Tuesday, October 26, 2010

IT News HeadLines (InfoWorld) 26/10/2010

HP Slate 500 vs. MacBook Air: Which is better for business?
Last week both Apple and HP made new computing platforms available. Both the MacBook Air and the HP Slate had been the subject of months of rumors and speculation, and now they're both here.
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2010-11 outlook: The top tech priorities and the new economics of IT
As companies worldwide emerge from the recession and plot their way through uncertain economic times, CIO magazine has surveyed IT leaders to discover exactly what their technology priorities are now, and how the changed economy is affecting their ambitions and fundamental responsibilities.
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Security company strengthens CAPTCHAs with video
A security company called NuCaptcha is incorporating advertising into a video CAPTCHA system that is much harder for computers to break. CATPCHA stands for "Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart." It was developed to thwart Web annoyances such as spam and false account registrations, among others. It uses a box of jumbled letters that humans must decode to allow, for example, a registration to proceed.
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Adobe going mobile with Flash Builder, Flex, and AIR
With upgrades to its Flash Builder, Flex, and AIR application development technologies Monday, Adobe Systems is taking a decidedly mobile bent.
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