Technology: Afternoon Edition

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Editor's Note: Please note that with the holiday week, your Afternoon Technology will be on hiatus. We will return in the new year on January 4th. Most Viewed Articles in Technology 1) As cyberattacks increase, U.S. faces shortage of security talent The federal government is struggling to fill a growing demand for skilled computer-security workers, from technicians to policymakers, at a time when network attacks are rising in frequency and sophistication. 2) Outage cripples BlackBerry Americas network NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - North and South American users of Research in Motion Ltd's BlackBerry smartphone suffered widespread delays in message services on Tuesday, just a week after another outage struck the popular corporate network. 3) More vaccine but fewer takers, pair of H1N1 surveys indicate Pandemic influenza vaccine is getting much easier to find but more than half of American adults say they still don't want it, and one-third of parents say they don't want their children to get it either, according to two surveys. 4) Qik Live Recording Finally Makes It To The iPhone (Legally) The live video streaming application Qik has just been approved in the App Store and should be available shortly, we've learned. The company submitted the app a couple weeks ago following the approval of UStream's live streaming application, and as expected, Apple also had no problem with it now.... 5) Obama to name former Bush, Microsoft official as cyber-czar Seven months after President Obama vowed to "personally select" an adviser to orchestrate the government's strategy for protecting computer systems, the White House will name a former Bush administration official to the job Tuesday. 6) More People Around The World Get Their News Online From Google News Than CNN Well, Rupert Murdoch is going to love this. More people around the world get their news online from Google News than from CNN or the news properties of the New York Times. In November, 2009, according to comScore, Google News attracted 100 million unique visitors worldwide, making it a larger news... 7) Obama names former Bush, Microsoft official as cyber-czar Seven months after President Obama vowed to "personally select" an adviser to orchestrate the government's strategy for protecting computer systems, the White House on Tuesday tapped a former Bush administration official for the job. 8) Play And Share Your Music Collection In The Cloud With tunesBag Vienna, Austria-based tunesBag is opening up the public beta version of its social music service today, after allowing access by invitation only for the past year or so. 9) Buzzd Brings Its Social City Guide To Android We've written about the social city and nightlife mobile app, buzzd, which pulls its data from Twitter and other buzzd users, for a bigger picture of the places that are hot in a given location. The mobile app, which has been available for iPhone and BlackBerry users, is launching an Android app as... 10) Stern's threat to quit Sirius could be empty talk -- Howard Stern is threatening to leave Sirius XM Radio Inc. now that the shock jock and the satellite radio provider are getting set to enter contract talks in 2010. UNSUBSCRIBE | Additional Newsletter Services | Advertising | Subscribe to the Paper | Privacy Policy

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