Tuesday, March 9, 2010

IT News HeadLines (InfoWorld) 09/03/2010



Eclipse restructures Mylyn task-focused interface project

The Eclipse Foundation on Monday is announcing a restructuring of its Mylyn task-focused interface project, adding sub-projects for several functions.


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Energizer Bunny's software infects PCs

The Energizer Bunny infects PCs with backdoor malware, the Department of Homeland Security's US-CERT said Friday.

According to researchers at US-CERT (United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team), software that accompanies the Energizer DUO USB battery charger contains a Trojan horse that gives hackers total access to a Windows PC.


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Intel investigating sale of fake Core i7 chip

Intel acknowledged Monday that at least one counterfeit version of its Core i7-920 processor made its may into the U.S. market, and said it's trying to determine how many more are out there.


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Appcelerator releases Titanium cross-platform app dev technology

Appcelerator will release on Monday version 1.0 of Titanium, its cross-platform system for building native mobile and desktop applications.

Titanium leverages Web development technologies such as JavaScript, PHP, and Ruby. For mobile application builders, this means they do not need to learn the Objective-C language for iPhone or Google's Java language for Android systems. A translator enables applications to run natively on different platforms.


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IBM looks to pair security technologies for software development

Honing in on the need for more security in application development, IBM Rational is planning an enterprise-level  product that features two separately acquired technologies for security testing and code scanning.


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