Microsoft releases Vista tools ... HP results beat estimates

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News: Details of new Sony digital cameras hit the Web
News: IBM veteran becomes first woman to win the Turing Award
News: Hewlett-Packard first quarter profit jumps
News: Internet is a reflection of society, Cerf says
Security Tip: Apple OS X users feeling the exploit pinch
Podcast: Today's IT news audio update
ITwhirled: Valley town seeks sun boost


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Details of new Sony digital cameras hit the Web
They're not due to be officially announced until next week, but details of Sony Corp.'s new line-up of digital still cameras hit numerous Web sites Tuesday.

IBM veteran becomes first woman to win the Turing Award
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has awarded the A.M. Turing Award to Frances Allen, a computer scientist at IBM Corp. and the first woman to receive the prestigious prize. Allen, a fellow emerita at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center, was given the award for her contributions in the area of program optimization, a way of modifying a program to run more efficiently and improve performance.

Hewlett-Packard first quarter profit jumps
Hewlett-Packard Co. topped Wall Street's revenue and earnings expectations in the first quarter of its 2007 fiscal year. The company posted net income of $1.5 billion, or $0.55 a share, in the quarter ended Jan. 31, 2007, compared to $1.2 billion, or $0.42 a share in the year ago quarter.

Internet is a reflection of society, Cerf says
The Internet is a mirror of the population that uses it, said Google Inc.'s vice president and chief Internet evangelist, Vinton Cerf, in reference to the proliferation of fraud, social abuse, and other online crimes.

Microsoft offers Vista deployment tools
Hoping to accelerate the adoption of Vista for businesses, Microsoft Tuesday unveiled tools to help companies deploy the new Windows client OS, including software that allows older versions of Windows to run virtually alongside Vista.

IP SANs come in from the cold
In a sign of the growing importance of IP networked storage the SNIA has elected new leaders to an IP Storage Forum and outlined an activity program.

EqualLogic adds to storage array product line
Storage appliance maker EqualLogic Inc. says its newest product improves performance by doing a better job of balancing the data load between storage arrays in a network.

Wind River acquires real-time Linux from FSMLabs
Wind River Systems Inc. has acquired technology that lets it provide an embedded Linux OS for devices that need responses in real time.


SECURITY TIP

Apple OS X users feeling the exploit pinch
By Brent Huston, MicroSolved, Inc.

Many Apple users have sat smug about the security of the OS X operating system. Pundits have expounded on its BSD roots, its imperviousness to spyware and malware, and overall lack of public exploits. Unfortunately, a lot has changed. The "Month of Apple Bugs" project has shattered much of the illusions around OS X's security. As of this writing, the project has released 31 public vulnerabilities for OS X and its supporting applications.

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Valley town seeks sun boost
If you suffer from seasonal affective disorder, you should stay away from Bondo, a Swiss village deep in a valley that gets no direct sunlight three months out of the year. Now the town hopes that a computerized mirror will shed a little light on its gloomy winters.

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