Saturday, November 21, 2009

IT News HeadLines (CNET) 21/11/2009



Browser security features compared
The newest versions of Internet Explorer, Firefox, and other browsers all protect against phishing and malware attacks, and most also let you browse anonymously, though they implement these features in very different ways.
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Report: How risky is cloud computing?
The European Network and Information Security Agency outlines the benefits and pitfalls for companies thinking of entrusting a third party with their data and even their entire business infrastructure.
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Brizzly opens up...and translates
The Twitter client has built in Google Translate for quick decoding of international tweets--and also, no more invite codes are required.
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Twitter's geotagging API goes live
The geolocation tool allows developers to incorporate a user's location in tweets. It's an opt-in service.
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What drives China? Soon, cleaner fuel
Still, the world's second largest oil consumer is taking a cautious approach to introducing tougher diesel and gasoline specifications.
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Nokia to lay off up to 330 R&D staffers
The move, which would affect workers at sites in Finland and Denmark, comes as the company shows signs of sputtering in the smartphone stakes.
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The 411 on early-termination fees (FAQ)
Verizon Wireless has doubled its early-termination fees for smartphones, but what does it mean for the rest of the industry?
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Will consumers plug into home energy displays?
Dozens of companies are developing tools to ratchet down home energy use as part of utility smart grid programs, but nobody is sure which approach will stick with consumers.
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Adobe's Acrobat.com reorganizes, gets mobile app
The company improves its Acrobat service with a new organizer and a mobile app for the iPhone and BlackBerry that lets users access their files on the go.
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Fortified rice, fuel cells among Tech Award winners
Al Gore receives humanitarian honor at Tech Museum event that provides prizes to projects in the areas of environment, health, biosciences economic development, equality, and education.
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Cisco launches iPhone security app
Cisco Systems' new App Store entry, featuring customized alerts and threat information delivered to the handheld device, targets security professionals.
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Town to photograph every car that enters and leaves
The California town of Tiburon votes to set up permanent cameras to record the license plate of every car on its roads. Is this one more step toward a surveillance state?
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Al Gore: Our next power grid will be like the Net
The former vice president takes the stage at VentureBeat's GreenBeat conference in San Mateo, Calif. to discuss some of the challenges ahead for moving to the smart grid.
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Germ alert: Attack of the killer necktie!
As the medical community debates whether to remove neckties from hospitals to prevent the spread of superbugs that claim thousands of lives annually, a microbe-thwarting tie is born.
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Judge sets February hearing for new Google Books deal
Schedule is laid out for the second round of the final approval process as preliminary approval is given to the revised deal submitted last Friday.
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HDMI products to get meaningful labels
HDMI Licensing releases guidelines that enforce meaningful labeling to different versions of HDMI cables.
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Offerpal revises terms amid continued scandal
Under fire for running misleading ads on social networks, the offers-and-surveys broker now says publishers can choose how "conservative" they want to be with ads.
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eBay sets Skype loose at $2.75 billion valuation
The auction site has sold off its telephony unit, finally, after plans to take it public and a legal dispute with the company's founders.
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Apple: 'Enterprise' is as enterprise does
Gartner's Nick Jones wants to characterize Apple as a consumer company, but what happens when those consumers start using Apple's tech in the enterprise en masse?
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Google has its own plan for Netbooks
No, the search giant isn't saying it will build a Netbook. But it sure knows what it would like one running Chrome OS to resemble, and that's a little different from the Netbook of today.
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