Wednesday, January 5, 2011

IT News HeadLines (ComputerWorld) 04/01/2011



Piscel Smart Office
Picsel Smart Office (approximately $9.54) is one of many apps that attempt to remedy Android's pitifully weak office-document support. Picsel can view and edit Word, PowerPoint, and Excel files, and can view but not edit PDFs. As a document viewer it performs well, rendering most formatting perfectly. A toolbar at the top of the screen features a Find button to search text. A Reflow button optimizes the view for the small screen, while a Help button gives quick access to an instruction manual.
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Outsourcing Resolutions Vendors Should Make in 2011
We kick off 2011by offering some outsourcing resolutions for the party on the other side of table -- the IT service provider.
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Dell buys SecureWorks for IT security services
Dell is purchasing security services vendor SecureWorks, expanding its range of IT management offerings. Terms were not disclosed.
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The day of the password is done
With so many Web sites demanding passwords, no one, but no one, can really be expected to remember all the ones they need.
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Microsoft blames server problem for Hotmail outage
Microsoft says it has fixed a problem with its Windows Live Hotmail service that temporarily deleted the e-mail of more than 17,000 users.
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Opera previews browser for tablets
Norwegian company Opera Software will unveil the first public preview of its browser for tablets at the International Consumer Electronics Show.
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Loaded with cash, Facebook may take on Google
With Facebook now flush with cash, the social networking phenom has the muscle to better duke it out with tech bigwig Google.
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CES 2011 trends: Fast chips, Android tablets and more
Intel's Sandy Bridge chips, 4G smartphones, Android-based tablets, PCs that support USB 3.0, and smaller and cheaper SSDs will all be featured at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week.
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Oversupply sends DRAM prices to one-year low
DRAM chip prices reached a one-year low on Tuesday and approached their cheapest ever due to a post-holiday oversupply. The cheap memory chips are pushing PC prices lower too, a Taiwan-based trading platform said.
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Intel tracks 500 design wins for Sandy Bridge chips
The world's largest chip maker will show off its most advanced line of microprocessors ever at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas on Wednesday, complete with a range of laptop and desktop PCs with the chips inside.
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