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Tech News Flash: Wednesday -- July 15, 2009

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Today's Headlines
Using Technology to Drop Off the Map
Excuse Me, but Your RFID Is Showing
Engrossing 'Devil Survivor' Rich in Demonic Delights
Mock Mars Mission Ends After 105 Days of Earthbound Isolation
Critics Pounce on Tweeter's Tale of Bank Job Aftermath
SpaceX Chalks Up Another First for Commercial Space Travel

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It's Time for IT to Look Inward (36:11 minutes)
In many enterprises, IT's role has traditionally been to help other
departments gain a better sense of their data, to help people and lines
of business integrate their systems, and to help optimize processes in
order to cut costs. In today's economy, though, IT needs to take a long
look in the mirror.
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Today's Story Highlights

Using Technology to Drop Off the Map
I teach people how to disappear. My methods are not like those of the
great Houdini or Chris Angel; my operation is more like a private
witness protection program that helps people fall off the grid, live
under the radar, and vanish from society. What I provide is akin to a
real life delete key.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/67594.html

Excuse Me, but Your RFID Is Showing
Climbing into his Volvo, outfitted with a Matrics antenna and a Motorola
reader he'd bought on eBay for $190, Chris Paget cruised the streets of
San Francisco with this objective: To read the identity cards of
strangers, wirelessly, without ever leaving his car. It took him 20
minutes to strike hacker's gold.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/67595.html

Engrossing 'Devil Survivor' Rich in Demonic Delights
The "Shin Megami Tensei" series may be the epitome of cult video-game
franchises, barely known by most players but beloved by a small but
devoted core of fans. The name means "true reincarnation of the
goddess," and publisher Atlus has stuck with it despite the lack of any
notable goddesses in recent installments.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/67599.html

Mock Mars Mission Ends After 105 Days of Earthbound Isolation
Russian engineers broke a red wax seal and six men emerged from a metal
hatch after 105 days of isolation in a mock spacecraft, still smiling
after testing the stresses that space travelers may face on the journey
to Mars. Sergei Ryazansky, the captain of the six-man crew, told
reporters that the most difficult thing was knowing that the experience
was just a simulation, not a real trip to Mars.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/67598.html

Critics Pounce on Tweeter's Tale of Bank Job Aftermath
"So tired today," Annemarie Dooling tweeted early Tuesday. "really
really tired. ugh." A couple of hours later, things really really picked
up. "My bank was just held up -- with me in it. HSBC 34 and 8," the 26-
year-old Web producer tweeted her 1,900 or so followers just after 9
a.m. under her Twitter name, "TravelingAnna."
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/67597.html

SpaceX Chalks Up Another First for Commercial Space Travel
Space Exploration Technologies -- or SpaceX, as it is usually called --
took a key step toward providing support for NASA and advancing private
space travel on Monday: It successfully launched a small satellite into
orbit atop its Falcon 1 rocket. It was a first for the company, which
has been making significant strides in private space flight since its
founding in 2002 by Elon Musk, cofounder of PayPal.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/67592.html

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