Stuxnet attack more effective than bombs
At a classified installation in Israel, an operational mock-up of Iran's nuclear program helped Israeli and U.S.
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Yahoo IPv6 upgrade could shut out 1 million Internet users
Yahoo is forging ahead with a move to IPv6 on its main website by year-end despite worries that up to 1 million Internet users may be unable to access it initially. Yahoo's massive engineering effort to support IPv6 -- the long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol -- could at first shut out potential yahoo.com users due to what the company and others call "IPv6 brokenness.''
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Oracle quarterly patch process raises concerns
Oracle delivered its quarterly montage of patches and updates this week. The quarterly release cycle -- like Microsoft's monthly Patch Tuesday -- is designed to provide some stability and predictability for the IT admins who have to test and implement the patches, but at least one security expert thinks the Oracle system needs some work.
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EMC combines Clariion, Celerra line in VNX, revamps entire storage line
EMC on Tuesday announced a slew of products, including upgrades to its high-end VMAX Symmetrix array, the introduction of clustered NAS from its recent acquisition of Isilon Systems, and a product line that combines its midrange Clariion SAN and Celerra NAS systems.
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Amazon's Beanstalk aims to make Web Services easier to use
Amazon on Wednesday planned to introduce an offering that combines its Web services into one tool that is aimed at making it easier for customers to use and fine-tune the services. AWS Elastic Beanstalk is now available for use by Java developers. To get started, a developer uploads a Java application to Elastic Beanstalk, which automatically handles the deployment details like provisioning compute capacity, load balancing between servers, autoscaling up and down, and monitoring the health of the application.
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Microsoft-HP integration deal yields four new appliances
Almost exactly one year has passed since HP and Microsoft trumpeted a three-year, $250 million "infrastructure-to-apps" partnershi
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Apple has another record-setting quarter with $6B profit
Apple on Tuesday reported record revenue of $26.74 billion for its first fiscal quarter, driven by sales of iPhones, Macs and iPads. Revenue was up 71 percent from the same quarter a year earlier, while profits were up 78 percent to $6 billion, or $6.43 per diluted share, Apple said.
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Khronos upgrades standard audio and multimedia APIs
Khronos Group released on Tuesday upgrades to its OpenSL ES specification for high-performance, low-latency audio and its OpenMax AL specification for multimedia applications on mobile and embedded devices.
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IBM Q4 net income rises 9 percent
IBM said Tuesday that net income for the fourth quarter ended Dec. 31 rose 9 percent to $5.3 billion year over year, helped by strong performance in growth markets as well as software and mainframe sales. Revenue for the quarter was $29 billion, a 7 percent increase. Full-year net income grew 10 percent to $14.8 billion, while full-year revenue jumped 4 percent to $99.9 billion.
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Secunia: Third-party apps remains security weak point
Microsoft is still burdened with a bad reputation among users for security, although figures show its products are more secure than most on a person's computer, according to new data from the Danish security vendor Secunia.
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Details emerge of patents Novell is selling to Microsoft
Additional details have emerged regarding the more than 800 patents Novell is selling to the Microsoft-led consortium CPTN Holdings for $450 million, about two months after the deal was first announced.
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Microsoft builds Office app for iPhone -- hell refreezes
Back in 2003, Apple surprised the world with the release of iTunes for Windows.
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ShareFile integrates cloud file sharing with desktop folders
ShareFile has launched Sync, a tool that allows users to continuously synchronize files from specified desktop folders, in an effort to make its cloud-based file transfer service easier to use, the company said on Tuesday. ShareFile is pitching its service -- which bears the same name as the company -- as a faster and more secure alternative to FTP for small and medium-sized businesses.
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