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Tech News Flash: Thursday -- March 28, 2013

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Headline Scan
Mercedes-Benz Goes Electric With New B-Class Sedan
How to Run Android Apps on Your Windows or Mac Machine
Street View Creeps Through Post-Tsunami Japanese Ghost Town
T-Mobile's No-Contract Revolution
Perl: Jewel in the Rough or Scourge of IT?
Dutch Spam Fight Boils Over Into Largest-Ever DDoS Attack
Linux Devs Take Win 8 Secure Boot Complaint to EC

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Podcast
Rebooting IT to Run Like a Business (28:30)
It's one thing to employ enterprise resource planning to streamline an
entire organization's business processes -- to use software and data to
create a more efficient flow of information between different
departments. However, what about applying ERP to an individual
information technology department within that organization? What
benefits could be achieved? A possible outcome is that an IT operation
is run more like a separate business.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/shared/audio/ect-gardner-2013-03-25.mp3

Today's Story Highlights

Mercedes-Benz Goes Electric With New B-Class Sedan
Mercedes-Benz put its B-Class Electric Drive sedan on display
at the New York Auto Show this week and said it would be the company's
first electric vehicle entry into the U.S. market when it arrives in
showrooms in 2014. This is a version of the B-Class vehicle
that debuted as a 5-door hatchback in Europe with traditional gasoline
and diesel power plants.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/77641.html

How to Run Android Apps on Your Windows or Mac Machine
Have you got some favorite smartphone apps? Not convinced by Microsoft's
new Windows app selection? Itching to see some Android action on your
MacBook Pro? Don't worry, just install an Android emulator on your
Windows or Mac machine and run all of the Android apps that you've grown
to love. A version is even available for Windows 8 Surface tablets.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/77647.html

Street View Creeps Through Post-Tsunami Japanese Ghost Town
Google Street View has had its share of intrepid adventures --
Antarctica, say, or Everest Base Camp. However, the Google Maps service
has a sober side, too. Street View just unveiled startling images of
Namie, a Japanese town firmly planted inside the evacuation zone
described in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/77652.html

T-Mobile's No-Contract Revolution
When new T-Mobile CEO John Legere was trash-talking the cellular service
competition by characterizing their contract plans as "bullsh*t," it
took me a couple of days to realize there was far more to his new no-
contract iPhone plan than gleeful profanity. T-Mobile is the last of the
big four U.S. cellular service companies to offer the iPhone, and the
company might be the only one to create meaningful change.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/77651.html

Perl: Jewel in the Rough or Scourge of IT?
It seems scarcely a day can go by without someone declaring some
technology or another "dead." Take the netbook, for example. People have
been saying for years it's dead; today, however, we have the Chromebook
phenomenon. The command line is another popular target, of course, but
few can compete with the Linux desktop itself, the death of which has
been trumpeted so many times now that Linux Girl has lost count.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/77648.html

Dutch Spam Fight Boils Over Into Largest-Ever DDoS Attack
A week-old squabble between two Dutch groups -- the spamfighting
Spamhaus Project and Web hosting service Cyberbunker -- has resulted in
what has been called the largest distributed denial of service attack in
Web history. The cyberfight reportedly has spilled over onto the global
Internet and slowed down some data communications, especially in Europe.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/77646.html

Linux Devs Take Win 8 Secure Boot Complaint to EC
Microsoft is once again being challenged in Europe over alleged
anticompetitive practices. A group representing Linux developers in
Spain has filed a complaint with the European Commission charging that
Microsoft's desktop operating system, Windows 8, supports technology
that makes it difficult for users to place other operating systems on
their computers.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/77645.html

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