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1. Google Instant: Less innovation, more profit Thursday, 9 September 2010, 12:45 pm
   It’s a testimony to the importance of Google in our daily lives that Google Instant — a flashy but not particularly revolutionary tweak to the search engine UI — has created such, well, instant buzz.
2. Dangerous Adobe Reader zero-day raises the bar Thursday, 9 September 2010, 11:44 am
   On Wednesday, Adobe posted yet another advisory for a flaw in Adobe Acrobat and Reader that “could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the
3. Epic failures: 11 infamous software bugs Thursday, 9 September 2010, 10:59 am
   Mark your calendars! Sept. 9 is hereby declared Debugging Day. It’s been associated with removing bugs for more than 50 years now but is rarely formally celebrated. So let’s start the tradition this year. It all began with a log entry from 1947 by Harvard University’s Mark II technical team. The now-classic entry features a moth taped to the page, time-stamped 15:45, with the caption “Relay #70 Pa. […]
4. HPC meets cloud computing with Dell’s new server Thursday, 9 September 2010, 10:03 am
   With a new range of hardware announced Thursday, Dell’s is targeting high-performance and cloud computing environments that share similar hyperscale characteristics.
5. MobileIron updates its mobile management platform Thursday, 9 September 2010, 9:29 am
   Software vendor MobileIron announced the release of version 3.0 of its Virtual Smartphone Platform today, giving IT shops the ability to integrate mobile management with other enterprise-based systems. The new version costs the same as version 2.0, which is $4 per user per month, MobileIron CEO Bob Tinker said.
6. How Obama’s tax credit helps, hurts IT spending Thursday, 9 September 2010, 7:38 am
   WASHINGTON — Among the proposals President Barack Obama made this week to boost the U.S. economy is one that will allow businesses to write off all of the investment they do in 2011. But there’s a lot of uncertainty ahead for IT managers interested in this tax break. In a speech Wednesday, Obama was specific about when he wants the tax break to apply — “in 2011,” he said. There was initial expec. […]
7. Arm’s new chip stretches from smartphones to servers Thursday, 9 September 2010, 7:31 am
   Arm Holdings has taken the wraps off its next major chip design, promising a five-fold increase in performance that the company hopes will take it beyond smartphones and into new types of equipment such as high-performance routers and servers. Arm’s top executives launched the Cortex-A15 MPCore at a press conference in San Francisco Wednesday evening. The name is supposed to reflect how much of an. […]
8. Mobile development tool RESTs on CouchDB Thursday, 9 September 2010, 6:15 am
   With computing devices continuing to emerge in varying shapes and sizes running competing mobile platforms, developing apps for these items keeps getting trickier.
9. Take a lesson from Hurd: It pays to break the rules when you’re the boss Thursday, 9 September 2010, 6:00 am
   Great writers have a knack for capturing the nuances of speech and culture. In “The Right Stuff,” Tom Wolfe introduces us to (sorry if the language offends) “the unscrewable pooch,” a job that’s so cushy you simply can’t, well, screw it up.
10. How to build a solid server virtualization foundation Thursday, 9 September 2010, 6:00 am
    Few technologies have become a fundamental part of the data center as quickly as server virtualization. That’s because the basic value proposition is so easy to grasp: When you run many logical servers on a single physical server, you get a lot more out of your hardware, so you can invest in fewer physical servers to handle the same set of workloads. It almost sounds like found money.
11. Watch out Java, here comes JavaScript Thursday, 9 September 2010, 6:00 am
    Lots of developers are understandably concerned about Oracle’s recent lawsuit against Google, which alleges that the Dalvik virtual machine in the search giant’s Android smartphone OS violates Java patents. While most analysts agree that the suit probably won’t affect the majority of Java developers, some coders are so dismayed that they’re already looking for alternatives.
12. Group sues Department of Homeland Security to stop laptop searches Thursday, 9 September 2010, 6:00 am
    What’s the difference between the contents of a briefcase and a laptop? To U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents, absolutely nothing.
13. The wild west of third-party iPhone development Thursday, 9 September 2010, 6:00 am
    While Apple has been unequivocal in banning Java and Adobe’s Flash from the iPhone and related devices, third-party iOS application development tools have been allowed to flourish. Uncertainty over Apple’s stance toward third-party toolmakers, however, has left at least one such vendor — Novell — anxious about the future of its iOS development platform.
14. Oracle bolsters former Sun Unix platform Wednesday, 8 September 2010, 8:06 pm
    Oracle detailed on Wednesday upgrades to the Solaris Unix OS it inherited from Sun Microsystems, offering improvements in such areas as virtualization. The company announced Oracle Solaris 10 9/10, Oracle Solaris Cluster 3.3, and Oracle Solaris Studio 12.2. Oracle emphasized that Solaris is designed to leverage large memory and multi-core processor/thread systems as well as offer high performance,. […]
15. HP targets small business with latest product rollout Wednesday, 8 September 2010, 5:05 pm
    HP expanded its IP phone and wireless LAN offerings for small and medium-size businesses on Wednesday as part of a broad set of product introductions for those customers.
16. Oracle board against sustainability proposal Wednesday, 8 September 2010, 4:49 pm
    Oracle’s board of directors has weighed in against a shareholder proposal calling for the creation of a board-level committee on sustainability, according to the proxy statement for the vendor’s upcoming annual meeting.
17. TurnKey Linux brings speedy, small-scale migration to the cloud Wednesday, 8 September 2010, 3:28 pm
    TurnKey Linux has unveiled a system-level backup and restore system called TurnKey Linux Backup and Migration (TKLBAM) that aims to add a level of flexibility to cloud computing. Powered by the Amazon S3 storage cloud, the system brings speed, smarts, and automation to backups, restores, and migration in the cloud — at least on a limited scale.
18. Google speeds up search with Google Instant Wednesday, 8 September 2010, 2:04 pm
    Google raised the stakes in the search space on Wednesday with the introduction of Google Instant, which will provide faster, more intelligent searching and results on the company’s site. The intelligence built into the Google Instant service responds to predicted queries based on just a few keystrokes. Google Instant will become part of the core Google search service, with initial rollouts today. […]
19. Craigslist to state attorneys: Censor this Wednesday, 8 September 2010, 1:36 pm
    Probably the last thing Craig Newmark ever imagined was that the little email list he started back in 1995 would one day be at the center of a controversy over prostitution, the First Amendment, and the future of the InterWebs. But 15 years later, Craigslist is in the thick of a dispute over whether its ad service is aiding and abetting prostitution, or merely an exercise in free speech.
20. SAP partner launches cloud-based mobile app service Wednesday, 8 September 2010, 10:18 am
    Leapfactor, an SAP partner and startup, today announced a cloud-based system to support mobile applications, including back-office custom applications for accounting and customer support.