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1. Tips and tricks for upgrading your Android smartphone Saturday, 4 February 2012, 11:00 am
   !–paging_filter–If you’ve got an older Android smartphone and want to upgrade to the latest version of the OS, you may be stuck waiting on the manufacturer for a while. Or you could follow these easy steps and do the upgrade yourselfdiv class=field field-type-text field-field-slideshow-dek div class=field-labelDek:nbsp;/div div class=field-items div class=field-item odd If you#039;ve got an olde. […]
2. The future of hypervisors Friday, 3 February 2012, 11:14 pm
   !–paging_filter–pThe world of hypervisors is complicated by the fact that there are proprietary and open source tools, each with different strengths and weaknesses./p pOne expert says the difference between the two is that innovation is coming out of the open source products at a quicker pace. But another expert doesn’t quite believe that first to market is the key to success. He says this marke. […]
3. Micron CEO dies in plane crash Friday, 3 February 2012, 8:47 pm
   !–paging_filter–pSteve Appleton, chairman and CEO of memory and semiconductor maker Micron, was killed in a small plane accident in Boise, Idaho, on Friday./p pOur hearts go out to his wife, Dalynn, his children and his family during this tragic time, the company said in a statement./p pstrong[ Keep up on the day's tech news headlines with InfoWorld's a href=http://www.infoworld.com/newsletters/. […]
4. Systems management, cloud services likely in Dell’s software acquisition plans Friday, 3 February 2012, 8:40 pm
   !–paging_filter–pDell’s formation of a new software group, which was a href=http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/careers/3334951/dell-forms-software-group-names-john-swainson-as-head/ target=_blankannounced Thursday/a, could be the forerunner to a string of acquisitions by the vendor, with some observers predicting a focus on systems management and cloud services provisioning./p
5. Tinker tailor coder spy? Anonymous strikes again Friday, 3 February 2012, 8:35 pm
   !–paging_filter–pMemo to the G-men on both sides of the pond: If you’re hoping to catch the bad guys, it’s generally a good idea to not let them listen in on your private conversations — especially when the conversations are about them./p pInternational law enforcers just learned this the hard way after members of Anonymous managed to record a phone conversation between the FBI and Scotland Yar. […]
6. Is Windows Phone really under Sinofsky? Friday, 3 February 2012, 5:38 pm
   div style=padding: 8px; background: none no-repeat scroll center top #ffffff; position: relative; float: right; width: 243px; height: 182px;img src=http://www.infoworld.com/sites/infoworld.com/files/media/image/Microsoft_Mobile_hp.jpg alt=Is Windows Phone really under Sinofsky? width=243 height=182 align=right //divpDetails about Windows Phone 8 are bustin’ out all over. And while those technical. […]
7. PHP 5.3.10 fixes critical remote code execution vulnerability Friday, 3 February 2012, 3:57 pm
   !–paging_filter–pThe PHP Group a href=http://www.php.net/archive/2012.php#id2012-02-02-1 target=_blankreleased PHP 5.3.10/a on Thursday in order to address a critical security flaw that can be exploited to execute arbitrary code on servers running an older version of the Web development platform./p pThe vulnerability is identified as CVE-2012-0830 and was discovered by Stefan Esser, an independe. […]
8. Google won’t delay new privacy policy despite E.U. concerns Friday, 3 February 2012, 3:52 pm
   !–paging_filter–pGoogle does not plan to delay its new privacy policy despite calls from Europe’s data protection watchdog./p
9. Microsoft researchers say anonymized data isn’t so anonymous Friday, 3 February 2012, 1:10 pm
   !–paging_filter–pData routinely gathered in Web logs — IP address, cookie ID, operating system, browser type, user-agent strings — can threaten online privacy because they can be used to identify the activity of individual machines, a href=http://www.networkworld.com/subnets/microsoft/ target=_blankMicrosoft/a researchers say./p pAt the same time, analysis of such data when anonymized can help. […]
10. H-1B workers are better paid, more educated, study finds Friday, 3 February 2012, 12:48 pm
    !–paging_filter–pH-1B workers are better educated than U.S. born workers and earn more, according to a new study by an independent research group./p pa href=http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1981215# target=_blankThe report/a by two economists at the non-partisan Public Policy Institute of California, also found that, on average, H-1B workers are about 10 years younger than U.S.. […]
11. Symantec warns of Android Trojans that mutate with every download Friday, 3 February 2012, 12:31 pm
    !–paging_filter–pResearchers from security vendor Symantec a href=http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/server-side-polymorphic-android-applications target=_blankhave identified/a a new premium-rate SMS Android Trojan horse that modifies its code every time it gets downloaded in order to bypass antivirus detection./p pThis technique is known as server-side polymorphism and has already existed in. […]
12. RIM offers free PlayBook to attract Android developers Friday, 3 February 2012, 12:13 pm
    !–paging_filter–pResearch in Motion is trying to woo developers by giving a free BlackBerry PlayBook tablet to coders who port their Android application for its BlackBerry Tablet OS.nbsp;span style=-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);The a href=https:/. […]
13. Apple updates Lion, patches 51 bugs in Mac OS X Friday, 3 February 2012, 12:02 pm
    !–paging_filter–pApple this week patched 51 vulnerabilities in Mac OS X, most of them critical, in 2012′s first security update./p pBoth Mac OS X 10.7, aka Lion, and 10.6, better known as Snow Leopard, were updated with fixes. The two operating systems were last updated in mid-October 2011./p
14. Google finally scans malware-ridden Android Market Friday, 3 February 2012, 11:00 am
    !–paging_filter–pIn an effort to improve security in its Android Market, Google has been using a service providing automated scanning of applications submitted to the mobile application store, Google revealed on Thursday afternoon./p pCode-named Bouncer, the service scans the market for potentially malicious software without disrupting the user experience or requiring developers to submit to an. […]
15. 10 new open source projects worth checking out Friday, 3 February 2012, 11:00 am
    !–paging_filter–With so many open source software projects under way at any given moment, it can be difficult to keep tabs on all that’s going on. Here’s a look at the most intriguing newcomersdiv class=field field-type-text field-field-slideshow-dek div class=field-labelDek:nbsp;/div div class=field-items div class=field-item odd With so many open source software projects under way at any given. […]
16. Leaked Windows Phone ‘Apollo’ details: Security at last? Friday, 3 February 2012, 11:00 am
    !–paging_filter–pIt’s not exactly news that Microsoft is planning a major update to Windows Phone this fall, one that’s supposed to fill in many of the promising a href=http://www.infoworld.com/d/mobile-technology/beauty-and-the-geek-windows-phone-mango-vs-android-177117smartphone OS’s deficiencies/a. But mobile reviews website PocketNow seems to have revealed the most a href=http://pocketnow.co. […]
17. Virtualization no silver bullet for Macs or mobile Friday, 3 February 2012, 11:00 am
    !–paging_filter–pIn 2006, Apple’s Intel-based Macs opened the door to running Windows via desktop virtualization; suddenly users could have their personal Macs and business PCs in one box. It’s a big reason, I believe, that Mac market share has continued to grow faster than overall PC market share for the last five years. The shift to Intel and the accompanying ability to run Windows gave people. […]
18. AMD puts the brakes on adding more cores to server chips Thursday, 2 February 2012, 11:41 pm
    !–paging_filter–pAMD has put the brakes on adding more cores to its server chips, stopping at 16, the company said Thursday during a financial analyst day./p pAMD’s new server chips code-named Abu Dhabi and due out in 2013 will have 16 cores, the same number as the existing Opteron 6200 chips code-named Interlagos that shipped last year. Servers are being redesigned to match specialty workloads. […]
19. Security slackers risk Internet blackout on March 8 Thursday, 2 February 2012, 9:53 pm
    !–paging_filter–pCompanies and home users whose computers or routers are infected by the DNSChanger Trojan risk being unable to access the Web come March 8, 2012, when the FBI unplugs the legitimate DNS servers it set up to replace the rogue DNS servers that were forwardi/p
20. AMD fundamentally shifts chip design methodology Thursday, 2 February 2012, 9:03 pm
    !–paging_filter–pAMD will take a fundamentally different approach to designing chips as it tries to move away from playing second fiddle to Intel./p pThe company will blur the lines between CPUs and graphics processors in future chip design cycles, with both units sharing a memory pool and running common software applications, said AMD CTO Mark Papermaster Thursday during a financial analyst con. […]