Friday, April 29, 2011

IT News Head Lines (ComputerWorld) 29/04/2011





White iPhone 4 flies off shelves in China
Apple's new white iPhone 4 has sold out in some Asian markets, analysts and sites reported today.

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Microsoft fixes Office flaws found in Patch Tuesday updates
Microsoft today issued a fix for a problem in its Outlook 2007 email client caused by an update that shipped two weeks ago.

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Intel said set to ship five new SSDs, hybrid drive
According to a leaked roadmap, Intel plans five new SSDs by year's end, including a new chipset that will allow it to produce a hybrid drive.

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Programmer-turned-astronaut to lift off on NASA's Endeavour
One of the six men lifting off Friday on NASA's space shuttle Endeavour is a computer programmer who built software for spacecraft before becoming an astronaut.

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Microsoft revamps Bing Shopping section
With Mother's Day fast approaching and graduations and summer vacation on the horizon in a few weeks, Microsoft has given the Shopping section of its Bing search engine a makeover, including the ability to link it to Facebook accounts.

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Attachmate boss on Novell buyout: Great brands, little overlap
The Attachmate Group this week finalized its $2.2 billion buyout of network industry pioneer Novell. IDG Enterprise's Chief Content Officer John Gallant spoke with Attachmate Chairman and CEO Jeff Hawn shortly after the Novell deal was sealed to get his thoughts on what the acquisition means for Attachmate and its new and old customers.

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Apple 'dropped the ball' on iPhone location tracking issue, says expert
Apple's explanation about how and why iPhones track users' locations was too late, too little, a crisis communications expert said today.

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You hate AUPs, but you need one for guest Wi-Fi access
If you are a smart enterprise customer, you hate carrier "acceptable use policies" (AUPs). They have virtuous roots (avoiding liability for customer communications under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act) but have morphed into lengthy, (allegedly) non-negotiable, overly broad and one-sided "agreements" that make the customer responsible for all kinds of things for which it isn't really responsible and shield the carrier from responsibility for things for which it should be responsible.

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Verizon restores LTE data network after outage
Verizon Wireless said its 4G LTE network was back 'up and running' Thursday, following a nationwide outage that began late Tuesday.

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