Tuesday, October 4, 2011

IT News Head Lines (ComputerWorld) 04/10/2011





The App Culture
Back in the day, downloading software over the Internet and installing it was only for the most techy among us. Paying for that software was even more outlandish. But since Apple launched the App Store in 2008, users of the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad have discovered that shopping for, downloading, and even paying for software isn’t just easy, but fun.

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Fusion-io doubles flash card's speed, capacity; halves price
Fusion-io today released the first upgrade to its flash drive hardware in four years, increasing throughput to 3GBps and the capacity of a full-length flash card to 2.4TB.

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Toshiba to sell 5TB home media server in Japan
Toshiba announced a new home media server with five terabytes of storage on Monday. It has enough capacity to store 15 days of digital TV broadcasts from six channels.

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IT inferno: The nine circles of IT hell
The tech inferno is not buried deep within the earth -- it's just down the hall. Let's take a tour

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Industry-specific clouds come rolling in
Airlines and financial services firms have their own clouds, or will shortly. Heres what you need to consider before jumping.

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Build BI tools fast with agile approach
There's heightened interest in agile BI, a rapid development methodology for creating BI systems that involves the end user as early and as often as possible -- and thus saves time and effort. Insider (registration required)

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4G smartphones compared
View and compare smartphone models by size, weight, OS, carrier, screen and more.

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Massive security vulnerability in HTC Android phones claimed
Security researchers say they've uncovered a flaw in several smartphone models produced by HTC that gives any application that has Internet access the keys to a trove of information on the phone, including e-mail addresses, GPS locations, phone numbers, and text message data.

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Alibaba's CEO interested in buying Yahoo
Jack Ma, chairman and CEO of Alibaba Group, said on Friday at an event at Stanford University that he was interested in acquiring Yahoo, according to reports, making this the first public overture by the Chinese company which is about 40 percent owned by Yahoo.

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