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MSI launches Wind U120 mini laptop (Oct 10 2008 14:59 GMT)
MSI is continuing its assault on the Eee PC by launching the Wind U120. The U120 will feature similar specs to its predecessor, the Wind U100, which is powered an Intel Atom processor. Customers will be able to choose between a 120GB HDD or 40GB SSD. The U120 also includes 802.11n Wi-Fi connectivity and a built-in 3G modem.
Microsoft elaborates on Oslo (Oct 10 2008 13:00 GMT)
Shedding more light on its Oslo vision for model-based software development, Microsoft this week elaborated on plans to preview Oslo technologies, offering code names and citing the company's DSL (Domain Specific Languages) concept as a lynchpin of the platform.A Community Technology Preview of Oslo is due at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles on October 27. Featured in the CTP will be a declarative modeling language now being identified by the code name "M," as well as software modeling tool code-named "Quadrant.A repository for integration between models also will be part of the CTP. User feedback on the CTP will help determine the overall road map for Oslo technologies, said Robert Wahbe, Microsoft corporate vice president of the company's Connected Systems Division, during an interview this week.
U.S. gov't proposes digital signing of DNS root zone file (Oct 10 2008 12:21 GMT)
The U.S. government is soliciting input on a way to make the Internet's addressing system less susceptible to tampering by hackers.Under the idea, records in the DNS (Domain Name System) root zone would be cryptographically signed using DNSSEC (Domain Name and Addressing System Security Extensions), a set of protocols that allows DNS records to carry a digital signature.
You don't know tech: The InfoWorld news quiz (Oct 10 2008 10:00 GMT)
The world's financial markets may be collapsing, but technology lives on -- for the moment, anyway. This week the feds arrested a suspect in the Sarah Palin e-mail hacking case, and both Steve Jobs and Windows XP got yet another lease on life. Also: new e-books, virtual worlds, and some truly wacky science. Are you up to speed on all things tech?
Amazon to offer volume discounts for S3 (Oct 09 2008 19:35 GMT)
Amazon's AWS cloud computing subsidiary will institute a new tiered pricing structure for its hosted storage service that includes price cuts for high-volume customers.Simple Storage Service (S3) has reached a level of usage, holding 29 billion objects and handling 70,000 requests per second, that allows AWS to bring down its rates, the company said Thursday.The new tiered pricing structure will kick in on Nov. 1.
Apple slates laptop event for next Tuesday (Oct 09 2008 19:21 GMT)
Apple issued invitations Thursday for an event next Tuesday on its Cupertino, Calif., campus that will tout laptops."The spotlight turns to notebooks," the invitation sent to reporters read.
Microsoft to improve Vista's problematic UAC in Windows 7 (Oct 09 2008 18:32 GMT)
Microsoft plans to improve the much-maligned UAC (user account control) feature in the next version of its Windows client OS, acknowledging that the new security feature it built into Windows Vista has caused unnecessary problems for users.On the company's Engineering Windows 7 blog, Microsoft called UAC one of the "most controversial" features of Vista and said it will tweak UAC in Windows 7 so it works more closely with Microsoft'
11 Microsoft security updates due next week (Oct 09 2008 18:07 GMT)
Next week will be a busy one for system administrators as Microsoft is planning to ship 11 security updates -- four of them rated critical -- for its products.The patches will include fixes for critical security bugs in Windows Active Directory, Internet Explorer, Excel, and the Microsoft Host Integration Server, which integrates Windows computers with IBM mainframes, Microsoft said Thursday in a note on the patches.[ Learn how to secure your systems with Roger Grimes' Security Adviser blog and newsletter, both from InfoWorld. ]The critical Active Directory bug affects Microsoft Windows 2000 Server, but not other versions of Windows, Microsoft said.
Startup to launch pro Web collaboration service (Oct 09 2008 16:53 GMT)
A British startup is preparing to launch an enterprise version of a Web-based collaboration service with a screen-sharing feature that lets a person interact with an application on someone else's computer.The company, called Yuuguu, means "fusion" in Japanese.
Amid economic turmoil, IBM reports jump in net income (Oct 09 2008 13:38 GMT)
IBM on Wednesday reported a 20 percent increase in net income for its third quarter and said its profit outlook for the full year remains on track.The preannouncement came one week before IBM is due to report its full financial results on Oct. 16 and may help calm technology investors, who have been pummelling stocks amid fears of a spending slowdown caused by the U.S. financial crisis.
Netbooks will boost adoption of Linux, says Novell CTO (Oct 09 2008 13:13 GMT)
A surge in demand for netbooks is helping drive business for Linux, as the devices are designed to be low-cost with smaller storage, according to Novell's chief technology and strategy officer for Linux."People typically don't care what operating system is on the netbooks, because they don'
Microsoft, other IT firms seek payment from failed bank WaMu (Oct 09 2008 11:31 GMT)
Microsoft got in line with several other organizations that are taking steps to get paid for products and services provided to Washington Mutual, the largest bank to fail in U.S. history.On Tuesday, Microsoft filed a document with the Delaware bankruptcy court handling the WaMu case asking to be sent copies of all proceedings in the case.[ Learn more about how the financial crisis is affecting IT and the high-tech industry, plus what IT can do to help, in InfoWorld'
Mozilla locks in Firefox 3.1 features list (Oct 09 2008 11:09 GMT)
Mozilla will use a several-week delay it recently added to the Firefox 3.1 schedule to build a private browsing mode and beef up the browser's address bar, the company said today. Three weeks ago, the company said it would insert four to five more weeks into the timetable, part of a reaction to changes in the browser market, including the introduction by Google of its Chrome browser. Then, Mozilla said it would probably use the time to add a privacy mode and to punch up its TraceMonkey JavaScript engine performance.
Intel launches probe into AMD's spin-off plans (Oct 08 2008 21:19 GMT)
Intel's lawyers are evaluating whether a new manufacturing business spun out of AMD could end a long-standing cross-licensing agreement between the firms.On Tuesday, AMD announced plans to spin off its manufacturing operations into a separate company tentatively called The Foundry. The restructuring lets struggling AMD rid itself of the financial burden of running fabrication plants and provides a hefty influx of cash from its partner in the deal, Advanced Technology Investment Co. (ATIC).
Mozilla adds geographic tagging to Firefox (Oct 08 2008 20:34 GMT)
Mozilla has released an add-on to Firefox that enables the browser to automatically pinpoint a user's location by communicating with Wi-Fi signals so that Web sites can provide customized content to users.The add-on is now available through the Geode project from Mozilla Labs, according to a blog posting about the technology.[ Track the latest trends in open source with InfoWorld's Open Sources blog.
Sprint hopeful on WiMax funding despite economic crisis (Oct 08 2008 16:32 GMT)
Adoption of Sprint Nextel's Xohm WiMax service has been better than expected since it launched in Baltimore on Sept. 29, and the carrier is confident it will be able to fund the rest of its national network rollout despite the current economic crisis, Sprint executives said Wednesday.
Tennessee man indicted for hacking Palin's e-mail account (Oct 08 2008 14:11 GMT)
A 20-year-old Tennessee man has been indicted for hacking into an e-mail account of U.S. vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, according to court records.David C. Kernell was indicted Tuesday on a single charge of accessing a protected computer by a grand jury in U.
Clickjackers could hijack Webcams, microphones, Adobe warns (Oct 08 2008 13:47 GMT)
Adobe Systems warned users Tuesday that hackers could use recently-reported "clickjacking" attack tactics to secretly turn on a computer's microphone and Web camera.Flash on all platforms is susceptible to clickjacking attacks, Adobe said in an advisory posted Tuesday.
Facebook begins offering Live search (Oct 08 2008 13:31 GMT)
Facebook has begun allowing users to search the Web from within Facebook, using Microsoft's Live search service.The arrangement, first announced in July, offers a revenue opportunity for both companies. But they'll need to convince people to use the search feature, and it'
Yahoo revamps calendar service (Oct 08 2008 12:51 GMT)
Yahoo has developed a new online calendar that the company said offers significant improvement over the current product because it makes it easier to share items and has a more interactive interface.Yahoo will begin to offer the new version of Yahoo Calendar on Wednesday in beta in the U.S., Brazil, India, Taiwan, and the U.K.
Firefox extension blocks dangerous Web attack (Oct 08 2008 12:28 GMT)
A popular free security tool for the Firefox browser has been upgraded to block one of the most dangerous and troubling security problems facing the Web today.NoScript is a small application that integrates into Firefox. It blocks scripts in programming languages such as JavaScript and Java from executing on untrusted Web pages. The scripts could be used to launch an attack on a PC.[ Read more about a
MySQL cofounder David Axmark leaving Sun (Oct 08 2008 12:12 GMT)
David Axmark, a cofounder and former lead engineer for MySQL, has resigned from Sun Microsystems a few weeks after another cofounder said he may also leave the company."I have thought about my role at Sun and decided that I am better off in smaller organisations," Axmark wrote in his resignation letter, according to a blog post Tuesday from Kaj Arno, head of MySQL community relations.[ For more on MySQL'
Red Hat boosts open source SOA (Oct 08 2008 12:00 GMT)
Red Hat is expanding its open-source JBoss SOA platform with the unveiling Wednesday of JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 4.3 and JBoss Operations Network 2.1.Enterprise SOA Platform supports small-integration projects to enterprise-wide SOA integration. It features open-source projects like JBoss ESB, JBoss JBPM, and JBoss Rules.
Microsoft's (un)secret weapon for winning the BI battle (Oct 08 2008 11:58 GMT)
SQL Server may be one of the most popular databases today, but Microsoft nevertheless remains a laggard in the business intelligence market. It ranked just fifth among BI vendors last year, according to research firm IDC.But as Microsoft gets serious about BI, it has an ace that turns out to have been hiding in plain sight all along.[ Discover the top-rated IT products as rated by the InfoWorld Test Center. ]The software maker'
Wikia Search debuts app platform to automate user participation (Oct 08 2008 11:15 GMT)
Wikia Search will roll out on Wednesday a platform that developers can use to create applications for this open-source search engine.Called Wikia Intelligent Search Extensions (WISE), the platform is aimed at letting individuals and organizations create applications that sharpen the search engine's ability to answer queries."As we look at what'
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