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Daily news beat April 8, 2008

Outsourcing gets blamed for security woes, at least in a recent survey that found 90 percent of organizations that admitted to having been hacked had outsourced more than 40 percent of their applications to third parties.

Google offers to host services for free on App Engine, a new tool currently in limited testing. But the search giant thus far is treading lightly.

Nokia shows off an iPhone rival replete with touch screen, graphical displays and Java, though the company has not committed to a release date yet.

Hewlett-Packard unwraps the Compaq 2133 ultraportable with a surprise inside: a processor from Via Technologies rather than an Intel chip.

And Microsoft, after assuring customers it has fixed the problem, is engaging in the automatic distribution of an update that two months ago spun some PCs into an endless wave of reboots.

Posted by Tom Sullivan on April 8, 2008 10:39 AM


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