Computerworld

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Thursday, November 01, 2007

One of the best publications for useful news about the computer industry.

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• CheckFree warns 5 million customers after hack

  CheckFree and some of the banks that use its electronic bill payment service are notifying more than 5 million customers after criminals took control of several of the company's Internet domains and redirected customer traffic to a malicious Web site hosted in the Ukraine.
  
  
  

• Report: Microsoft to do free Windows 7 upgrades

  Microsoft Corp. will offer free or discounted Windows 7 upgrades to users who buy Vista PCs after July 1, according to a Web site that has accurately predicted the company's moves in the past.
  
  
  

• Comcast confirms new network management practices

  Comcast, the second largest broadband provider in the U.S., has stopped network-management practices that focus on slowing the BitTorrent peer-to-peer application, the company said.
  
  
  

• Digital TV converter program out of money

  A federal program providing vouchers for digital television converters to people whose TV sets will stop working on Feb. 17 has run out of money.
  
  
  

• Microsoft touts Mac-Windows collaboration at Macworld

  Microsoft plans to launch new Mac software later this year that will let Office 2008 for Mac users collaborate with people running the Windows version of the application suite.
  
  
  

• Start-up Ctera will offer cloud storage through carriers

  Storage start-up Ctera introduced a combined local and cloud storage system for service providers to sell as a service.
  
  
  

• 'Leap second' snafu affects Oracle clustering tool

  The second that was added to 2008 to adjust for the slowing of the earth's rotation is causing problems with Oracle's Cluster Ready Services software, according to a support document issued by the vendor.
  
  
  

• Vista's flaws surface again on eve of Windows 7 beta

  Attendees of the International Conference on Cyber Security 2009 in New York were reminded of the Vista operating system's failings a day before the Windows 7 beta is expected to be publicly announced at the CES trade show.
  
  
  

• Backup Resolutions: 5 Strategies to Back Up Your Data, Now

  Every year you say you'll be better at keeping your data backed up, but then life happens. You get busy. You get distracted. And the number of files in your digital life grows exponentially--all while you continue to relegate this critical task to the "I'll get to it" pile.
  
  
  

• Samsung packs camcorder with SSD for fast start

  Solid-state disks, hard-disk drive replacements filled with flash memory chips, have become popular in the laptop computing space and now they're expanding to other markets. At this week's International Consumer Electronics Show, Samsung Electronics will unveil an SSD-based camcorder, it said Tuesday.
  
  
  

Computerworld QuickStudy News

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• QuickStudy: Global positioning systems

  
  How the global positioning system works.
  
  

• QuickStudy: Identity-based encryption

  
  QuickStudy: Identity-based encryption solves many of the problems of public-key cryptography.
  
  

• QuickStudy: High-definition TV

  
  Digital television will soon be ubiquitous, so what exactly does HD mean? We explain.
  
  

• QuickStudy: Transactional Memory

  
  Transactional memory is a programming approach for multiple CPUs ensuring that updates to shared memory are performed without interrupting or invalidating other code.
  
  

• QuickStudy: Cloud computing

  
  Cloud computing is the most recent successor to grid computing, utility computing, virtualization and clustering. Cloud computing overlaps these other concepts but has its own meaning: the ability to connect to software and data on the Internet (the cloud) instead of on your hard drive or local network.
  
  

• QuickStudy: Blade servers

  
  Blade servers were invented to enable today's small, powerful computers to fit more efficiently into standard server racks. Here's the scoop on the history, technology and market for blade servers.
  
  

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