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Tech News Flash: Thursday -- August 27, 2009

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Today's Headlines
Does Your Cloud Have a Green Lining?
Linux in 2013: One *Billion* Dollars!
Put Things Off: A Practical Prioritizer for Procrastinators
Google Maps Adds Back-Road Traffic Flow Data
Sony Burns Kindle With New Wireless Touchscreen E-Reader
Snow Leopard to Prowl for Mac Malware?

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Security Showdown: Cloud Computing vs. On-Premise IT (55:50 minutes)
Either in real terms or perceived terms, security is one of the biggest
hang-ups people have, and it's a wide-open question. When we talk about
the cloud and the enterprise, are we talking about something that is
fundamentally different in terms of securing it, versus what people are
accustomed to doing across their networks?
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Today's Story Highlights

Does Your Cloud Have a Green Lining?
Although the ultimate definition of "the cloud" remains elusive to
vendors and end users alike, the cloud represents the next major
paradigm shift in the IT industry and business computing. Coinciding
with the emergence of cloud computing, green IT and sustainability are
becoming integral components of corporate strategies in top-performing
organizations.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/67958.html

Linux in 2013: One *Billion* Dollars!
It's a rare day on the Linux blogs when comparisons don't get made
between Windows and our favorite operating system, but when those
comparisons take the form of benchmarks, we can't help but sit up and
listen. Sure enough, following a like comparison earlier this year, the
bloggers over at TuxRadar recently put Windows 7, Vista and various
versions of Ubuntu through their paces again.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/67966.html

Put Things Off: A Practical Prioritizer for Procrastinators
Once you've set up MobileMe, Google Sync or any other syncing service to
wirelessly coordinate a desktop calendar to the Calendar app on the
iPhone, it's easy to start entrusting your every waking task short of
heartbeat and respiration to a "ding!" and a pop-up notice.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/67963.html

Google Maps Adds Back-Road Traffic Flow Data
Google has pushed an update to its Maps application adding traffic data
on surface streets. The data will be drawn from GPS-enabled cellphones
that are actively running the mobile version of Google's map app. All
users of Google's mobile maps service appear to have access to the
traffic data, but only users with GPS-equipped phones with Google Maps
installed can contribute speed information.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/67957.html

Sony Burns Kindle With New Wireless Touchscreen E-Reader
If you are able to read one of novelist Patrick O'Brien's rousing naval
adventures on Sony's new Daily Edition electronic book reader, then you
will also participate in helping Sony send its own shot across the bow
at Amazon and its popular Kindle reading device. Sony announced Tuesday
that the Daily Edition reader will sell for $399 and will be available
in December, just in time for holiday shopping sprees.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/67956.html

Snow Leopard to Prowl for Mac Malware?
Apple has reportedly included antimalware technologies in Snow Leopard,
which will go on sale Friday. The news comes shortly after Apple
released a fresh round of commercials indicating that the Mac, unlike
PCs running Windows, is virus-free. Mac security software vendor
Intego's blog carried a screenshot showing the antimalware feature
detecting a version of the RSPlug Trojan horse in a downloaded disk
image.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/67964.html

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