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De-Worm Your iPhone
So you jailbroke your iPhone. Maybe you wanted to try out some of the third party apps. Maybe you just wanted to tweak your interface. Either way, you did it without changing your root password. Now you're helplessly staring at a picture of Rick ...
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Jolicloud aims to steal Chrome OS's netbook thunder
Jolicloud, an upcoming Web-centric operating system for netbooks, will be prettier and more flexible than Google Inc.'s Web-only Chrome OS, the company's CEO says.
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Screen shot: Jolicloud aims to steal Chrome OS's netbook thunder
The Jolicloud netbook OS will be more "Mac-like" than Google Chrome OS's "generic" user interface, says CEO Tariq Krim.
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HP reports solid Q4 on services growth
Hewlett-Packard reported an 18% jump in profit for its fiscal fourth quarter, thanks in large part to the strength of its services business.
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Is federal stimulus money being used for IT hardware, not hiring?
Congress allocated $787 billion earlier this year in a stimulus package President Obama signed in an effort to jump-start the economy. So where are the IT jobs?
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The broadband gap: Is FCC grabbing for the wrong tool?
Columnist Scott Bradner tries to make sense of what the FCC is up to in addressing the broadband service gap in the United States.
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Microsoft confirms IE6, IE7 zero-day bug
Microsoft today confirmed that exploit code published last week can compromise PCs running older versions of Internet Explorer, but said its security team has not yet seen any in-the-wild attacks.
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Report: Apple's 'Black Friday' deals cut Mac prices 8%
Apple will cut prices of its low-end iMac and MacBook Pro systems by 8% for a one-day-only sale on Friday, according to reports on the Web.
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Mobile groups protest proposed net neutrality rules
A month ago, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission began a proceeding to create formal net neutrality rules for broadband providers, and the proposals have generated serious debate in the telecom community.
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Data Robotics ships Drobo iSCSI SAN
Data Robotics today released its first iSCSI iteration of its self-monitoring, automated disk array for small- to mid-sized businesses.
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Patent trolls, Machiavelli's descendents
Mark Gibbs thinks he knows what Machiavelli's descendents do for a living … they've become patent trolls.
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Data Center Lessons from the Online Gaming World
In June, Iceland-based CCP Games brought the hammer down on a group of resource hogs that were clogging its data center.
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New iPhone worm steals online banking codes, builds botnet
Hackers have borrowed a tactic from the world's first iPhone worm to build a botnet that steals data, including online banking credentials, from jailbroken Apple smartphones.
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4 Cheap Options to Monitor Networks for Evidence
Investigations manager Brandon Gregg explains how to collect evidence for network investigations on the cheap without damaging the mission at hand.
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PC market crash averted, says Gartner
Reversing earlier projections, Gartner today said it expects ever-increasing sales of netbook computers to lead the way to growth in PC unit shipments in 2009.
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Move Your Old Email to Win7
Marsha Naylor wants a way to access her old Outlook Express and Windows Mail messages in Windows 7.
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Recruting for a More Diverse IT Staff: Seven Tips
IT departments are notorious for their lack of diversity and the problem is only getting worse. Here are seven practical steps that CIOs and other IT leaders can take to attract and retain more women and underrepresented minorities to IT staffs.
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Wipro, other Indian outsourcers expand in the U.S.
Wipro, India's third largest outsourcer, is expanding its development center in Atlanta from 350 to 1,000 staff, reflecting a growing trend for Indian outsourcers to expand and hire locally in the U.S. market.
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Opinion: Winning the battle against rogue suppliers
IT suppliers that do an end run around the IT department are making your life more difficult. Here's what you can do about it.
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Why go Pro when iMac goes faster?
The Mac Pro has always been something of a niche product, appealing mainly to those who need vast amounts of internal storage (thanks to its four drive bays), expansion (three PCI Express slots) or memory (32GB on eight core models).
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Speed Up Everything
Has your PC lost its pep? How about your network connection, your printer, or even your phone? Here's our guide to giving your gear new life. Follow our tips, and you can fire up your system and your other tech essentials.
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NASA's Atlantis astronauts take final spacewalk, prepare for return
Heading into their second week of space travel the crew of NASA’s space shuttle Atlantis have a lot on their schedule. Today two of the astronauts will venture out for the mission’s third and final space walk.
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Ciena will pay $769M for Nortel's metro Ethernet business
Ciena will pay US$769 million for the optical networking and carrier Ethernet assets of Nortel Networks' Metro Ethernet Networks business, the two companies said on Monday.
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Top 5 Chrome OS myths debunked
Google has lifted the veil on its new, Web-based netbook OS, but it might not be what you think it is
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Intel: Don't look for one device to do it all
Top Intel researchers say development of a single device that performs all personal tasks for business people and consumers is unlikely; instead users can expect more personalized devices that can tell users what they need and when they need it.
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Five ways to lose your identity (and wallet) this holiday season
Computerworld offers tips to holiday shoppers looking to expose their personal data to online thieves.
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Cloud computing: Which IT projects are right for the cloud?
Not every IT function is right for cloud computing. Here's how to decide which projects to send off and which to keep close tabs on.
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Report: Microsoft may pay News Corp. to delist from Google
Microsoft has discussed paying News Corp. to remove its news Web sites from Google's search results and list them on its Bing search engine instead, The Financial Times reported Sunday on its Web site.
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KT to sell iPhone in South Korea
South Korean carrier KT will start selling the iPhone this month, the company said Monday, bringing the hit device to another Asian country.
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Review: 27-in. quad-core iMacs 'worth the wait'
When Apple announced new iMacs last month, it delivered the first ever iMac to offer a quad-core processor. The Core i5 and Core i7 quad-core machines were not available right away. But the wait is over, and the Core i5 and Core i7 27-inch iMacs were ...
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Microsoft's IE9 to tap hardware for speed boost
Microsoft's next browser, Internet Explorer 9 (IE9), will offload image and text rendering chores to the PC's graphic processor, one way the company plans to increase the browser's overall performance, according to the firm's top IE manager.
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New attack fells Internet Explorer
A hacker has posted attack code that could be used to break into a PC running older versions of Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser.
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Global warming research exposed after hack
An anonymous hacker has posted private e-mails, files and other documents belonging to a noted climate researcher, sparking an international debate between skeptics of global warming and those who see it as an urgent problem.
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LG NAS Adds Blu-ray Drive
LG's N4B1 NAS box is neither a comprehensive media server nor a particularly fast performer, but as a network-attached storage device, it's quick enough for home/small-business file serving. The unit--available at this writing for around $700--is also ...
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Control iTunes from the Windows 7 Taskbar
One of my favorite Windows 7 amenities is thumbnail previews, which appear when you mouse over any running program in the taskbar.
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Elgan: Four things you need to know about Apple
Here are four things that Apple believes that explain the unexplainable.
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Chrome shines, Gore opines, staffs decline
Google's Chrome OS captured a lot of headlines and hype this week after the company invited the media in to have a look-see, setting off a whole lot of opinions about whether it will be any good. Microsoft, predictably, doesn't think so. Otherwise, Al ...
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Mobile wireless router from Zyxel competes with Mi-Fi
Wireless carriers and retailers have been promising a wide array of low-priced gadgets beyond smartphones that will hit the market soon, taking advantage of faster wireless networks.
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Microsoft launches beta tests of free Office 2010, 'streaming' delivery
Microsoft has launched new betas for its free Office suite and for the "streaming" technology it will use to deliver some paid versions of Office 2010 next year.
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Third-party screensavers return to Snow Leopard
When Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6) was first released, I noted that many (maybe even all) third-party screensavers would no longer work in the new OS. This was because 10.6 required 64-bit compatible screensavers, whereas existing screensavers were 32 bit.
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Teen gets prison term for attack on Scientology Web site
A New Jersey teenager was sentenced to a year in jail and was fined $37,500 after pleading guilty to charges in connection with a DDOS attack on the Church of Scientology Web site.
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Some Nook e-readers won't make it for the holidays
Just two days after Sony said that its wireless e-reader, the Daily Edition, might not make it to buyers before the end of the year, Barnes & Noble said its Nook e-reader is sold out.
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Google's Chrome OS hits BitTorrent
Chrome OS, the operating system that Google released to open source yesterday, has been compiled and posted for download on several file-sharing sites, Internet searches showed.
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Toggle sidebar visibility in all open Finder windows
When I publish hints here on Macworld, I usually try to walk through and explain how they work, so as to help you understand what's going on behind the scenes. Sometimes, though, I'll just present a solution without much of an explanation, such as ...
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The 5 best and worst features of Google Chrome OS
What users are most likely to like - and detest - about Google's new operating system.
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Ballmer: Windows 7 Sales 'Fantastic'
Excitable Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer actually had something to be excited about at yesterday's shareholder meeting, where he announced that Windows 7 sales are "fantastic."
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Twitter turns on geolocation functionality
Twitter is now allowing its externally built applications to provide geolocation features to end users, after announcing its intention to do so in August.
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Nokia cuts research staff by up to 330 people
Mobile phone maker Nokia said it will cut up to 330 people from its research and development staff.
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iPhone owners demand to see Apple source code
iPhone owners charging Apple and AT&T; with breaking antitrust laws asked a federal judge this week to force Apple to hand over the iPhone source code, court documents show.
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