Sunday, July 31, 2011

IT News Head Lines (ComputerWorld) 31/07/2011





Elgan: 10 things I hate about Google+
Columnist Mike Elgan has a love-hate relationship with the new social networking tool Google+. While Google is still fixing many of its flaws and limitations, here are some tips and workarounds to try.

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10 'great' tech products that really weren't
Ah, the good old days of tech. Old, certainly. Good? Not so much.

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AT&T to throttle big users of unlimited data
AT&T announced service throttling for the heaviest users of its unlimited mobile data plans on Friday, saying the only way to truly solve its bandwidth crunch is for regulators to approve its merger with T-Mobile USA.

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Alcatel-Lucent gets $70M in Microsoft patent case
Microsoft has been ordered to pay $70 million to networking vendor Alcatel-Lucent in a years-old patent dispute that at one time could have cost Microsoft $1.5 billion.

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Anonymous releases documents it says came from ManTech
As promised, members of the Anonymous hacking movement have released hundreds of megabytes of documents that they say were stolen from government security contractor ManTech.

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At one month, Google+ already a 'major player'
Google+, which on Thursday hit its one-month birthday, is already a major social networking player, analysts say.

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Facebook moves 30-petabyte Hadoop cluster to new data center
To accommodate the surging data volumes, Facebook has moved its Hadoop cluster to a new and bigger data center.

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Carriers, trade groups propose broadband fund
A group of telecom carriers and trade groups proposes broadband subsidies to replace telephone service subsidies.

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Researchers praise Facebook for paying bug bounties
Facebook's move today to follow Google, Mozilla and Hewlett-Packard in offering bounties for bugs got a unanimous thumbs up from security researchers.

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Judge gives second AT&T iPad hacker more time to make plea deal
A federal judge has put the case against a man charged with hacking AT&T's website on hold to allow plea negotiations to continue, court documents show.

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