IT-Code-News: IT News HeadLines (InfoWorld) 17/04/2010

Google drafts cloud printing plan for Chrome OS

Google is unveiling early-stage designs, software code, and documentation of a project whose goal is to let users of the company's Chrome OS print documents to any printer from any application.

Toshiba to debut iPad-style tablets

Toshiba, the world's fifth-largest personal computer maker says it will launch slate devices later in 2010, including models that run either the Microsoft Windows 7 or Google Android operating systems.

Update: Oracle buys drug trials software maker for $685 million

Oracle on Friday announced plans to buy Phase Forward, which develops software for drug manufacturers, for about $685 million. The deal is expected to close mid-year.

12 iPad tips and tricks

Apple's iPad is comfortable, like your favorite shoes or an old T-shirt. You can use it at a desk or table, or curl up with it on the couch. It's a flexible device that fits into your life. It doesn't really let you do anything you weren't doing before, but you can do those things more easily and with less effort.

H-1B case reads like 'Sopranos' episode

A federal case filed in New Jersey this month alleges that an H-1B visa-holding IT employee who was owed some $53,000 in back wages was threatened in meetings at restaurants and in his home if he didn't change his story.

In an effort to turn the tables, the victim captured some of what happened on tape.

Top 5 IT certification picks for 2010

Certifications have always been beneficial to IT job seekers, but lately there's increased emphasis on vendor- and technology-specific training as the economy begins to recover and companies look to plug talent holes in their IT organizations.

China reports millions of Conficker worm infections

China last year hosted more than one in four of the world's computers infected with a major variant of the Conficker worm, according to an official report, highlighting the wide reach of malware inside the country.

App developers to gather for iPad-specific event

Developers will gather this weekend in Silicon Valley to conduct what an organizer is calling the world's first-ever Apple iPad-specific developer event.

To be held at eBay's PayPal facility in San Jose, Calif., beginning Friday evening, the event is billed as iPadDevCamp and is being run by the same people that conduct iPhoneDevCamp gatherings. The iPad began shipping earlier this month.

App developers to gather for iPad-specific event

Developers will gather this weekend in Silicon Valley to conduct what an organizer is calling the world's first-ever Apple iPad-specific developer event.

Secretive counterfeiting treaty talks open up

A controversial plan to crack down on online piracy and counterfeiting will be opened up to public scrutiny for the first time next week, when the negotiating text of a secret international copyright treaty will be made public, the European Commission said Friday.

Negotiations over the past two years have been conducted in secret. Leaks of the draft text have sparked a public outcry, mainly because of how the text deals with online copyright infringement.

OpenSolaris leaders wary of Oracle silence

Frustrated by Oracle's delay in releasing the latest version of OpenSolaris, the OpenSolaris Governing Board (OGB) is growing uneasy over Oracle's lack of communication regarding the future of the Unix OS code.

At least two members of the board have even used the divisive "f" word, saying that they would be open to forking the code base from the Oracle version.

Critic: Reject Comcast throttling deal

Comcast customers should reject a proposed settlement in a lawsuit filed against the broadband provider for throttling some Internet traffic, a critic of the company said Thursday.

Saturday, April 17, 2010

IT News HeadLines (InfoWorld) 17/04/2010

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