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The Notorious Malware Still Infects Computers

Dec 31, 2012

IDG News Service-The notorious malware known as the Conficker worm still infects computers,a sort of wild horse with no rider,but investigators appear no closer to finding its creator. Also known as"Downandup,"Conficker was discovered in ...

Tags: conficker worm, notorious malware, evidence collection

Little Has Changed for Some Workers

Dec 31, 2012

IDG News Service - Despite Samsung Electronics' efforts to rectify labor violations at its factories in China, little has changed for some workers. "Samsung had its investigators come to the factory. When they came, they just walked ...

Tags: Samsung Electronics, labor violations, Long Work Hours

Ericsson Has Asked a U.S. Court to Block Sales of a Variety of Samsung Electronics Devices

Dec 31, 2012

IDG News Service - Telecommunications equipment vendor Ericsson has asked a U.S. court to block sales of a variety of Samsung Electronics cameras, Blu-ray Disc players, televisions and phones, including the Galaxy S III and the Galaxy Note ...

Tags: Telecommunications, Ericsson, Samsung Electronics, Galaxy S III

An Information Breach Has Compromised Information of About 279,000 Students and Employees

Dec 31, 2012

IDG News Service-An information breach at a Florida college has compromised information of about 279,000 students and employees,the Florida Department of Education said on Wednesday. In a statement earlier on Monday,Northwest Florida ...

Tags: hackers, steal information

HGST May Not Have Picked Best Time to Have a Breakthrough in Hard-Disk Drive Innovation

Dec 31, 2012

Computerworld - Western Digital's HGST subsidiary may not have picked the best time to have a breakthrough in hard-disk drive innovation. After a decade of trying, HGST recently perfected a method to seal helium gas inside drives. The ...

Tags: hard disk drive, helium gas inside drives, hard drives

Infor Has Teamed up with VMWare to Help Customers of Its Infor LN ERP Software

Dec 31, 2012

IDG News Service - Infor has teamed up with VMWare to help customers of its Infor LN ERP software run on VMWare's latest virtualization technology, opening a door to cloud deployments and potentially lower infrastructure costs. The ...

Tags: Infor, VMWare Team, Virtualized ERP, LN ERP software

Emerging Chip Technologies That Arm Holdings Announced on Wednesday

Dec 31, 2012

IDG News Service-Emerging chip technologies that Arm Holdings announced on Wednesday could help to power mobile networks that are being asked to handle more traffic with more fine-tuned controls. The provider of the dominant architecture ...

Tags: new arm chip technologies, mobile networks

Number of Complete Bicycles Exported From Taiwan Dipped in The First Nine Months of Year

Dec 31, 2012

The number of complete bicycles exported from Taiwan dipped slightly in the first nine months of the year, but the units’ value continued to climb. Between January and September, bicycles shipped from the island fell 2 percent to ...

Tags: Bicycle, Transportation, Taiwan

Microsoft's Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 Is Now Available for Download

Dec 31, 2012

IDG News Service - Microsoft's Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 is now available for download. The update allows users to develop applications for Windows XP and more thoroughly test their work. The previous version of Microsoft's development ...

Tags: Microsoft's Visual Studio, Windows XP, Windows development

Google Is Looking at Its Cloud-Based Apps for The Enterprise Not as a Small Side Business

Dec 31, 2012

Computerworld-Google is looking at its cloud-based apps for the enterprise not as a small side business,but as a major driver of future growth. The company,known worldwide for its highly dominant search engine,has been pushing toward the ...

Tags: Google, future Growth Engine

The Idea Behind The Last Pictures Project

Dec 31, 2012

Computerworld - The problem: You want to send images into space and you want them to last 5 billion years. The solution: A gold-plated disc. That's the idea behind The Last Pictures project, which is scheduled to blast off in the next few ...

Tags: gold plated, orbit, silicon disc, communications satellite

Several Major Software Companies Are in an Attempt to Persuade Users to Keep Their Code

Dec 31, 2012

Computerworld-Several major software companies,including Microsoft and Symantec,today kicked off what they called"International Technology Upgrade Week"in an attempt to persuade users to keep their code current. Upgrades have been hotly ...

Tags: software companies, update

Oracle Is Planning to Roll out a New IaaS Offering That Will Compete Directly with Amazon

Dec 31, 2012

IDG News Service - Oracle is planning to roll out a new IaaS (infrastructure as a service) offering that will compete directly with Amazon Web Services, along with a service called Oracle Public Cloud that runs inside customers' facilities, ...

Tags: Oracle, infrastructure as a service, Amazon Web Services

The Internet Engineering Task Force Has Started Work on The Next Generation of HTTP

Dec 31, 2012

IDG News Service - With an eye toward updating the World Wide Web to better accommodate complex and bandwidth-hungry applications, the Internet Engineering Task Force has started work on the next generation of HTTP (Hypertext Transfer ...

Tags: IETF, HTTP standard, Internet Engineering, Web, Google

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison Unveiled a Souped-up Version of Its Exadata Database Machine

Dec 31, 2012

IDG News Service - As expected, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison on Sunday unveiled a souped-up version of its Exadata database machine that will allow customers to run all of their databases in-memory, providing what Ellison termed blazing ...

Tags: Oracle, Larry Ellison, Exadata X3, Exadata database machine

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