Wednesday, February 25, 2009

IT News HeadLines (ComputerWorld) 25/02/2009



Adobe patches Flash vulnerabilities for three platforms
Adobe Systems has updated its Flash multimedia software to eliminate five flaws affecting Windows, OS X and Linux systems.

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Image gallery: Don't have a Kindle 2? Try these online book sites
Amazon's Kindle 2 is thin, beautiful and very useful for downloading all the books you want, but bibliophiles who can't or won't buy one can find reading material in other ways.

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3G netbooks: Are they the cell phones of the future?
Networks such as AT&T are selling netbooks at low cost if you buy a 3G subscription with them. But how well do these tiny devices handle 3G?

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Microsoft to launch experimental search site
Microsoft expects to launch Viveri, an experimental search site that will let its researchers more easily roll out new search ideas.

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Microsoft demos innovations at annual TechFest
At the annual TechFest event, Microsoft researchers showed off technology that can make it easier to notice when different like-sounding speakers are talking.

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Google jumps into EU antitrust case against Microsoft
Google today said it has asked the European Union's Competition Commission to let it participate in the antitrust agency's investigation of rival Microsoft, joining browser builders Opera and Mozilla in the case.

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Visto's Good buyout relieves Motorola
Motorola's sale of the former Good Technology to Visto may benefit the embattled equipment maker more than either push e-mail provider, though the deal should help Visto bulk up for competition against Research in Motion, according to industry analysts.


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5 steps to simpler Exchange high availability

For many companies, email has become a more important communication tool than the telephone.

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Another phishing scam, this one spreading via Google Talk

If you find yourself at the "viddyho" site, do not enter any information. But we didn't really have to tell you that, did we?

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Gov't CIO survey: Cybersecurity still needs work

Cybersecurity remains a top concern of federal CIOs, but the results so far are mixed, a survey says.


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Increasing ROI and Reducing the Risks of Your Application Portfolio

This white paper examines APM's ability to mitigate escalating risks while generating significant ROI opportunities.


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Turn Vista's Sleep Button Into a Power Button

As a recent Vista convert (I just couldn't cling to XP any longer--a subject for another day), I'm mostly liking the OS. But I do have one small grievance: When I click the Start button and then click what looks like a power button, my system doesn't actually shut down. Instead, it goes to sleep. Fortunately, there's a way to reprogram that "sleep" button to become an actual power button. Here's the process in a nutshell:


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Microsoft spells out Windows 7 activation nags, limits

Microsoft will turn Windows 7's background picture black and put up persistent notices on the screen if users don't activate the new operating system, a company manager said Monday.

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Tata setting up data center in London

India's Tata Communications is setting up a data center outside London as part of its strategy to expand in key markets worldwide.

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OLPC to focus on large-scale deployments of XO laptops

Nonprofit organization One Laptop Per Child is shying away from small deployments of XO laptops to focus on large-scale deployments as it restructures to cope with the recession.


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Server revenue sees big drop in Q4, IDC says

Worldwide server revenue saw its biggest quarterly drop in years in the last quarter of 2008 and may not recover until next year, IDC said in a survey released on Wednesday.

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New strategy is all about management, says VMware CTO

More details about VMware's Virtual Datacenter Operating System, including a collection of management tools, will be provided in coming weeks, but company executives at the VMworld conference Tuesday continued to outline the broad initiative that is aimed at helping customers build internal clouds.

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Kindle 2 fever hits as shipments of new e-book reader begin

The Kindle 2 began shipping Sunday, ahead of schedule, and even before customers received the new e-book reader from Amazon.com Inc., many indicated in forum posts that they were ecstatic about its impending arrival.

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