Macworld Expo 2009
InfoWorld covers all the latest news and announcements of interest to business IT at the 2009 Macworld Conference and Expo, taking place in San Francisco.
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Windows Server 2008 R2 beta airs Among the features in Microsoft's client OS companion is DirectAccess, which lets Windows 7 PCs directly connect to intranet-based resources without a VPN » FULL STORY
Startup to virtualize memory and share it across servers A virtualization start-up in stealth mode says it will offer technology that aggregates memory and shares it across servers, improving performance of online transaction processing and clustered or grid computing. 3:11 pm PT
Top 10: Windows 7 beta, Jobs' health, the economy again Macworld Expo (sans Steve Jobs) and the International Consumer Electronics Show (sans Bill Gates) got the new year off to a start, providing plenty of IT news this week. Jobs' decision to forgo giving the Macworld keynote was in the news again, as he released a public letter saying his obvious weight loss owes to a hormonal imbalance. In another continuation of news that started last year, economic woes continued to hit IT (along with pretty much everything else). But happy new year anyway. 2:02 pm PT
Report: Companies use Word out of habit, not necessity Companies may use Microsoft Word for word processing out of habit rather than necessity and are beginning to consider other alternatives as the Web has changed the way people create and share documents, according to a Forrester Research report. 12:49 pm PT
Auditor: IRS still vulnerable to cyberbreaches The U.S. Internal Revenue Service remains vulnerable to a wide range of cybersecurity problems, and the agency has fixed less than half of the vulnerabilities identified in a November audit, according to a report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office released Friday. 12:18 pm PT
Microsoft testing a better rival to Google Docs Microsoft is testing new capabilities for Office Live Workspace, its online adjunct to Microsoft Office, that will make it a closer rival to online application suites such as Google Docs. 12:07 pm PT
Amazon releases point-and-click console for EC2 Amazon has released a new Web-based management console for the company's EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) platform, which provides scalable application and service delivery, according to an official blog post Thursday. 10:49 am PT
Windows 7 public beta: First impressions On Thursday at CES, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced the public availability of the Windows 7 beta release. At PC World, we've been running our own evaluations of the forthcoming replacement to Microsoft's much-derided Windows Vista for some time now, and we just couldn't wait to take this new version for a spin. Here's one editor's take on the latest Windows 7 user experience. 8:49 am PT
Sony Vaio P: A first look Sony's new Vaio P netbook made its debut in Las Vegas at CES. It's a diminutive 1.4-pound miniturized laptop with an 8-inch 1,600-by-768-resolution screen. I was among the lucky few to get my hands on a pre-production evaluation unit from Sony. In the short time that I've used it so far, here's what I like and dislike about the P. 8:02 am PT
Oracle to issue 41 security patches Oracle will issue 41 security patches next Tuesday addressing vulnerabilities across "hundreds" of its products, the company said in a pre-release announcement. 7:06 am PT
Palm announces webOS and Pre phone Palm is hoping to get back on track with its new Pre touch phone, which comes equipped with the equally new operating system webOS, both announced on Thursday at the Consumer Electronics Show. 5:18 am PT
Major software companies sued for patent infringement Twenty-two major software and security companies are being sued for alleged patent infringement by a little-known entity now controlling the two patents in question. 5:13 am PT
Obama includes broadband, smart grid in stimulus package U.S. President-Elect Barack Obama laid out his plan for a huge economic stimulus package, with broadband rollout, an Internet-based smart energy grid and computers for schools as part of the plan. 5:09 am PT
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