Friday, July 31, 2009

IT News HeadLines (ComputerWorld) 31/07/2009



Windows 7 Family Pack saves users money, Anytime Upgrades doesn't
Microsoft today unveiled the prices for a multi-license "family pack" for Windows 7, as well as the prices for the in-place Anytime Upgrades users can buy to bump up to the next level of the operating system.
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Netezza to launch faster, cheaper data-warehousing appliance
Netezza plans to release a new data warehousing appliance that it says is a third of the price of its previous model and runs on new, faster blade server-based hardware.
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Tenant's tweet about mold prompts $50K libel suit by landlord
This latest example of ordinary people courting trouble on Twitter isn't the usual cautionary tale about remembering that what's written on the Internet stays on the Internet. Nope, it's more about why people hate landlords.
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DRM's Slow Death. Sorta
Mark Gibbs ponders the slow death spiral of digital rights management as the RIAA almost admits that DRM is obsolete, as Amazon violates its terms of service and apologizes, as lawyers attempt to redefine what it means to buy digital content, and how the Associated Press has just discovered DRM.
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Don't worry if CoverScout stops responding
I own Equinux's CoverScout 3. It's a useful program for adding album cover art that may be missing from the songs in your iTunes Library. As a registered user, I received an e-mail from Equinux this week. It contained a bit of bad news and good news.
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Conficker talk sanitized at Black Hat to protect investigation
A talk at Black Hat had to be scaled back because it contained information about Conficker that might tip investigators’ hand and send the perpetrators further underground, says F-Secure's chief research officer.
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Android, Windows Mobile phone sales slower than HTC expected
Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC lowered its 2009 revenue forecast due to slower than expected sales of new smartphones that use Google's Android mobile operating system and Microsoft's Windows Mobile.
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Adobe patches 12 Flash bugs, 3 caused by Microsoft
Adobe on Thursday patched a dozen vulnerabilities in Flash Player, including three it inherited from faulty Microsoft development code and one that hackers have been exploiting for at least a week.
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Court allows extradition of British hacker to proceed
A British hacker who broke into U.S. government computer systems seeking evidence of alien life has failed in his latest efforts to block extradition to the U.S. to face trial.
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Court allows extradition of British hacker to proceed
A British hacker who broke into U.S. government computer systems seeking evidence of alien life has failed in his latest efforts to block extradition to the U.S. to face trial.
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