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Google Settles Buzz Privacy Lawsuit
Google is spending US$8.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit filed over the rollout of its Google Buzz social-networking service.
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IBM Code Unfetters Virtual Workloads
New IBM research shows a way to move live cloud deployments across different storage networks
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HP Wins 3PAR, What's Next for Dell?
Dell has thrown in the towel and conceded the 3PAR bidding war to HP. With that epic struggle behind it, Dell has to determine its next steps--sans 3PAR and now competing against the cloud storage service it had hoped to be offering.
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Disk Storage Still Bouncing Back, IDC Says
Due to incorrect information from the research company, the story, "Disk storage still bouncing back, IDC says," which was posted to the wire Friday, misstated the market share of 3Par in the second quarter. The company had 0.78 percent of the market.
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What Security Can Learn From the $15M Sprint Employee Breach
Federal prosecutors this week charged nine former Sprint employees with fraud and aggravated identity theft after learning they had cloned customer cell phone numbers to make $15 million worth of calls. According to the complaint from federal prosecutors, the individuals who have been charged worked at Sprint stores in the Bronx, Bergen, N.J., and Tampa, Fla., and used company computers to get confidential information about thousands of customers. The data was used to create the so-called 'clone' cell phones. Of the $15 million worth of calls, a large percentage of them were international calls, said prosecutors.
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Where Will Apple's A4 Chip Go Next?
Apple's internally developed A4 chip could be implemented in new devices such as low-power servers, TVs or even communications or entertainment boxes, if the company tries to expand the chip's footprint, analysts said.
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Real-Life IT Tales and Lessons Learned
Techies share their most noteworthy IT experiences in InfoWorld's Off the Record blog.
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HP Buys 3Par, Apple Rolls Out New Gear
Hewlett-Packard swooped in with the better bid to overtake Dell and win 3Par, so now we can all sit back and wait for the next acquisition battle to roll around. Meanwhile, Apple debuted updated iPods and Apple TV to entertain us, among other IT news stories of the week.
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Accenture, Cisco and Sun Still Face Kickbacks Charges
After recent settlements by Hewlett-Packard and EMC in a long-standing government contracting fraud case, three major IT and consulting companies are still embroiled in lawsuits brought by two former insiders.
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Apple had Two Months to Fix Critical QuickTime Bug, Says Researcher
A critical bug in QuickTime was reported to Apple two months before a second researcher independently revealed the vulnerability this week, the director of a bug bounty program said Friday.
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Ping a Scammers Haven? Security Experts Say Watch Out
Apple's music-focused social network, Ping is only a few days old, and already the iTunes-based feature is "drowning in scams and spams," security researchers say. The scams are nothing too advanced at the moment, and there are no reports of clickjacking worms or other forms of aggressive malware, experts say. But if you're looking for links to bogus surveys promising free iPhones, iPads and other assorted iDevices then Ping in iTunes 10 is the social network for you.
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27-in. IMac 'the Center of My Digital Universe'
For the past month, the latest 27-in. iMac from Apple has been the center of my digital universe.
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