Friday, May 21, 2010

IT News HeadLines (CNET) 21/05/2010



Novell: 20 chances to reinvent itself
The company needs to reinvent itself, and a private-equity buyout may be the perfect way to accomplish this.
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Ford re-examining its carbon footprint
U.S. automaker plans to research its top 35 suppliers, create cleaner global supply chain.
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Apple allows cash sales for iPad
A California woman's complaint spurs the company to change its stance on iPad purchasing--you may now bring those greenbacks to an Apple store.
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Test drive: Adobe Flash Player on Android (beta)
Even before Adobe revealed its first full-fledged Flash Player for smartphones on Thursday, we got a chance to play online games and video from an Android phone.
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Kongregate's Flash games come to Android in style
Flash on your mobile phone is good for videos and fancy Web sites, but it also gives Android phones a much needed boost of playable games. Some gaming sites like Kongregate are already selecting specific titles that work well on your phone.
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Android 2.2 brings camera software improvements
A software update to Android's camera software adds some neat new tricks, the main one being that you can finally use the thing with one hand.
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Oracle buys database firewall provider
The enterprise software giant acquires Secerno, a company that offers firewall security for both Oracle and non-Oracle databases.
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IDC: 46 million media tablets by 2014
Shipments of media tablets, a la Apple's iPad, are expected to hit 46 million units in 2014, jumping from the 7.6 million forecast to ship this year, says IDC.
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Google I/O keynote day 2: Android day (live blog)
This is the one you've been waiting for. Come back here Thursday at 8:30 a.m. PDT for live coverage of the second day of Google I/O, which is supposed to be all about Android.
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Twitter debuts official iPhone app
It's an upgrade from Tweetie 2.0, which the company got custody of when it bought developer Atebits in April.
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Morning Edition: High-fashion Versace phone
Facebook is banned in Pakistan, Google's next iteration of Android will be called Gingerbread, and Versace launches a very fancy high-fashion phone.
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Aquamarine Power unveils next wave machine
The Oyster 2 is expected to be capable of sucking down more energy from ocean waves, to be transferred to an onshore hydroelectric turbine.
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Facebook's privacy crisis must thrill Hollywood
Columbia Pictures, which is releasing the juicy Facebook tell-all flick "The Social Network" this fall, can consider the current negative buzz yo be free press.
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BrightSource Energy raises funds for big solar plants
The concentrating-solar power company plans to use $150 million to build 14 solar power plants in southwest U.S. and to expand internationally.
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Google offers free fonts for the Web
Elaborate typography has been slow to emerge on the Web. Now the underlying technology is in place, and Google is trying to help supply fonts as well.
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A tale of five small wind turbines (photos)

Boston's Museum of Science is conducting a microwind experiment by installing five small turbines, which are shedding light on rooftop wind performance.


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Museum on turbines: Learning, not earning
An small wind lab experiment at the Museum of Science in Boston shows the challenges of nabbing enough wind energy to make rooftop turbines an easy sell. But there are other pluses.
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Google unveils Net storage utility
Attention Amazon Web Services customers: there's a new alternative for storing data in the cloud.
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Cartoon contest leads Pakistan to shutter Facebook
Pakistan shuts down social-networking site after a satirical campaign dubbed "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day" draws scores of supporters online.
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