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Sony battery recall | 'Ruthless' Trojan | Slimmer Windows | Quiz: The week in quotes

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ITworld Wrap-Up
October 31, 2008
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Highlights
* 'Ruthless' Trojan steals 500K bank, credit card log-ons
* Ozzie points to slimmer future for Windows client
* WSJ: Google and Yahoo may call the whole thing off
* HP, Dell, Toshiba recall Sony laptop batteries again
* New Android apps a mixed bag
* Quiz: The week in quotes

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More Sony Laptop Battery Stupidity
Some companies, like Sony and their laptop batteries, never recover from major screw ups. They don't fix their decision making processes that caused the first blunder, so they keep blundering along.

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In the News
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'Ruthless' Trojan steals 500K bank, credit card log-ons
A sophisticated cybercrime group that's maintained an especially devious Trojan horse for nearly three years has stolen the log-ons to more than 300,000 online bank accounts and almost as many credit cards during that time, a security company said today.

Google introduces service-level guarantee for its Apps suite
Google is offering a service-level agreement for a version of Google Apps, a move that may provide some comfort to enterprises spooked by a long Gmail outage and a buggy Apps portal earlier this month.

Intel's Moorestown would make iPhone less secure
Putting Intel's Moorestown chips in a future version of the iPhone could make the handset less secure, a researcher warned.

HP, Dell, Toshiba recall Sony laptop batteries again
Dell, HP and Toshiba are recalling certain Sony-made laptop batteries because of a risk they may overheat and catch fire.

WSJ: Google and Yahoo may call the whole thing off
Google and Yahoo may drop their search ad deal due to objections from the U.S. government, The Wall Street Journal says.

Financial reports confirm fears for IT
Financial reports are confirming market watchers' fears that the U.S. is heading into recession, dragging the global tech industry down with it.

Ozzie points to slimmer future for Windows client
Microsoft is putting the Windows client OS on a diet as a way to bring the PC OS into the age of cloud computing.

New Android apps a mixed bag, should improve
Some of the new applications loaded to the Android Market since it opened on Monday don't work very well, crash the phone, aren't particularly elegant and in one case, uses commands written in Chinese.

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Boo!
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IT superstitions: Astrology, sacrifice, and demons. Oh my!
With Halloween just around the corner, let's examine the superstitions and irrational beliefs that lurk beneath the surface of our seemingly rationalist industry.

IT Underworld: Scariest costume of them all
In this episode of the weekly Web comic, George discovers that what happens at the IT Halloween party should stay at the IT Halloween party.

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Quiz: The week in quotes
What was ahead of its time? What is making moves to keep up with the times? What made most observers say 'It's about time'? Think you know? Take the quiz and prove it.

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