Saturday, July 31, 2010

IT News HeadLines (ComputerWorld) 31/07/2010



Facebook, nannying, and objectives
Gibbs ponders the problems with employees and social networking and suggests that nannying won't cut it.
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RIM leads way as Q2 mobile phone shipments surge 14%
RIM mobile phone shipments grew by 40% in the second quarter, tops in an overall market that grew by more than 14% during the period, according to IDC.
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Froyo coming to Evo on Tuesday, Sprint confirms
Froyo, the Android 2.2 update, will come to the HTC Evo starting Tuesday, bringing support for Flash video and external storage of applications, according to Sprint.
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FBI sought data on Defcon 'social engineering' contest
A Defcon contest that invites contestants to trick employees at U.S. corporations into revealing not-so-sensitive data has rattled some nerves.
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Check your baggage: Are biases keeping you from hiring the best candidate for the job?
Your next new hire might not have the 'classic IT' résumé. Let go of your old assumptions to find the person who's truly best for your open position.
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Alcatel-Lucent sales fall, operating loss shrinks
Alcatel-Lucent's second-quarter revenue fell 2.4 percent year on year, dragged down by slow sales in fixed-line network equipment and terrestrial optical networks, but the company reduced costs, cutting its operating loss by two-thirds compared to a year earlier.
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Black Hat gets its video feed hacked
A security expert found a way to catch the talks at Black Hat for free, thanks to bugs in the video streaming service used by the security conference.
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Samsung scores record Q2 profit on chips, LCDs
Samsung Electronics on Friday reported a record high operating profit and net profit for the second quarter, driven by strong sales of memory chips and LCDs, but it warned that stiff competition in consumer electronics means it may not be able to maintain profitability at current levels.
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Google hit with brief search outage in China
Google's search engine in China appeared to have been partially blocked overnight Thursday, but a Google spokeswoman said the service was up and running again by Friday morning local time.
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Smartphones, tablets seen boosting mobile health care
Smartphones, tablet PCs and other wireless devices are poised to play a greater role in health care as doctors and patients embrace the mobile Internet, panelists at a mobile health technology conference in Boston said Thursday.
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