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Asustek plans more Eee PC netbooks

Asustek will launch as many as three new Eee PC models in the next few months as the market for netbooks continues to heat up

Google pushing software to low-cost Linux PCs

By working with open-source developers to integrate its applications in Linux, Google may be trying to push more of its apps in netbooks

U.S. loses out in Lenovo’s Linux netbook push

U.S. computer buyers will only be offered Windows XP on Lenovo's new IdeaPad, not the option of the Linux OS like customers in other parts of the world

IBM bundles middleware on Linux systems

Big Blue is targeting Microsoft by signing deals to have its middleware preinstalled on Linux distributions like Red Hat, Suse, and Ubuntu

Google to get aggressive with Apps suite

The company will continue to add new apps to its hosted software suite, but the price will stay the same

Juniper consolidates network management software

The consolidation will make it easier for customers to set security policies across their infrastructure rather than doing so using several product-specific platforms

Eleven charged in massive ID theft scheme

The arrested people are being charged with perpetrating some of the largest data breaches in U.S. history

Analysts predict win for Linux in MID market

New report says Linux OS better positioned than Windows Mobile to dominate market for mobile Internet devices, which are bigger than a cell phone but smaller than a laptop

Red Hat, community release Fedora 10 alpha

The latest version of Red Hat's Linux distribution features upgrades to the audio, security, and wireless-connection features

Handling the IT glory hog

Update: AT&T dives into cloud computing

AT&T launches Synaptic Hosting and also plans to add more cloud computing services

Daily news beat for August 5, 2008

Midori won’t see the light of day

Adobe warns of bogus Flash Player installers

Adobe tells users that links on social-networking sites purportedly to Flash Player often lead instead to Web sites that have malicious software

Microsoft to give vendors an early peek at patches

Early access to technical details of Microsoft's monthly patches will give security vendors a head start in what has become a monthly race against the hackers

Debate on the evolution of Web access

Dell defends its ‘cloud computing’ trademark bid

Dell is in nearly the final stretch of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office approval process

YouTube to carry Olympic videos for some countries

The Olympic video channel will be available in countries where exclusive broadcast or online rights to the Beijing games have not been sold

Sun calls for SSD companies to unite on standards

A standards organization could help users measure SSDs and their applications, like the performance of SSDs in comparison to hard drives

Curl completes embrace of Eclipse IDE

Curl Development Tools for Eclipse will be the company's first set of plugins for the Eclipse IDE

Live Mesh may emerge as Microsoft ‘cloud’ platform

At upcoming conference, company plans to provide clearer view into how developers can build APIs to connect apps and services across various devices using Live Mesh

Google mislabels Blogger sites as splogs, locks them

Bug in Google's data processing code led detection system to lock Blogger blogs that had otherwise passed the inspection by company's spam algorithms

What in the world is wrong with Network Solutions?

Is Google your next datacenter?

Many SMBs are finding it better to let third parties like Google handle their IT work so that they can focus on their core businesses

SiteMeter bug affects IE users

Problem, which has been resolved, affected versions 6 and 7 of IE, highlighting risks Web publishers face when adding lightweight Web applications to their sites

Rebates for using energy-efficient storage on the way

Wikibon Energy Labs lets storage vendors verify the energy savings of certain products, making them eligible for utility rebates from PG&E

Daily news beat for August 4, 2008

LinuxWorld: Showcasing the OS

The 10th annual LinuxWorld Conference kicks off today with focuses on mobile Linux, education initiatives, and product announcements

VMware tool aims to help developers

Upgraded Lab Manager tool makes it easier for IT to manage virtual machine configurations used for testing or developing software

Test Center review: VMware ThinApp 4.0

InfoWorld’s BOSSIE awards

Apple resurrects iPhone tethering app, then kills it again

NetShare app lets iPhone owners share the phone's EDGE or 3G cellular Internet connection with a notebook computer

SAS buys revenue management software vendor IDeaS

SAS aims to differentiate itself from larger BI rivals SAP and IBM

MSI offers Wind netbook with better batteries

New Wind mini-laptop will sport a 6-cell battery that can offer 4 to 7 hours of run time

Mobile Linux group gains new members, phones, and software

The LiMo Foundation points to 11 new members and seven new phones as an indication that its Linux mobile-phone platform is maturing

Symantec: IE 6 more vulnerable to unpatched Microsoft flaw

IE6 automatically downloads an ActiveX control with a flaw that can allow attackers to take over a PC

Firewall vendors scramble to fix DNS problem

Some firewall software undoes a feature that was introduced in the DNS patches and could make it easier for attackers to pull off a cache-poisoning attack against the DNS server

Dell tries to trademark ‘cloud computing’

Dell is far from being alone in the world of cloud computing, but the company has made a play to grab control of a term that could define technology infrastructure for years to come

Group offers tools to evade China’s Web censorship

Global Internet Freedom Consortium's tools help Chinese users circumvent their country's Internet censorship

Vendors leading the race on multicore

The pressure is on for developers to embrace best practices in multicore development

Top 10: Security, Midori, and Terry Childs

This week's roundup of the top tech news stories includes patching the DNS flaw, the rogue SF admin, Microsoft's post-Windows OS, and more

IBM invests big in two new cloud-computing centers

The cloud-computing center is said to be IBM's most sophisticated datacenter to date and is a part of the company's Blue Cloud initiative

When to hit the SOA reset button

Microsoft calls for more IE8 beta testers

Microsoft is expected to release another beta of IE8 this month

Firefox closer to supporting open source video codec

Firefox 3.1 will likely include support for a new HTML tag specifically for embedding video in Web pages

Daily news beat for August 1, 2008

Lab test: ILOG Rules for .Net meshes well with Microsoft

What Microsoft’s UAC is and is not

A photo that can steal your online credentials

By placing a new type of hybrid file on Web sites that let users upload their own images, researchers can circumvent security systems and take over Web surfers' accounts

McAfee to buy data protection vendor Reconnex

McAfee continues to expand its data protection line through acquisitions, this time with Reconnex's data loss prevention software