Engineers’ Must-Reads This Week
(June 23 – 29, 2010)

US pulls plug on analog TV
(Inquirer.net 06/28/2010 AFP)
WASHINGTON–Hundreds of television stations across the United States pull the plug on analog broadcasts and switched to a digital-only signal.

China bans military from blogging
(Inquirer.net 06/26/2010 AFP)
BEIJING—China issues regulations banning its 2.3 million soldiers from creating web sites or writing web blogs.

Alert raised over ATM hack spewing cash jackpots
(Inquirer.net 06/26/2010 AFP)
SAN FRANCISCO–Computer security researchers head to Las Vegas with a software hack that gets bank teller machines to spew out cash jackpots.

CIA adopting Web 2.0 tools amid resistance
(Inquirer.net 06/28/2010 AFP)
WASHINGTON–The CIA adopts Web 2.0 tools such as blogs and collaborative wikis, but not without a struggle in an agency with an ingrained culture of secrecy, CIA officers say.

Cloud computing services ‘will grow faster than trad IT’
(IET 06/23/2010)
Worldwide revenue from public IT Cloud Computing services is forecast to reach $55.5bn in 2014, representing a compound annual growth rate of 27.4 percent.

Germany calls on Apple to improve data transparency
(IET 06/28/2010)
"Users of iPhones and other GPS devices must be aware of what kind of information about them is being collected," Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger tells the German weekly.

Facebook, Twitter powerful business tools—research group
(Inquirer.net 06/30/2010 AFP)
SINGAPORE—Social media such as Facecbook and Twitter or blogging sites have become powerful tools that influence what people buy, online researcher Nielsen says, urging business to embrace the trend.

(Published 01 July 2010, Smart Communications, Inc.)