Thursday, March 25, 2010

IT News HeadLines (InfoWorld) 25/03/2010



Dell aims new PowerEdge servers at the cloud

Dell hopes to grab a bigger slice of the cloud infrastructure market with a new line of PowerEdge servers that the company announced on Wednesday.

The new PowerEdge C servers are aimed at service providers running busy Web sites and public cloud computing services, as well as enterprises building "private clouds" to deliver application services on demand internally.


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Dell announces object-based storage, de-duplication

Dell today announced its first object-oriented storage system for data archiving capable of storing more than 2 petabytes of data. The company also said it will begin reselling EMC's Data Domain de-duplication appliance and its Celerra network-attached storage (NAS) array.


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Sprint bets big on WiMax with launch of HTC EVO 4G phone

LAS VEGAS -- Sprint Nextel launched its first WiMax-capable phone, the HTC EVO 4G, at the CTIA trade show Tuesday, and said its faster WiMax network will reach 120 million Americans by year's end.


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New software lets businesses track employees' Facebook, Twitter activity

Facebook and Twitter users should probably just assume that what they post publicly is being monitored by their employer. If your privacy settings don't limit content to friends only, anyone can search Google or the social networking sites themselves to see what you're writing.


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Eclipse readies workbench upgrade

Eclipse 4 (e4), the next generation of the Eclipse open source development tooling platform, is slated to ship in July.


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Comcast, Netflix report rise in IPv6 activity

ANAHEIM, Calif. -- The Internet industry is seeing evidence that more consumers, corporations, and Web sites are deploying IPv6, the long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol, which is known as IPv4. But IPv6 remains a fraction of Internet traffic, and it's nowhere near where it should be given the rapid depletion of IPv4 addresses.


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Microsoft tries to allay enterprise fears about Windows Phone 7

LAS VEGAS -- Some users of Microsoft's Windows Phone Series 7 will face a major hurdle when the mobile OS appears in devices during the 2010 holiday season -- it isn't backwards compatible with Windows Mobile 6.5 and earlier versions.


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Symantec offers Web Monitoring service to detect botnet activity

Symantec has announced a Web monitoring service intended to unearth evidence of botnet-related malware activity within an organization by continuously looking at outbound HTTP traffic for suspicious signs of Trojans on compromised computers trying to "call home" to their criminal controllers.


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How the earliest of tech startups are surviving

Ah, the glamour of building a brand-new tech company… invitations to the Playboy Mansion, all-night booze cruises on your private yacht, and sometimes a little work thrown in just to keep you grounded. Right?


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Security companies warn of uptick in attacks using new IE flaw

Criminals are stepping up their attacks leveraging an unpatched flaw in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser, using it to install fake antivirus products and malicious back doors on victim's computers.


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Cyber attacks are 'existential threat' to U.S., FBI says

WASHINGTON -- A top FBI official warned today that many cyber-adversaries of the U.S. have the ability to access virtually any computer system, posing a risk that's so great it could "challenge our country's very existence."


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Bug hits Google Apps sync tool for Outlook

A bug in Google Apps' Sync for Microsoft Outlook that has apparently existed for months is causing some email messages to remain in Gmail servers and not be downloaded into Outlook, causing end-users to overlook messages or see them late.

End-users in organizations hit by the bug are having to check the Gmail Web interface periodically to make sure they aren't missing any email messages in their Outlook PC client.


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Providers register mixed reactions to FCC's broadband plan

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission's national broadband plan released last week contains many good ideas, but it also leaves the door open to new regulations of broadband providers, representatives of providers said Tuesday.


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