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Tech News Flash: Thursday -- July 23, 2009

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Today's Headlines
Refining User Access to Keep Employee Power in Check
A Summer of Linux Delights
B&N eReader: A Knack for the Short Story
Suit Hitch Halts ISS Spacewalk
Report: Feds Short on Cybersecurity Manpower
Google to Let 100,000 Surfers Ride Early Wave

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Today's Story Highlights

Refining User Access to Keep Employee Power in Check
It has been a year since the city of San Francisco was held hostage
because a city network administrator, Terry Childs, allegedly locked
down the city's IT system through a privileged account. Yet today, even
with the heightened awareness created by this headline incident,
companies continue to struggle.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/67666.html

A Summer of Linux Delights
There's nothing like good, clean Linuxy fun to perk up the dog days of
summer. What's a little heat, after all, when you can cool off watching
your favorite OS on the silver screen? "Skydiving Tux," "Worm Detected"
and "Linux Beauty" are among the gems on Carla Schroder's YouTube list.
We'd only add the recent clip of RMS dancing at FISL 10 in Brazil. You
just can't buy entertainment like that!
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/67667.html

B&N eReader: A Knack for the Short Story
The only way for me to fairly review an e-reader application for the
iPhone is to start right out by saying that reading a full book on
anything other than a bound volume filled with pages does not exactly
appeal to me. I once borrowed a Sony Reader; it languished in disuse as
I sat on the couch and read a real book.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/67656.html

Suit Hitch Halts ISS Spacewalk
Two astronauts cut short their spacewalk and hurried back to the safety
of the international space station on Wednesday after a suit problem
resulted in rising carbon dioxide levels for one of the men. NASA
officials stressed that spacewalker Christopher Cassidy was never in any
danger and experienced no symptoms of carbon dioxide buildup.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/67668.html

Report: Feds Short on Cybersecurity Manpower
A report issued jointly by The Partnership for Public Service and
consultants Booz Allen Hamilton asserts the U.S. federal government is,
in essence, not prepared to cope with cyberattacks. The problem boils
down to a lack of enough skilled people, government administrative
quagmire, outmoded approaches, and deficiencies in communication.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/67663.html

Google to Let 100,000 Surfers Ride Early Wave
If you want to splash around in Google Wave right now -- the search
giant's new real-time communication/collaboration tool that received
plenty of tech press hype during a May unveiling -- then you have to be
a developer with access to the API. However, that will change on Sept.
30, when Google will let 100,000 curious users take Wave for a test
swim.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/67664.html

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