Wednesday, April 28, 2010

IT News HeadLines (ComputerWorld) 28/04/2010



Recycle an Old Laptop Hard Drive
A reader, I'll call him "S," wanted to know if there's a hard drive enclosure that can "accept the thicker hard drive out of an old [laptop]."
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Nokia set to ship its first Symbian 3 smartphone in Q3
Nokia on Tuesday announced that the N8, its first smartphone based on the Symbian 3 OS, will be out in the third quarter.
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VMware, Salesforce.com building Java cloud platform
VMware and Salesforce.com are jointly developing a cloud computing service called VMforce designed for hosting Java applications, executives from the two companies said Tuesday.
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Cisco announces CleanAir for Wi-Fi interference on new access points
Cisco Systems announced a new series of high-end wireless LAN access points with so-called CleanAir technology that is designed to give network administrators the ability to monitor Wi-Fi interference from a variety of devices.
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Arizona's new 'papers, please' law may hurt H-1B workers
Arizona's controversial new immigration could lead to arrests of legal H-1B workers, and prompt some tech firms to re-think whether to locate in the state.
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HP moves high-end Superdome to blade platform
Hewlett-Packard has unveiled some major updates to its Integrity line of Itanium-based servers, including a new edition of its top-end Superdome system based on HP's blade server architecture.
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China's Alibaba now accepting PayPal payments
Alibaba Group, the biggest e-commerce company in China, is accepting payments made using PayPal on one of its e-commerce sites, even though the company runs its own competing payment platform called AliPay.
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AMD launches six-core desktop chip price war with Intel
Advanced Micro Devices is trying to beat Intel on price with its latest six-core desktop Phenom II X6 processors, which were announced on Tuesday.
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Compellent announces SAN, NAS integrated array
Compellent released a new storage device, the zNAS, which allows both file-based and block-level data to be stored and managed through a single user interface.
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View iPad-optimized apps in iTunes
Now that the iPad has been released, there are three kinds of apps in the App Store: apps made specifically for the iPhone, apps made specifically for the iPad, and "hybrid" apps that include both iPhone- and iPad-optimized interfaces.
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