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- AMD's move could pave the way for ARM in future chips. Advanced Micro Devices has loosened its commitment to the x86 architecture, announcing a new design strategy that could pave the way for using ARM technology in future AMD chips.
- Facebook malware scam takes hold. A "worrying number" of Facebook users are sharing a link to a malware-laden fake CNN news page reporting the U.S. has attacked Iran and Saudi Arabia, security firm Sophos said Friday.
- Engineer's wife 'ferocious' in Obama Q&A on H-1Bs. The White House is following up on an offer made by President Barack Obama this week to help find a job for an unemployed semiconductor engineer in Texas.
- The future of hypervisors. The world of hypervisors is complicated by the fact that there are proprietary and open source tools, each with different strengths and weaknesses.
- Hungarian hacker gets 30 months for extortion plot on Marriott. A Hungarian hacker who attempted to extort money from Marriott International Inc. by stealing confidential data from its computers and threatening to expose it was sentenced to 30 months in prison.
- Microsoft wraps up ads aimed at Google with IE9 pitch. Microsoft on Friday wrapped up a three-day campaign against rival Google by claiming its newest browser, Internet Explorer 9, is superior in stopping users from being tracked by online advertisers.
- Social media fuels Planned Parenthood backers in Komen protest. Fueled by a firestorm of outrage on Twitter and Facebook, the people behind the Susan G. Komen For the Cure Friday backed off their decision to cut funding of Planned Parenthood programs.
- Micron CEO Steve Appleton dies in plane crash. Steve Appleton, chairman and CEO of memory and semiconductor maker Micron, was killed in a small plane accident in Boise, Idaho, on Friday.
- Anonymous grabs email from firm that defended Marine in Haditha case. In what's turning out to be quite a busy Friday for the hacking collective, Anonymous today said it has broken into the website of a law firm that represented a U.S. Marine accused of killing civilians in Haditha, Iraq.
- Office 365's Lync Online to gain interop with consumer IM networks. Lync Online, the instant messaging, online meeting and PC-to-PC voice and video communications tool in Office 365, will gain interoperability with non-Microsoft IM networks.
- Social media takes over the Super Bowl. For Sunday's Super Bowl, fans will split their attention between the screens on their TVs, laptops, smartphones and tablets. The big game is going social.
- German gov't endorses Chrome as most secure browser. Germany's cyber security agency today recommended that Windows 7 users run Google's Chrome browser, citing the application's sandbox and auto-update features.
- Smartphone shipments outpaced PCs in 2011 for first time. Smartphone shipments overtook personal computers -- including tablets, laptops, netbooks and desktops -- for the first time in 2011, according to Canalys.
- PHP 5.3.10 fixes critical remote code execution vulnerability. The PHP Group released PHP 5.3.10 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.
- Google won't delay new privacy policy despite EU concerns. Google does not plan to delay its new privacy policy despite calls from Europe's data protection watchdog.
- Google reveals Android malware 'Bouncer,' scans all apps. Google yesterday unveiled an automated system that scans Android apps for potential malware or unauthorized behavior, a move critics have long called the company to make.
- Lawsuit raises questions about email privacy at work. A recent lawsuit filed against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is drawing attention to the question of whether employees have a reasonable expectation of privacy when using personal email accounts on workplace computers.
- Symantec warns of Android Trojans that mutate with every download. Researchers from security vendor Symantec have identified a new premium-rate SMS Android Trojan horse that modifies its code every time it gets downloaded in order to bypass antivirus detection.
- H-1B workers are better paid, more educated, study finds. H-1B workers are better educated than U.S. born workers and earn more, according to a new study by an independent research group.
- RIM offers free PlayBook to attract Android developers. Research 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.
- Presidential candidates' mobile websites ripped for poor performance. Despite pronouncements that they are pro-technology, all of the U.S. presidential candidates have made fairly feeble attempts at building mobile campaign websites.
- Wall Street Beat: Facebook rides wave of tech, Internet IPOs. Facebook may end up being the biggest name on the IPO calendar this year, but it's also part of a trend in which technology, and particularly Internet companies, are outpacing public offerings from businesses in other sectors.
- Facebook IPO details strategy and its vision of itself. Facebook's IPO filing spells out where CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants to take the company: He sees it as having significant historical value to the economy, governments and -- he hopes -- to every person on the Web.
- Half of Fortune 500 firms infected with DNS Changer. Half of all Fortune 500 companies and major U.S. government agencies own computers infected with the "DNS Changer" malware that redirects users to fake websites and puts organizations at risk of data theft, a security company said today.
- AMD puts the brakes on adding more cores to server chips. Advanced Micro Devices has put the brakes on adding more cores to its server chips, stopping at 16, the company said Thursday during a financial analyst day.
Recent articles in Computerworld News
- VeriSign admits multiple hacks in 2010, keeps details under wraps. VeriSign, the company responsible for guiding most of the world's Internet users to the correct websites and once the largest encryption certificate issuing authority, was successfully hacked several times in 2010.
- AMD fundamentally shifts chip design methodology. Advanced Micro Devices will take a fundamentally different approach to designing chips as it tries to move away from playing second fiddle to Intel.
- 162,000 sign petition on Apple's Chinese factory conditions. An online petition asking Apple to protect the Chinese workers who make its more popular products has gathered more than 162,000 signatures in just over a week.
- Sprint to sell $100 tablet from ZTE. Sprint is rolling out one of the lowest cost tablets on the market -- a ZTE tablet with midrange specs -- but you'll have to sign a two-year service contract to get the low US$100 price tag.
- Tiff over LightSquared reveals odd partnership. LightSquared founder Philip Falcone's response to ethics allegations by a U.S. senator sheds some light on a strange chapter in the carrier's ongoing bid to build a controversial cellular data network.
- Lease program would offer users new phone every year. Wish you could have the latest hot smartphone even with a year left on your contract? TMNG Global has devised a leasing program that could let you upgrade your phone every year.
- Apple updates Lion, patches 51 bugs in Mac OS X. Apple on Tuesday patched 51 vulnerabilities in Mac OS X, most of them critical, in 2012's first security update.
- Facebook IPO filing reveals some eye-poppers. When Facebook filed its IPO papers with the SEC on Wednesday, some interesting facts about the company came to light.
- U.S. closes sports sites in Super Bowl crackdown. The U.S. Immigration Customs Enforcement agency has shut down several websites that stream sports programming, a move that appears to be part of the agency's annual Super Bowl crackdown.
- Dell forms software group, names former CA CEO as head. Dell on Thursday said it is forming a Software Group, which will bring together disparate products under one roof as the company tries to sharpen its end-to-end enterprise offerings.
- Ice IX banking Trojan steals info that enables fraudsters to hijack phone calls. New variants of the Ice IX online banking Trojan program are tricking victims into exposing their telephone numbers so that fraudsters can divert post-transaction verification phone calls made by banks to phone numbers under their control, security researchers said.
- SAP-SuccessFactors deal delayed as US regulators conduct investigation. SAP's US$3.4 billion purchase of cloud software vendor SuccessFactors has been delayed indefinitely while a U.S. regulatory body investigates the deal, an SAP spokesman confirmed Wednesday.
- Apple Surpasses LG as World's Third-Largest Phone Maker. Apple is now the world's third-largest phone maker by shipments and market share, according to a study from the International Data Corporation (IDC). Only behind Nokia and Samsung, Apple took the third spot globally from LG, up from the fifth spot last quarter.
- Samsung scores win in German patent battle with Apple over its tablets. Samsung can continue to sell the Galaxy Tab 10.1N, after a regional court in Munich rejected an Apple motion to block sales due to a patent violation.
- Sony annual losses soar, now expected to be nearly $3 billion. Sony said Thursday it now expects to lose nearly US$3 billion in the current fiscal year through March, over double its target from just three months ago, as it books expenses related to the sale of its share in its LCD joint venture with Samsung and the effect of flooding in Thailand.
- Google Docs for Android gets offline access. Google Docs users can now get offline access to documents on their Android-based smartphones and tablets, Googlesaid in a blog post on Wednesday.
- Google introduces country domains on Blogger to aid content removal. Google is directing users to localized country domains on Blogger to provide it flexibility to comply with content removal rules in various countries.
- India's top court strikes down 122 2G mobile licenses. India's Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that 122 mobile licenses awarded across 32 service areas in 2008 should be cancelled, giving a new dimension to investigations into alleged malpractices and corruption in the allotment of the 2G licenses.
- Facebook unsure it can enter China because of government regulations. China, one of the world's largest Internet markets, could be out of reach of Facebook because of the Chinese government's strict censorship policies, the company said in its filing on Wednesday for an initial public offering.
- Alfresco 4.0 heads for the cloud. In anticipation of offering its open-source content management software as a service, Alfresco has upgraded its namesake product to work with multiple clients and to interact with a wider range of form factors, the company announced Thursday.
- Facebook IPO filing addresses mobile, e-commerce. Facebook's application Wednesday to sell shares on the open market includes hints about its plans for mobile use and online payments, and reveals previously guarded information about how much its executives get paid.
- Facebook IPO shines light on revenue, user growth. Now that Facebook has filed papers for its initial public offering (IPO) with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the public is getting its first glimpse at the social network's dramatic user and revenue growth.
- Is the Cloud Really Cheaper?. That there is growing company demand for cloud or software-as-a-service solutions should come as no surprise.
- OpenStack removes Hyper-V support in next release. Despite Microsoft's stated commitment to Hyper-V in OpenStack, buggy code designed to support the hypervisor will be removed from the next version of the stack, developers decided on Wednesday.
- Clues about HP's Gen8 servers leaked on its website. Hewlett-Packard has let slip some details on its website about its upcoming Proliant Gen8 servers ahead of their official launch.