Tuesday, April 26, 2011

IT News Head Lines (ComputerWorld) 26/04/2011





Firefox 4 tops 100M downloads, fails to move share
In the month since Firefox 4's launch, the browser has racked up 100 million downloads, Mozilla said last weekend.

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Cloud development: 9 gotchas to know before you jump in
Whether developing, testing, or deploying your apps in the cloud, you have to unlearn some beliefs and learn new ones to make it work

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Virtualization: What to do when vSphere goes down
Bad things can happen, even to good virtual systems. Here's what to do about it.

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Hands-on: 4 remote-desktop services
These services let you connect to another computer over the Internet without much hassle in setting things up. Which option gives you the most (remote) control for your money?

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Successful tech startups offer IT tips for CIOs
Successful technology startups are usually keen to draw attention to their hot products, not to their internal use of IT. But companies such as Groupon, Box.net, Zendesk and SlideShare can offer CIOs lessons from what they've accomplished with limited resources, a blank slate for IT infrastructure and their finger on the pulse of the latest IT tools and services.

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Sony 'rebuilding' PlayStation Network after attack
The outage of Sony's PlayStation Network and Qriocity service, now in its fourth day, looks set to continue after the company said on Sunday that it is "rebuilding" its system to better guard against attacks.

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PlayStation Network enters third day of outage
An unexplained outage of Sony's PlayStation Network and Qriocity services entered its third day Saturday, with no clear details on when the service might be up and running again.

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Norio Ohga, key to Sony's audio legacy, dies at 81
Norio Ohga, one of the handful of men who shaped Sony into the global consumer electronics giant that it is today, died on Saturday morning in Tokyo at the age of 81, Sony said.

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Shock: iPhones store location data (Gimme a break...)
The big scandal that was uncovered this week is that iPhones capture location data. It's a non-issue, says columnist Mike Elgan, and there are two reasons why.

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Yes, your iPhone is tracking you -- the question's why
The recent publicity about whether iPhones and iPads are keeping tabs on their users' whereabouts -- they are -- left a lot of people wondering what Apple's up to. Columnist Ryan Faas offers his take on the location-tracking brouhaha.

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