Thursday, March 25, 2010

IT News HeadLines (ComputerWorld) 25/03/2010



Hands on with the Galaxy S and EVO smartphones
One of the biggest chuckles at the CTIA show is how much Samsung has made its new Galaxy S look like an iPhone.
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Dell announces object-based storage, de-duplication
Dell announced that it will begin offering its own object-based archive storage cluster, the DX Object Storage Platform, and that it will resell EMC's Data Domain de-duplication appliances and its Celerra NAS array.
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Security Manager's Journal: Zero days to infect, but a day and a half to fix
New security policies are moving along smoothly, but a zero-day vulnerability takes a toll.
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Long Live Your Laptop Battery!
Laptop batteries are like people--eventually and inevitably, they die. And like people, they don't obey Moore's Law--You can't expect next year's batteries to last twice as long as this year's. Battery technology may improve a bit over time (after all, there's plenty of financial incentive for better batteries), but, while interesting possibilities may pop up, don't expect major battery breakthroughs in the near future.
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Intuit Quicken Essentials 1.1
Quicken Essentials is Intuit's new personal finance tracking application and heir apparent to the Quicken throne. But, as is the case with many heirs, it's unclear yet whether Quicken Essentials will grow to become as essential (pun intended) to your financial wellbeing as was the original.
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Smart Phone Attacks: Here and Now
CSO Senior Editor Bill Brenner warns that the ubiquitous nature of BlackBerry, iPhone and other smart phones means once-theoretical threats are now a clear and present danger.
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MemoMaster
MemoMaster 3.5 from JBSoftware falls into that all-too-large category of software with the feature list from Heaven and the implementation from purgatory. MemoMaster (free) is basically a freeform text database, like TreePad Lite, AskSam, and several others, with an extensive list of additional functionality. These extras include an "Excel compatible" spreadsheet, the ability to create fillable forms, import/export of Word and Excel files, and very rich formatting capabilities. Most of these features work--kind of.
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HTC EVO 4G seen as next bet in Sprint's WiMax gamble
Sprint Nextel launched its first WiMax-capable phone, the HTC EVO 4G, at the CTIA trade show, and said its faster WiMax network will reach 120 million Americans by year's end.
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Strata Enfold 3D CX 1.0
Strata Enfold 3D CX 1.0 is a plug-in that allows you to create professionally folded 3D designs within Adobe Illustrator ( Macworld rated 4 out of 5 mice ). Fully integrated into the rest of the Strata 3D CX Suite, this plug-in lets you design your package in Illustrator and export it to Strata Design 3D CX to texture, light, and render your final images.
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Microsoft exec talks up Windows Phone 7
The addition of multimedia support and new browsing tools doesn't mean Microsoft will scale back its effort to sell its mobile operating system to the enterprise, an executive said in an interview at the CTIA Wireless conference.
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