Wednesday, February 20, 2013

IT News Head Lines (ComputerWorld) 21/02/2013


Twitter calls for smarter password habits following Jeep, Burger King hacks Twitter is urging its account holders to be smarter with their passwords following two recent attacks by hackers directed at Burger King and Jeep that took control of those accounts. Read More ...
Connectify Hotspot turns your laptop into a hotspot Your phone isn't the only piece of equipment able to share an internet connection with other devices. Windows has been able to do this for years; the problem is getting it accomplished quickly, easily and wirelessly, especially on the go with a laptop system. Connectify Hotspot (two editions, various pricing) provides the tools to do precisely this, acting as a software router between whatever internet connection you provide and the other computers connected to your laptop. Read More ...
CalDigit AV Pro a speedy storage device for creative pros With a handful of ways to customize the drive and the high-speed USB 3 interface, the AV Pro is a storage device built to help streamline the workflow of creative professionals. CalDigit offers two different models of the AV Pro: a model with a 3.5-inch hard drive, or one with a 2.5-inch solid-state drive. Regardless of which model you choose, the AV Pro has user-serviceable drives that allow easy replacement of the drive mechanism when the need arises. Read More ...
Dell profit sinks 31 percent as company fights to go private Dell has reported another quarter of declining revenue and profits as the company's CEO continues his battle to take the PC maker private. Read More ...
Oracle sale of Lustre welcomed by HPC users Oracle has sold assets related to the Lustre parallel distributed file system to high-performance computing storage vendor Xyratex, which has pledged to lead further development of the software in its current collaborative open-source environment. Read More ...
Nvidia promises improved gaming with GeForce GTX Titan GPU Nvidia on Tuesday announced the GeForce GTX Titan, a GPU designed to handle the most demanding games by harnessing the processing power of 2,668 graphics cores. Read More ...
Mozilla moves to limit risk of subordinate CA certificate abuse Mozilla is taking steps to limit the risk of powerful subordinate Certificate Authority (CA) certificates falling into the hands of attackers and potentially being used to issue rogue certificates for use in SSL snooping attacks. Read More ...
Can Gmail and Yahoo fend off Outlook.com? With Microsoft making a big push with its free email service Outlook.com, Google's Gmail and Yahoo Mail suddenly have a serious new rival. Read More ...
Google's Page, Brin and Schmidt to testify in employee antritrust case Google's famed "triumvirate" -- Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt -- will give oral statements over the coming weeks as part of a private antitrust suit brought against Google and six other technology companies by former employees. Read More ...
Mozilla debuts in-browser PDF, patches 13 Firefox bugs Mozilla today released Firefox 19, adding a built-in PDF viewer to the browser and patching 13 security vulnerabilities. Read More ...
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