Tuesday, December 22, 2009

IT News HeadLines (ComputerWorld) 22/12/2009



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Red Hat to drop Itanium support in Enterprise Linux 6
Red Hat is dropping support for Intel's Itanium processor in Enterprise Linux 6, the next major release of its operating system, the company said in a statement on Sunday.
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Weelya tool pushes real-time data to Web sites
The company's push paradigm is used for real-time updates in communications technology.
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How to win the software licensing game
Are your software licenses keeping up with the times? Probably not -- and that can cost you big time
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2009: Social networks go mainstream
Social networks entered the big time in 2009 as tools once used only by teenagers and college students were widely embraced by their parents and grandparents.
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Why netbooks will still trump tablets in 2010
ABI predicts that netbooks will continue to explode, with 139 million to be sold in 2013. But doubters are re-emerging in full force.
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'War of innovation' will change face of search
The increasingly heated battle between Microsoft and Google is bringing an avalanche of innovations that should quickly change the face of the search business.
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U.S. moves to strengthen H-1B enforcement
A year after an internal study found widespread fraud in the federal H-1B program, U.S. immigration officials are moving to take enforcement from the desk to the field with a plan to conduct 25,000 on-site inspections of companies hiring foreign workers this fiscal year.
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Report says the leading cause of software project failures is complexity
Software architect Roger Sessions says the cure for IT project failure -- which costs the U.S. an estimated $1 trillion a year -- is a big dose of simplicity.
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Nanotech used to build batteries out of paper
Stanford researchers have built bendable, paper batteries that can be soaked in acid and still hold a charge.
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