Tuesday, December 14, 2010

IT News HeadLines (ComputerWorld) 13/12/2010

Samsung to sell luxury Galaxy Tab for about $1,000, reports say
Samsung this week will unveil a luxury version of its Galaxy Tab offering for about $1,000, according to reports.
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Protect Your Laptop
Laptops can be stolen. Neoflyer asked the Answer Line forum for tips on protecting them.
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Announced
The best thing to come out of Spike's cringeworthy video game awards this weekend, Bethesda announced its fifth mainline Elder Scrolls game and nailed it to a November 11, 2011 release date.
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Developers: Google has to improve Android market even more
Google is rolling out a new Android Market client over the next two weeks, a move that leaves developers with mixed feelings.
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Brilliant Database Hits Sweet Spots
Brilliant Database is a relational database package that includes table design, reporting, scripting, and all the other features needed to make a usable business tool, at a very low price ($80). Although plenty of free database engines are out there, such as MySQL, very few offer free or low-cost tools for designing forms, building queries, laying out reports, and otherwise producing something to be used. Brilliant Database fills that niche.
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Update: Dell agrees to buy Compellent for $960M
Dell has agreed to buy virtualized storage vendor Compellent Technologies in an all-cash deal worth $27.75 per share, or $960 million.
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But That Was Yesterday: Lovely, Provocative
This is a fairly difficult review to write, because talking about this short, free, browser-based game pretty much undermines the main pleasure of it, which is understanding it. Simply put, But That Was Yesterday is a metaphorical/symbolic walk through dealing with stress and lingering emotional issues, with platform jumping. Yeah, I know how that sounds. Really, it has to be played.
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WikiLeaks' supporters conducting attack could be easily traced, researchers say
People using a tool to conduct distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks against other websites in support of WikiLeaks can easily be traced, according to computer security researchers.
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Gawker Media hacked, firm warns users to change passwords
Hackers have released e-mail addresses and passwords of 200,000 registered users of Gawker Media websites onto peer-to-peer networks.
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First look: Chrome OS beta's Achilles' heel is its reliance on the Web
In its first public version, the forthcoming cloud-based alternative to Windows and Mac OS X is too limited by -- ironically -- the cloud
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