Friday, April 22, 2011

IT News Head Lines (ComputerWorld) 22/04/2011





Epsilon pledges to build 'Fort Knox' around breached system
Epsilon plans to increase security measures following a March 30 data breach.

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How to Shrink The Data Center: 4 Lessons Learned
The business that manages New York City's hospitals consolidates 11 data centers into two facilities, dispensing with two-thirds of their physical servers for a predicted savings of $70 million over 5 years. Consider these four tips.

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Nokia's profit drops as it signs final deal with Microsoft
Nokia reported an increase in sales for the first quarter, but profit declined and the company expects a challenging second quarter as it bears the full brunt of component shortages resulting from the earthquake in Japan.

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China is Apple's fastest growing market for iPhone
While Apple's iPhone is selling well across the globe, China has emerged as its fastest growing market for the device.

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RIM BlackBerry PlayBook: Unfinished, unusable
The BlackBerry-tethered tablet can't do very much, and its tethering requirement means few users can actually use it

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Obama's Facebook town hall a sign of times to come
President Barack Obama's town hall event live on Facebook on Wednesday thrust social networking into the political milieu just as the run-up to the 2012 elections begins.

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Feds to use IT buying power to push green
The U.S. government has been urging green IT practices in its operations, consolidating data centers and offering telecommuting. Now it wants to go a step further and use its formidable buying power to encourage IT vendors to go green.

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Consumers remain wary of personal health records
Adoption of electronic personal health record systems, such as Google Health, Microsoft HealthVault and Dossia, remains relatively stagnant, mainly because most people haven't been exposed to the services, a new study finds.

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German software maker Ashampoo warns of malware after hack
A German software company known for its Windows utilities is warning customers to be on the alert for malicious e-mail messages after its servers were hacked.

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Oracle-Google case could be decided by November
The judge hearing Oracle's Java patent lawsuit against Google hopes to get the case wrapped up before the end of November, he said Wednesday, but it won't help his cause that the U.S. patent office has agreed to reexamine Oracle's patents in the case.

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