Friday, October 9, 2009

IT News HeadLines (ComputerWorld) 09/10/2009



Are Single-Player Games like Dragon Age Doomed?
Is Bioware's Dragon Age the last of its kind? A solo-player game absent an integrated online component? Or is it actually the next step in what Spore designer Will Wright calls the "massively single player" experience?
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Bugs & Fixes: When PDFs won't load in Safari
Snow Leopard has been out for over a month. Still, I keep tripping over compatibility problems. My most recent stumble occurred when I tried to view a PDF document, accessed as a Web link in Safari.
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Bugs & Fixes: When PDFs won't load in Safari
Snow Leopard has been out for over a month. Still, I keep tripping over compatibility problems. My most recent stumble occurred when I tried to view a PDF document, accessed as a Web link in Safari.
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NASA probe crashes into moon in hunt for water
NASA's space probe successfully crashed into the moon this morning as part of the agency's investigation into whether there's water on the orb.
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Yahoo to promote home page apps during Open Hack Day
Yahoo has opened the application floodgates to its home page, with hopes that external developers will soon build tens of thousands of programs that Yahoo.com's more than 330 million visitors will find useful.
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IBM calls new DB2 grid feature an Oracle 'Exadata-killer'
IBM today unveiled a clustering feature that it says will allow the performance of its DB2 database to trump that of Oracle's flagship database.
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UK's High Court rejects appeal for UFO hacker
The U.K.'s High Court ruled Friday that a British hacker cannot appeal his extradition to the country's Supreme Court, narrowing the Londoner's legal options.
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Hackers exploit this year's fourth PDF zero-day
Adobe has acknowledged that hackers are exploiting bugs in its Reader PDF viewer and Acrobat PDF maker to break into Windows-based PCs.
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Analysis: Phishing arrests highlight massive problem
The massive phishing scam broken up by federal authorities this week is only a hint at what many say is an insidious and growing problem on the Internet.
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Review: The NZXT Lexa S case allows easy SSD installation
The NZXT Lexa S computer case lets you convert a 3.5-inch bay to accept two 2.5-inch drives, making it simple to add SSD drives.
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