Sunday, April 8, 2012

IT News Head Lines (ComputerWorld) 4/8/2012





YouDazzle combines social collaboration, cloud storage
There are plenty of collaboration software tools on the market, and a growing number of cloud storage options for businesses as well. YouDazzle, a Silicon Valley startup, says it has created a tool that combines the best of both worlds.

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Amazon releases staggering storage figures
Just how big is Amazon Web Service's (S3) Simple Storage Service? Well, it holds 905 billion objects, and it's growing by a billion per day, the company says.

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Five geek projects
At the end of last week I slipped on a wet floor, did a wild, balletic (or so I thought) attempt to recover, and wrenched my knee and leg. The next four days were a blur of X-rays and Vicodin. Luckily nothing broken, but I've had better weekends.

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Index Card for iPad
As a writer, I frequently find my brain occupied by ideas for my current writing project--or the project I'd rather be working on right now, or the one that's only just starting to germinate in my brain. On my Mac, all my musings and ideas go into the excellent Scrivener. While there's currently no Scrivener for iOS, the app does allow for syncing with iOS apps, one of which is DenVog's $5 Index Card for the iPad.

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Security experts: 600,000+ estimate of Mac botnet likely on target
Security experts could not confirm claims by a little-known Russian antivirus company that more than 600,000 Macs have been infected with a zero-day-exploiting Trojan, but they said the number was within reason.

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Google co-founder spotted wearing Google Goggles
The same day that Google took the wraps off its computerized eye glasses, the company's co-founder Sergey Brin was spotted wearing a pair while out to dinner.

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Dell says AppAssure now its premier backup product
Dell's first in a flurry of software acquisitions was backup vendor AppAssure, which Dell said will be its primary data protection application even as it still resells Symantec and CommVault products.

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