bMighty News Flash: Wednesday May 13, 2009

HARDWARE & SOFTWARE

• Microsoft Promises 10,000 Windows 7-Friendly Products -- The software maker says its new OS won't suffer from the compatibility glitches that haunted Vista
• Netbook Sales On The Rise -- DisplaySearch finds netbook market increased by 20% in Q1 2009

MOBILE

• Clearwire, Cisco Team Up On Wireless WiMax -- The companies are pairing Cisco's mobile WiMax infrastructure with Clearwire's ecosystem of partners to deploy mobile broadband

NETWORKING & COMMUNICATIONS

• Aruba Introduces Virtual Branch Network -- New solution connects remote workers with enterprise applications and resources
• U.S. Broadband Growth Accelerates -- Nearly 1.6 million new Net users signed up for broadband from top 10 providers in the U.S. during Q1 2009; 600,000 more than Q4 2008
• Verizon Sells Land-Line Business -- Frontier Communications will buy $8.6 billion business serving 14 States

SECURITY

• Apple Mac OS X Update Has Nearly 70 Security Fixes -- Version 10.5.7 addresses several issues with Apple's iCal and Mail applications, as well as its Parental Controls control panel
• Microsoft Patches PowerPoint Flaws, But Not For Mac -- One of the 14 Patch Tuesday bulletins is rated "critical" and the rest are rated "important." All of them could lead to remote code execution
• Adobe Patches PDF Vulnerability -- Vendors issues Windows updates for Reader and Acrobat 7-9 and Mac, Unix updates for v8-9

SERVICES

• Watchdogs Call For More, But Limited, Cookie Use By Government -- Late last month, new federal CIO Vivek Kundra told Congress that current cookie restrictions were holding the government back from adopting social media
• IBM Unveils 'Stream Computing' -- Big Blue's System S can analyze and execute a stock trade in less time than it takes a hummingbird to flap its wings
• Google Launches Google Squared -- Service creates tables of numerical data culled from searches of Web sites
• Cisco Rolls Out New Cloud Strategy -- Cisco will focus on enablement of cloud hosting and service providers through program called "Unified Service Delivery"
• OneRiot Launches Real Time Search -- Service allows high-speed search of content being shared on social networks
• Outright.com Provides Client Access For Bookkeepers, Accountants -- Allows financial professionals to easily make real-time updates and changes to clients' accounts from single access point