Tuesday, May 22, 2012

IT News Head Lines (InfoWorld) 22/05/2012





GitHub embraces Windows developers
Looking to make its GitHub social coding and coding-hosting site easier to use for Windows application builders, GitHub beginning on Monday will offer a native graphical Windows client for developers and designers.

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Linux 3.4 gets quick release
Just over two months after its last major release, Linus Torvalds has posted the newest version of the open source Linux kernel, which supports new graphics processors from Nvidia and Intel, improves file system functionality and comes with a new security module. Torvalds, who oversees input from thousands of programmers, commented on how smoothly work on this release proceeded.

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Is cloud-based security really cheaper?
Businesses in new study were five times more likely to have decreased spending on managing security over three years.

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E.U. gives Google chance to avoid fines over antitrust concerns
Google has "a matter of weeks" to address four antitrust issues identified by European Union antitrust regulators. If Google addresses these issues the case can be solved by a so-called "commitment decision" instead of formal antitrust proceedings resulting in a fine, said Joaquín Almunia, vice president of the European Commission responsible for competition policy.

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The look ahead to a software-controlled world
The Interop show in Las Vegas is always a good bellwether for enterprise technology trends, and perhaps the most striking thing about the recent show was how little the term "network fabric" came up.

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Yahoo's Genome joins hosted big data analytics trend
Yahoo has joined a growing list of companies offering big data analytics as a service with its Genome offering this week. Genome is a service designed to let companies deliver highly targeted online advertising and marketing campaigns. It will let advertisers quickly sift through and analyze terabytes of real-time Web data collected from Yahoo's own networks and from those of partners such as Yahoo and AOL.

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Microsoft's social networking site So.cl now open to all users
So.cl, an experimental research project from Microsoft, that combines social networking and search to promote learning, is now accepting all users interested in joining the site. The social networking site, pronounced "social," is however not positioned to replace existing full-featured search and social networking tools, and uses a minimal set of features, Microsoft said on the So.cl website.

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Apple seeks to block Galaxy Tab 10.1 with preliminary injunction
In the latest move in a complex series of patent-related cases, Apple filed a motion in a U.S. district court late Friday to ban Samsung Electronics' Galaxy Tab 10.1 in the U.S. The Apple filing came in the wake of an appeals court ruling earlier in the week that sided with Apple on the validity of an iPad design patent. Meanwhile, Apple and Samsung are scheduled to go into court-mandated settlement negotiations, set for May 21 and May 22, so the injunction is not likely to be granted over the next few days.

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What enterprise mobile apps can learn from mobile games
Enterprise mobile apps are shifting from small, narrowly task-oriented programs to larger, more complex ones. To design them well, enterprise developers can learn a lot from a surprising source: mobile games.

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Microsoft's Visual Studio 11 lineup adds Windows Phone, Azure tools
Microsoft on Friday shared final product lineup and specifications expected for its upcoming Visual Studio 11 IDE, featuring accommodations for the Windows Phone mobile OS and Windows Azure cloud platform.

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Windows 8's new UI: A return to Flatland
Buried in an 11,000-word tome on the Building Windows 8 blog, user experience honcho Jensen Harris explains that the legacy desktop in Windows 8 w

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