Saturday, January 15, 2011

IT News HeadLines (TechWeb) 15/01/2011



Apple Gets Patent For Solar-Powered Mobile Devices
The patent filing may portend that future iPhones and iPads use solar power to extend battery life.
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RIM: PlayBook Battery Life Will Be Just Fine
RIM is stuffing a 5300mAh battery into its PlayBook tablet, which it says will last an entire business day.
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Cisco Introduces Social Customer Care Tool
SocialMiner provides analytics that can guide corporate response to Tweets, Facebook posts, and other social media interactions with customers.
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NASA Sets Date For Discovery's Final Mission
The shuttle and its newly reinforced external fuel tank are scheduled to lift for the International Space Station in late February.
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More Cloud, Fewer Contact Centers Predicted For Feds
Work mandated by the Open Government Directive will bring an increase in cloud computing adoption and consolidation of contact centers in 2011, according to research firm IDC.
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iPad Takes A Bite Out Of PC Sales
Apple's hot-selling tablet, along with Android-powered slates, is eating into Microsoft and Intel's dominance of the personal computing market.
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CGI Wins $55 Million Medicare IT Contract
The IT services firm will provide software development and operational support services for the agency's healthcare provider enrollment system.
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HP Exec Indicates webOS Tablet Debuting Feb. 9
HP has scheduled a webOS-focused event on February 9, where it is expected to debut its first tablet device.
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TSA Hacker Sentenced To Prison
Former Transportation Security Administration worker Douglas Duchak pled guilty for trying to inject malicious code into government databases after he was fired.
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China Industrial Control Software Vulnerable To Trojan Attack
Bug could allow an attacker to take control of a widely used Chinese SCADA system by using a Stuxnet-type exploit.
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Global CIO: Inside SAP: 2,500 iPads Are Only The Beginning
SAP's CIO says those 2,500 iPads will soon be joined by Blackberry Playbooks and Android devices and more--and here's how he and his team are making it all happen.
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MySpace Confirms Sale Rumors
News Corp. is exploring options for unloading the money-losing social media property, said MySpace.
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Password Proliferation Adds Security Risk
Employees must remember six or more passwords at 27% of organizations, resulting in security-compromising behavior and increased burden on help desks, warns Forrester Research.
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Flagship Touch-Powered BlackBerry Dakota Leaks
A picture and spec list of an unannounced Blackberry smartphone show what might be RIM's first hit device of 2011.
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iOS 4.3 Adds New Features To iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch
Apple's latest mobile operating system update brings a host of new capabilities to the company's fleet of gadgets.
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Apple Plays It Safe With CDMA-Only iPhone

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