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

Tech companies had lots to be sorry for in 2009

Kanye West, President Obama and David Letterman grabbed headlines this year when they apologized for assorted ill-advised acts or rash statements.

Battle heats up between rival specs for voice on LTE

Backers of two competing specifications for delivering voice over LTE mobile data networks have heralded demonstrations in the past two days, while mobile giant Ericsson apparently dropped its support for one of the systems.

Rather than patch, Microsoft blocks buggy Windows code

Microsoft has decided to disable a 17-year-old video codec in older versions of Windows rather than patch multiple vulnerabilities, according to the company's security team.

HP patches severe OpenView vulnerabilities

Hewlett-Packard has issued a number of patches for a component in its OpenView software package. The company advises administrators to apply the patches immediately, given the severity of the vulnerabilities.

The HP OpenView Network Node Manager (OV NNM) has 12 buffer overflow vulnerabilities that an attacker could exploit to execute arbitrary code and even gain system control.

Microsoft talks cloud computing security and plans to offer private cloud software

With Microsoft's Azure cloud computing platform set to go live on New Year's Day, the company is looking ahead to later in 2010 when it will unveil a new security structure for multi-tenant cloud environments as well as private cloud software based on the same technology used to build Azure.

10 tech predictions for 2010

No doubt, a leading IT story in 2010 will be the role that sector will play in the expected economic recovery, as well as how IT markets themselves recover. OK, so that's a no-brainer to predict, but we're latching on to some more specific details in that regard, and we've found a limb or three to walk out on as well. In no particular order we present the 2010 edition of our annual predictions.

10 tech predictions for 2010

Dell aims management software, 10G Ethernet at datacenters

Dell added 10-Gigabit Ethernet to its EqualLogic storage line and introduced infrastructure management software in a set of product announcements Thursday to round out its datacenter offerings.

Sun offers enterprise Java technologies but is silent on Oracle

Sun Microsystems officials introduced on Thursday Sun's upgrades to three Java-based technologies, including the company's latest implementation of enterprise Java. But they were silent on the elephant in the room: How the company's efforts might be impacted by the planned acquisition of Sun by Oracle.

SAP launches sustainability-tracking application

SAP's emerging line of green IT software got a boost Thursday with the announcement of an application that helps companies pull together data about their corporate sustainability, analyze the information, and create reports.

The software, BusinessObjects Sustainability Performance Management, is just the latest outcome of a major public push SAP launched this year around sustainable practices.

Microsoft re-issues Windows 7 tool as open-source

Microsoft yesterday re-released a Windows 7 installation tool that it admitted included open source code, and has posted the utility's source code to its own open source site.

Oracle defends planned Sun deal at EC hearing

Oracle is expected to portray its planned acquisition of Sun Microsystems, and more specifically of Sun's MySQL unit, as a procompetitive move necessary to balance the might of Microsoft in the low end database market during a two-day hearing in Brussels that opened Thursday.

The hearing is being hosted by Europe's top antitrust authority, the European Commission, which last month declared its opposition to the deal on grounds that it would cause a serious reduction of competition in the market for computer databases.

Saturday, December 12, 2009

IT News HeadLines (InfoWorld) 12/12/2009

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