Indian startup designs tablet PC running Android
Notion Ink, a startup in Hyderabad, India, has developed a touchscreen tablet PC running Google's Android OS.
The company, with development teams in Taiwan, the U.S., and India, aims to target the global market.
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DDoS attack on DNS hits Amazon and others
Internet users in Northern California were unable to reach properties including Amazon.com and Amazon Web Services for a time Wednesday evening, as their DNS provider was targeted by a distributed denial-of-service attack. The attack came as North American consumers rushed to finish online shopping ahead of the end-of-year holiday season.
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Google purchase of AdMob gets closer antitrust review
Google's purchase of mobile advertising provider AdMob for $750 million has drawn closer regulatory scrutiny as U.S. antitrust officials have asked Google for more information on the deal, Google said in a blog post Wednesday.
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High Windows 7 satisfaction spurs corporate IT spending
Windows 7, just two months on the market, is accelerating the pace of corporate computer buying, market research firm ChangeWave said.
Part of the reason may be that 93 percent of the IT professionals polled said that their company is satisfied with the new operating system, a one percentage point increase over a similar survey in July.
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Twitter buys Mixer Labs to enhance geolocation services
Twitter has enhanced geolocation services provided on its messaging service by buying Mixer Labs, the company said on Wednesday.
Mixer Labs' GeoAPI is a service that helps developers build geolocation-aware applications for the Twitter service, a Twitter official wrote in a blog entry. Software using the service will allow Twitter users to tag the location where a message was written.
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The 5 essential patches you need to be secure
Fact: Everyone who patches is safer. Fact: Not everyone patches.
The gap between the two facts is too deep for even security experts to explain, although they try, with theories running from the conspiratorial -- pirates hate to patch, they say, because they're afraid vendors, Microsoft mostly, will spy them out -- to the prosaic ... that people are, by nature, just lazy.
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Latest Grails framework is set for the JVM
SpringSource, which is now a division of VMware, released on Wednesday the 1.2 version of the Grails dynamic language framework for the Java Virtual Machine.
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Genuitec looks to battle IBM Jazz with ALM product rollout
Genuitec released earlier this month version 3.0 of its Pulse software lifecycle management product and is suggesting it as a possible enterprise-level replacement for IBM's Jazz application lifecycle management technologies.
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Oracle sued over UI tech in Fusion Applications
A Georgia company is suing Oracle for fraud and copyright infringement, saying the vendor is unlawfully using the company's technology to build user interfaces associated with Fusion Applications, a long-awaited, next-generation product family set for release next year.
MB Technologies of Warner Robins, Georgia, is the developer of Bindows, a toolkit that lets developers create "the exact look and feel" of a Windows user interface for their Web applications, according to the complaint.
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