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Lawsuit claims Nvidia hid serious flaw in graphics chips

Lawsuit charges that Nvidia execs concealed for at least eight months a flaw that caused some of the company's graphics chips to fail at unusually high rates

RIM launches first BlackBerry flip-phone

BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 will be available later this year through T-Mobile

Threat to computers for industrial systems now serious

Security researcher publishes code that gives hackers a back door into utility companies, water plants, and oil refineries in order to raise awareness of the vulnerabilities

Analytics vendors show there’s still innovation in BI

Demo Fall 2008: Cloud-based BI, semantic database search, and database acceleration stand out

Chrome snatches share from IE

Internet Explorer lost 1.4 percentage points in market share as users abandoned the browser to try out Google's new open source Chrome

Pushing project management to the collaborative Web

Demo Fall 2008: New apps promise better control, communication across groups

IBM pushes new business events processing wares

The upcoming software incorporates technology acquired from the purchase of AptSoft and includes tooling aimed at getting rank-and-file business users into the BEP loop

Business Objects updates metadata manager

Business Objects' Metadata Management XI 3.0 collects "data about data" and works with the company's BI platform

Report: DOJ hires antitrust expert in Google/Yahoo probe

The DOJ may be preparing an antitrust lawsuit to block the deal between Yahoo and Google, which would give them control over 80 percent of search ads in the U.S.

Update: Google cuts time it retains IP address logs to 9 months

Google will half the length of time it holds data linking surfers' IP addresses to their Web searches.

Forrester: IT budgets getting slashed

The weak economy is affecting IT budgets and large enterprises have put off discretionary spending — which doesn't bode well for Vista upgrades, according to Forrester

Cisco makes teleworking transparent

Cisco Virtual Office hides the complexity of a VPN and lets remote workers easily make their home setups work just like a regular office

Supply of Intel’s dual-core Atom ‘very limited’

Tranquil PC, which is taking preorders for a home server based on the dual-core processor, says the Atom 330 has two 1.6GHz processor cores

Intel ships solid-state drives for desktops, laptops

Intel also plans to release a solid-state drive designed for storage arrays and servers

Flawed Trend Micro anti-virus update cripples PCs

Trend Micro security software updates incorrectly identified up to eight different Windows files as Trojans, then quarantined those files thinking they were dangerous

Microsoft: Hyper-V can compete with VMware on price, features

Microsoft VP Bob Kelly tells attendees at a virtualization event that VMware is 'ridiculously expensive'

IT’s battle against rising energy costs

Startups pitch new tools for business

Startup companies get their chance at TechCrunch50 to showcase new products on stage before an audience of press and investors

HP extends laptop battery life to 24 hours

To get the best battery performance, Hewlett-Packard's long-lasting notebook will have to run Windows XP rather than Windows Vista

Startups seek new ways to bolster enterprise, Web security

Demo Fall 2008: Established ideas get new twists to protect corporate date, user passwords, and even mobile phones

Grid software moving to Windows

3Tera expands platform backing for its AppLogic grid software, allowing for mixing among Linux, Sun Solaris, and Windows and providing scalability

Microsoft says Live Migration slated for 2010

The Live Migration feature, which had been pulled from Hyper-V last year, should help Microsoft compete with VMware in the virtualization space

Google claims license to user content in multiple products

Google has removed its claim of a license to any material displayed in its Chrome browser, but the language remains for other Google services like Picasa and Blogger

Google brings old newspapers online

Initiative lets users scan news articles in their original form

Transurety says patents provide for Internet insurance

Technology that protects data in transit can soon be licensed to insurance industry, which can then offer policies to banks, health-care companies, law firms, and other enterprises

Existing customers gravitate to Microsoft Hyper-V

Users whose shops are already Microsoft-based are more likely to go with the company's Hyper-V than with other virtualization software

McAfee touts ‘cloud-based’ malware defense system

Changes in how McAfee delivers malware-signature software updates should result in much speedier fixes

Microsoft updates CRM Online service

Microsoft adds Internet marketing features to Dynamics CRM Online

Let’s impeach e-voting

Software patches are suspected of changing results applied to electronic voting machines in two Georgia counties

Microsoft to give away Hyper-V software

Microsoft has been scrambling to create a full package of virtualization tools and technology to compete with companies such as VMware

Top 10 iPhone apps for techies

Six common complaints about Apple’s iPhone 3G

From dropped calls to problems with mobile iTunes to lack of enterprise features, here are the gripes that users have had about the iPhone 3G

Firefox 3.1 Alpha 2 adds video support, boosts speed

Mozilla is expected to deliver the first preview of Firefox 3.1 for the general public next month

Hyper-V adds flexibility but brings new risks too

Microsoft formally launches its Hyper-V server virtualisation technology, along with the VMM companion management tool

Group to release uniform metrics to measure IT security

The Center for Information Security also launches a new service that enables companies to compare their security performance with their peers

Critical vulnerability patched in Google’s Chrome

Google has already released patches for at least two vulnerabilities in the open source browser since it was released early last week

Is Google spreading itself too thin?

Analysts warn that Google's biggest enemy may be itself

Intel releases more Quad-Core Xeons, goes halogen-free

Intel is working to use halogen-free packaging for all of its chips

The top iPhone apps for techies

Useful native iPhone apps for IT pros have arrived, but the best require jailbreaking

As Google turns 10, enterprise success in question

Google dominates the search advertising market, but it plans to expand into enterprise software — a move that has some analysts wary

Adobe sets Genesis mashup pilot

Selected users to get access in October to desktop client that unites multiple tasks in a single workspace

Disk storage drove ahead in Q2

Despite economic slowdowns in parts of the world, storage demand has grown, driven by increased use of video and by regulations that force enterprises to preserve more data

Microsoft lays out road map for next BizTalk releases

BizTalk Server 2009 will add support for Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 SP1, SQL Server 2008, .Net Framework 3.5 SP1, and more

Top 10: Browser war redux, patch time, virtualization news

This week's roundup of the top 10 news stories includes Google's Chrome browser, virtualization moves from HP and VMware, and an eye on looming security threats

Appirio opts for the cloud over servers

The company's 100-person operation relies on cloud-based, on-demand software from Google and Salesforce.com

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Update: Vodafone to resell Dell netbooks

Dell's Inspiron Mini 9 will be sold with built-in mobile broadband by Vodafone

Researchers build malicious Facebook application

Experiment is meant to demonstrate the dangers of social networking apps and the ease with which they can be used for spam or to steal personal data

Sun to craft software stack into NAS appliances

Sun will ship a storage appliance based on its FISHworks platform by the end of this year

Microsoft, Red Hat, HP, Sun boost desktop virtualization

Rash of vendor announcements aim to bolster desktop virtualization's standing in corporate IT