Wednesday, March 17, 2010

IT News HeadLines (InfoWorld) 17/03/2010



Study: BlackBerry users willing to swap for an iPhone

Almost 40 percent of BlackBerry users would switch camp to an Apple iPhone, a recent study into smartphone brand loyalty shows.


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Open-Xchange email gains integration with VoIP

Open source collaboration software vendor Open-Xchange has integrated VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol) and social networking sites in the latest version of its email server and client.


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Virtustream targets midsized businesses with cloud service

Virtustream is unveiling a new cloud computing service aimed at midsize enterprises.

The xStream platform is a package that includes cloud computing services, a service that helps users determine the cloud compute resources they require and a custom software management tool. The management tool lets users manage both internal and external computing jobs from the same software console.


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McAfee service scans cloud environments for security vulnerabilities

McAfee Tuesday announced a vulnerability-assessment scanning service that's aimed at giving cloud computing service providers a way to provide security assurances to their customers.


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HP, IBM, Dell launch servers with new Intel chips

Hewlett-Packard, Dell, and IBM rolled out new servers on Tuesday based on Intel's latest Xeon 5600 microprocessors, which promise better performance and power consumption.


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Intel rolls out 15 new Xeon 5600 chips

Intel introduced a line of Xeon server chips that operate up to 60 percent faster than previous server processors, the company said on Tuesday.

The 15 new processors in the Xeon 5600 line include low-power chips and come in quad-core and six-core variants, the company said. The processors are faster than the older Xeon 5500 series chips, which were launched about a year ago.


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Mac computer sales jump nearly 40%

Retail sales of Apple's Mac computers jumped 43 percent last month compared with the same month in 2009, and 36 percent year-over-year in January, research company NPD Group said Tuesday.


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Google bets big on mobile

Google has high hopes for the potential of the mobile market, executives said on Monday during an investor webcast.

"Google has bet big on mobile," said Vic Gundotra, vice president of engineering for Google's mobile group.


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Gartner: 60 percent of virtual servers less secure than physical machines

Sixty percent of virtual servers are less secure than the physical servers they replace, the analyst firm Gartner said in new research Monday.

This state of affairs will remain true until 2012, but security should improve substantially after that point, Gartner said.


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Gartner: 60 percent of virtual servers less secure than physical machines

Sixty percent of virtual servers are less secure than the physical servers they replace, the analyst firm Gartner said in new research Monday.

This state of affairs will remain true until 2012, but security should improve substantially after that point, Gartner said.


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Appistry launches 'big data' computational storage system

It's never been easy to access -- much less analyze -- the vast amount of data available to, for example, determine changes in customer behavior or sentiment, optimize routing of telephone switches based on call patterns, or analyze financial portfolio pricing or risk.


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Microsoft touts Windows Phone 7 Series and Silverlight 4

Microsoft at its Mix10 conference on Monday showed off application capabilities for its Windows Phone 7 Series platform and offered a release candidate for its upcoming Silverlight 4 rich Internet application plug-in technology.

Windows Phone 7 Series leverages Silverlight and the XNA gaming platform for application development. Visual Studio and Microsoft Expression Blend are positioned, respectively, as development and design tools for the phone OS, which features graphical capabilities akin to the Apple iPhone.


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Oracle loses XML co-inventor to Google

One ex-Sun Microsystems employee who will not be cashing an Oracle paycheck is XML co-inventor Tim Bray, who has opted instead to work for the Google.

Bray will be working, beginning on Monday, as a developer-advocate for the company's Android development team, according to an announcement on his blog.


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