream. What is also interesting is that the 80s' IBM and last
decade's Apple were vertically integrated companies, while Microsoft's
world was like what founded the industrial revolution.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74804.html

4. 'Bike Baron' Is Massively Addictive Daredevil Dynamite
I'm far from a huge gamer on iOS, but occasionally a great game will
catch my attention in a cosmic crash of serendipity. In this case, I
stumbled upon actor Nathan Fillion's Twitter feed. He wrote: "My latest
game addiction? Download 'Bike Baron.' Thank me later." I'm guessing the
guy has some downtime on the set of the show.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74810.html

Microsoft's Linux Labors: A Signal of Defeat?
Such has been the joy in the Linux blogosphere over Red Hat's ascendance
to the billion-dollar sphere that it's been difficult to imagine
anything that could possibly top that excitement. But guess what? A new
report from the Linux Foundation recently offered news that many
consider equally momentous -- and potentially just as encouraging for
FOSS.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74808.html

Diamonds Are a Quantum Scientist's Best Friends
An international group of scientists led by researchers from the
University of California in Santa Barbar have taken the first steps
toward creating a quantum computer -- in a diamond. So far they've built
a two-qubit unit for a quantum computer. A qubit is the quantum
computing equivalent of a bit, and it can be both on and off at the same
time, unlike a regular bit which must be in one state or the other.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74812.html

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