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Wednesday, 11 July 2012

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Tech News Flash: Wednesday -- July 11, 2012

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Headline Scan
Smart Headlights Create Fair-Weather Visibility in Rain and Snow
Will the Real Higgs Boson Please Stand Up?
SF Won't be Picking Apples
Wikipedia Says 'Nyet' to Russian Web Restrictions
GanttProject Packs Prodigious Planning Power

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Podcast
Making IT Problems Solve Themselves (48:53 minutes)
Data centers are being tasked with supporting huge and fast-growing
amounts of data and doing it all with utmost efficiency. Enterprises
must move now toward proactive types of support in order to continue
ongoing improvement and to maintain systems. This calls for new
approaches to data center support, remote support and support automation.
http://www.ectnews.com/shared/audio/ect-gardner-2012-07-09.mp3

Today's Story Highlights

Smart Headlights Create Fair-Weather Visibility in Rain and Snow
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute have
announced a smart headlight system that could improve visibility for
drivers of automobiles in bad weather. The system uses cameras and a
processor to predict the path of raindrops and snowflakes in front of an
automobile and redirect headlight beams to shine between those
particles.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75603.html

Will the Real Higgs Boson Please Stand Up?
The search for the elusive Higgs boson continues as scientists analyze
the data from two recent experiments conducted at CERN, the European
organization for nuclear research. On Tuesday, scientists raised the
possibility that the data might indicate that the particle they observed
was a Higgs impostor.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75596.html

SF Won't be Picking Apples
Apple's withdrawal of its computers from the EPEAT registry is having
ripple effects, including the loss of business from the city and county
of San Francisco. Lke many governmental agencies, businesses and
universities, San Francisco requires that its computer equipment be on
the EPEAT registry. "Apple's decision has caught us off guard a bit,"
said Jon Walton, the city's chief information officer.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75601.html

Wikipedia Says 'Nyet' to Russian Web Restrictions
Today in international tech news: Wikipedia is among those to protest a
proposed Russian censorship law; Starbucks launches its Android payment
app abroad; Kim Dotcom reaches out to U.S. officials via Twitter; and
Apple announces the July 20 release of the new iPad in China, a move
that has people speculating about potential profits and, if history
repeats itself, potential fights at Apple stores.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75602.html

GanttProject Packs Prodigious Planning Power
GanttProject is an impressive project management tool that can be a
useful alternative to similar applications locked onto other OS
platforms. For enterprise and small-business users, GanttProject's
cross-platform access and easy data portability make it a winning choice
for Linux users.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75597.html

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Tuesday, 10 July 2012

Tech News Flash

Tech News Flash: Tuesday -- July 10, 2012

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Headline Scan
Law Enforcement Feasts on Cellphone Data
The Secret Life of Sequoia
Intel Pumps $4.1B Into Dutch Chip Tool Builder
Jolla Keeps the MeeGo Dream Alive
Gabi Knows More About Your Facebook Profile Than You Do
Scientists Get Robot to Walk Like a Man

Today's Story Highlights

Law Enforcement Feasts on Cellphone Data
A congressional inquiry conducted at the behest of Rep. Edward Markey,
D-Mass., found that law enforcement agencies made 1.3 million requests
to cellphone carriers in 2011. They sought such information as
individuals' text messages, their locations, and even lists of phone
numbers they called when in the vicinity of a particular tower, whether
they belonged to people under investigation or not.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75589.html

The Secret Life of Sequoia
IBM's Sequoia supercomputer headed the latest Top500 list of the world's
fastest supercomputers. The twice-yearly roster was released at the 2012
International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Germany, in June.
Delivered to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 2011, Sequoia
is scheduled for operational deployment this year.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75585.html

Intel Pumps $4.1B Into Dutch Chip Tool Builder
Today in international news: Intel invests billions in a Dutch
semiconductor equipment maker; Kickstarter heads to the UK; NBC
Universal unveils its Olympic streaming package for subscribers only;
and the extradition hearing for Megaupload's Kim Dotcom will have to
wait.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75588.html

Jolla Keeps the MeeGo Dream Alive
MeeGo, the ill-fated Nokia mobile operating system project that had the
plug pulled on it earlier this year, is being revived. JollaMobile, a
company consisting of former Nokia executives and techies, has announced
that it will release a new MeeGo smartphone later this year. That goal
is reachable, said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75584.html

Gabi Knows More About Your Facebook Profile Than You Do
Your Facebook News Feed can occasionally be a source of insightful
commentary, valuable information, enjoyable time-wasters and interesting
miscellaneous brain droppings. But those kinds of posts are often
scattered among updates that aren't so intriguing at all: info
automatically posted by apps, check-ins for Tuesday-night get-togethers
halfway across the country, in-jokes you were never in on, etc.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75582.html

Scientists Get Robot to Walk Like a Man
A baby's first step is often considered the hardest and the most
significant. Human babies, which are among those that are altricial at
birth, are unable to walk and must "learn" to do so, often by mimicking
the movements of other people. Now engineers with the University of
Arizona have developed a set of robotic legs that essentially also work
by mimicking the movements of humans.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75579.html

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Monday, 9 July 2012

Tech News Flash

Tech News Flash: Monday -- July 9, 2012

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Headline Scan
Twitter Tweaks Search to Trim Tweet Mountains
DARPA Wants to Give Robots More Staying Power
Samsung Declared Winningly Unhip
Stuxnet Is Dead, Long Live Stuxnet
The Dirty Suicidal Secret of Facebook
The Higgs Boson: Another Feather in Linux's Cap
Color Splash Studio for iPhone: This Pony's Learned Some New Tricks
Samsung Galaxy Note 2 Goes for Phablet Fame

Podcast
The Networked Economy (18:56 minutes)
Dynamic discounting proved to be a real game-changer for Mediafly. "We
joke that it would be interesting if all of our customers leveraged
something like dynamic discounting," said CEO Carson Conant. "It would
be transformative for our business. It would drastically accelerate how
we can deploy cash. Then you think about it in terms of what could it do
for the economy."
http://www.ectnews.com/shared/audio/ect-gardner-2012-05-21.mp3

Today's Story Highlights

Twitter Tweaks Search to Trim Tweet Mountains
Twitter has given its site an overhaul designed to simplify its search
functions and provide users with suggestions when they're unsure of an
exact handle or hashtag. The site's upgraded search results will now
more closely resemble those of a Google search.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75581.html

DARPA Wants to Give Robots More Staying Power
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has issued an open call to
the robotics industry soliciting expert proposals to create more power-
efficient robots. The agency aims to maximize robotic technology
potential and improve the power efficiency of current robots by 2,000
percent.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75576.html

Samsung Declared Winningly Unhip
Today in international tech news: Samsung wins a ruling against Apple
but is declared "not as cool" in the process. Also: Google launches a
gay rights campaign; Germany backs off legislation that would allow
local governments to sell sensitive information; and investigators rule
that the infamous flaming Samsung phone had been microwaved.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75578.html

Stuxnet Is Dead, Long Live Stuxnet
Those who follow the exploits of Stuxnet will remember June 24, 2012, as
Big Sleep day for the infamous malware. On that day, it stopped
replicating. "It's more like neutered, rather than dead," said Eric
Byres, CTO and vice president for engineering at Tofino Security
Products.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75573.html

The Dirty Suicidal Secret of Facebook
The last time we had a major "social networking" type of effort it was
with collaboration, and the poster child for the effort was Lotus Notes.
It largely failed -- not because the idea wasn't a good one, but because
the company fundamentally didn't understand that the market was being
made hostile to the concept.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75570.html

The Higgs Boson: Another Feather in Linux's Cap
It's not exactly any secret that Linux dominates the world of high-
performance computing, so perhaps it should go without saying that last
week's exciting Higgs Boson announcement would involve Linux in some
not-insignificant way. The reality, however, turns out to be far greater
than marginal significance.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75574.html

Color Splash Studio for iPhone: This Pony's Learned Some New Tricks
Back in October of last year, I reviewed Color Splash Studio, an app for
Mac OS X by Mac Phun that lets you turn color photos black and white
then paint the color back into certain elements. The result: Artsy
photos that pop. I liked the app then, and I still like it today, and
now there's a version for the iPhone as well that shares the same name:
Color Splash Studio.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75572.html

Samsung Galaxy Note 2 Goes for Phablet Fame
In a followup to its Galaxy Note hybrid phone-cum-mini-tablet, Samsung
is reportedly planning to release its successor, the Galaxy Note 2,
sometime this year. The Galaxy Note 2 will apparently arrive with a 5.5-
inch screen -- a fifth of an inch larger than the one found on the
original Galaxy Note, which is itself an enormous handset.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75571.html

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Friday, 6 July 2012

Tech News Flash

Tech News Flash: Friday -- July 6, 2012

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Headline Scan
A Bunch of Unused PCs Won't Be Able to Go Online Monday
Apple's Language Lapse Irks Hong Kong iTunes Users
Devs Claim App Store Updates Are Coated in Crash Sauce
The Whys, Wherefores and Whens of an iPad Mini
ROM Manager Makes Device Maintenance a Pleasure

Podcast
TOGAF and DoDAF: Enterprise Architecture's Power Couple (11:59 minutes)
TOGAF and DoDAF, where have they been? Where are they going? And why do
they need to relate to one another more these days? "I think we're
seeing the state of industry advance and looking at trying to have the
federal government, both United States and abroad, embrace global
industry standards for EA work," said Armstrong Process Group's Chris
Armstrong.
http://www.ectnews.com/shared/audio/ect-gardner-2012-07-02.mp3

Today's Story Highlights

A Bunch of Unused PCs Won't Be Able to Go Online Monday
Anywhere from 250,000 to 500,000 computers worldwide may lose Web access
Monday morning if their users don't manage to remove malware called
"DNSChanger" from their machines. A massive public information campaign
has been undertaken over the last several months to inform people about
the virus and how to remove it, but thousands of computers remain
infected.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75566.html

Apple's Language Lapse Irks Hong Kong iTunes Users
Today in international tech news: Apple may have irked some Hong Kong
users when its newly-launch iTunes store displayed song titles in a
language other than Cantonese. Also: Google and Italy reach a deal that
will bring newsreels and propaganda from Mussolini to the Web; and
Facebook lays down a big investment in a 6,200-mile underwater Internet
cable in the Pacific.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75565.html

Devs Claim App Store Updates Are Coated in Crash Sauce
More than 70 iOS apps that were updated on or after July 3 are
apparently crashing once they're launched, according to a few angry
developers. For example, customers swamped Marco Arment, the creator of
Instapaper, on July 4 with complaints that update 4.2.3 of his app had
crashed immediately on launch, minutes after it had been approved by Apple.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75562.html

The Whys, Wherefores and Whens of an iPad Mini
The only barrier to Apple introducing a smaller version of the iPad in
the near future appears to be the objections of its deceased cofounder
Steve Jobs. That seems to be the gathering consensus of opinion on the
Net, as what was once an airy rumor has now become a virtual
inevitability in the opinions of several market analysts.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75563.html

ROM Manager Makes Device Maintenance a Pleasure
If you've been getting into flashing ROMs on your devices, you're
familiar with the palava that goes with it: booting to recovery,
swapping cards, adb, fastboot, renaming zip files, and the rest of it.
ROM Manager, from ClockworkMod, the recovery software maker, claims to
largely alleviate the kerfuffle by providing a one-stop app that
launches and automates many of these tasks.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75557.html

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Thursday, 5 July 2012

Tech News Flash

Tech News Flash: Thursday -- July 5, 2012

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Headline Scan
CERN Researchers May Have Hooked Higgs
Android Botnet May Be Spewing Spam
Put That Old GSM Dongle Back to Work
Desktop Matchmaking in Linux Land
iMacs May Be Next on Apple's Retina List

Today's Story Highlights

CERN Researchers May Have Hooked Higgs
After years of searching, particle physicists say they have all but
certainly pinned down the elusive Higgs boson. Popularly known as the
"God particle," this boson will help provide a better understanding of
how most of the particles of nature acquire their mass, improving
physicists' understanding of the universe.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75554.html

Android Botnet May Be Spewing Spam
An international botnet could be using infected Android handsets to send
out massive amounts of spam, said Microsoft antispam engineer Terry
Zink. He reportedly identified the botnet and its Google Android
connection by examining the headers of spam that included the signature
"Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android."
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75558.html

Put That Old GSM Dongle Back to Work
If you've been accumulating redundant, carrier-locked communications
hardware like phones and data cards, and have been stuffing them all
into a drawer likely never to be used again, you can repurpose some of
it and realize some cost savings. Modem data cards, sometimes called
"dongles," or "data sticks," are well suited to this repurposing.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75551.html

Desktop Matchmaking in Linux Land
Well it's been a few years since Linux Girl has had the pleasure of
writing about dating in the Linux world -- always one of her favorite
topics! -- but recently the topic came up again, albeit with a slight
twist. Specifically, in a recent article over at Datamation, it wasn't
so much human-to-human matchmaking being discussed as it was pairing of
the human-to-desktop kind.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75552.html

iMacs May Be Next on Apple's Retina List
Apple is gearing up production of the next generation of all-in-one iMac
computers for release in October, according to a recent report. They
will supposedly be equipped with Retina displays in a bid to outdo the
competition, which is hot on Apple's heels with a combination of
stronger focus on the all-in-one PC market and the coming of Windows 8.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75550.html

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Tuesday, 3 July 2012

Tech News Flash

Tech News Flash: Tuesday -- July 3, 2012

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Headline Scan
Microsoft Pitches Lowball Windows 8 Upgrade Price
Facebook Email Shenanigans Invade Users' Address Books
Twitter Channels Google, Issues Transparency Report
Chrome Bookmarks and Tabs Shine Across All iDevices
Image Editing Is a Snap With Pinta
Firefox OS Slinks Onto Smartphone Stage

Today's Story Highlights

Microsoft Pitches Lowball Windows 8 Upgrade Price
An upgrade to the Pro edition of Microsoft's next operating system,
Windows 8, will sell for $40, a significantly lower price than what the
company has charged for upgrade packages in the past. The offer applies
to purchases made through Windows.com for PCs running Windows XP or a
later version.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75542.html

Facebook Email Shenanigans Invade Users' Address Books
Facebook's email drama continues to unfold a week after it was revealed
that the social network unilaterally switched its users' publicly posted
email listings to their "@facebook.com" addresses. More recently, users
have begun complaining that Facebook's mobile app seems to be swapping
out information contained in their smartphones' address books.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75536.html

Twitter Channels Google, Issues Transparency Report
Today in international tech news: Twitter issues an extensive
transparency report; Google sends a letter to Europe; Italy threatens
Apple over the company's refusal to give free two-year warranties; and
one day after announcing a deal with MasterCard, Deutsche Telekom
reveals it is "in talks" with Google about mobile payments.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75539.html

Chrome Bookmarks and Tabs Shine Across All iDevices
Despite the blood feud going on between Apple and Google, the latter has
successfully landed a mobile version of Chrome in the former's iOS App
Store. For iPhone and iPad users who are fond of Chrome on the desktop,
this could get interesting. Chrome for iOS promises some nice-looking
syncing abilities that allow you to automatically make your mobile
browsing experience match what you do on your desktop.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75533.html

Image Editing Is a Snap With Pinta
Pinta, a raster image editor, is the app equivalent of a diamond in the
rough. Years of testing and reviewing open source and commercial
software taught me never to assume that a relatively new application is
not worthy of attention. That lesson proved true with this youngster of
an app.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75531.html

Firefox OS Slinks Onto Smartphone Stage
While Mozilla has seen its share of the browser market decline, losing
much ground to Chrome, Firefox could challenge another Google
technology. On Monday, Mozilla announced that the Firefox OS mobile
platform, previously known as "Boot to Gecko," would be used by a number
of mobile carriers including Deutsche Telekom, Etisalat, Smart, Sprint,
Telecom Italia, Telfonica and Tenenor.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75537.html

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