Tuesday, April 13, 2010

IT News HeadLines (InfoWorld) 13/04/2010



Steve Jobs responds to criticism over iPhone SDK changes

Apple's CEO Steve Jobs has reportedly responded to criticism over the company's decision to change the licensing terms for developers building applications for version 4.0 of the iPhone OS, due to be released later this year.


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Report: Palm looking for buyers

For sale: one mobile technology company, slightly used -- runs like newish. According to a report in Bloomberg, floundering handset maker Palm is shopping itself to prospective buyers that may include Taiwanese rival HTC and China-based PC-manufacturer Lenovo.


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Malicious Facebook ad redirects to fake antivirus software

A malicious advertisement has been found within an application for Facebook that redirects users to fake antivirus software, according to a security researcher.

The banner advertisement for greeting cards is intermittently displayed with an application called Farm Town, which has more than 9 million monthly users according to information published on Facebook.


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Nasty Java bug could lead to attack

A Google researcher has published details of a Java virtual machine bug that could be used to run unauthorized programs on a computer.

The attack was disclosed Friday by Google's Tavis Ormandy, who said he had notified Oracle's Sun team about the flaw earlier. "They informed me that they do not consider this vulnerability to be of high enough priority to break their quarterly patch cycle," Ormandy wrote. "I did not agree."


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SNIA standard should help in moving cloud data

The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) has finished a standard that should make it easier for enterprises to move data among public and private storage clouds.


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Apple, Mozilla chase Google with browser stability moves

Apple and Mozilla last week took a page from Google to beef up the stability of their respective browsers, Safari and Firefox.

Apple's move may also result in a faster future Safari that's able to use the multiple cores in most modern machines' processors, an analyst said.


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Apple iPad, other tablets seen driving SaaS, cloud storage

The rapid spread of tablet devices like the Apple iPad and HP Slate could prove to be a boon to providers of online storage services as users seek ubiquitous data access and synchronization across multiple mobile platforms for devices that don't have much internal storage capacity.


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Adobe launches Flash Catalyst CS5

Adobe has unveiled Flash Catalyst CS5, a new professional design tool that lets users create Web application interfaces and design interactivity without writing code.

Together with Flash Professional CS5 and Flash Builder 4, Flash Catalyst enhances collaboration between designers and developers.


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Microsoft to roll out Visual Studio upgrade

Without further adieu, Microsoft will release on Monday its Visual Studio 2010 software development system and the accompanying .Net Framework 4 platform, followed later in the week by the release of the Silverlight 4 rich Internet plug-in software.


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The dirt locker: Dirty duty on the front lines of IT

Jobs may still be scarce in today's economy, but there's no shortage of nasty IT work -- as the third annual installment of our Dirty IT Jobs series clearly demonstrates.

Some tech jobs are literally dirty; digging around the innards of a data center or running network cables through crawlspaces, for example, can leave you deeply in need of a shower.


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Microsoft to roll out Visual Studio upgrade

Without further adieu, Microsoft will release on Monday its Visual Studio 2010 software development system and the accompanying .Net Framework 4 platform, followed later in the week by the release of the Silverlight 4 rich Internet plug-in software.


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