Google Chrome OS: Vaporware Or Victory?

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TechWeb Weekly Update - Thursday, July 9, 2009

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*Google Chrome OS: Vaporware Or Victory?
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*Details Emerge In U.S. Cyber Attacks
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*Government Accountability Office Joins Social Media Revolution
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*Sybase Announces Support For Android
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*Web Link Shrinkage Powers Spam Surge
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Google Chrome OS: Vaporware Or Victory?
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Chrome OS, Google's newly announced operating system, isn't just a swipe at Microsoft. It's an attempt to realize the cloud computing future that Google's been predicting.

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Microsoft Warns Of 'Browse-And-Get-Owned' Attack
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Attacks have been reported that attempt to exploit an unpatched vulnerability in Microsoft's Video ActiveX Control.

Google Challenges Microsoft With New Chrome Operating System
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Taking the fight to Microsoft's doorstep, Google has announced Chrome OS, a new operating system for netbooks and desktop computers.

Social Security Number Prediction Makes Identity Theft Easy
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Posting your birthday on Facebook could help identity thieves predict your Social Security number, a new study finds.

(Editor's Picks)

Silver Lake's Hutchins Touts the Cloud, Social Networking as Mega-Trends
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Private equity veteran predicts slow recovery but urges financial industry to invest in technology and innovation at SunGard City Day event.

BAI Retail Delivery News: HP Sees Infrastructure as Key to Branch Transformation
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HP launches Banking Innovation Center to show potential impact of emerging technologies.

UBS Joins DTCC Managed Accounts Service
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The centralized platform is designed to automate and standardize communications among sponsors, investment managers and service providers.

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Details Emerge In U.S. Cyber Attacks
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Malware that targeted Web sites of The White House, Department of Homeland Security, the FAA, and others appears to be a MyDoom variant.

Government Accountability Office Joins Social Media Revolution
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The federal agency is using Twitter and YouTube to inform the public about its reports and mission.

Sybase Announces Support For Android
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The company released a software development kit that enables developers to incorporate Bluetooth into Android devices.

Web Link Shrinkage Powers Spam Surge
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The popularity of Twitter has lead to a proliferation of URL shortening services. Now spammers are taking notice and using link reduction to hide spam links.

HTC Posts $197 Million Profit
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While the company is an early adopter of the Android platform, Windows Mobile smartphones account for the bulk of its sales.

Opera To Announce Deal With Major U.S. Carrier
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CEO says mobile browser company will be inking a deal soon to have its browser come preloaded on handsets from a major U.S. mobile operator.

Google Challenges Microsoft With New Chrome Operating System
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Taking the fight to Microsoft's doorstep, Google has announced Chrome OS, a new operating system for netbooks and desktop computers.

Google Takes Aim At Microsoft With New PC OS
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The Chrome Operating System will initially be targeted at netbooks and is to launch in 2010, Google said Tuesday.

Social Security Number Prediction Makes Identity Theft Easy
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Posting your birthday on Facebook could help identity thieves predict your Social Security number, a new study finds.

Apple's iPhone Vulnerable To Hotspot Hijacking
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The new iPhone 3.0 software automatically launches the Safari browser in certain circumstances, a feature that makes the iPhone more usable and less secure.

Music Filesharing Mom Seeks New Trial
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A federal jury ruled last month that Jammie Thomas-Rasset had illegally downloaded 24 songs. She was fined $1.92 million.

Google Apps Finally Exits Beta
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New features and services could make the Apps more appealing to corporate customers and easier for administrators to handle.

Motorola Seeks Android Developers
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The company wants to woo developers to create Motorola-specific Android apps to help it differentiate from the competition.

Yahoo Search Pad Promises Faster Searches
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Web portal's new online tool is designed to automatically detect research and save results.

Blogger To Release Touch Screen Web Tablet
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TechCrunch's Michael Arrington has incorporated a company to sell a 12-inch "Crunchpad" tablet for surfing the Web, watching online video, and using e-mail.

Microsoft IE Losing Ground?
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A browser tracking service shows IE slipping and Mozilla's Firefox, Apple's Safari, and Google's Chrome making gains, but don't call it a trend yet.

CompuServe Shuttered By AOL
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The first major commercial online service gave many consumers their initial exposure to e-mail and Internet connectivity.

Seattle Data Center Fire Hobbles Web Sites
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Electrical fire at a data center Thursday night knocked out Verizon's DSL service; Authorize.net and Microsoft's Bing Travel site for as long as 36 hours.

Marc Andreessen Launches VC Firm
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The $300-million Andreessen Horowitz venture capital fund will focus on "best new entrepreneurs," says Netscape pioneer.

Beyond Google Docs: 7 Web-Based Collaboration Apps
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Along with the search-engine giant's popular collaboration tools, we look at Zoho Writer, Pastebin, Dabbleboard, Dimdim, Yugma, and Bubbl.us.

Tech Innovation USA: From Resilient Networks To Self-Scheduling Devices
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U.S. agencies are driving government IT initiatives that could soon make their way to businesses.

How Government's Driving Cloud Computing Ahead
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Federal agencies are testing use cases as well as pushing standards and definitions that could help the business world.

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Wyse Software Speeds Delivery Of Virtualized Desktops
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The thin client supplier's Virtual Desktop Accelerator addresses latencies and packet loss in the Internet's TCP/IP network.

Managing Under Duress: Q&A With Credit Suisse CIO Karl Landert
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Credit Suisse CIO Karl Landert points to a long-standing focus on efficiency and an agile technology organization as major reasons why the firm has fared relatively well during the economic downturn.

Cyber Attack Hits South Korea Web Sites Again
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Attack denies access to some banking and U.S. government sites and is similar to DDOS attack that hit U.S. and South Korean Web sites in recent days.

IT Job Stats: Grim, But Some Hopeful Signs
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Fewer jobs were lost in bellwether IT job segments in June than in May.

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