Friday, October 16, 2009

IT News HeadLines (InfoWorld) 16/10/2009



Microsoft manages to recover most Sidekick data

Microsoft has good news for most Sidekick users: the company says it has recovered most of the data for T-Mobile Sidekick users who saw personal information accidentally wiped from their devices earlier this week.


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Ncomputing device adds virtual desktops over USB

Ncomputing is launching a device that can be used to add a virtual client to a host PC via a USB connection.

The U170 can run full multimedia applications when it is connected to a host machine's USB port. Multiple U170 boxes can add extra users to a host machine, which can be cheaper than buying separate machines, said Carsten Puls, vice president of strategic marketing at Ncomputing.


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CollabNet boosts agile development in latest TeamForge release

CollabNet is increasingآ focus on agile software development methodologies in a release of its CollabNet TeamForge application lifecycle management platform being announced on Thursday.


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Acer reveals details of Android-based smartphone

Acer has disclosed more details about its upcoming Android-based Liquid smartphone, a thin device with a 3.5-inch touchscreen.


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Six years of Patch Tuesdays yield 400 security bulletins, 745 vulnerabilities

Microsoft's massive security update this week marked the completion of the sixth year of the company's move to a monthly patch release schedule.


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Mozilla plug-in checker boosts security

Mozilla developers have launched a new online tool that tells Firefox users whether popular add-on components such as Java or QuickTime are up to date.


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Oracle's long-awaited Fusion Applications to launch in 2010

Oracle plans to launch its long-awaited Fusion Applications in 2010, and they will be deployable both on-premises and as SaaS (software as a service), CEO Larry Ellison said Wednesday during a keynote address at the OpenWorld conference in San Francisco.


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Acer passes Dell as second-largest PC vendor

Acer overtook Dell as the world's second-largest computer vendor during the third quarter, as the PC market showed signs of coming back to life, IDC said on Wednesday.

Global PC shipments grew 2.3 percent from the same quarter a year earlier, to 78.1 million units. It was the first quarter this year in which PC shipments have grown, IDC said.


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IBM boosts SAN Volume Controller performance with SSDs

IBM will add support for SSDs to version 5.0 of its SAN Volume Controller and is promising a big boost in performance with or without flash storage.


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Collaboration tools worth the investment, survey says

A recent global survey of business and IT managers found that their companies got back benefits perceived as equal to four times their investment, on average, in unified communication and collaboration technologies.


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EnterpriseDB cites enterprise capabilities in open source database

EnterpriseDB is touting enterprise-level capabilities of its Postgres Plus Standard Server 8.4 open source database, which was released this week. The company says the database, which is based on PostgreSQL database technology, offers enterprises cost benefits of open source, performance benefits of a community-developed product, and the reassurance of vendor support.


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Opera addresses security concerns with Unite beta

Opera Software has released a beta version of Unite, its browser-based application platform, it said on Wednesday.

Opera Unite turns any computer running Opera into a Web server, and lets users run applications and share content in the browser.


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