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Tech News Flash: Friday -- August 28, 2009

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Today's Headlines
The Hacker Journalists
What Has President Obama Done for Silicon Valley?
Google's Curious Chrome Gambit
Survival Tips for Passengers Stranded on the Tarmac
Will Windows 7 Be the Supervillain Apple Needs?
Facebook Bows to Canada's Privacy Demands
Anti-Obesity 'Wonder Drug' May Harm Liver
Nokia Tosses Another OSS OS Into the Mobile Mix

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Clash of the Consoles Gets Down and Dirty (9:35 minutes)
In this episode: Microsoft lowers the prices on a few Xbox 360 models;
Apple OS X Snow Leopard goes on sale; reports surface of an attempted
antipoaching agreement between Apple and Palm; Twitter incorporates
geolocation data; Google looks to map traffic on surface streets; a
jarring PSA against text messaging behind the wheel hits viewers;
Wikipedia institutes new editing policies on entries of people who are
currently living.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/shared/audio/ect-recap-2009-08-28.mp3

Today's Story Highlights

The Hacker Journalists
The audience at the Bell Harbor Conference Center in Seattle was full of
geeks, and its members would probably have been proud to identify
themselves as such. After all, it was the ninth Gnomedex conference, the
annual gathering of tech bloggers, business types, private tech
enthusiasts -- anybody and everybody who has a fascination with
technology's impact on society, culture and media.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/67977.html

What Has President Obama Done for Silicon Valley?
President Obama's inability to fill even half of his major political
appointments is in the news this week, but the appointments he's already
made are causing some in Silicon Valley to question whether they
supported the right candidate. The president chose non-Silicon-Valley
candidates for the nation's two major technology posts.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/67980.html

Google's Curious Chrome Gambit
Why is Google promoting two open source operating systems that can both
be run on netbooks -- Android and Chrome? Is this part of a larger
strategy, where Google will direct the two along different paths --
Chrome for netbooks and Android for the smartphone? Or could the
Internet search giant just be floundering, with different groups of
techies each going their own merry way with no clear marketing position?
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/67982.html

Survival Tips for Passengers Stranded on the Tarmac
You're tired, hungry, have a cranky baby on your lap and all you want to
do is get off the plane, but you can't because it's been on the tarmac
for hours waiting to take off. While such delays are rare, they can be
more common during the hot summer due to thunderstorms and, this year,
because of fewer flights to get you to your destination if your flight
is canceled.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/67981.html

Will Windows 7 Be the Supervillain Apple Needs?
As I begin to salivate over the arrival of Mac OS X Leopard some time
later today, I can't help but wonder if I should bother making a
partition for running Windows 7 via VMware's Fusion on my MacBook. The
problem is, I don't really need the OS or the clutter on my hard drive.
I ran Windows XP for about year or so, but I quit in 2008 as I found
fewer and fewer reasons to mess with it.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/67976.html

Facebook Bows to Canada's Privacy Demands
Facebook will be overhauling its privacy policy following an
investigation by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, which
concluded that the social networking site's policies posed significant
risks. The changes will affect Facebook's entire global user base.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/67975.html

Anti-Obesity 'Wonder Drug' May Harm Liver
The Food and Drug Administration is looking into reports that orlistat,
a drug used to control obesity, might have played a role in 32 cases of
liver injury that occurred between 1998 and 2008. The FDA is also
investigating an undisclosed number of other cases of liver damage that
might be related to the drug.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/67978.html

Nokia Tosses Another OSS OS Into the Mobile Mix
Nokia on Thursday announced the N900 smartphone, a mobile device running
the Linux-based Maemo operating system that the company typically uses
for its tablets. The device runs a Mozilla-based browser and offers
still and video photography, an FM radio and 3.5G and WLAN connectivity.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/67971.html

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