Monday, August 3, 2009

IT News HeadLines (ComputerWorld) 03/08/2009



With new ads, Google aims offensive at Microsoft Office
In the latest salvo in Google's ongoing battle with Microsoft, Google announced today that it's taking this fight to the streets with a month-long ad campaign for its online suite of enterprise office applications.
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Teradata 13 focuses on speed, geospatial data
Teradata has announced the general availability of Teradata 13, the latest incarnation of its data warehousing software platform.
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Cloud Debate: Zittrain Counters CIO.com Criticism
Consultant Bernard Golden has some intense reactions to my recent piece in the New York Times on cloud computing. In it I shared some basic worries-and one advanced worry-to be dealt with. I'll boil them down a little further here.
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Google's Schmidt quits Apple's board; Jobs cites conflicts
Apple today announced that Eric Schmidt, Google's CEO, has resigned from Apple's board of directors, citing the increased competition between the two companies.
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Dell Latitude 2100 Netbook
Families, don't be surprised if you see the Dell Latitude 2100 show up in a classroom near you. As I've written in the past, Dell is aggressively targeting the K-8 education market with this line of rugged-looking netbooks. At the time I played with a preview unit, the machine seemed good. But now, a final review model has passed through the PC World Test Center, and it's time to grade its performance.
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Google's Schmidt resigns from Apple's board
Google CEO Eric Schmidt will resign from Apple's board of directors, three months after new reports that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission was checking whether the companies violated antitrust laws by having two directors in common: Schmidt and former Genetech CEO Arthur Levinson.
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Security analyst: Las Vegas ATMs may have malware
The U.S. Secret Service said on Monday it is investigating a group of ATM machines in Las Vegas that are debiting people's accounts but not dispensing cash.
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Chrome threatens Safari's browser share spot, Firefox falters
Google's Chrome browser is closing in on Apple's Safari for the third spot in browser market share, according to Web metrics company Net Applications said.
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Review: 3 NAS devices offer efficient backup for small offices
RAID-capable network-attached storage is no longer only for enterprises. We look at three of the latest desktop NAS devices.
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