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Sun releases beta of NetBeans IDE

NetBeans 6.5 features a more user-friendly interface and supports development with multiple languages

Test-driving desktop software as a service

Inside Amazon’s Web services

Atos Origin’s Olympic goal: invisibility

Systems integrator Atos Origin's success at the Beijing Olympics will be measured by its anonymity, not popularity

Gartner: India’s top outsourcers moving up to bigger deals

Tata, Infosys, and Wipro will increasingly compete with top players such as IBM, Accenture, and EDS for large deals worth more than $1 billion, Gartner predicts

Dell unveils 19-hour Latitude laptop

Dell has developed proprietary technology to boost battery life in its Latitude laptops

MSN takes the brunt of Google’s U.S. search blitz

Microsoft's MSN search engine was the biggest loser over the past year and a half, as Google continued to grab U.S. Internet search market share at a record pace

Yahoo’s Fire Eagle takes flight for location services

Companies utilizing the technology are featured at launch event for system that lets users mark location on the Web

Microsoft fixes IE, Office in big month of security updates

Microsoft released patches to fix 19 critical vulnerabilities in its software Tuesday, including five flaws in its Internet Explorer browser that security experts advise IT administrators to patch immediately.

Cisco combines SMB engineering teams

Merging of Linksys and Cisco teams will allow the best of both brands to be used and swapped as needed

Virtualization power savings: Virtual Iron debuts new twist

Conserving electricity figures prominently in company's latest release

Internet fraud: many complaints, few repercussions

Internet-related complaints rank among the top 10 types of consumer complaints most states receive

Reflections on a new internal data theft study

Analytics' analysis of internal data theft covers methods of misuse, case studies, and preparing for the challenges of data breaches

VMware licensing bug blacks out virtual servers

Flawed update has been confirmed and pulled from VMware site after corporate users unable to power up virtualized servers Tuesday

Vista revisited

Oracle puts its spin on former BEA app server

WebLogic application server gains integration with Oracle's Fusion middleware platform

ACT revamp focuses on Outlook integration

New version of Sage Software's customer contact management software also features a scheduler tool that can automate tasks such as database backups

Daily news beat for August 12, 2008

Microsoft to open interoperability lab in Asia-Pacific

Microsoft announces partnership with the Commission on Information and Communications Technology and the National Computer Center in Philippines

Business Objects bets on convergence in IT tools

SAP unit rolls out products for BI, governance, risk, and compliance, and EPM

The arrogance of FOSS

Court delays British hacker’s extradition to U.S.

U.S. Embassy says the self-confessed hacker's persistent battle against extradition could very well land him with a longer sentence

The disillusionment of Google disciples

Apple’s MobileMe mail, Google’s Gmail go dark

Google restored service within two and a half hours, but it took Apple approximately seven hours to restore full access to its online mail service

Lenovo adds quad-core laptop to ThinkPad line

The ThinkPad W700 is designed as a workstation alternative and offers close to 1TB of storage

Google’s unhappy Android developers

Controversy around its SDK, rumors of a Symbian tie-up, and the iPhone's star power call the mobile OS into question

Lawmakers urge FCC to move forward with ‘free’ plan

U.S. Representatives back FCC proposal to auction 25MHz piece of spectrum, some of which would be used for free wireless Internet access

IBM urges virtualization for datacenters

At Share conference, IBM executive cites impending growth, energy issues for datacenter management

How the feds are locking down their networks

Internet connections are being viewed as the single greatest vulnerability

Researcher reveals critical Java bugs in Nokia phones

14 security issues with the Nokia Series 40 handsets found

New iPod Touch and MacBooks right around the corner

In September, Apple is likely to announce a redesigned iPod Touch and slimmer MacBooks

Offshoring R&D to India on the upswing

Indian engineering staff has developed maturity, built domain expertise, and logged extensive interactions with customers, and thus, are ready to design new products

Report: Cloud computing poised for enterprise adoption

Green IT and social-computing platforms also set for wide acceptance in enterprise, says Gartner

Windows’ days may be numbered

Will Microsoft replace Windows with Midori?

Five steps to safer virtual servers

At the Black Hat conference, HP chief security strategist provided virtualization security advice

HP bolsters wireless LAN stature with Colubris buy

HP ProCurve acquires Colubris Networks to increase its visibility in the wireless LAN market

Microsoft service packs boost developers

Visual Studio, .Net Framework enhancements offered for client, Web, data-driven apps

Delivering aid in a digital world

Providing help isn't always a matter of air-dropping food in a distressed area. Electronic loans delivered worldwide can often prove more effective.

Patch in Internet’s DNS no guarantee against attacks

Russian researcher claims vulnerabilities can be exploited in less than a day, but others disagree

Are CIOs inhibiting SOA?

Daily news beat for August 11, 2008

Unit testing’s days may be numbered

Tableau emphasizes usability, mapping in 4.0 BI release

Latest version of data visualization tools promises ease of use and ability to apply data against maps

The 2008 InfoWorld Geek IQ Test

HP buys wireless network infrastructure company

Hewlett-Packard's purchase of Colubris Networks further consolidates wireless networking companies

AMD: No plans to release a chip for netbooks

AMD takes a wait-and-see attitude toward netbooks, saying its not yet clear whether growing shipments of these devices will cannibalize sales of mainstream laptops

Flying to Defcon with no ID

Hacker finds that Logan International Airport's procedure for handling people without an ID has a few security problems

EFF to appeal court order halting subway hacker talk at Defcon

Defcon presentation would have detailed flaws in the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority electronic ticketing system

Wall of Sheep: Coming to your company?

Defcon displays a long list of details showing who at the hacker conference has sent readable data using insecure wireless connections

Intel’s Nehalem desktop chips to be called Core i7

The Core i7, which will be released later this year, includes multiple processor cores as well as an integrated memory controller hub to improve performance