Intel Spearheads Open Data Alliance For Cloud Users — Il cloud computing — InformationWeek

A group of 70 current and potential cloud users has banded together to form the Open Data Center Alliance, a group that will issue a roadmap on cloud interoperability in early 2011. Intel ‘s insideas a technical adviser, not a voting member.

The participation by Intel is a sign of how uniformly cloud data centers rely on the x86 architecture. Even IBM, manufacturer of the Power series of microprocessors, built its Research Triangle Park cloud on x86 servers.

Speeding cloud development and interoperability is likely to speed Intel and AMD chip consumption. That’s why Intel orchestrated the alliance. It will set best practices and standards that allow enterprises to proceed with cloud operations.

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DailyTech – Nuovo virus Trojan attacchi Computer Mac Via siti di social networking

Security experts by and large agree that security via obscurity is not a wise model for protecting customers over the long term.  That’s exactly the model Apple has employed successfully for some time now.  However, its luck finally appears to be running short.

Hot on the heels of a newly discovered iOS exploit that allows access to locked iPhones, new reports [1] [2] from security research firms SecureFirm and Intego reveals that a new trojan is targeting Mac users using a vulnerability in OS X’s Java player.

According to the Intego report the new malware, trojan.osx.boonana.a, is really a reworked version of the Koobface malware, which has attacked Windows in the past.  The malware acts as a worm when it spreads and as a trojan when it is infecting your computer.

Users may encounter the worm via links posted on Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and other websites.  When clicking the link, the applet attempts to run.  Users can stop the infection before it starts by denying the applet permission to run when OS X’s Java player pops up a dialogue.

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CEO di Google: Non mi piace Street View? ‘Mossa’ – PC World

Google CEO Eric Schmidt has again kicked up something of an online firestorm with a statement about privacy.

In a CNN interview Monday, Schmidt responded to questions about what Google knows about people by saying that if people don’t like having their homes photographed for Google Street View for the world to see, they canjust move.

The comment came during an interview on the Parker Spitzer show. “With Street View, we drive by exactly once, so you can just move,” Schmidt ha detto, eliciting uncomfortable laughter from interviewer Kathleen Parker. “The point is, we only do it once. This is not a monitoring situation.

Those few sentences stirred up the blogosphere, and various news sites erupted with stories about Schmidt apparently telling people they can move if they don’t like having their houses on Street View.

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Analisi degli ospiti: Due Diligence nell'era della Responsabilità 2.0

(Westlaw business) Dopo il crollo della Enron, WorldCom e molti altri grandi multinazionali, i mercati dei capitali sperimentato l'era di responsabilità 1.0, che comprendeva il passaggio di Sarbanes-Oxley ("Sarbox") in 2002. Sarbox ha introdotto nuovi standard di comportamento e di governance di consigli di amministrazione pubblica di amministratori e dirigenti, obblighi di comunicazione nuovi e più stringenti, sanzioni più forti controlli interni e più rigido in caso di inosservanza. E 'anche influenzato la messa a fuoco e profondità di M&Uno standard di due diligence, che ha cominciato a prendere immersioni più in profondità in questioni di rendicontazione finanziaria, l'obiettività e la verifica.

Meno di un breve otto anni dopo, siamo entrati nell'era della Responsabilità 2.0. L'elezione di Barack Obama e l'impegno dell'Amministrazione per la trasparenza, il ruolo del governo in salvataggi, compresi TARP, il fallimento di banche e case automobilistiche, la scandalo Madoff, la grave recessione globale e la diffidenza di Wall Street insieme stanno contribuendo a un aumento del personale presso il Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), l'aspettativa di attività vigorosa applicazione governo in una varietà di settori, e la possibilità di nuovi standard contabili. Questi sviluppi in continua evoluzione, a loro volta sono elevando, aumentare e perfezionare il portafoglio di pratiche migliori diligenza dovuta in M&A, finanziamenti e altre operazioni core business.

Non sto dicendo che la laurea 1.0 a 2.0 comporta uno spostamento tettonico nelle pratiche migliori dovuta diligenza. M&Una delle pratiche e la documentazione in genere sono in continua evoluzione con piccoli incrementi. Ci sono eccezioni occasionali, come ad esempio la mossa abbastanza rapida e diffusa di sale dati elettronici. E le risposte a spazzare gli sviluppi legislativi e regolamentari sono necessariamente veloce. L'adeguamento degli accordi di acquisizione e processi per la pre-acquisizione obblighi di notifica degli Stati Uniti. Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust miglioramenti atti di 1976 è un notevole esempio.

L'intervento del governo dell'ultimo anno innescato in gran parte da eccessi che sfruttava un regime normativo viziato è così travolgente, alimentata da intensa e durevole indignazione pubblica, che le pratiche migliori diligenza dovuta inevitabilmente rispondere alle sfide di un'economia più altamente regolamentato in cui acquirenti e venditori devono vivere sotto il microscopio delle forze del governo vigoroso e intenso controllo pubblico. Questa risposta in gran parte dovrebbe comprendere una riaffermazione delle migliori prassi esistenti. Quindi, gran parte della nostra discussione sottolinea di sotto di queste pratiche come prevalente nell'era della Responsabilità 1.0. Anche se i cambiamenti previsti nelle pratiche possono essere incrementali, nel contesto della continua espansione regolamenti governativi e di esecuzione, i meriti uno nuovo ambiente 2.0 designazione.

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Avremo sempre Parigi: Dubai The Post-Modern Casablanca

(Westlaw business) Private luxury submarines and high seas escapes have become just another plotline in anthology of Dubai-centric litigation. Court dockets belie Dubai’s image of listless camels shuffling along the beach while spiky skyscrapers puncture the clouds. As much as palm trees and man-made islands, local color in the Gulf city-state has been shaded by characters and deals lurking in court filings that continue to capture the interest of gossips and gawkers around the world.

A malleable media and a fetish for the fantastic keep images of Dubai not only in American headlines, but American courts as well. Often the nexus is some iconic piece of real estate; sometimes a staggering some of money is involved. In still others, “facts” alleged in court pleadings hijack the imagination of what life must be like in the Emirati fast lane. Doubtless in the retelling, some embellishment must cling to the narrative. Along the U.S.- Dubai Axis of Velcro, tuttavia, the exaggeration overwhelms the substance.

Case in point: Dubai World Corp. in. Jaubert, a suit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, where Dubai World has sued erstwhile submarine mastermind Herve Jaubert:

In this action, Dubai World seeks to recover the millions of dollars it lost as a result of Defendant Herve Jaubert’s (“Jaubert”) wrongful conduct as CEO of Exomos, a personal luxury submarine business that Jaubert led to financial disaster. As set forth in the Complaint, Jaubert fraudulently induced Dubai World to hire him as CEO of this new business by falsely representing himself as an expert in the design and construction of submarines. He then misused his position as CEO to funnel millions of dollars in improper payments back to a company owned by him and his wife (Defendant Seahorse) and then ultimately failed to produce any viable submarines for which payment had been made.

When confronted with mounting evidence of his wrongdoing and Jaubert fled Dubai and returned to Florida. Upon his return, he began a scheme to extort money from Dubai World by seeking millions is payments toburythe publication of a book, Escape from Dubai, which would purport to be an account of his life story. When the extortion scheme fell apart, Jaubert published the book anyway, and filled its pages with a derogatory and inflammatory narrative concerning Dubai World and its principals, as well as Dubai, its citizens, governo, cultura, religion and society.1

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PTO, Ufficio europeo dei brevetti squadra Fino a sistema di classificazione

L'ultima U.S. Patent and Trademark Office innovazione è un affare di lavorare con l'Ufficio europeo dei brevetti su un sistema comune di classificazione dei brevetti in linea con gli standard globali.

In un ottobre. 22 annuncio congiunto, le due agenzie hanno detto che intende creare un sistema di classificazione dei brevetti in linea con il sistema internazionale dei brevetti la World Intellectual Property Organization di Classificazione.

Le agenzie ha anche annunciato che, mentre si baserà il sistema comune per l'Ufficio europeo dei brevetti (EPO) standard, Essa integra anche le migliori pratiche sia degli uffici.

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Adobe Reveals Digital Publishing Suite for iPad Delivery

Questa settimana, at its annual worldwide conference, Adobe Systems (new,Sito) revealed their new Digital Publishing Suite. The package aims to help publishers create, publish and sell digital content targeted at mobile devices. Even with Apple’s Steve Jobs’ public disdain for Flash, Adobe seems determined to lead the mobile publishing market.

Examining the Suite

Adobe has created an integrated platform that allows designers to use existing tools like InDesign CS5, PDF and HTML5 to create interactive digital content in magazine form. Adobe  took lessons learned from creating digital editions for clients such as the New Yorker and designed the system to integrate easily into the existing workflow processes for customers already using products like InDesign.

Publishers can take content from their print publications and supplement it with interactive features to provide a new digital experience for their customers. Inizialmente, the product will only support distribution to Apple iPad, but eventually it will be extended to support additional platforms.

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GlaxoSmithKline whistleblower awarded $96m payout | Business | guardian.co.uk

A whistleblower who exposed serious contamination problems at GlaxoSmithKline’s (GSK) pharmaceutical manufacturing operations has been awarded $96m (£60m).

Cheryl Eckard’s payment is thought to be the biggest ever handed to a US whistleblower. It was awarded after an eight-year fight, which ended yesterday, when GSK agreed to pay the US government $750m to settle civil and criminal charges that it manufactured and sold adulterated drug products.

Speaking outside the federal courthouse in Boston after the award was agreed, Eckard admitted she wasa little emotional”.

It’s difficult to survive this financially, emotionally, you lose all your friends, because all your friends are people you have at work,” ha detto. “You really do have to understand that it’s a very difficult process but very well worth it.

The case centred on a factory in Cidra, Puerto Rico, where GSK made a range of products including an antibiotic ointment for babies, and drugs to treat nausea, depression and diabetes. Nel mese di agosto 2002, Eckard, a global quality assurance manager, led a team sent to the plant to investigate manufacturing violations that had been identified by the US Federal Drugs Administration (FDA). Eckard lost her job nine months later after warning that the problems ran deeper than the FDA realised.

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Are Apple’s iPhone and iPad relevant to enterprises? – PC World

The conventional wisdom is that enterprises aren’t impressed by Apple’s shiny iDevices, perceiving them as a consumer play. Is that a fair assessment? And if so, could it change in the foreseeable future? Diamo uno sguardo, in The Long View

When it comes to business phonesso the theory goesBlackBerry and Windows are still top-of-mind. When it comes to larger form factors, businesses supposedly want conventional notebooks, not iPadsbut they may be swayed by Windows tablets that are compatible with software they already use.

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Microsoft Office per Mac 2011 ‘Best Office mai,’ analista dice – PC World

Microsoft today launched Office for Mac 2011, the newest version of its application suite designed for Mac OS X.

One analyst immediately dubbed itthe best Office ever.

Office 2011 is Microsoft’s fUfficioor the Mac since January 2008. Microsoft added the once-scornedribboninterface that debuted in Windows’ Office 2007, dropped the Entourage e-mail client in favor of a Mac flavor of Windows’ Prospettiva, and restored Visual Basic-based macros.

Gartner analyst Michael Gartenberg said the new suite is Microsoft’s most impressive suite effort to date.

This is the best Office ever, not just on the Mac,” said Gartenberg. “It brings the Mac version to parity with the Windows version, but it still feels like Mac software, not a Windows port. Mac Office doesn’t feel like you walked into your house in the dark and someone rearranged all the furniture.

Several new or restored features in Office for Mac 2011 were long requested by veteran users, particuarly a closer cousin to WindowsOutlook and the return of macros. Both were especially important for IT staffers who had to figure out how to integrate Macs into their organizations and users bent on having tools equal to their Windows brethren.

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