Tuesday, December 8, 2009

IT News HeadLines (ComputerWorld) 08/12/2009



Facebook forms board to improve safety
Facebook is setting up a new advisory board to improve user safety on its social networking site, it said on Sunday.
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Tales from the IT trenches
Readers share their IT ups and downs in InfoWorld's Off the Record blog
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Ruckus patents technique for video over Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi equipment vendor Ruckus Wireless has patented a technique that appears to be widely used to improve video on wireless LANs.
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Novell vows first identity management for cloud, virtualized apps
Virtualization and cloud computing has taken off, despite strong lingering concerns over how companies can secure and manage those apps and data. Novell Inc. says it can help.
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Building the Google smartbook dream machine
InfoWorld's 10 essentials for the smartbook revolution to succeed
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Microsoft kills $150 Windows 7 Family Pack deal
Microsoft yanked its $150 Windows 7 Family Pack from the U.S. market last week, saying that the limited time offer had expired.
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Scientists, IT community await exascale computers
The race is on to make supercomputers as powerful as possible to tackle some of the world's biggest challenges, such as climate change and the need for ultra-long-life batteries for cars.
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Opinion: Premier 100 are the best of IT's best
In a year of tight budgets, this year's Premier 100 IT Leaders were forced to be creative to fund important projects, says Scot Finnie.
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Chrome OS move heats up Microsoft-Google rivalry
Google's release of its Chrome OS to the open-source community intensifies the company's already heated rivalry with software king Microsoft.
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The dreaded IT budget process wastes big bucks
Research shows that companies waste a lot of staff time (and money) on the annual budget process. The CIO Executive Board has identified unconventional budget approaches that are less time-consuming and more flexible.
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