Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Microsoft releases biggest-ever security update; Cisco haunted by 3-year-old Brazil case

Cisco still haunted by 3-year-old Brazil case | To thwart keyloggers, Facebook introduces one-time passwords

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Microsoft releases biggest-ever security update
Microsoft released its largest-ever set of security patches Tuesday, fixing a total of 49 bugs in products such as Windows, Internet Explorer and Office. Read More


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Cisco still haunted by 3-year-old Brazil case
Cisco is still haunted by three-year-old tax evasion allegations in Brazil that prompted authorities there to detain executives and close offices. Bloomberg, citing reports out of Brazil, is reporting this week that Cisco's assets were frozen there during a probe into a suspected import fraud scheme. Read More

To thwart keyloggers, Facebook introduces one-time passwords
Worried about logging into Facebook from a strange computer? There's now a way to get into the popular social network without entering your regular Facebook password. Read More

How smartphones can use free WiFi from moving vehicles
Microsoft researchers have been working on a technology that would let mobile phones and other 3G devices automatically switch to public WiFi even while the device is traveling in a vehicle. The technology is dubbed Wiffler and earlier this year, researchers took it for some test drives in Amherst, Mass, Seattle and San Francisco. Read More


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Intel posts increased profit, sees bright future
Intel reported an increase in quarterly profits, brushing off weakness in the consumer market and predicting "healthy worldwide demand for computing products" moving forward. Read More

Linux is on the rise for business
Large companies are planning to increase their reliance on Linux over the next five years, both in terms of the number of Linux servers run in their organizations and in terms of the mission-critical nature of the work they're used for. Read More

Gov't can embrace social media, collaboration, experts say
If the U.S. Department of Defense can embrace social networking and other Web 2.0 tools, just about any large organization can, said a representative of the agency's Business Transformation Office. Read More


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VMware CEO: Future of IT is automation
The future for IT lies in automating as much as possible of the infrastructure, allowing users to self-provision applications, all in a mixture of virtualized private and public clouds, according to VMware's CEO Paul Maritz. Read More

Businesses 'stick with mainframes' for the cloud
Mainframe computing is seen by most businesses as an essential component of their cloud computing strategy, according to a survey of IT managers. Read More

PayPal alternatives that let you shop around
Ever gone out to a fancy restaurant with friends, only to find that someone lacked the cash to pay their share? Is writing a paper check to a relative (say, a kid in college) a hassle? Read More



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Ig Nobel honors world's wackiest researchers: 2010 winners
The 20th annual Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded Thursday night for "achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think." The prizes commemorate the world's funniest research, and sometimes the world's biggest villains (BP is a winner this year). Here's a list of the 2010 prizes.

Eight hot commercial space projects
The recently passed NASA Authorization Act of 2010 was generally seen as a huge nod toward developing commercial space projects. NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said the authorization "launches a commercial space transportation industry." Indeed there are a number of interesting commercial space projects underway.

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