IT-Code-News: IT News HeadLines (InfoWorld) 15/04/2010

10 must-have Firefox extensions for business

Since its launch to the public in 2004, Mozilla's Firefox has steadily spread across the Internet, becoming the second-most-popular Web browser, behind only Microsoft's Internet Explorer.

Facebook beefs up site against hackers

Facebook is employing aggressive legal means in combination with technical measures in order to stop hackers from abusing its social-networking site, according to its chief security officer, Max Kelly.

The company is constantly under fire from hackers trying to spam its 400 million registered users, harvest their data, or run other scams.

Apache project server hacked, passwords compromised

Hackers broke into a server used by the Apache Software Foundation to keep track of software bugs.

'IT genome' project launches Technopedia portal for IT asset data

IT discovery vendor BDNA on Wednesday unveiled Technopedia, what it calls the world's first "IT Genome," a regularly updated encyclopedia of information on every type of enterprise software and hardware platform.

Data centers push back on U.S. energy efficiency requirement

Data center executives from Google and other large companies are pushing back against new efficiency requirements proposed by a prominent standards group, saying they are too "prescriptive" and don't leave them room to innovate.

The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, better known as ASHRAE, recently proposed the amendments to its efficiency standard for buildings, ASHRAE Standard 90.1.

Microsoft, Adobe, Oracle patch nearly 100 vulnerabilities

It was a busy day for IT administrators and information security professionals. Not only was yesterday Microsoft's Patch Tuesday for the month of April, it is also the day of Adobe's quarterly security updates.

Microsoft acts to avoid repeat of Windows blue screen debacle

Microsoft took steps Tuesday to avoid repeating the debacle two months ago that left Windows XP users staring at the notorious "Blue Screen of Death" error message after they applied a patch.

Intel reports 'best first quarter ever'

Intel on Tuesday reported strong earnings for the first quarter of fiscal 2010, with the company calling it the "best first quarter ever."

The company recorded net income of $2.4 billion for the quarter ended on March 27, an increase of 288 percent compared to the first quarter a year ago. The net income beat estimates of $2.13 billion from analysts polled by Thomson Reuters. Diluted earnings per share were $0.43, beating analyst estimates of $0.38.

Rally adds Kanban tool to agile arsenal

Application lifecycle management software vendor Rally Software is announcing Wednesday that is has acquired AgileZen, which offers a visual project collaboration tool leveraging the "Lean" concept of Kanban.

The AgileZen collaboration tool supports provides a Web-based Kanban board, which exposes bottlenecks, queues, and waste in a process. Kanban can be used in business processes, such as when an an IT operations team works on the most pressing issues each day or when an agile development team is delivering individual features directly into production.

Rally adds Kanban tool to agile arsenal

Google exec worries over 'rudderless' Java

As if Oracle did not have enough work convincing MySQL users of its good intentions, the company also should set its sites on getting the Java platform back on track, contends a Google chief architect.

The Java platform has "appeared rudderless for the last few years," said Google's chief Java architect, Josh Bloch, speaking Wednesday at the Red Hat Middleware 2020 virtual conference. "A malaise [has fallen] over the community and the end is not in sight."

Storage Networking World attendees envision pools of capacity

The data center of the future will be a set of commodities, speakers and attendees of Storage Networking World said at the conference on Tuesday.

Much of the attention at this week's conference in Orlando is focused on the flexible use of resources, and both enterprise IT managers and vendors came to the same conclusion despite having different viewpoints on other issues. As the growth of data and of computing power demands comes up against limits on space and power, being able to make more efficient use of what fits in a given space is a key objective.

Intel to produce new Sandy Bridge chips by year-end

The latest family of Intel microprocessors, code-named Sandy Bridge, will be in production by the end of this year, while desktops and laptops with the chips will likely be on world markets in early 2011.

Thursday, April 15, 2010

IT News HeadLines (InfoWorld) 15/04/2010

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