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Twitter malware filter 'disappointing'
News Microblogging site's new weapon, to block users from tweeting links to malicious sites, is laudable but has shortcomings, according to security experts.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Network security, Security Management, Security applications/tools, Twitter, Phishing, Malware, Security, F-Secure Corp.
Microsoft finalizes Windows XP for OLPC laptops
News Microsoft has internally released to manufacturing the tweaked version of Windows XP for the One Laptop Per Child XO computer.
Tags: Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, Software, Business applications, Microsoft Corp., One Laptop Per Child Project, Emerging Market, Microsoft Windows XP, Laptop Computer, Microsoft Windows
On the trail of Dell's carbon footprint
News While the PC maker is certainly early with its carbon-neutral claim, other companies will soon follow. As they do, there will be a need to seriously vet these claims.
Tags: Green IT, Desktops, R&D, Recycling, Supplier, Carbon Footprint, Emission, Computer, audit, SEC
IBM takes on Google with LotusLive iNotes
News IBM's cloud-based email and calendar service is more than 10 percent cheaper than the rival Google Apps Premier.
Tags: Cloud computing, Google Inc., IBM Corp., Online Collaboration, contact management, Cloud computing, ZDNet, vice president, Google Apps, Google Gmail
Microsoft announces Project 2010 beta
News Enhancements to the project-management application include improvements to the user interface based on the Office ribbon technology.
Tags: Business applications, Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Microsoft Project, Arizona, Beta, director of marketing, 64-bit, ZDNet, ActiveX, Microsoft SharePoint
Avaya's Nortel buy could cause trouble for Cisco
News If Avaya succeeds in bid, the new entity would be "a very credible challenger" to Cisco in Australia's enterprise telephony market, according to analyst.
Tags: LANs and WANs, Mobile/Wireless, Acquisitions, Competitive advantage, Nortel Networks Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., IP, Australia, Sales, Optus
Microsoft releases beta of Morro antivirus
News The company has posted a beta of its free antivirus software, Microsoft Security Essentials, for testers in the United States, China, Israel and Brazil.
Tags: Antivirus software, Microsoft Windows, Rootkit, Mary Jo Foley, antivirus, Ina Fried, Beta, antipiracy, ZDNet, U.S.
Microsoft shuns Open Cloud Manifesto
News Microsoft will not sign up for the 'Open Cloud Manifesto', and Amazon, a major cloud player, is not enthusiastic.
Tags: Cloud computing, Creative Commons, Wiki, Microsoft Corp., Toronto, Cloud computing, Amazon.com Inc., ZDNet, editor-in-chief, blog
Google launches App Engine dashboard
News The new dashboard marks the latest move by a cloud provider to improve transparency in the event of an outage.
Tags: Search, Content management, Customer support, Google Inc., CPU, bandwidth usage, Dashboard, billing, ZDNet, blog
Amazon CEO apologizes for Kindle book deletions
News CEO Jeff Bezos has issued an apology last week, after Amazon deletes certain books from users' e-book readers.
Tags: Consumer Technology, Digital media, E-book, Sales, Jeff Bezos, Digital media, Amazon.com Inc., CEO, founder, ZDNet
Adobe takes LiveCycle tools to Amazon's cloud
News The software maker taps Amazon's EC2 and S3 service for a sandbox environment that lets enterprise developers build and test using LiveCycle without installing it.
Tags: Content management, Web servers, Open source, Adobe LiveCycle, Tool, Web service, data capture, Amazon Web Services, Amazon.com Inc., Process Management
Amazon bucks trend of worst retail season in decades
News Amazon proclaims that the 2008 festive shopping was its “best ever,” even though a report released on Christmas Day called the season one of the worst in decades.
Tags: E-commerce, Forecasting, Sales strategy, Sales/revenue, Electronics, Sales, food sale, 1080p, Forecasting, Intel Atom
Yahoo to anonymize user data after 90 days
News Clearly, the race is on to the bottom on data retention policies. In particular, Google and Yahoo have been playing a game of privacy leapfrog.
Tags: Web sites, Internet advertising, Search, Data security, Security, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., data retention, User Data, Advertisement
Salesforce.com rolls out Service Cloud
News While the details of the initiative seem a bit fuzzy, the main pitch here is that the company is trying to link up social networking and customer service.
Tags: Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Google Inc., InStranet Inc., social networking, Facebook, network, customer service, ZDNet, blog, monitor
Will greentech attract lots of green in the new year?
News Folks with money expect the new regime under U.S. president-elect Barack Obama to encourage, perhaps even subsidize, greentech in the United States.
Tags: Green IT, Network infrastructure, Infrastructure/architecture management, Dollar, Money, Wyoming, fossil fuel industry, Greece, venture capital, SolFocus
