Wednesday, December 30, 2009

IT News HeadLines (ComputerWorld) 30/12/2009



Adobe will be top target for hackers in 2010, report says
Adobe Systems' Flash and Acrobat Reader products will become the preferred targets for criminal hackers in 2010, surpassing Microsoft Office applications, a security vendor predicted this week.
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Top tech books for the new year
Whether for professional development or personal enjoyment, check out InfoWorld's 25 top tech book recommendations
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Tall tales of tech -- that happen to be true
The IT professional faces ups and downs during the daily grind. InfoWorld presents some of the year's best reader tales from the tech trenches
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Y2K, the Bad: Fear, hype and the blame game
Ten years later, we remember how a problem-free Millennium Eve made some corner-office types wonder if Y2K had been overhyped.
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Top 10 IT stories of 2009
As the recession continued in 2009, the IT industry struggled somewhat but still fared better than many others while acquisitions and new products like Google's Chrome OS and Windows 7 from Microsoft helped the tech business maintain its dynamic nature.
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Opinion: Time for a little 'era awareness'
Thornton May thinks too many of us in IT lack a sense of where we've been and where we're heading. He suggests three areas of focus for 2010.
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Opinion: IT's future lies in sharing resources
Gartner's Howard Rubin envisions a time when organizations leverage global technology capacity for the "basics" of technology-related services -- everything from simple consumables such as connectivity, desktop services and e-mail to processing power to data storage.
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Budget tips for the new year
IT budgets in 2010 will look a lot like 2009's. CIO strategies for getting the biggest bang for the same amount of bucks include everything from further streamlining and consolidating the IT infrastructure to plugging in iPhones, Google Apps and netbooks.
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6 hottest skills for 2010
As the economy takes its first tentative steps toward recovery, organizations surveyed by Computerworld said they will work first to replenish their ranks of programmers and help-desk technicians to meet the demands of new projects and growing staffs.
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Cloud computing: Love it or hate it?
IT executives on both sides of the cloud computing debate explain what they like, or don't like, about the hosted technology.
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