| Why "the cloud" doesn't matter The cloud is just another boring make vs. buy decision, and the sooner those in IT management realize this, the less likely they are to build potentially career-ending plans based on clouds and rainbows. Read more | News from ZDNet | | | The iPad IS cannibalizing netbook sales Microsoft now admits that Apple's iPad is cannibalizing netbook sales. Read more | | Kindle's Secret Sibling: Amazon's Android Tablet Amazon is building its own App Store, but for what device? We think we have a good idea -- a secret Android Tablet. Read more | | Google Docs may add sync and 'cloud printing' for smartphones Google may well be adding three new features to Office-competing Docs, including third-party applications, synchronisation but more crucially, 'cloud printing' for non-PC's and smartphones. Read more | | Intel Light Peak technology moving closer to USB-killing reality Our sister site CNET is reporting that Intel's Light Peak optical connectivity technology, which promises super-high-speed transfers that crush USB 3.0 transfer speeds, is moving closer to being shipped in real products. A source says that Light Peak-wielding devices will appear in the first half, and probably closer to... Read more | | Security holes in PayPal's iPhone app A security research firm has discovered several security problems with PayPal's iPhone app, warning that hackers can use man-in-the-middle attacks to steal sensitive user data. Read more | | Android-based Toshiba Folio 100 tablet now shipping Introduced at IFA 2010 in Berlin in September, Toshiba's Folio 100 tablet computer is now ready to ship. Read more | | Clearwire: Subscribers surge, but so does cash crunch; Here come layoffs Clearwire projects 4 million subscribers by the end of the year, but the company needs money and is cutting 15 percent of its workforce. Read more | | Airplane security raises questions about in-flight Wi-Fi Following last week's incident in which packages containing explosives were found on an airplane, more questions are being raised about security - particularly about in-flight Wi-Fi. Read more | | Metasploit and SCADA exploits: dawn of a new era? On 18 October, 2010 a significant event occurred concerning threats to SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) environments. Let's think through the ramifications. Read more | | NudgeMail: another tool to make email more efficient A new service called NudgeMail is a reminder service that can help make email management more efficient. Read more | | Google pays $7,500 for 'high-risk' Chrome browser flaws The vulnerabilities, patches with Google Chrome 7.0.517.44, affects Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame users. Read more | | The Apache way meets the Oracle way The Apache way, an insistence on consensus, a refusal to condemn, is facing its stiffest test in the battle over Java 7. Read more | | Best Buy holding early Black Friday sale this weekend Best Buy is getting its holiday season started this weekend with a two-day only, early Black Friday sale. Read more | | Qualcomm: LTE devices, tablets ramping for CES 2011 Qualcomm executives said the company is set to ride a 4G wave as Long-Term Evolution (LTE) devices launch in January and the company embeds its chips into multiple tablets. Read more | | Robots speak up and defend global warming This is a guest post by Jason Rothman. He has been posting a lot lately on my blog, and you guys seem to be happy with it, so here's another post! When I was five, my parents took me to a fair where I played tic-tac-toe with a chicken and... Read more | | Tech racism? Will dark-skinned gamers have trouble with Kinect's facial recognition? Uh-oh. Some early reports are surfacing that Kinect, the controller-free experience for Microsoft's XBox 360, is having trouble recognizing dark-skinned players. A post on GameSpot's blog this week reported that at least "two dark-skinned GameSpot employees" had trouble getting the facial recognition feature to work. Sure, you could maybe blame... Read more |
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