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SF Mayor Gavin Newsom on Open Govt (Part 1)

Fritz Nelson — Tue, 1 Dec 2009 18:03:05 EST

In a wide-ranging interview with InformationWeek, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom talked about DataSF.Org, the role of social networking in politics and running his diverse city, and the role of San Francisco in the digital world. In the first of three in this video series, Newsom discusses how his city has embraced the "open and transparent government" concept.

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Microsoft Says Patch Isn't Cause Of Black Screen

Thomas Claburn — Tue, 1 Dec 2009 17:59:00 EST

Black screen issues are not widespread and may be caused by malware, Microsoft insists.

SAP Delays Support Price Increase

Antone Gonsalves — Tue, 1 Dec 2009 16:58:00 EST

The company is waiting until early 2010 to incorporate customers' feedback as it looks to raise its annual maintenance fees.

IBM To Furnish Cloud Computing To Ho Chi Minh City

Charles Babcock — Tue, 1 Dec 2009 16:48:38 EST

IBM has already established cloud computing centers in the Chinese cities of Dongying and Wuxi. In the former, the cloud will serve as a "smarter city" platform for development of services. In Wuxi, it will serve as a collective platform for software development. Now it's on to Ho Chi Minh City.

Twitter Founder Wants To Pay With iPhone

Marin Perez — Tue, 1 Dec 2009 16:39:04 EST

Jack Dorsey, the co-founder of that little thing called Twitter, is showing off his latest project, and Square is trying to turn iPhones into a mobile payment hub for merchants. It's a very interesting idea, but, like Twitter, I'm wondering how it's going to make real money.

Cisco Again Extends Tandberg Acquisition Deadline

W. David Gardner — Tue, 1 Dec 2009 16:38:00 EST

The company is giving Tandberg shareholders until Thursday to approve its $3.4 billion offer to acquire the Norwegian videoconferencing company.

Motorola's CLIQ Improves With New Software Update

Eric Zeman — Tue, 1 Dec 2009 16:35:26 EST

Some good news for users of the Motorola CLIQ. Motorola is offering a system update for the device that makes some major improvements in battery life, screen accuracy and accelerometer accuracy. Too bad the CLIQ is stuck on Android 1.5, though.

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Ansca Mobile Releases Corona For iPhone Development

Thomas Claburn — Tue, 1 Dec 2009 16:26:00 EST

Flash designers and other developers now have a new bridge to world of mobile apps.

HP Unveils 'Elite' Business Desktop

Antone Gonsalves — Tue, 1 Dec 2009 15:42:00 EST

The Compaq 8000 Elite features power efficiency and security features meant to appeal to the enterprise.

Google Names Android App Winners

Marin Perez — Tue, 1 Dec 2009 15:14:00 EST

The top app in the Android Developer Challenge sends late-night phone calls directly to voice mail while the owner sleeps.

Office 2010 Ship Date Revealed

Paul McDougall — Tue, 1 Dec 2009 15:02:00 EST

Microsoft confirms Internet rumors surrounding release of next software suite.

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Bing, Google, Yahoo Searches Sought Michael Jackson

Thomas Claburn — Tue, 1 Dec 2009 14:47:00 EST

Celebrities and entertainment figured prominently in the year's top searches.

Dell Launches Intel Core i7 Mobile Workstation

Antone Gonsalves — Tue, 1 Dec 2009 14:39:00 EST

The Precision M6500 laptop is aimed at graphics professionals and researchers who need a high-powered desktop replacement.

Samsung Sees Strong Demand For Touchscreens

Marin Perez — Tue, 1 Dec 2009 14:15:00 EST

Touchscreen phones will account for nearly 20% of the 200 million handsets Samsung expects to ship this year.

IT Hiring To Increase Next Quarter

W. David Gardner — Tue, 1 Dec 2009 14:03:00 EST

A 3% increase in IT staffing is forecast for early 2010, with traditional jobs in networking, security, and application development most in demand.

FCC To Catalog White Space Spectrum

Marin Perez — Tue, 1 Dec 2009 13:42:00 EST

The federal agency is requiring white-space devices to be able to check an online database that identifies which spectrum is available in a given market.

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Broadcom To Acquire Dune For $178 Million

W. David Gardner — Tue, 1 Dec 2009 13:32:00 EST

The deal will boost Broadcom's data center and cloud computing portfolio.

IT Is 'Pillar' Of White House Healthcare Strategy

Mitch Wagner — Tue, 1 Dec 2009 12:50:22 EST

Healthcare IT adoption is one of four pillars on which the Obama administration is basing its healthcare strategy, and is key to containing costs, administration healthcare officials said. Healthcare IT should be combined with a budget-neutral healthcare reform bill, establishing a Medicare Commission to improve quality, and an excise tax on expensive private healthcare plans, all of which are included in the Senate healthcare reform bill.

Cosmic Debris Threatens Space Station

Paul McDougall — Tue, 1 Dec 2009 11:59:00 EST

NASA, International Space Station, space junk, cosmonaut, astronaut, Arkalyk, Gagarin Cosomnaut Training Center, Kazakhstan

New Ransomware Attack Underway

George Hulme — Tue, 1 Dec 2009 11:35:10 EST

Security researchers at CA have found a new so-called "ransomware" attack underway. There are many things you can say about malware writers. Most of it would be NSFW. But you can't say they don't work hard at what they do.

Video Calling Now Possible With iPhone

Eric Zeman — Tue, 1 Dec 2009 11:19:34 EST

Video calling is one of those features that has the "neat-o" effect on people. It's fairly common in some European markets, but has yet to make much of an impact in the U.S. Perhaps the newest version of fring for the iPhone will change that, as it allows one-way video sharing from the iPhone to another device running either fring or Skype.

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Got An App? Make It A PortableApp

Serdar Yegulalp — Tue, 1 Dec 2009 10:46:29 EST

Readers of this blog know I'm a fan of the PortableApps.com suite of open source programs. Now, its curators have made it that much easier to take your app -- freeware or open source -- and make it a PortableApp.

Motorola Might Sell 1M Droids By Year's End

Eric Zeman — Tue, 1 Dec 2009 09:28:59 EST

Neither Verizon Wireless nor Motorola have reported official sales figures for the Droid smartphone, but estimates place current sales between 700,000 and 800,000. That makes reaching the one million units sold milestone (pun intended) within Motorola's grasp.

Sun Trying To Snatch HP Customers

Bob Evans — Tue, 1 Dec 2009 09:27:00 EST

Looking to show that turnabout is very fair play, Sun has launched a campaign to snatch customers from HP with a "no-risk migration assessment" aimed at HP enterprise users who "are facing higher support costs, performance and availability issues, and loss of ISV support for critical business applications."

Nokia Sues LCD Makers

Paul McDougall — Tue, 1 Dec 2009 08:45:00 EST

Phone giant accuses screen suppliers of colluding to artificially inflate prices.

Colorado Healthcare Providers Launch Information Exchange

Mitch Wagner — Tue, 1 Dec 2009 08:40:00 EST

Children's Hospital, Exempla Healthcare, and Kaiser Permanente Colorado say they're improving patient care and cutting costs by sharing electronic medical records.

Open Source Firm Launches Cloud Middleware Platform

Charles Babcock — Tue, 1 Dec 2009 08:36:00 EST

WSO2 is moving from supplying light weight SOA services to the enterprise to providing middleware as a service for cloud operations.

rPath Upgrades Linux App Deployment Platform

Charles Babcock — Tue, 1 Dec 2009 08:33:00 EST

rPath expands the capabilities of its Linux application deployment platform to provide dashboard visualization of the deployment stack.

Microsoft, Google Face Off On Healthcare

Mitch Wagner — Tue, 1 Dec 2009 08:20:00 EST

Microsoft HealthVault and Google Health want to be the repository of choice for millions of personal health records. Are they up to the task?

Global CIO: Fear Of Facebook For The Enterprise

Chris Murphy — Tue, 1 Dec 2009 08:00:00 EST

Enterprise social networking, at its worst, looks like another way to get buried in data.

Dell Dabbles With Chrome OS

Tue, 1 Dec 2009 07:50:00 EST

Owners of Dell Mini 10v netbooks can now try a version of Google's Chrome OS for themselves.

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Sun Upgrades VirtualBox Virtualization Software

Antone Gonsalves — Tue, 1 Dec 2009 07:30:00 EST

The new version allows users to move running virtual machines between systems without interruption.

Barnes & Noble Struggles To Fill Nook Demand

Antone Gonsalves — Tue, 1 Dec 2009 07:00:00 EST

Barnes & Noble hopes to deliver the e-book reader in time for Christmas to everyone who ordered before Nov. 20. But they're not making any promises.

Black Friday Boosted By Mobile Phones

Ed Hansberry — Tue, 1 Dec 2009 00:01:49 EST

Black Friday in the US was boosted by mobile phones, but perhaps not in the way you think. Yes, there were definitely some good deals on mobile phones, but I'm talking about people using mobile phones to hone in on good deals and even complete some purchases.

The CrunchPad That Never Was

Dave Methvin — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:20:00 EST

In 2008, TechCrunch's Michael Arrington had a lovely vision for a $200 portable tablet device that would provide wireless web browsing. Sixteen months later, the collaborators on the CrunchPad are going through a messy divorce and it's not likely to see the light of day. Looking at the project's evolution, though, I can't say I'm surprised.

IBM Buys Database Security Company

Thomas Claburn — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:16:00 EST

By purchasing Guardium, IBM is strengthening its ability to sell to healthcare and financial companies.

Online Shopping Gains Following Black Friday

W. David Gardner — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:50:00 EST

Online spending increased significantly year-over-year to date, with Amazon the most popular cyber-storefront.

Senate Healthcare Reform Bill's IT Provisions Make Sense

Marianne Kolbasuk McGee — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:20:35 EST

As the Senate begins debating its healthcare reform bill, there's several health IT related provisions that aren't likely to stir a lot of emotion on the Senate floor, but deserve some attention.

Nokia Slows Maemo Investment To Just One Device?

Eric Zeman — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:05:15 EST

Today, citing people familiar with Nokia's 2010 product roadmap, Reuters is reporting that Nokia will release just one new device in 2010 running its Linux-based Maemo platform. That's a bad idea, Nokia.

Is Wave A 'Concept Car' For Google?

Mitch Wagner — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:22:12 EST

I'm wondering if Google Wave is like a concept car for Google. We'll never see it in production--but all of its features and capabilities will emerge in other products released by Google and other companies. Google Wave solves some very real business problems. But I think even Google will have trouble getting companies to adopt it.

Microsoft Seeks Patent For Cloud Data Migration

Alexander Wolfe — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:36:36 EST

On the cusp of launching its Azure cloud computing service, Microsoft is also making a savvy bid to lock up a patent for one of the main worries--vendor lock-in--of cloud users. (The other big concern is security.) The folks from Redmond have filed a patent application for migrating data to a new cloud, which is what you'd have to do when leave your first vendor.

Famous Password Auditing Tool, L0phtCrack Is Back

George Hulme — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:33:29 EST

After a couple of years of rest, L0phtCrack, one of the most famous password auditing and recovery tools is back.

LG Intros eXpo WinMo Smartphone With Pico Projector

Eric Zeman — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:29:43 EST

Today LG and AT&T introduced a new Windows Mobile 6.5 smartphone, the eXpo. The device's defining feature is a removable Texas Instruments DLP pico projector, which can be used to share movies...er...PowerPoint Presentations when on the road.

Android And Chrome OS: Google Vs. Google?

Serdar Yegulalp — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:19:48 EST

Would Google's Chrome OS spell more competition for Android than anything else? That's one of the possibilities looming for Google's browser-centric Linux distro, as on each closer inspection it looks that much less like a Windows killer.

Cloud Storage Now

George Crump — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:11:50 EST

Cloud storage is constantly being discussed in the IT media today. When you get right down to it, what can businesses really use cloud storage for now? The small office, individual user has embraced cloud storage for backups and for collaboration, but what can larger businesses use these services for?

Sprint Targets Cyber Monday Instead Of Black Friday

Eric Zeman — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 09:04:15 EST

Just before the long Thanksgiving holiday weekend, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon Wireless all announced sales for Black Friday and over the weekend. Conspicuously absent was any sort of sales event promoted by Sprint. Turns out Sprint was saving its deals for Cyber Monday instead of Black Friday.

Saving 70% Per Month In The Cloud

Randy George — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 06:39:45 EST

I need to add an FTP server to my environment, and as I sit here and struggle with how I'm going to do that and stay under my annual budget, it occurs to me that the cloud isn't a bad option anymore. The savings are pretty compelling, in fact; read on for a quick and dirty cost analysis.

Google Branded Phone Rumored in 2010

Ed Hansberry — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 02:18:56 EST

Ever since Google's Android phone has been known about, there has been speculation that Google would make a "Google Phone" to sell. Google has steadfastly maintained they don't want anything to do with hardware though. They are satisfied with making the platform and working with hardware makers to bring Android to the consumers. That may change.

Murdoch And Microsoft Redefine Search

Dave Methvin — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 19:25:00 EST

A report in the Financial Times says that Microsoft has approached News Corp to obtain exclusive indexing rights for their sites such as Fox News. In return for some payment from Microsoft, News Corp would change its sites to block Google's indexing (and presumably others as well), leaving Bing as the primary way to find content on their sites.

Microsoft Provides Insight Into Password Attacks

George Hulme — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 19:11:49 EST

For about a year now, Microsoft has been trying to gather data on real-world attacks, the types of attacks normal users might encounter in their day to day Internet use - and the software maker just released some interesting data on password attacks.