Thursday, July 25, 2013

IT News Head Lines (InfoWorld) 7/26/2013





Researchers spot new breed of infected Android apps in the wild
Cyber criminals are successfully using a recently found Master Key vulnerability to inject malicious code into legitimate Android apps without invalidating their digital signatures.

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Google unveils second-generation Nexus 7 tablet running Android 4.3
Google is rolling out a second-generation Nexus 7 tablet designed for improved performance and portability, featuring the company's just-announced mobile operating system, Android Jelly Bean 4.3. The device offers numerous enhancements over the original Nexus 7 tablet that Google released last year. It is also the first device to ship with Android Jelly Bean 4.3, the latest version of Google's mobile OS, the company announced Wednesday.

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Microsoft, Azul to put open source Java on Azure cloud
Microsoft's open source subsidiary is partnering with Java virtual machine technology vendor Azul Systems to deliver a build of OpenJDK, the open source

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Michael Dell raises buyout offer for Dell
Michael Dell has raised his offer to take Dell private by $0.10 per share, to about $24.7 billion, after the company was forced to delay a vote because stockholders seemed inclined to reject the bid. The new bid of $13.75 per share from Michael Dell and Silver Lake Partners prompted the company to adjourn the special stockholder meeting for a second time while a special committee of the board of directors evaluates the new bid. The meeting will be reconvened at 9 a.m. Central Time on August 2, the special committee said Wednesday.

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Nvidia brings high-end graphics core technology to Tegra 5
Augmented reality, image recognition and other multimedia features could be standard in future smartphones and tablets, and Nvidia's upcoming Tegra 5 mobile chip will have features to handle such demanding graphics capabilities.

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Cyber crime costs U.S economy $100 billion and 500,000 jobs
Attacks on businesses and consumers are a blight on the economy, with criminals foreign and domestic using the Internet to steal identities, intellectual property, trade secrets and just about anything else they can get their hands on. A new economic model developed at a prominent D.C. think tank puts the cost to the U.S. economy as high as $100 billion annually, with a corresponding loss of as many as half a million jobs.

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Seagate hybrid drive promises speed boost below the cost of flash
SSDs are encroaching on hard disk drives with the promise of faster access to data, but HDDs are fighting back -- in some cases, with built-in solid-state storage of their own. On Tuesday, Seagate Technology took the fight to the enterprise market, introducing its Seagate Enterprise Turbo SSHD, which it calls the world's first enterprise hybrid drive. Shipping now to server and storage vendors and resellers, the new drive is also available as an option in IBM System x servers.

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Trifecta: Microsoft patches Office, SharePoint, and Office Web Apps
In a move that won't surprise Office 2010 followers, in the past few hours Microsoft released

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In the cloud, code doesn't need developers
Codeless development environments, which rely on models and templates for building applications rather than strict coding, are gaining a foothold.

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IBM support for Cloud Foundry stands to benefit OpenStack, Java too
IBM today announced it's throwing its enterprise heft behind Cloud Foundry, the VMWare-spawned open source PaaS unveiled in 2011.

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