Tuesday, March 30, 2010

IT News HeadLines (InfoWorld) 30/03/2010



Apple exhausts supply of iPads for pre-order

Apple has exhausted the supply of iPads slated to arrive at customers' doorsteps this coming Saturday, according to the company's online store.


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Microsoft takes measured approach to mobile Office apps

Microsoft is readying an aggressive push into cloud-based productivity applications with the upcoming release of Office Web Apps and other products, but the company is moving more cautiously when it comes to creating mobile versions of these products.


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Intel stays atop chip market, but Samsung gains in tough 2009

Intel remained the world's largest chip maker by revenue for the eighteenth consecutive year in 2009, despite an overall decline in the global chip market, Gartner said Monday.

Intel's share of the chip market reached 14.6 percent in 2009, up from 13.6 percent in 2008 due to strong PC sales, the market research company said in its Semiconductor DQ Monday Report.


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Apple gets iPad trademark just in time for rollout

Just in time for the long-awaited iPad to go on sale, Apple has acquired the trademark on its name.

A document from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, dated March 17, shows the trademark on "IPAD" has been transferred to Apple from Fujitsu Frontech North America. The development was first uncovered by the blog Patentauthority.com.


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AMD's 12-core Opteron chip may cut software costs

Advanced Micro Devices today released its 12-core chip, doubling the number of cores in the previous generation chip in its Opteron line. One of the key benefits in taking advantage of the performance gains delivered by a chip with a dozen cores may be in reducing software licensing costs.


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Microsoft defends Windows 7 security after Pwn2Own hacks

Just days after a pair of researchers outwitted major Windows 7 defenses to exploit Internet Explorer (IE) and Firefox, Microsoft said the measures aren't meant to "prevent every attack forever."


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Nonprofit company says 3.3 million student loan records stolen

Data on 3.3 million borrowers was stolen from a nonprofit company that helps with student loan financing.

The theft occurred on March 20 or 21 from the headquarters of Educational Credit Management Corp. (ECMC), which services loans when student borrowers enter bankruptcy. The data was contained on portable media, said the organization, which is a dedicated guaranty agency for Virginia, Oregon and Connecticut.


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