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You don’t know tech: The InfoWorld news quiz
Any week in which April Fool’s falls is deeply suspect in terms of news. But we’re pretty sure we weren’t hoodwinked in this week’s quiz, which covers topics from the dark (worms, botnets, spammers) to the light (dating services, IPOs, and dishy redheads). Can you tell the real news from the fake? Give yourself 10 points for each correct answer. No foolin’. OK, let’s go.1. It was a Foolish week, all right. Which of the following “news” stories was NOT just an April Fool’s joke?a. Google introduces 3-D version of Chrome browser b. Amazon launches Floating Amazon Cloud Environment c. Twitter joins federal emergency response network d. YouTube being redesigned to look more like HuluTake the InfoWorld news quiz
Dell frees latest Vostro laptops of bloatware
Dell on Thursday introduced small-business laptops that will be free of bloatware, which could help improve system performance and protect storage space.The Vostro laptops will be preloaded only with software that is requested by buyers, Dell said. "Bloatware" refers to trial software that laptop makers often load onto new machines. Software publishers often pay PC manufacturers to include trial versions on computers. Common types of trial software include office productivity and accounting applications. Bloatware can be a headache for users, as it takes away system resources like storage space and could potentially introduce unwanted security vulnerabilities.[ Will Vostro be enough to head off the netbook challenge? InfoWorld's Eric Knorr looks into the mini laptops' appeal in "Notes from the netbook revolution." | The InfoWorld Test Center rates netbooks for business. See who came out on top. ]The laptops are aimed at buyers on tight budgets and include some of the latest storage, security, and videoconferencing technologies. The laptops also support solid-state drive (SSD) storage, which is faster and more power-efficient than hard-drive storage.Screen sizes on the laptops are 13.3 inches for the Vostro 1320, 15.4 inches for the Vostro 1520, and 17 inches for the Vostro 1720. The laptops include enhanced security capabilities to protect data, with fingerprint readers that can authenticate users to log on to the system and software from Wave Systems that encrypts hard drives.The systems will come with Intel Core 2 Duo or Celeron processors and run on Windows Vista OS, with the option to downgrade to Windows XP.Users have the option of integrated graphics or a separate Nvidia GeForce graphics card. The systems support up to 8GB of DDR2 memory with up to 320GB in hard-drive storage or 128GB in SSD storage.A Dell spokeswoman couldn't estimate battery life on the laptops, as it depends on how customers configure the systems.Starting at $569, the 1320 laptop weighs 4.1 pounds (1.86 kg) with a four-cell battery and no optical drive. The 1520 starts at $629 and weighs 5.38 pounds. The 1720 starts at $649 and weighs 6.8 pounds.The products are available in North America and a few South American countries starting Thursday. They will be available in EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) April 7, and in some countries in Asia in May.
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IBM sees Conficker hitting 4 percent of PCs
IBM is the second company in two days to suggest that the number of computers infected by the Conficker.C worm may be higher than previously thought.After scanning 2 million computers over the past 24 hours, IBM's Internet Security Systems (ISS) division said Thursday that it had spotted the worm on 4 percent of the IP addresses it monitored.[ Internet infrastructure provider OpenDNS was the first company to discover that Conficker.C infections it counted were much higher than expected. | Beware: Fake security software scammers have been jumping on Conficker. | Learn how to secure your systems with Roger Grimes' Security Adviser blog and newsletter, both from InfoWorld. ]Although Conficker is clearly the worst worm outbreak in years, the results came as a surprise, according to Holly Stewart, a threat response manager with ISS. "It is higher than what we expected; I thought we'd see 1 to 2 percent," Stewart said.Late last week, IBM researchers reverse-engineered Conficker and figured out a way to track infections by measuring peer-to-peer traffic on the network. They used that technique to reach their estimate.The results are similar to numbers released Wednesday by OpenDNS, which said it had also spotted a much larger number of infections than expected. Both IBM and OpenDNS' numbers count Conficker.C, the latest variant of the worm, and one that is easier to spot communicating on the network.Conficker began spreading in October 2008, using a handful of sneaky tricks to spread. Once it infects a machine, it can spread very quickly on a local area network by taking advantage of a now-patched flaw in Microsoft Windows.Experts had pegged Conficker infections in the 2 million to 4 million range, but IBM's numbers suggest that they may be much higher than that, perhaps in the tens of millions.Still, Stewart cautioned against concluding that 4 percent of Internet users had been infected. "It's not a perfect number, nothing is. But it's the best that we can give with the data we have right now."It's possible that Conficker infections are approaching 4 percent, said Danny McPherson, chief security officer with Arbor Networks. Because Conficker is more likely to infect certain types of users — broadband consumers are generally more vulnerable than enterprise or government users, for example — estimates like ISS' could come from a sample that does not represent the Internet as a whole, he said. Still, by any measure, Conficker is a big problem. "Even if they're off by an order of magnitude — which is possible — the number of infected machines is immense."
Report: IBM, Sun deal said to be close
IBM and Sun Microsystems are close to a deal under which IBM will acquire Sun Microsystems for about $9.50 per share, The New York Times reported in its online edition Thursday afternoon.Citing unnamed sources familiar with discussions between the companies, the DealBook column of the Times' business section reported that the deal could be imminent and announced as soon as Friday.[ Get the continuing coverage of IBM-Sun news with InfoWorld's special report "IBM in talks to buy Sun" ]The Wall Street Journal earlier Thursday afternoon reported that IBM had dropped its takeover price from $10 to $11 a share to $9 to $10, also citing unnamed sources. Sun agreed to the lower price "in return for strong commitments from IBM that it will complete the deal even if it faces intense regulatory scrutiny," the Journal said, again citing anonymous sources.Analysts have noted that overlap between the two companies could lead to regulatory issues and the Journal further reported that Sun is also concerned that such matters would keep the deal on hold for an extended period and lead to conditions being imposed for the acquisition to be finalized.If the two companies join forces, they will have more than 40 percent of server market share.A Sun spokeswoman and an IBM spokesman said separately that their companies do not comment on rumors — the standard line in such instances.Shares in both companies were trading higher late Thursday, with IBM up by 4.14 percent to $101.65 and Sun up 0.16 percent to $8.16.(Agam Shah in San Francisco contributed to this report.)
Adobe, Nokia outline planned ventures at Web 2.0 show
Officials from Adobe Systems and Nokia emphasized endeavors in the application design and form factor spaces in presentations at the Web 2.0 Expo conference Thursday in San Francisco.Touting a linkage between application developers and designers, Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch demonstrated the company’s planned Flash Catalyst product at the Web 2.0 Expo conference in San Francisco. Nokia’s Anssi Vanjoki, executive vice president at the company, cited planned form factors for mobile devices, which included a wearable wristband unit. He also hailed location-based services and the planned Ovi applications store, set to debut in June, that will bring applications to consumers.[ In other mobile news, Blackberry launched an on-device apps store. ]Flash Catalyst currently is in a beta release phase but is due soon, Lynch said. “We can enable people who do design to express not only what an application should look like but how it should feel to interact with,” Lynch said. Users can import a design from a picture, such as from Adobe Illustrator, bring shapes into Catalyst, and turn them into the beginnings of an application. Lynch also noted Adobe this week combined APIs in the Flash platform with Facebook.At Nokia, the company is eyeing location-based services that will require a mobile computer-like device that marries “virtuality with reality,” Vanjoki said. “Nokia has a big lead in this development,” he said.Users, meanwhile, will see new form factors for wireless devices, such as an ear device or a wearable device similar to a bracelet, and some devices even will be self-cleaning.Conference attendees on Thursday also heard from Ellen Miller, executive director of the Sunligtht Foundation. “Our goal has been really to use the Internet to catalyze greater openness and transparency in government,” she said. Within government, officials claim to be in favor of transparency, but there are not a lot who really understand technology, Miller said.Government spending on information projects was questioned by Miller, who cited a new government Web site called recovery.gov that reportedly will cost $86 million to create. “I suspect there’s a way to do it a lot cheaper,” she said. “That figure is dumbfounding to me.”
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