Friday, February 13, 2009

IT News HeadLines (CNET) 13/02/2009



Web 2.0, please don't be my Valentine
Every February 14, the Web seems to go a little bit nuts with Valentine's-related promotions. News flash: If everyone else is doing them, yours won't really stand out.
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The case for the $50 Windows 7 upgrade
Microsoft might be releasing Windows 7 this year and that means talk about upgrades is back. Don Reisinger thinks $50 is a fair price for an upgrade to Windows 7.
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Twitter fends off second clickjacking attack
Prank being tested on Twitter is harmless, but clickjacking could be used for malicious purposes in the future, security expert says.
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Twitter's Valentine's surprise: More funding!
In a surprise announcement, the microblogging start-up has raised an unclear amount of money from Benchmark Capital and Institutional Venture Partners.
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Nearly 70 computers missing from Los Alamos nuclear lab
Energy Department rebukes nuclear lab for treating missing computers as property management issue and not cybersecurity risk, internal documents show.
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Apple: iPhone jailbreaking violates our copyright
Apple has laid out what is believed to be its first legal argument against the practice of jailbreaking an iPhone in response to an EFF petition before the Copyright Office.
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Google lets programmers sell Android apps
Previously developers only could offer free applications for the T-Mobile G1 on Google's Android Market. Now there's a more direct profit motive.
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Cisco unveils global blueprint for cities
Its "Intelligent Urbanization" pilot aims to help a city in India use the network to integrate city management to bring economic growth and better quality of life.
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Audit: No customer data exposed in Kaspersky breach
Database security expert David Litchfield analyzes attack on security firm Web site and finds no sensitive data was accessed.
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Tesla Motors: We're not dead yet
Department of Energy has been given the green light to disperse $350 million in loans to help the all-electric car company build their manufacturing plant.
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Microsoft, the follower
Software giant claims to be a technology innovator, but history suggests a different narrative. So let's take a closer look at the record.
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Grooveshark launches Twisten, a jukebox of tweets
Twisten is a new service that keeps an eye on Twitter for mentions of music and lets you play the tracks using an integrated Flash player.
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iPhone too pricey? Then think smartphone-lite
A company called INQ is working on a new set of phones designed for social networking apps--and costing roughly half as much as today's smartphones.
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Pew analyzes the Twitterati, or not
The research firm has some numbers on Twitter usage! But here's the catch: It also counts as "Twitter users" those who update their Facebook or MySpace status.
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IBM, Amazon foreshadow bevy of connecting clouds
Now that Amazon and IBM have teamed up, a picture of multiple computing clouds is emerging. Is Microsoft surrounded?
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Webware Radar: Shazam hits 35 million users
Also: Netflix has signed up more than 10 million subscribers; Google Maps in France has real-time traffic updates; Where 2 Get It becomes a Google AdWords reseller.
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The problems with Microsoft's Moonlight solution
Microsoft continues to manacle Novell's Moonlight potential with patent encumbrances.
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Cisco wants it both ways with open source
The networking heavyweight seems to want to adopt open source without taking on the potential costs of doing so.
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Mozilla Bespin tries taking coding to the cloud
Cloud computing gets another twist from the organization behind Firefox: the browser-based Bespin programming environment.
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The Cuban Linux crisis
Cuba wants to break away from Microsoft to avoid the U.S., and hopes Linux will prove its savior.
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Photos: The 8 most underrated videogame characters ever
We've rewarded eight of the most underrated and under-appreciated characters we've ever seen, with the recognition they've missed--in some cases for decades. And we begin with an evil genius.
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