This Week’s News
October 13th, 2008Vista R.I.P.
Vista is on its way to the Microsoft scrap heap, joining other relics including Microsoft Bob.
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Google in Curious Alliance With Click-fraud Detection Firm
Google has agreed to cooperate with its longtime adversary Click Forensics on click-fraud reports.
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Microsoft Sues DHL After Train Dumps 21,600 Xboxes
Microsoft is suing U.S.-based cargo-delivery service DHL Express for allegedly losing 21,600 Xbox game consoles because of a train derailment in Texas.
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PCI App Security: Who’s Guarding the Data Bank?
Compliance strategies for PCI’s new application security requirements.
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It Only Seems Like the Only News Is the Economy
While IT budgets are being cut and AMD is breaking itself up, a security tool was released for Firefox that prevents “clickjacking” and Microsoft said that Windows 7 will fix issues in Vista’s user account control feature.
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Kernel Developers, Wall Street to Come Together
The Linux Foundation is attempting to get “high-end” Linux end-users more involved in kernel development.
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Whoop de Doop for De-Dupe
Data de-duplication is spreading from backups to online storage. So when can we stop buying disks?
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Forrester: Discontent Persists Over SAP Maintenance Hike
A new Forrester Research report finds SAP customers are still angry over the vendor’s recent maintenance increase.
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Open-Source Drupal Turns Pro
Acquia’s strengthened and supported distribution of the open source content manager smooths the path to a trouble-free Drupal Web site.
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Ellison Strikes Bullish Tone at Shareholder Meeting
Oracle will likely weather the global financial storm just fine, CEO Larry Ellison said Friday.
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Flex-Time: Want a Four-Day Workweek? IT Is Key
All companies look to cut costs during an economic recession: A one-year trial of a four-day work week for the state of Utah is predicted to save $3 million.
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Yahoo Investor Proposal Unlikely to Push Microsoft
A Yahoo shareholder has distributed a proposal outlining terms for a new acquisition offer by Microsoft.
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Errant E-mail to Me Will Cost You
Ignorance of the law is no excuse — and when it comes to technology, the same rule applies.
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Zoho Launches E-mail App With Offline, Mobile Access
Zoho has added an e-mail application to its suite of Web-hosted applications.
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Mobile Industry Split Over UMA Versus Femtocells
As mobile data traffic continues to increase, with more generated by home users, operators are under pressure to adopt either UMA or femtocells, both of which have a lot going for them.
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Antivirus Superhero Comes to the Rescue
Japan’s cheap and pervasive high-speed Internet connections are finally catching up with the country.
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Infosys Revenue, Profit Growth Slows
Infosys’ revenue and profit growth flag in the wake of economic uncertainty in the U.S., and the strengthening dollar.
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The ROI of Influence
How do smart companies include social media in their marketing?
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Amazon to Offer Volume Discounts for S3
Amazon will soon begin to offer volume discounts to customers of its S3 hosted storage service.
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Widespread Problems, Fraud Found in H-1B Program
U.S. study finds incidents of forged documents, fake degrees, ’shell’ companies.
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Microsoft to Improve Vista’s Problematic UAC in Windows 7
In Windows 7 Microsoft plans to improve the user account control (UAC) feature, acknowledging that the new security feature it built into Windows Vista has caused unnecessary problems for users.
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Micron to Cut Staff by 15 Percent
Micron plans to lay off 15 percent of its workforce and stop producing NAND flash memory from its Boise, Idaho, facility.
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Arrested Former CRM CEO Deemed Flight Risk
A CRM vendor’s ex-CEO, charged with wire fraud, has been deemed a flight risk by federal authorities.
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Ericsson Attaches Blades for Wind Power to Base Station
Ericsson has equipped its environmentally friendly radio base station site concept Tower Tube with built-in support for wind power.
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Huawei Shelves Plan to Sell Stake in Wireless Device Unit
China-based networking equipment maker Huawei indefinitely postponed the sale of a stake in its terminals manufacturing unit.
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Digg’s Kevin Rose: “We Have to Do Better”
Digg founder Kevin Rose said the social news recommendation site is not doing enough to reach people with niche interests.
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Netbooks Will Boost Adoption of Linux, Says Novell CTO
Novell expects higher adoption of SUSE Linux from netbooks, though it expects that the overall Linux market is moving to embedded Linux.
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IBM Reports 20 Percent Jump in Q3 Net Income
IBM preannounced third-quarter earnings Wednesday that beat analysts’ expectations, though revenue fell short.
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Microsoft, Others Seek to Get Paid for Sales to WaMu
Microsoft and others have filed motions indicating they hope to be paid for products or services supplied to failed bank.
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Remote Workers Care About IT Security — Really
Most of your remote workers, mobile users and road warriors toting around laptops and BlackBerrys have the business’s best interests in mind when it comes to network security.
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Researchers Reveal ‘Clickjacking’ Attack Info
The long list of vulnerabilities involves browsers, Web sites and plug-ins like Flash.
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Broadcom Says Qualcomm’s Licensing Breaks the Law
Broadcom has filed another patent suit against Qualcomm, continuing the long-running battle between the chip makers.
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Websense Slowly Extends Reach of Data Loss Prevention Tools
Websense has released a data loss prevention tool for network endpoints, based on its acquisition of PortAuthority.
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Sprint Hopeful on Funding as WiMax Rolls out
Sprint said adoption of its WiMax service in Baltimore has exceeded expectations.
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Oracle to Buy Big Project Portfolio Management Player
Oracle is planning to buy Primavera, maker of project portfolio management software.
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Symantec to Buy E-mail Security Vendor MessageLabs
Symantec will pay US$695 million for MessageLabs, a security vendor that filters out spam and malicious Web traffic.
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BlackBerry Storms Verizon Wireless and Vodafone Networks
Vodafone and Verizon Wireless will distribute Research In Motion’s BlackBerry Storm touchscreen smartphone.
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Tata to Acquire Citigroup’s Indian Back Office for $505M
Indian outsourcer Tata Consultancy Services has acquired the back office services division in India of Citigroup.
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Alibaba Ups Investment in Auction Site to US$732 Million
Alibaba.com will invest US$73 million in its popular Taobao consumer auction site over the next five years.
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Monster Acquires Remainder of ChinaHR
Recruiting site Monster bought 55 percent of ChinaHR for US$174 million in cash.
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RIM’s BlackBerry Storm: A New Take on Touch
Research in Motion’s all-touch-screen handset for Verizon and Vodafone supports EvDO rev. A in the United States and high-speed GSM networks overseas.
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MySQL Cofounder David Axmark Leaving Sun
MySQL cofounder David Axmark is resigning from Sun next month.
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Brocade Gets Loan to Fund Foundry Buyout
Brocade secured a US$1.1 billion loan to fund its acquisition of Foundry despite a tightening of credit markets.
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CA Ups Identity Management Bet With IDFocus
CA has bought identity-management vendor IDFocus.
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IBM Brings 5GHz Chip to Its Top-selling Unix Server
IBM updated its Unix servers with faster processors and new management tools.
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Red Hat Looks to Mainstream Markets for Growth
Getting Linux to mainstream customers will be key to Red Hat’s growth, CEO Jim Whitehurst said.
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HP, Tandberg Team for Soup-to-Nuts Telepresence
HP and Tandberg are uniting to provide a single source for telepresence gear as well as installation and monitoring.
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Dell’s New Backup System Includes Both Hardware and Software
Dell will combine its storage hardware with Symantec or CommVault software for SMB backup and recovery.
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Analysts: AMD’s Foundry Spin-off May Save Company
Analysts praise AMD for splitting off its chip-manufacturing business.
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Will Apple Be Forced to Make More Money?
Antitrust rules go against Apple and AT&T.
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US Online Ad Growth Slows in 2008’s First Half
The growth in U.S. online advertising spending slowed down significantly in the first half of 2008.
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Oracle and SAP Fail to Settle TomorrowNow Lawsuit
Oracle and SAP held settlement talks in their TomorrowNow lawsuit but failed to reach an agreement to end the case.
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Wall Street’s Collapse Dents IT Spending
The turmoil in the financial markets isn’t expected to lead to a tech-spending recession. But budgets may be in for some paring.
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Data Center Spending Stays Strong, AFCOM Says
Most companies expect their data center budgets to increase or remain level next year, according to an AFCOM survey.
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EBay Buys Payment Firm for Almost $1B, Lays off Over 1,000
EBay announced two acquisitions, at the same time saying it will lay off over 1,000 staff worldwide and cut back on recruitment.
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