IT News HeadLines (ITWorld) 23-8-2008

22-8-2008

1. E-voting vendor- Programming errors caused dropped votes
2. Working with fixed-size virtual hard disks
3. Android apps might not feature Bluetooth
4. How Herbert Thompson stole his friend's identity
5. Google adds geolocation to Gears offline plug-in
6. Accessing remote data part 4
7. Dell gains, Sun loses in worldwide server market
8. Channel partners looking at unified communications
9. China blocks Apple's iTunes, Amazon over Tibet songs
10. Brazilian charged in botnet scheme, will be extradited to US
11. SSDs are hot, but not without security risks
12. What you always wanted to know about malware (but were afraid to ask)
13. Groups ask court to lift gag order in Intel antitrust case
14. Wall Street Beat- Salesforce, HP, M&A in the spotlight
15. Microsoft taps Multimap CEO to steer commercial-search unit
16. How to create your corporate e-library
17. Connection testing with Perl

21-8-2008

1. Best-selling video games so far this year
2. Myst coming to iPhone
3. Five insane upgrades that you should never do
4. China bans Apple for Tibet protest
5. Legal group releases guide to GPL compliance
6. Amazon adds persistent storage to compute cloud
7. Dell links up with Salesforce's development platform
8. Comcast- No new traffic management plan yet
9. Did Nokia pay for vulnerability information-
10. China Netcom falls prey to DNS cache poisoning
11. Singapore gets iPhone, but no visual voicemail or iTunes
12. More cores, bigger cache give boost to Dunnington
13. Intel confirms OQO to use Atom in handheld PC
14. Apple's MobileMe lacks key security feature
15. Intel's Classmate 3 laptop gets a touch screen
16. SAP launches a partnership for non-partners
17. MS claims more than 450,000 downloads of new SQL server
18. Ericsson, STMicro to form mobile chip venture
19. Intel and Yahoo partner for Internet on TV
20. Singapore technology wins top spot in US standards rankings
21. Android puts out call to mobile security gurus

20-8-2008

1. Kernel space- udev rules, but whose-
2. China's YouTube rival shifts into overdrive
3. Two years on, Microsoft and Novell extend partnership
4. OQO shows off handheld computer based on Atom
5. Salesforce buys InStranet for call-center tech
6. Why no news is bad news – at least when it comes to malware
7. US mobile phone sales down
8. Forrester- Cognos leads enterprise BI market
9. How to use BlackBerry Desktop Manager
10. Network Instruments data recorder holds 288T bytes
11. Vodafone to offer pricey iPhone 3G in India
12. Making sense of 3G speeds

19-8-2008

1. Microsoft may have 2,000 developers working on Windows 7
2. Judge dissolves gag order against MIT students
3. IBM unveils technology for faster CPUs
4. SAP lets Business One users access Crystal Reports
5. Lack of business writing skills derailing Kenya's projects
6. Microsoft to alpha test Office 14 before end of year
7. Google issues long-awaited Android SDK update
8. Application Whitelisting Solution for Point-of-Sale

18-8-2008

1. 16 hot roles for IT pros
2. Microsoft pitches proactive enterprise support
3. Google solves long Gmail outage, but questions remain
4. Google launches white spaces campaign
5. Android phone could come in November
6. Scammers replace credit card readers in Irish stores
7. Accessing remote data part 3
8. UK justice agency loses 45,000 personal records
9. Even More Thoughts on Forensics

16-8-2008

1. Fujitsu Siemens to launch mini-laptop at IFA
2. Xbox 360 beats PlayStation 3 in Japan weekly sales chart
3. Microsoft sues site to stop certification test leaks
4. AMD to make a splash in the server chipset space
5. Google Apps admins jittery about Gmail, hopeful about future
6. Troubleshoot connectivity problems on Windows networks, part 1
7. Apple fire caused $2 million in damage, fire department says
8. Safaricom uses solar, wind energy to reach remote locations

15-8-2008

1. Anti-Georgia spammers building new botnet
2. Top 10- Hacker spoof, VMware goof
3. Netflix- Tech distribution problem solved
4. Gmail users report yet another outage
5. ISO, IEC reject appeals, approve OOXML spec
6. Ubuntu for Non-Geeks, 3rd Edition
7. Russia-Georgia war rages on in cyberspace
8. Go shallow on your directory structure for file servers
9. RIM BlackBerry How-To- Download & Install New Themes
10. VMware and SSL Settings- How to Stay Safe
11. Judge refuses to lift gag order in subway-hack case
12. Peer-to-peer client uTorrent fixes serious vulnerability
13. VoIP security auditing is becoming more and more complex ... Not!
14. Google Tech talk on Password Reset
15. Microsoft PDC, WinHEC will be Windows 7 coming-out parties
16. Yahoo fills Icahn board seats
17. McCain promotes online security, privacy policies
18. VARs rethinking services

14-8-2008

1. Launch System Preferences with a keyboard shortcut
2. Microsoft re-issues July WSUS patch
3. Google Reader becomes more discreet when sharing
4. Mobiles, SMS play a role in Afghanistan security
5. Analyst- In-house app development fraught with waste
6. SAP fires back at Waste Management
7. Dutch police, FBI rein in large botnet
8. Preteen vandals receive ultimate punishment- No video games
9. AOL phisher gets seven year sentence
10. Facebook faces class-action suit over Beacon