Thursday, July 16, 2009

IT News HeadLines (ComputerWorld) 16/07/2009



Sony VAIO VGN-AW230J/H Laptop
Sony's mobile desktop replacement laptop, the VAIO VGN-AW230J/H ($1599, as of July 15, 2009), lets you take care of business and gives you easy access your entire media library. But despite its positioning as a multimedia powerhouse, the VGN-AW230J/H clocked a surprisingly anemic score of 88 on PC WorldBench 6. Though the laptop packs a 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo P8600 CPU and 4GB of RAM, it finished second-to-last, next to the Alienware M17, in general performance among comparably equipped machines.
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Asus N90SV-A2
The Asus N90SV-A2 desktop replacement laptop is roughly the size of two 15-inch notebooks turned vertically and placed side by side. Movies and games look great on the large (18.4-inch diagonal), bright, full-HD-resolution (1920 by 1080) screen. (Asus recently released a more game-focused laptop of similar size, the Asus W90VP.)
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E-commerce Fraud: The Latest Criminal Schemes
E-commerce fraud costs retailers approximately $4 billion each year, according to the most recent results of an annual survey conducted by Cybersource, a provider of electronic payment and risk management services. Sebbe Jones, manager of fraud and disputes at 2Checkout, is in the business of keeping e-commerce fraud at bay.
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Purify 2.1
Hendrickson Software Development's Purify 2.1.8 is a unique application--it's neither an in-app spam filter (as are Personal AntiSpam [ Macworld rated 3.5 out of 5 mice ] and SpamSieve [ Macworld rated 5 out of 5 mice ]), nor is it a standalone spam filter (like SpamSweep and SpamX). Purify is a so-called pass-through spam filter that scans and categorizes your e-mail as it arrives--it doesn't actually trap or block spam, but codes it so that you can then handle it as you wish with your e-mail client of choice.
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Will Twitter Sue TechCrunch?
Will Twitter take legal action against Web sites that publish the company's confidential documents, which were leaked by a hacker? Although the micro-blog isn't coming right out and saying it, Twitter co-founder Evan Williams published a blog post yesterday suggesting legal action was a possibility.
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Analysts see alarming development in mobile malware
The first worm that spreads between mobile devices by spamming text messages has developed a new communications capability that one security vendor says signals the arrival of mobile botnets.
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Dell aims to put all-in-one PC on business desks
With the aim to reclaim desk space, Dell on Thursday announced its first all-in-one PC for small-and-medium businesses.
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Declining phone sales drive down Nokia net income in Q2
Nokia reported second-quarter sales 25% lower than a year earlier, and net income down 66%. While it predicts that sales will stop dropping in the third quarter, it now expects to see no increase in its market share this year.
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Java yields to other languages on the Java Virtual Machine

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Review: 3 personal HD video cameras offer high def at low cost
If you want to record HD video, and don't want to lug around a camcorder, one of these three small, inexpensive cameras can make it easy to be a video maven.
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