IT-Code-News: IT News HeadLines (InfoWorld) 05/12/2009

Microsoft Bing suffers outage

Microsoft's Bing site was offline Thursday night. Relatively speaking, the outage didn't last very long, but any outage is a bad outage when you are introducing new features and trying to win market share from a dominant competitor like Google.

Wireless networking hidden in Windows 7 Starter

Microsoft may have buried a wireless networking feature in Windows 7 Starter, the edition installed on most netbooks, but it did not actually disable the ad hoc wireless feature, as the firm's marketing materials claim, according to a noted Windows blogger.

How to reduce your datacenter's energy consumption

While the acquisition cost for servers is declining, the total cost of ownership for housing, powering, and cooling them has increased by 500 percent since 2000. Yet research from the Uptime Institute reveals that 60 percent of the available cooling in a typical computer room is wasted due to airflow losses, also called "bypass airflow."

The upshot: You are likely spending more money on energy than necessary because of the inefficiencies created by over-capacity and poor conditioned airflow management.

Microsoft revamps browser ballot as EU antitrust deal nears

Microsoft has revamped the browser ballot screen demanded by European Union antitrust regulators and may get final approval as early as Dec. 15, a source familiar with the case told Computerworld today.

Android, iPhone, BlackBerry: Which OS is best for app development?

Let's say that you're a software developer who has created a hot new application for smartphones that you're certain is about to take the world by storm. Your work isn't quite done and here's the problem: not only will your brilliant and innovative application have to compete with several other applications that have similar ambitions, but it will have to compete with them over multiple platforms.

Microsoft to patch IE zero-day bug next week

Microsoft said it will deliver six security updates on Tuesday, including one that will patch a vulnerability in Internet Explorer (IE) the company admitted only last week.

New study calls for cybersecurity overhaul in U.S.

The U.S. government and private businesses need to overhaul the way they look at cybersecurity, with the government offering businesses new incentives to fix security problems, the Internet Security Alliance said.

The SAP Enterprise Support KPI saga could go well into 2010

SAP's attempt to convince users that its Enterprise Support service provides enough value to justify a higher price tag may drag on well into 2010.

The matter stems from SAP's decision last year to transition customers to Enterprise Support, which has additional features but would impose a significant cost increase, phased in over a number of years.

The SAP Enterprise Support KPI saga could go well into 2010

SAP's attempt to convince users that its Enterprise Support service provides enough value to justify a higher price tag may drag on well into 2010.

Extreme unveils switching blueprint for virtual datacenters

Extreme Networks this week unveiled a blueprint for migrating datacenters from the physical world to virtualization, and then ultimately to cloud computing.

Google launches alternative DNS resolver

Google has created a new system to resolve DNS (domain name system) queries that the company claims will speed up Web browsing for end-users, as well as make it more secure.

Google Public DNS, announced on Thursday, is still in an experimental phase.

JetBrains upgrades TeamCity with cloud capabilities

With an upgrade to its TeamCity distributed build management and continuous integration tool, JetBrains is highlighting integration with the Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) platform to accommodate variable loads depending on activity levels.

Available Thursday, Version 5.0 of TeamCity puts build agents on Amazon EC2 with on-demand image-starting and stopping for idle images.

Saturday, December 5, 2009

IT News HeadLines (InfoWorld) 05/12/2009

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