UAC Fix in Windows 7 Creates Security Hole, Blogger Says (PC World)
PC World - A change that Microsoft made in Windows 7 to improve its controversial User Account Control security feature has left the new OS less secure, according to a blogger who follows Microsoft closely.
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Data theft from firms topped a trillion dollars in 2008: study (AFP)
AFP - Workers turned "cyber moles" and crime syndicates armed with malicious software are looting digital data from businesses as losses reportedly topped a trillion dollars in 2008.
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Microsoft Charges Employee With Spying (PC World)
PC World - Microsoft has filed a lawsuit against a former employee, charging him with taking a job at the software giant in order to steal information that would be helpful in his patent infringement case against the company.
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New App Deepens Salesforce-Facebook Possibilities (PC World)
PC World - Software and services vendor Appirio is releasing the Referral Management Solution, a set of technologies that enable Salesforce customers to use Facebook for functions like viral marketing and employee recruitment.
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Dell to Make Google and Microsoft Phones -- Really? (PC World)
PC World - Just when you thought there are enough not-so-good looking and overrated phones out there, Dell is expected to announce two iPhone and Blackberry competitors sometime next month. Code-named MePhone (hopefully not the final name), the phones will run on Google Android and Microsoft Windows Mobile respectively.
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SP2 for Vista, Server 2008 Reportedly Sent to Testers (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - With Windows Vista hanging in the balance between a coming-to-life Windows 7 and a refusing-to-die Windows XP, a second service pack for Vista and Windows Server 2008 has reportedly been sent to testers. The reports say a release candidate escrow build has been sent for feedback, with other versions to be available in the next few months.
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Fired Fannie Mae Contractor Tried to Crash Network (PC World)
PC World - A former Fannie Mae IT contractor has been charged with planting malicious software on the mortgage giant's systems on the day he lost his job last October.
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CA posts higher 3Q profit, revenue slips (AP)
AP - Information technology management software maker CA Inc. said Thursday its fiscal third-quarter profit grew, helped by the company's broad product line as well as lower expenses.
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Software Flushes out the Eureka! Moments (PC World)
PC World - The Boston software company Invention Machine will have you believe their product can make the traditional "Eureka!" moment obsolete.
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Fan Starts Campaign for Windows 7's Immediate Release (PC World)
PC World - A Windows enthusiast is calling for Microsoft to release Windows 7 now, only a few weeks after the company made available the software's first public test version.
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Tampa Preps for Super Bowl With BI Tools (PC World)
PC World - Half a million football-crazed fans will jam Tampa, Florida, for this Sunday's Super Bowl showdown between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Arizona Cardinals, but a small army of law enforcement officials will be tracking the situation through a system that combines BI (business intelligence) tools and a specialized software application called E Team.
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Swiss police spy marijuana field with Google Earth (AP)
AP - Swiss police said Thursday they stumbled across a large marijuana plantation while using Google Earth, the search engine company's satellite mapping software.
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PC Game Sales Plunge in 2008; Consoles Soar (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Total sales of video game hardware, software and peripherals topped $22 billion in 2008, according to the Entertainment Software Association. But PC game sales dropped by 23 percent.
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Businesses risk $1 trillion losses from data theft: study (Reuters)
Reuters - Businesses risk losing over $1 trillion from loss or theft of data and other cybercrime, according to a study released on Thursday by security technology firm McAfee Inc.
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Nintendo DS Software Device Back on Sale in Akihabara (PC World)
PC World - The R4 Revolution device that allows users to play cloned Nintendo DS software is openly back on sale in Tokyo's Akihabara electronics district, several months after legal action by Nintendo threatened to halt sales.
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Lenovo Buys Mystery Startup Company (PC World)
PC World - Lenovo has acquired a secretive startup called Switchbox Labs that was cofounded by a former Microsoft Windows executive, the PC maker announced Wednesday.
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Jetty Web server flies to Eclipse (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - The wheels are in motion to make Jetty, an open source Java Web server, an Eclipse Foundation project, said Webtide, the main developer of Jetty. The software is used as a server for rich Internet and embedded applications.
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Symantec Results Top Estimates, Outlook in Line (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Symantec Corp, the largest maker of computer security and data backup software, issued quarterly results that beat forecasts, sending its shares up 6 percent.
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Cox Says It Will Delay P2P Traffic, Software Updates (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Cox Communications next month will implement a new traffic management method that prioritizes "time sensitive" Internet traffic but temporarily delays traffic like software updates and peer-to-peer transactions when the network is congested.
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SAP says profit down 2 pct in '08, axes 3,000 jobs (AP)
AP - Software maker SAP AG said Wednesday it would cut 3,000 jobs worldwide to cut costs as its 2008 net profit fell 2 percent, weighed by a difficult year-end when the financial crisis deepened.
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