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Tech News Flash: Monday -- February 1, 2010

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Today's Headlines
Rethinking the Fortifications: Q&A With Heartland CIO Steven Elefant
The Folly of Ignoring Apple's Success
Life After Microsoft: IT Utopia or 'Apocalyptic Tailspin'?
TopXNotes: A Concierge for the Constant Scrivener
FarmVille Provides a Sugar-Coated Taste of the Ag Biz
The Point of Gadget Saturation
Study: Cellphone Bans No Boost for Road Safety

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Podcast
The Great Mainframe Shakeout (28:46 minutes)
Context applications are the plain-vanilla enterprise apps that are
there for commodity productivity reasons, not for core innovation,
customization or differentiation. IT budget planners are looking at ways
to unshackle these context apps from expensive legacy systems like
mainframes and instead run them on much lower-cost types of infrastructure.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/shared/audio/ect-gardner-2010-01-31.mp3

Today's Story Highlights

Rethinking the Fortifications: Q&A With Heartland CIO Steven Elefant
Following a breach of its computer systems a year ago, Heartland Payment
System, one of the five largest payment card processors in the United
States, came under considerable pressure to strengthen its IT security,
and it's been embroiled in several lawsuits because of the breach.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/69237.html

The Folly of Ignoring Apple's Success
The technology and consumer electronics markets are awash with companies
that seem to be barely meeting expectations or are, like Sony, Sun and
Yahoo, on and off death watch. They aren't alone; the relatively new
Obama administration seems to also be failing, and the latest State of
the Union address wasn't particularly inspirational.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/69231.html

Life After Microsoft: IT Utopia or 'Apocalyptic Tailspin'?
Well, the snow continues to fall here in the Linux blogosphere, and
Linux Girl is beginning to wonder if it will ever end. Bread and milk
are still in short supply at the local FOSS-y-Mart; children are getting
cabin fever; and the snow drifts are getting taller than many netizens.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/69238.html

TopXNotes: A Concierge for the Constant Scrivener
If there's one software category that's proven it has legs, it's the
personal information manager. Knowledge workers and computer jocks are
bombarded with a blizzard of information every day, and they seem to
never tire of programs that promise to organize it for them. TopXNotes,
recently upgraded to version 1.5, is such a program.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/69232.html

FarmVille Provides a Sugar-Coated Taste of the Ag Biz
Even while calling Chicago home, Laura Hawkins Grimes is a country
bumpkin. Her scenic rural spread has three dairy farms, two ponds and a
log cabin, all skirted by a white picket fence as scarecrows stand
sentry over her blackberries. The best part is the 40-year-old sex
therapist never has to leave her computer to tend to it all.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/69219.html

The Point of Gadget Saturation
Kira Marchenese works in online communications, and so she arrived on a
business trip to New York earlier this week equipped with all the
gadgets you might expect: personal smartphone, work smartphone, laptop,
iPod touch. Problem is, her hotel room didn't have enough outlets to
keep the darned devices charged. "I unplugged the lamp and still
couldn't do it," she noted ruefully.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/69230.html

Study: Cellphone Bans No Boost for Road Safety
Laws banning drivers from using handheld cellphones while behind the
wheel don't help to reduce crashes, a study by the Highway Loss Data
Institute has found. The institute, which is affiliated with the
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, calculated monthly collision
claims in New York, the District of Columbia, Connecticut and California
before and after these states passed such laws.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/69235.html

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