bMighty News Flash: Tuesday June 2, 2009

HARDWARE & SOFTWARE

• Acer Will Make Android Netbooks -- Vendor announces netbooks based on Google's Android platform will be available in the third quarter
• AMD Announces Six-Core Istanbul Chips -- AMD released five Istanbul chips with clock speeds of up to 2.6GHz and power draws for all five at 75 watts with prices ranging from $455 to $2,649

MOBILE

• Apple Releases iTunes 8.2 With iPhone 3.0 Support -- Apple is expected to release iPhone 3.0 out of beta at its upcoming Worldwide Developers Conference
• Samsung Announces 12-Megapixel Camera Phone -- The Pixon12 will feature a high-resolution camera, as well as the ability to quickly upload pictures to online photo-sharing sites
• Symbian Foundation Bolsters Leadership Team -- The foundation adds two mobile veterans to its management team as the open source Symbian is only a few months away from being on commercially-available handsets

SECURITY

• What Obama's Cybersecurity Plans Mean For Businesses -- Administration's new cybersecurity policies could yield new security regulations and incentives for enterprises, experts say
• Sophos Launches Suite Combining Encryption, Anti-Malware -- Software suite for Windows desktops that combines full-disk encryption with antimalware, network-admission and port controls, and host-based intrusion protection
• Apple Issues QuickTime Security Patches -- Apple issued 10 security patches for its QuickTime 7 multimedia player Monday to correct vulnerabilities that could allow a hacker to hijack a user's PC or Mac computer

SERVICES

• Google Search Analysis Dashboard Targets Local Businesses -- The software package provides business owners with information about how visitors came across their local listings
• Google Connects Search Appliances For Billion Document Indexing -- With 34 GSAs linked together, Google says version 6 could let a company host a search index that's as big as the entire Google Web index in the year 2000
• Yahoo Shutting Down 360 -- Yahoo will close 360 social networking site in July
• Gen Y Not Big Tweeters -- Participatory Marketing Network study finds only 22% of 18- to 24-year-olds use Twitter
• StrataScale Reports SMBs Embrace IronScale -- Managed hosting company claims rapid SMB adoption of IronScale managed server hosting service that enables customers to build, manage, and scale physical infrastructures from a secure Web portal