IT-Code-News: IT News HeadLines (ComputerWorld) 21/04/2009

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

IT News HeadLines (ComputerWorld) 21/04/2009

Java in the cloud: Google, Aptana, and Stax
Just as the megastars in Hollywood seem to find each other and fall in love, it was only inevitable that two of the greatest buzzwords ever hatched -- "Java" and "cloud" -- would meet and begin to breed. Now that a number of companies have launched Java clouds, or begun weaving Java into their hosted development platforms, the race is on to remake the Java infrastructure in the cloud image.

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The interview that'll bag a job
In today's job market, getting an interview is a feat, and many unemployed candidates blow it by appearing desperate or bitter. Here are ways to stand out for the right reasons.

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Sun Cloud looks beyond Java
Sun Microystems, which announced Sun Cloud in March, is taking a different tack than the Java clouds from Google, Aptana, and Stax because it wants to be more than just a Java provider. The new cloud will create new clusters of machines from any disk image, including some of the most popular versions of Linux and Solaris. Java, of course, will be found in most of these images, but you don't need to use it if you want to, say, run some emulated version of Cobol on a version of Puppy Linux. Unless Sun Cloud is interrupted by Oracle's acquisition, it should be available in a few months.

VMware vows to overhaul data center with 'cloud OS'
VMware has unveiled vSphere, the long awaited overhaul of its core virtualization platform which is designed to aggregate the virtual resources in the data center into one centrally managed computing pool.

Thai hospital goes wireless to contain outbreaks
A hospital in Thailand famous for medical tourism plans to introduce a few new wireless technologies to control outbreaks of deadly diseases.

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Report: Hackers break into Pentagon's fighter jet project
Hackers broke into U.S. Department of Defense computers and downloaded terabytes of data containing design information about the Joint Strike Fighter, a $300 billion stealth fighter currently under development, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Users: Oracle has lots of questions to answer about Sun deal
Oracle's agreement to buy Sun Microsystems is raising questions among Sun users about the software vendor's future plans for various technologies and customer support.

Review: OCZ's high-capacity solid-state disk 'a solid choice'
OCZ's Apex 120GB SSD is an all-around good drive that offers decent read/write speeds at an attractive price. If you don't need the absolute fastest SSD, but want to noticeably boost your laptop's performance, this is a solid choice.

Image gallery: Free sites help you manage your money
There are a slew of personal financial sites on the Web that purport to help you manage your money. We take a close look at seven of them.
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Review: Free sites help you manage your money
There are a slew of personal financial sites on the Web that purport to help you manage your money. We take a close look at seven of them.

Is Windows 7 for Netbooks a Non-Starter?

Microsoft plans to offer a low powered OS, called Starter, as a viable competitor in the netbook market, while also giving netbook customers the option to upgrade to a complete version of Windows 7 if they want to.

Oracle's Sun buy: Ellison praises Solaris, snubs IBM

In explaining his decision to make the acquisition Monday, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison boiled down Sun into a company of two key assets: Java and the Solaris operating system.

OpenSolaris, Linux could merge under Oracle

Oracle may end up merging the best of OpenSolaris with Linux once it takes control of Sun Microsystems, but it is unlikely to kill off Sun's widely used Solaris OS, analysts said.

Upgraded tool tests SAP security weaknesses

Sapyto, a tool to test the security of SAP systems, has been upgraded with new plugins that allow more thorough testing, according to the tool's developer.

Qualys announces Web apps scanning

At RSA Conference 2009 Qualys will announce its own Web-application scanning software and plans to develop or acquire technology to defend the vulnerabilities it finds.

Norman launches security appliance at RSA

Oslo-based antivirus vendor Norman is planning to launch Norman Network Protector, an appliance that scans traffic and blocks the content it deems dangerous, at the annual RSA conference going on this week in San Francisco.

NEC gets into security software

Japanese network equipment vendor NEC is making its first foray into security software at RSA Conference 2009 with the introduction of a Web application firewall to the U.S.

Criminals pay top money for hackable Nokia phone

Criminals are trying to buy a certain model of Nokia's 1100 phone due to a software problem that can enable them to hack online bank accounts.

Windows 7 will nag users 29% less often, Microsoft claims

User Account Control (UAC), one of the most hated features of Windows Vista, will be seen a third less often by users of the upcoming Windows 7, a Microsoft executive promised Monday.

RSA Conference kicks off on somber note

Against an omnipresent backdrop of recession and uncertainty, IT security pros this week will gather at an RSA Conference focused on malware proliferation, protection of virtualized and cloud computing environments, and the specter of rising government involvement in their work.

Study: Mistakes, Not Insiders, to Blame for Most Breaches

2008 was a banner year for security breaches, according to new research from Verizon. And while many security vendors have been banging the drum about the threat of malicious insiders, this report indicates organizations should be more wary of outside attacks .

Economy, Vista Slowing Windows 7 Adoption Plans

A report released today about IT managers' Windows 7 upgrade plans reveals that a large majority of IT staff do not intend to upgrade existing Windows machines to Windows 7 in the next year

Researchers working on memory to replace DRAM, NAND

A Taiwanese research group has turned to RRAM (Resistive-RAM) as the latest possible Holy Grail of memory chips, one that can replace both DRAM and NAND flash memory.

Sharp debuts laptop with optical-sensor LCD pad

Sharp will soon put on sale in Japan a first-of-its-kind laptop that replaces the traditional trackpad with an LCD panel with embedded optical sensor.

Paragon Software's new VAR portal

Data security and management company Paragon Software this week launched a new VAR portal, moving its sales channel into the new era of Web 2.0. The trend is noteworthy and several other vendors have done the same before Paragon, with great success.

Pirate Bay case on its way to the court of appeal

A lawyer for one of the defendants in the Pirate Bay case has already filed an appeal against the guilty verdict handed down by a Stockholm court on Friday.

Refurbished iPhone 3G for $149: Smells Like a Fire Sale

Out with the old iPhone, in with the new? So it appears at the AT&T Wireless site, where a refurbished 16GB iPhone 3G is now selling for a suspiciously low $149.

Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking is hospitalized

The man who is arguably the world's most famous scientist, who tries to help everyday people understand questions like how the universe began, is hospitalized with a chest infection.

After losing Sun to Oracle, IBM earnings up

On the same day it appeared to have missed its chance to buy Sun Microsystems, IBM reported that revenue for the first quarter dropped 11 percent from a year earlier and had fallen short of analyst expectations.

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