Sunday, September 11, 2011

IT News Head Lines (InfoWorld) 11/09/2011





Judge orders Ellison, Page to attend mediation
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and Google CEO Larry Page must sit down and try to work out a settlement on Sept. 19, according to a court order filed on Friday. Earlier this week, Judge William Alsup, who is overseeing the dispute between the companies centering on Android, recommended that a magistrate judge ask the two CEOs to attend a mediation. The companies had each instead recommended that other executives attend the meeting.

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Microsoft spruces up HTML capabilities in Visual Studio
Microsoft says it will make it easier to deal with HTML in the planned next release of its Visual Studio IDE, dubbed vNext, but it won't say when vNext will come out.

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Mac OS X update blocks stolen SSL certificates
Apple today released an update to Mac OS X that blocks Safari users from reaching sites secured with certificates stolen from a Dutch company last summer. The update follows others by Microsoft, Google, Mozilla, and Opera Software, which have already blocked or permanently barred the use of all certificates issued by DigiNotar, a certificate authority (CA) that acknowledged its servers were breached and unauthorized SSL certificates obtained by one or more attackers.

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SAP will plead guilty to copyright infringement
Former SAP subsidiary TomorrowNow will plead guilty to criminal charges of copyright infringement for downloading software from Oracle's servers. According to documents filed in the U.S. District Court of Northern California, former SAP subsidiary TomorrowNow will plead guilty to all 12 criminal charges brought by the U.S. Department of Justice.

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Google comes clean on Docs outage
A software upgrade that went wrong caused parts of the Google Docs cloud-hosted office productivity suite to go offline for an hour on Wednesday, a situation the company is taking steps to prevent. The outage made word processing document lists, documents, drawings, and Apps Scripts unavailable to most Docs users, including people who use the software for work. Apparently, presentations and spreadsheets weren't affected.

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Nvidia CEO: Intel booted company from chip-set market
Nvidia concluded it would exit the chip-set business as Intel made it impossible for the company to operate in the market, the company's CEO Jen-Hsun Huang said this week. Nvidia provided chip sets, with mostly integrated graphics, for PCs but is in the process of exiting the business as operations are restructured around graphics cards and mobile chips, Huang said this week at the Kaufman Brothers Investor Conference in New York.

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Blow-by-blow: Another Microsoft cloud outage
The Microsoft cloud went south for a couple of hours Thursday night. The silver lining is that Microsoft appears to be doing better at informing its users what's going on -- although a new third-party cloud tracking service beat Redmond to the punch.

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