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Tech News Flash: Tuesday -- August 18, 2009

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Today's Headlines
Maybe the Policy Is the Problem
Does Dell's Primordial Smartphone Have an Android Inside?
Archive Coalition to Give Short URLs Long Lives
Users Poke Facebook With Lawsuit Over Privacy Policies
DNA-Like Design Could Lead to Smaller, Faster Microchips
TomTom Finds Its Way to the iPhone

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Podcast
The Enterprise Architects of the New Era (42:55 minutes)
As interest in cloud computing grows, the role of the enterprise
architect is changing. Changing into what, exactly? That's still open
for debate. The architect's role may well become the key office where
the buck stops. New duties will present new opportunities.
http://www.ectnews.com/shared/audio/ect-gardner-2009-08-17.mp3

Today's Story Highlights

Maybe the Policy Is the Problem
Imagine for a moment one of your company's employees getting out of
their car and arriving at your office building. It doesn't really matter
who it is, but for the sake of visualizing the scene more clearly,
assume it's someone conservative and maybe a bit socially inept. Maybe
it's one of the "suits" in accounting. Now visualize this employee
walking through the parking lot of your office.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/67880.html

Does Dell's Primordial Smartphone Have an Android Inside?
Computer manufacturer Dell on Monday confirmed that it's making mobile
devices for China Mobile, the world's largest wireless carrier in terms
of subscribers. This followed China Mobile's announcement in Beijing on
Monday of its new mobile app store. "We are developing devices for China
Mobile, but we haven't named them yet," Dell spokesperson Matt Paretta
told LinuxInsider.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/67886.html

Archive Coalition to Give Short URLs Long Lives
The growing popularity of Web-address shortening services like Bit.ly
creates the potential for a bevy of broken links should one of the
providers suddenly cease operations. Those providers are now teaming up
with data aggregation and syndication services company Gnip to form a
system for archiving link data. That way, the links would keep working,
even if the shortening service itself doesn't.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/67890.html

Users Poke Facebook With Lawsuit Over Privacy Policies
Five Facebook users filed a civil lawsuit Monday alleging that the
social networking site is violating California's privacy laws and
misleading members about how their personal information is used. The
lawsuit, filed in Orange County Superior Court, asks for damages and
attorney's fees and includes a request for a jury trial.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/67888.html

DNA-Like Design Could Lead to Smaller, Faster Microchips
DNA may contain the building blocks of life, but IBM believes it can
also provide the foundation for cheaper construction of the next
generation of superfast, energy-efficient microprocessors. Scientists at
IBM's Almaden Research Center in San Jose, Calif., have announced they
have developed a way to use synthetic DNA as a "skeleton" for the
creation of microscopic circuits.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/67883.html

TomTom Finds Its Way to the iPhone
GPS vendor TomTom has released its long-awaited GPS application for the
iPhone. Priced at $99, it works with the iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS.
However, TomTom isn't the first to offer such an item through the App
Store. AT&T and Navigon have both already released iPhone turn-by-turn
GPS iPhone apps.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/67881.html

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