IN THE NEWS
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Sophos: St. Petersburg consulate Web site was hacked
http://security.itworld.com/4340/070913sophos/page_1.html
Security vendors are warning that two U.S. Department of State Web sites
based in Russia could contain malware and should be avoided.
Report: Yahoo mistakenly blows the lid off new service
http://www.itworld.com/Tech/2987/070913yahooservice/index.html
As if Yahoo Inc. didn't have enough trouble already in social
networking, a company public relations representative tipped a New York
Times reporter by mistake about a new, unannounced service called Yahoo
Mash.
Microsoft: 'Secret' updates were for Windows Update itself
http://www.itworld.com/Comp/2218/070913msupdates/index.html
Microsoft Corp. claims updates sent out to Windows XP and Vista machines
without users knowing about them were for the Windows Update mechanism,
though the company acknowledged it could have been more "transparent"
before changing files on user computers.
Online video popularity keeps climbing
http://www.itworld.com/Tech/2987/070913onlinevid/index.html
People in the U.S. have steadily increased the amount of time they spend
watching videos online, as Google Inc.'s YouTube remains by far their
preferred video site, according to a study.
Alcatel-Lucent slashes forecast for year
http://www.itworld.com/Tech/5050/070913alcatel/index.html
Alcatel-Lucent SA cut its revenue forecast for the year on Thursday,
underscoring the challenges the newly merged company faces in a highly
competitive communications equipment industry.
Data explosion shakes up IT
http://storage.itworld.com/4623/070913dataexplosion/page_1.html
In just three years, the bytes of data generated by digital cameras,
mobile phones, businesses IT systems and devices will equal the number
of grains of sand on the world's beaches.
TIP
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Replacing batteries on a Sun StorEdge disk array
By Sandra Henry-Stocker,ITworld
I had only recently come to notice that the batteries had expired. Using
the sccli (StorEdge controller command line interface) command, I had
noted the expiration dates were well enough in the past that replacing
them as soon as possible was a good idea. When I checked the batteries,
the battery status information looked like this:
http://smallbusiness.itworld.com/4419/nlsunix070913/page_1.html
OPINION
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iPhone Price Cuts Triggers Whining
By Dan Blacharski
It's not too often that dramatic price reductions in a popular product
elicits whining as a reaction, but such is the case with the Apple
iPhone. Apple's expensive iPhone, which debuted just a few short weeks
ago at $599, is now $399. Personally, I won't spend more than twenty
bucks on a mobile communications device, but I suppose I would be
bitterly disappointed had I waited in line to pay $599 for something
that was $200 cheaper just a little over a month later. But as everybody
knows, in the world of technology, early adopters always pay a higher
price for something that inevitably becomes cheaper later. I'm not
surprised that the iPhone came down in price. What is surprising is that
it came down so quickly.
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