Saturday, April 23, 2011

IT News Head Lines (ComputerWorld) 23/04/2011





Amazon cloud outage staggers into Day 2
Amazon.com is well into the second day of trying to fix a cloud outage that has partially disabled or knocked out popular Web sites, including Quora, Foursquare and Reddit.

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SanDisk, Toshiba one up Intel, introduce 19nm flash memory
SanDisk and its partner Toshiba announced this week a 64Gbit NAND flash memory chip using 19-nanometer (nm) technology, a process one size smaller than the memory chip Intel and Micron announced last week.

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iPhone stays on top for enterprises, according to Good Technology
The availability of the iPhone on Verizon and AT&T's discount on the iPhone 3GS kept Android at bay in the enterprise, at least for customers of Good Technology.

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Banks go social to collaborate, reach customers
Financial services firms are beginning to use social networking sites to promote services to corporate customers, set up private online forums and monitor what customers say about them.

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Microsoft to relieve 'Excel hell' with Web crawler for enterprise data
Microsoft's Project Barcelona is creating Web-like indexing tools to manage the explosion of enterprise data.

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Asahi Glass to thin down touchscreen substrates
Japan's Asahi Glass will soon begin producing glass for touch panels on smartphones and tablet PCs that is thinner than sheets from competitors. The glass could contribute to making smartphones and tablet PCs thinner and lighter.

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Renesas to restart quake-hit factory earlier than expected
Renesas Electronics expects to restart production at a quake-hit factory in east Japan in mid June, about two weeks earlier than initially planned, it said Friday.

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T-Mobile G-Slate Tablet
At 8.9 inches (diagonal), the T-Mobile G-Slate is the first tablet to hit the middle ground in terms of size, landing firmly between the larger slates that resemble netbooks without keyboards and the smaller models that feel like oversize phones. But the G-Slate (made by LG, and shown by that company as the Optimus Pad) also packs in features not found on other Android 3.0 tablets--including twin cameras for 3D video capture, and three speakers for producing stereo audio no matter how you hold tablet. And with that, the G-Slate ($530 after rebate and with a two-year T-Mobile contract, or $750 without a contract; prices as of April 21, 2011)

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AT&T, T-Mobile take first steps toward deal approval
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission on Thursday received a request to transfer T-Mobile's licenses to AT&T, one of the first steps the companies are making in the potentially lengthy approval process of AT&T's proposed acquisition of the smaller operator.

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