IT-Code-News: IT News HeadLines (InfoWorld) 12/03/2010

Prototype $200 tablet runs Android, Chromium OS, Linux

$200 tablet PCs have been something of a pipe dream. There was the Crunchpad, which was supposed to be $200, but that didn't last very long, coming out as the $400 Joo Joo.

Tighter security coming for .org names

The Public Interest Registry will add an extra layer of security known as DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) to the .org domain in June -- a move that will protect millions of non-profit organizations and their donors from hacking attacks known as cache poisoning.

Cisco shows off Internet super-router

Hyped as the router that would 'change forever the face of the Internet', Cisco has launched its new CRS-3 system as the box it predicts will stream video into the Net's darkest recesses.

IE zero-day exploit code goes public

Exploit code for the unpatched bug in Internet Explorer was published on the Web yesterday, a step security pros said earlier would be the precursor to widespread attacks.

Opera's Mini 5 browser comes to Android

Opera has released a beta version of its Mini 5 Web browser for Android-based smartphones, the company said on Thursday.

Just like the versions of the beta for other phones, Opera Mini 5 for Android beta compresses data by up to 90 percent before sending content to the phone to speed up browsing over low-bandwidth data connections, according to the Norwegian browser company.

Court reaffirms i4i's patent win against Microsoft

The U.S. Federal Court of Appeals has once again upheld a jury's verdict that Microsoft willfully infringed on patents awarded to i4i.

Poor Bill Gates: Mexican telecom tycoon grabs Richest Man title

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is no longer the world's richest man according to the annual Forbes magazine list released Tuesday, but it's not like he's going to have to go crawling back for his old job either.

Motorola to put Bing search on Android phones

Motorola will start loading Microsoft's Bing search and map services onto its Android smartphones in China, bringing more non-Google services to the phones amid a row between Google and China.

Mac IT pros say Macs cost less to manage than PCs

Macs in the enterprise aren't just cheaper to manage -- they're a lot cheaper, according to a new survey released today by the Enterprise Desktop Alliance. Keep in mind that Enterprise Desktop Alliance is a group of software developers who've bandied together to deploy and manage Macs in the enterprise. The group surveyed 260 IT administrators in large U.S. companies with both Macs and PCs who are involved in some degree with IT cost calculations.

Mac IT pros say Macs cost less to manage than PCs

Chambers: How I'll make Cisco into IT's biggest player

By almost any measure, Cisco Systems is the biggest fish in the networking pond. Thanks to more than 130 acquisitions, a brisk pace of internal development, and a much-discussed new organizational structure that the company is using to attack a slew of new markets, Cisco's reach extends from the consumer to the enterprise and deep into service provider networks. The company offers everything from personal video cameras to high-end telepresence systems to set-top video boxes to, lately, servers for the data center, in addition to more traditional network gear like routers and switches.

Chambers: How I'll make Cisco into IT's biggest player

CA to buy Nimsoft

CA said Wednesday it has signed a deal to buy IT performance monitoring vendor Nimsoft for $350 million.

The acquisition, which is scheduled to close this month, will strengthen CA's hand in IT management software for what it calls "emerging enterprises," or companies with annual revenues between $300 million and $2 billion, and for managed service providers.

Friday, March 12, 2010

IT News HeadLines (InfoWorld) 12/03/2010

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