Saturday, July 11, 2009

IT News HeadLines (ComputerWorld) 11/07/2009



Elgan: How to become an iPhone Vulcan
Become a Stoic, continue your education and get in shape -- all from the comfort of your iPhone. Mike Elgan tells you how.
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Chrome, Android have different jobs, Google says
Google's emerging Chrome operating system won't squeeze out Android, according to Andy Rubin, the company's vice president of mobile engineering platforms.
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MasterCard seeks to clarify remote POS security upgrades policy
MasterCard today clarified a June 15 bulletin about the use of remote key injection (RKI) services for upgrading encryption protocols on merchants' point of sale (POS) terminals, saying it was not an edict.
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Outlook separation anxiety holds back Google Apps
In its bold march to become a credible collaboration and communication suite for businesses, Google Apps has encountered a frequent roadblock that has proven more vexing than expected to circumvent: good old Microsoft Outlook.
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Chrome and more Chrome, that pesky botnet
This was quite a week for big IT news, what with Google announcing it plans to release the Chrome operating system and the attack on U.S. government, South Korean and other Web sites from a botnet whose origin remained unknown as of this writing. And those were just the stories that scored the biggest headlines.
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Fourth State Department worker pleads guilty to passport snooping
A fourth person who has worked for the U.S. Department of State has pleaded guilty to a charge connected to illegally accessing confidential electronic passport records, the U.S. Department of Justice said.
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Wi-Fi enabled health care products to surge with electronic medical records
ABI Research forecasts that Wi-Fi-enabled health care products will hit sales of nearly $5 billion globally in 2014, up 70% from 2009.
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Microsoft Bing booming; Yahoo appears in its sights
Researchers agree that use of Microsoft's Bing search engine is growing, but they disagree on whether the new tool's market share has passed rival Yahoo.
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Windows 7 to get boost from rebounding PC buying plans
Microsoft's timing of Windows 7's launch is "fortuitous" because U.S. corporate PC buying plans are on the upswing for the first time in 18 months, a market research company said this week.
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Does Google Chrome OS further fragment Linux landscape?
Will Google's Chrome OS prove destructive to Linux by further fragmenting the landscape or overshadowing other players, or will it provide the name recognition and engineering prowess to nudge the free OS into the mainstream? Experts weigh in.
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