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Dell shrinks the desktop with Studio Hybrid

Studio Hybrid mini-desktop is 80 percent smaller and uses 70 percent less power than a typical desktop, Dell says

Oracle issues warning over dangerous WebLogic flaw

Oracle is scrambling to create an emergency patch for a severe vulnerability in its WebLogic server that can be exploited over a network without a need for a username or a password

Study: Web sites, open source, social networking at risk

More OSS projects hit by SQL injection and cross-site scripting attacks in '08

InfoWorld columnist Ed Foster dies

The Gripe Line blogger has advocated for technology users since 1993, and has been a highly regarded, reporter, writer, and editor for more than 20 years.

The seal on Apple’s iPhone SDK is leaking, even within Apple

<p> You can discuss Apple's iPhone SDK, but only if you feel guilty about it. </p>

Mobile executives spar over iPhone

The iPhone's success has attracted much developer attention, and it's up to Symbian, Google, and others to match that impact

SAP, Oracle price hikes open door for license optimization

The increased license and support feeds present an opportunity for third-party firms to step in and help cutomers mitigate the costs

Oracle broadens allegations against SAP

Oracle contends that SAP knew TomorrowNow's business model was "illegal" when it bought the company

The DNS bug and you

Find out if you are at risk from the DNS bug and, if so, what to do about it

How secure is secure enough?

With a faltering economy beginning to put the squeeze on IT budgets, here are five steps to help you determine whether your company is secure enough

Microsoft gives $100K to support Apache Software Foundation

Microsoft also made its first code contribution to an Apache project.

Daily news beat for July 28, 2008

RealNetworks patches four critical bugs in multimedia player

Flaws found in several versions of RealPlayer could allow a hacker to run malicious code on a PC or cause the computer to reveal information

Sophos plans to acquire data security company

German company Utimaco specializes in software that aims to prevent sensitive data from escaping corporate networks

IBM to buy Ilog for $340 million

IBM plans to combine Ilog's business rules management systems with its own business process management and business optimization tools

Ex-Google employees launch Cuil new search engine

Cuil aims to topple Google by indexing more Web pages than the search giant

Rackable to sell IBM blades in modular datacenters

Rackable's deal with IBM is aimed at expanding sales of its ICE Cube modular datacenters into the enterprise market

‘World’s cheapest laptop’ now available

The $130 Impulse NPX-9000 laptop comes with one caveat — it has to bought in bulk, in units of 100

InfoWorld launches the Design the Perfect Laptop contest

We designed our ideal notebook, and now it's your turn. The best entry wins an iPod Touch

Report: Steve Jobs’ health issue not life threatening

The New York Times reports that Apple's CEO does not have a recurrence of cancer, which could alleviate recent worries about Jobs' health

Update: San Francisco DA discloses city’s network passwords

In its bid to protect the city from one computer security risk, the San Francisco District Attorney's Office may very well have created another.

Intel unveils embedded chipset

The System-on-Chip (SoC) EP8579 integrated processor features lower power and customization capabilities and is aimed at mobile Internet devices

Top 10: It’s a crime-filled week in IT land

This week's roundup of the top tech news reads like a crime blotter, from the SF admin saga to DNS attacks; also, there's Microsoft's reorganization and a new MySQL

San Francisco DA discloses city’s network passwords

The San Francisco DA has made public 150 usernames and passwords found on rogue IT admin Terry Childs' computer

Microsoft gives Apache cash to promote open source

As part of its move toward greater openness, Microsoft is becoming a platinum sponsor of the Apache Software Foundation

Disturbing events in the San Francisco admin case

Update: Software group weighs piracy lawsuit against eBay

SIIA says the auction giant eBay has rejected most of its ideas for stemming the sale of pirated software on its site

Daily news beat for July 25, 2008

Open Web Foundation formed

Non-profit group supported by Google, Facebook aims to protect non-proprietary specifications for Web technologies

InfoWorld News Quiz

Should Android, Symbian combine?

Analyst says Symbian, Android should combine into a single open source OS for mobile devices and predicts that will occur in three to six months

What the DNS bug reveals about the Internet

Microsoft looks to mimic Apple success, says Ballmer

Microsoft's CEO promises to change the way the company deals with hardware vendors such as Dell and HP 'to create great end-to-end experiences'

Microsoft to buy data-warehouse appliance vendor

Microsoft's acquisition of DATAllegro is aimed at bolstering its SQL Server database platform to make it more suitable for large-scale enterprise deployments

Users may help to vet Android apps

Mobile operators want reassurance that users won't install troublesome applications if they offer phones based on its Android open-source platform

Flash vs. RAM: Why not choose both?

TMS blends RAM-based solid-state drives with flash backup to deliver a fast, resilient array

Fugitive spam king dead in apparent murder-suicide

Convicted penny-stock spammer Eddie Davidson earned millions of dollars through an e-mail spamming operation

Microsoft bolsters Ruby efforts

Company unveiling initiatives accommodating popular language

Mozilla fixes nine flaws in Thunderbird

The update marks the first time it's plugged holes in the e-mail software since early May.

Plugging iPhones into small businesses

Now that iPhones and related back-end support servers aren't prohibitively expensive, small businesses are finding cost-effective ways of integrating the handheld

Forrester survey: Enterprises reject Vista like ‘new Coke’

Fewer than one in 11 of the PCs being used in large or very large enterprises runs Windows Vista.

Despite financial losses, Microsoft looks to increase investment in online services

Steve Ballmer says that the $488 million loss for the fourth quarter that the online services division reported is insignificant compared to the its potential

Are ESBs on trial?

Daily news beat for July 24, 2008

Think small with Linutop 2 PC

The tiny, energy-efficient Linux-based Linutop 2 is a low-cost, minimalist PC that is eerily quiet to use

Battle in the cloud: Microsoft vs. Google

Sun technologist: SOAP stack a ‘failure’

Tim Bray, co-inventor of XML, prefers REST mechanism over SOAP

Lab test: Apple gets iPhone right for business

Software piracy hurts the open-source community too

Many nations are beginning to see stolen proprietary software as a lost opportunity for open source software, whose development can encourage innovation and job growth

Intel readies slew of embedded chips based on Atom core

Intel is trying to increase performance and drop power consumption in more than 15 system-on-chips that use the Atom core