Saturday, January 30, 2010

IT News HeadLines (CNET) 30/01/2010



CA names new CEO
IT management software maker picks its chairman to replace the former chief executive who retired last fall.
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Gates promises $10 billion for vaccines
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will donate billions over the next 10 years to research and develop new vaccines for poor countries.
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New CNET comment system: Is it better?
The Echo system pulls in comments from elsewhere on the Web and lets you authenticate with multiple social-network sites. Do you like it?
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Is eBay facing seller revolt?
The auction site made modifications to listing fees earlier this week that company representatives say have gone over quite well. Some members, however, say it just amounts to a big fee hike.
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Apple icon drops pants, suggests you e-mail your senator
In a PSA in support of the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Bill, "Get a Mac" icon Justin Long encourages you to e-mail your senator. He also reminds you he's the Mac guy.
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Web searches for iPad leading to malicous sites
Security companies are warning people to be careful about scams involving e-mail or Web search for the Apple iPad or any other popular topic.
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Photonics exhibition trips the lasers fantastic
International optics and photonics society gathers in San Francisco for an enormous photonics and laser exhibition.
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Sync Chrome's tabs via FreshStart
FreshStart delivers to Google Chrome the long-overdue child of tabbed browsing and browsing sessions: tab synchronization.
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McGraw-Hill on iPad launch: We didn't get booted; we weren't part of it
Remarks by CEO led some to believe the publisher was privy to iPad details before the launch, but that wasn't the case. It was never part of the event to begin with, says a spokesman.
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Congressional sites defaced after Obama speech
Third-party vendor manages 49 House of Representative Web sites that were hacked following president's address, and 18 that were defaced last year, report says.
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AT&T boosts network investment
To better keep up with demand for smartphones and other 3G data devices, AT&T plans to add an additional $2 billion to its budget to upgrade its wireless network.
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Breakthrough heart scan leads to early diagnosis
Due to its unprecedented sensitivity to magnetic fluctuations, a prototype magnetometer could greatly improve the diagnosis of cardiac conditions.
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Payload descriptor for cloud computing: An update
After receiving significant feedback on an earlier post, I've revised my thinking significantly. What's needed is not a new packaging format, but a payload description.
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Who will buy the iPad?
The tech-savvy set has expressed mostly disappointment with Apple's latest device. But that doesn't appear to be Apple's intended audience.
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Apple iPad: Is it for you?
CNET's Brian Tong, Ina Fried, and Josh Lowensohn discuss whether Apple's iPad will have people lining up to buy it when it's released in the spring.
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Wikimedia hires open-source veteran as CTO
Danese Cooper, a former open-source community specialist at Sun and Intel, now will work on technology for Wikipedia and other projects.
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CNET News Daily Podcast: Good financial news for three tech companies
AT&T, Nokia, and Netflix all report good earnings news; Facebook gets dinged on privacy again; and space shuttle Endeavour gets cleared for launch.
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Amazon cruises on strong holiday sales
For the fourth quarter, a strong period for its Kindle e-reader, Amazon saw revenue shoot up to $9.52 billion.
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Video VoIP calls over iPhone 3G? You betcha
Apple's new iPhone SDK gives the go-ahead for 3G VoIP calls. We tested it out using Fring's video calling feature.
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Google proposes geo-smart Internet speedup
The Internet's address system sometimes can inappropriately route people to servers far away. Google proposes a DNS change to try to fix it.
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