Friday, September 21, 2012

IT News Head Lines (ComputerWorld) 21/09/2012





What's it like to land NASA's Space Shuttle? We find out
We're barrelling down the runway at the Kennedy Space Center at about 300 kilometers per hour, and the Space Shuttle is well to the left of the center line.

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Galaxy Note set to be deployed to 17,000 American Airlines flight attendants
American Airlines Wednesday said it plans to deploy 17,000 first-generation Samsung Galaxy Note devices to flight attendants for use onboard its planes.

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Sprint says Virgin Mobile users are safe from account hijacks
Sprint today denied that subscribers of its Virgin Mobile subsidiary are vulnerable to account hijacking attacks, as claimed by an independent software developer this week.

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Salesforce.com's Benioff invites customers to join 'social revolution'
Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff on Wednesday doubled down on the company's embrace of social networking software, urging customers, partners and prospects to join him in a "social revolution," during a keynote address at the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco that was webcast.

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Latest Samsung attack ad mocks crowds waiting for iPhone 5
A new attack ad by rival Samsung pokes fun at Apple customers who wait in line outside stores for the iPhone 5.

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Google faces Israeli lawsuit over controversial Prophet Muhammad video
Arab-Israeli lawmakers and religious leaders Wednesday asked the Jerusalem District Court to force Google to take a controversial video off of YouTube.

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Apple iOS 6 review: A worthwhile upgrade
Apple has officially released iOS 6, the latest update to the mobile OS that powers the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Michael deAgonia details what's new, what's changed and what still needs work.

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iPhone 5 specs hint at international LTE roaming -- eventually
U.S. buyers of the iPhone 5 won't have international LTE roaming when the highly anticipated device hits the street on Friday, but information from Apple, the FCC and carriers offers glimmers of hope that foreign LTE networks will be in reach eventually.

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New IE exploit variant distributes PlugX malware, researchers say
Researchers from security vendor AlienVault have identified a variant of a recently discovered Internet Explorer exploit that is used to infect targeted computers with the PlugX remote access Trojan (RAT) program.

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