Computerworld articles from April 2009

Computerworld archives from April 2009

Changing behavior.(energy consumption)(Editorial)
April 13, 2009... OVER DINNER at a steakhouse in Orlando last week, two other guys from Computerworld and I found ourselves engaged in a lively conversation. No, we weren't talking about the NCAA basket ball championship or major league Baseball's opening day....

Responses to: gone but not forgotten: 10 0Ss the world left behind.(ONLINE CHATTER)(operating systems)(Brief article)
April 13, 2009... March 25, 2009 OS/2 BY IBM was a very efficient operating system. IT was fast even on the older processors and it could run anything that you installed on it. If an app crashed, it was the only thing that crashed. The operating system...

The week ahead.
April 13, 2009... TUESDAY: Microsoft's monthly batch of security fixes is due, as is Oracle's latest quarterly patch release. TUESDAY: Sun plans to announce servers based on Intel's Xeon 5500 chip. Intel's first-quarter results are also on tap. ...

Sun's future plans unclear after IBM talks break down.(IT INDUSTRY)(Sun Microsystems Inc.)(International Business Machines Corp.)
April 13, 2009... AFTER THE apparent collapse of acquisition talks between IBM and Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun faces a choice: continue looking for a buyer, change its management--or just keep plugging along as is. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Other companies...

Sallie Mae to reverse course on offshoring.(MANAGEMENT)(Brief article)
April 13, 2009... Student loan provider Sallie Mae Inc. last week announced that it will return its offshore operations to the U.S., along with about 2,000 IT, call center and operations support jobs. Reston, Va.-based Sallie Mae said it expects to complete...

Falling budgets force IT to update storage systems.(STORAGE)
April 13, 2009... ORLANDO INFORMATION technology managers are hoping that moves to expand the use of virtual technologies and so-called green products can help them better cope with decreasing IT budgets. The budget crunch is by far the top challenge...

Intel Corp.(Short Takes)
April 13, 2009... Intel Corp. unveiled a variant on its Nehalem server processor, codenamed Jasper Forest, at the Intel Developer Forum in Beijing. Jasper Forest is optimized for storage products and embedded applications.

Digital Realty Trust.(Short Takes)(appointment of Michael Manos)(Brief article)
April 13, 2009... Wholesale data center provider Digital Realty Trust has hired Michael Manos, general manager of Microsoft's data center services division, as its senior vice president of technical services. Manos oversaw Microsoft's efforts to build a global...

Cisco Systems Inc.(Short Takes)(Brief article)
April 13, 2009... Cisco Systems Inc. has agreed to acquire Tidal Software Inc., a maker of application management software, for $105 million. The deal is expected to close in the fourth quarter.

Conficker, the Internet's No. 1 threat, gets an update.(SECURITY)(Brief article)
April 13, 2009... AN UPDATE of the Conficker worm that appeared on PCs last week will likely help its makers do what all botnet owners strive to do-make money. Kevin Hogan, director of security response operations at Symantec Corp., said the update, dubbed...

Vista needed for next windows 7 upgrade.(OPERATING SYSTEMS)(Brief article)
April 13, 2009... MICROSOFT CORP. Last week urged Windows 7 beta testers to return their machines to the Windows Vista operating system before upgrading to the impending release-candidate version of the new software. Windows 7 Release Candidate, the next...

Between the lines.(Cartoon)
April 13, 2009... I'M NOT SOLD ON THE LO6O. Sun Micro [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

Satyam Computer Services Ltd.(BENCHMARKS LAST WEEK)(Brief article)
April 13, 2009... Authorities in India filed criminal charges against six former executives of Satyam Computer Services Ltd. in connection with the accounting fraud disclosed by the company in January.

Qwest Communication International Inc.(BENCHMARKS LAST WEEK)(Brief article)
April 13, 2009... Former Qwest Communication International Inc. CEO Joseph Nacchio, who was convicted of securities fraud in 2007, was ordered to report to a federal prison in Pennsylvania tomorrow.

45 years ago: IBM.(BENCHMARKS LAST WEEK)(International Business Machines Corp.)(Brief article)
April 13, 2009... 45 YEARS AGO: IBM began the modern computing era by unveiling its System/360 mainframes, the first line of compatible systems that all ran the same software.

Germany fines Microsoft [euro]9M.(Global Dispatches)(Brief article)
April 13, 2009... BONN -- The Bundeskartellamt, Germany's competition authority, last week announced that Microsoft Corp. has been fined [euro]9 million ($11.9 million U.S.) for illegally working with a retailer to fix prices of its Office software. In a...

Australia sets broadband plan.(Global Dispatches)(Brief article)
April 13, 2009... CANBERRA, Australia -- The Australian government last week announced plans to build a nationwide newt-generation broadband network. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said the government expects to spend $43 billion Australian ($31 billion U.S.) to...

Briefly noted.(Global Dispatches)(Google Inc.)(Yahoo! Inc.)(Brief article)
April 13, 2009... Google Inc, and yahoo Inc. have launched Web sites dedicated to coverage of this week's federal elections in India. The companies said they created the sites in a bid to build their brands among the country's Internet users. Google said that...

PCI rules may require security reinforcements: critics carp that the standard isn't protecting card data. And chief proponent Visa is working on new technologies that would go beyond PCI.(NEWS ANALYSIS)(payment card industry)
April 13, 2009... THE PCI STANDARD, long touted as one of the private sector's strongest attempts to regulate itself on IT security, is increasingly being slammed by critics who claim that the rules aren't doing enough to protect credit and debit card data. ...

H-1B demand follows the economy - down: the number of H-1B visa applications filed thus far is way off from last year's level.(NEWS ANALYSIS)
April 13, 2009... DEMAND for H-1B visas usually fluctuates with the economy, and this year is no exception. In fact, the initial number of H-1B applications filed with the federal government was down even more sharply than expected form the number filed a year...

Louie Ehrlich: Chevron's CIO talks about strategic planning, virtual training and dealing with 4TB of new data per day.(THE GRILL)(chief information officer)(terabyte)(Interview)
April 13, 2009... Last year, you became CIO at Chevron and president of its Information Technology unit. How did you handle the transition? I spent a lot of time listening. Chevron has a management committee of the top 60 executives. I literally went out and...

A time to think of it systemically.(information technology)(Viewpoint essay)
April 13, 2009... GIVEN the magnitude of our current economic troubles, historians will label these last years of the first decade of the 21st century as a hinge of history. For those of us in IT, it's a moment when decisions really matter, a time when the...

When good browsers go bad - and they all do: better browsers. Better standards. Better tools. So why are Web pages still breaking?(Cover story)
April 13, 2009... JEFFREY ZELDMAN must have thought he'd never live to see the day. Ten years after he co-founded the Web Standards Project, all of the major browser vendors have renewed their commitment to supporting World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards in...

Six ways to ruin your resume: bad techniques can bury your talent.(IT MENTOR)(Column)
April 13, 2009... MY VISION IS blurry. I've reviewed more than 40 resumes for a network administrator position, and less than half have made the cut. Although I rejected some candidates because of their lack of experience (or, rather, their lack of demonstrated...

How to get fired: five fatal flaws that can bring down the ax.(CAREERS)
April 13, 2009... APLUNGING Stock market, crumbling budgets, layoffs and restructurings: So much of today's news is bad so much of it can adversely affect your career, and so much of its is maddeningly beyond your control. But there are things you can...

Streamlining project approvals: hard times and a bare-bones staff make it easier to see the merits of a radical idea for making sure new projects are secure.(SECURITY MANAGER'S JOURNAL)
April 13, 2009... A REALLY great idea may be a matter of timing more than anything else. Take the one that the leader of our project management department approached me with last week. His suggestion for how to handle security requirements for new projects...

No easy road to industry architecture.(hotels)(Viewpoint essay)
April 13, 2009... AN enterprise architecture is vital to business success, but it's time-consuming. expensive and complex t develop. Establishing an industry wide architecture is even more difficult. The hotel industry was the first to create an industry...

What drives CIOs to change jobs?(Career Watch)(chief information officers)(Survey)(Brief article)
April 13, 2009... A desire for a fresh challenge was the No. 1 response of 310 ClOs and other senior IT leaders who in a recent poll were asked why they would change jobs. Of course, in 2009, new challenges are likely to be had without changing jobs. What...

Change is in the air.(health benefits)(Survey)(Brief article)
April 13, 2009... Change Is in the Air Among companies offering health benefits, many are considering modifying them this year. VERY SOMEWHAT NOT TOO NOT AT DON'T LIKELY LIKELY LIKELY ALL LIKELY KNOW ...

Talking about your generation.(Career Watch)(Survey)
April 13, 2009... The greatest problem for the workforce may be the failure of different generations to talk to one another. In an online survey by employment services provider Randstad USA, 51% of baby boomers (born between 1946 and 1964, according to this...

CIOs happy with their pay.(Career Watch)(chief information officers)(Survey)(Brief article)
April 13, 2009... CIOs Happy With Their Pay The vast majority of 310 Cl0s and other senior IT executives who responded to a recent survey said they are satisfied with their compensation, with many fewer saying they are extremely satisfied or...

True tales of it life as told to Sharky.(SharkTank)(ventilation system)
April 13, 2009... Cold Comfort A contractor is working to replace this office's outdated ventilation system, reports a pilot fish there. "The other day, one of the contractors forgot to turn the boiler back on after they were working on it," fish says....

Just pennies a day.(FRANKLY SPEAKING)(energy savings)
April 13, 2009... FIFTY CENTS. That's how much U.S. businesses could save by shutting down all their PCs at night and on weekends, according to a study released last month by the Alliance to Save Energy. Of course, hat's not how the report headlined it. The...

Vacouous steps.(telecommunications)(Editorial)
April 20, 2009... WHEN I WAS WORKING as a research analyst at the National Security Agency in the mid- '80s, one of my assignments was to study the economic situations in Nicaragua and Cuba. Nicaragua was by far, the sexier part of the assignment, because the...

Responses to: Microsoft's 'Apple tax' claims are 'stupid,' counters analyst.(ONLINE CHATTER)(Brief article)
April 20, 2009... April 10, 2009 I don't think anyone is arguing the fact that a Mac is a premium product and as such you pay a bit more for it. The argument is over how much that premium is. Microsoft's $3.500 claim is just plain ridiculous. *...

The week ahead.
April 20, 2009... MONDAY: IBM plans to report its first-quarter financial results. AMD is scheduled to file its Q1 numbers on Tuesday. TUESDAY: The security-focused RSA Conference 2009 opens in San Francisco. Also starting today is the annual MySQL user...

Microsoft, Oracle issue patches for slew of holes.(SECURITY)
April 20, 2009... MICROSOFT Corp. last week released eight security updates that patch 23 vulnerabilities in Windows, Internet Explorer, Excel and other software products in the company's portfolio. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Analysts noted that even more...

XP shifts to reduced support.(OPERATING SYSTEMS)(Microsoft Windows XP)(Brief article)
April 20, 2009... As expected, Microsoft Corp. last week moved Windows XP out of its mainstream support program and into a more limited plan. Under Microsoft's policy, mainstream support delivers free fixes--including security patches and other bug fixes--to...

'Cataloging error' lands Amazon in hot water.(INTERNET BUSINESS)
April 20, 2009... AMAZON.COM INC. blamed a glitch that knocked gay and lesbian-themed books out of its main product search engine on a "ham-fisted cataloging error," while disputing a hacker's claim that he had caused the problem by exploiting a flaw on Amazon's...

Intel Corp.(Short Takes)(Financial report)(Brief article)
April 20, 2009... * After Intel Corp. reported that its first-quarter profits plunged 55% to $647 million and sales declined 26% to $7.1 million compared with last year, CEO Paul Otellini suggested that PC sales have bottomed out and that "the industry is...

Qwest Communications International Inc.(Short Takes)(Brief article)
April 20, 2009... * Joseph Nacchio, the former CEO of Qwest Communications International Inc., reported to prison to serve his six-year sentence after Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer denied his request for bail and a temporary stay. Nacchio was convicted...

Microsoft Corp.(Short Takes)(Brief article)
April 20, 2009... * Microsoft Corp. said it plans to release one public beta of the next version of its Office suite, dubbed Office 2010, before it becomes generally available in the second half of next year.

NetApp Inc.(Short Takes)(Brief article)
April 20, 2009... * NetApp Inc. has agreed to pay $128 million to settle General Services Administration charges that it failed to offer U.S. government customers the same discounts it gave to commercial customers.

Privacy rules may slow E-health use, study says.(PRIVACY)(Brief article)
April 20, 2009... TWO RESEARCHERS from MIT and the University of Virginia claim in a study publicly released last week that increased efforts to protect the privacy of health care data could hamper the deployment of electronic medical records systems. The...

NASA: Mars rover tech issues may be age-related.(HARDWARE)(Brief article)
April 20, 2009... THOUGH NASA engineers are still working to figure out what is wrong with one of its two Mars Exploration Rovers, officials are speculating that the robotic machine may be starting to suffer from age related technology issues. The U.S....

Between the lines.(Cartoon)
April 20, 2009... THEY'RE TAKING THIS KIND OF HARD. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

The U.S. Department of Justice.(BENCHMARKS LAST WEEK)(Brief article)
April 20, 2009... The U.S. Department of Justice asked a judge to extend the provisions of the Microsoft Corp. antitrust settlement by 18 months beyond their scheduled expiration date in November.

Intel Corp.(BENCHMARKS LAST WEEK)(Brief article)
April 20, 2009... Intel Corp. said it has started sending samples of its upcoming 32-nanometer Westmere processors to PC makers. Volume shipments are due later this year.

MafiaBoy.(BENCHMARKS LAST WEEK)(Brief article)
April 20, 2009... NINE YEARS AGO: A 15 year-old hacker from Montreal known as MafiaBoy was charged with "data mischief" in connection with denial-of-service attacks against various Web sites.

Infosys sees slumping sales.(Global Dispatches)(Brief article)
April 20, 2009... BANGALORE, India -- Infosys Technologies Ltd. is projecting a decrease in annual revenue-its first ever-for its fiscal year ending March 31 2010. The company said it expects the fiscal 2010 revenue decline to range from 3.1% to 6.7% or up to...

Trade group joins EC in Microsoft case.(Global Dispatches)(Brief article)
April 20, 2009... BRUSSELS -- The European Committee for Interoperable Systems, a trade group whose members include Oracle, Sun Microsystems and IBM, last week joined as an interested third party in the European Commission's latest antitrust battle with...

Briefly noted.(Global Dispatches)(Tech Mahindra Ltd. acquires Satyam Computer Services Ltd.)(Brief article)
April 20, 2009... Tech Mahindra Ltd., a Pune India-based outsourcing firm, made the winning bid for a majority stake in troubled Satyam Computer Services Ltd. Tech Mahindra will pay 17.6 billion Indian rupees ($353 million U.S.) for a 31% stake in Satyam, and it...

Data-loading pedal gets put to the metal: vendors are touting ultrafast times for loading information into data warehouses. But is there really a big need for that kind of speed?(NEWS ANALYSIS)
April 20, 2009... ONE OF the more prosaic parts of data warehousing is getting information into a warehouse in the first place. Vendors that sell data-loading tools have long operated in the shadows of the business intelligence market, with little pizazz or...

New Symantec CEO says security sells in hard times: Salem expects SaaS to account for 20% of the company's business within five years.(ENRIQUE SALEM)(Interview)
April 20, 2009... ORLANDO Enrique Salem, who took the reins of Symantec Corp. as president and CEO this month, sat down with Computerworld's Scot Finnie and Lucas Mearian at the Storage Networking World conference here to talk about how his company is...

Android faces fight for users, despite update: Google will soon reinforce the mobile OS with new features. But Android-based phones likely won't leapfrog rivals such as the iPhone.(NEWS ANALYSIS)
April 20, 2009... AN ANDROID update that Google Inc. plans to release soon will include new features sought by users and developers since the mobile operating system became available last year. But even so, it doesn't appear that Android-based phones will outdo...

Virgil Griffith: the tech provocateur talks about exposing the wicked, staying out of trouble and designing machines that can feel.(THE GRILL)(Interview)
April 20, 2009... Virgil Griffith is a doctoral candidate in computation and neural systems at the California Institute of Technology. He has been called a troublemaker, twerp, agitator and provocateur. As a teenager, he tried to sue his school over a...

Don't blame' Em - train 'Em.(OPINION)(employees' view regarding their information technology departments)(Column)
April 20, 2009... IOCCASIONALLY TEACH a session in the IT-MBA program at a local university. My subject is IT governance. After introducing myself, I ask the students what they think of their IT departments. Here is a sampling of the comments I've heard: *...

How we determined the winners.(Green Achievers)
April 20, 2009... Green IT is sprouting new strategies, such as the use of sensors that monitor power consumption and incentives that motivate employees to save energy. These 12 award winners are at the forefront of the movement. FOR THE SECOND year in a...

Fertile ground for green-IT innovation.(EDITOR'S NOTE)(Editorial)
April 20, 2009... JUST AS A SEED SPROUTS and stretches toward the sun, the green-IT movement has grown and pushed skyward in the past year. When the bright minds of IT start brainstorming, expect a bounty of new ideas and success stories. With this second...

Mohawk Fine Papers Inc. Thousands of sensors monitor everything from office lighting to smokestack emissions.(TOP GREEN-IT ORGANIZATIONS)
April 20, 2009... 1 PAUL STAMAS did everything he could to reduce energy consumption and the carbon footprint of IT operations at Mohawk Fine Papers Inc. Then he looked for ways to help the company's non IT operations go green. The Cohoes, N.Y.-based...

State Street Corp. Regional hubs with large data centers serve many local sites.(TOP GREEN-IT ORGANIZATIONS)
April 20, 2009... 2 STATE STREET Corp. began its green initiatives in earnest in 2003 and has been rolling them out systematically ever since. The process began by benchmarking energy and water use, emissions of greenhouse gases and recycling. Those became...

Allstate Insurance Co. Four data centers were rolled into two, saving about $65 million.(TOP GREEN-IT ORGANIZATIONS)(Brief article)
April 20, 2009... 3 ALLSTATE Insurance Co. has had green initiatives in place for a number of years, including telework programs, videoconferencing systems, an in-house printing plant and printer-cartridge recycling efforts. But what has really moved the company...

Citigroup: educating end users on the carbon cost of electronic storage helps promote change.(TOP GREEN-IT ORGANIZATIONS)
April 20, 2009... 4 MICHELLE Erickson doesn't really want to talk about how Citigroup has saved energy in its data centers, or how it is cutting power consumption for thousands of PCs. Everyone talks about that, says Erickson, initiative director for the global...

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP: a new data center will cut copper consumption and even reduce the number of work shifts and commutes.(TOP GREEN-IT ORGANIZATIONS)
April 20, 2009... 5 WHEN PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP brings its new 80,000-square-foot data center online this fall, the firm will showcase its latest green initiatives as well as the latest IT infrastructure. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The new data center...

State of Indiana: data center consolidation, server virtualization and energy-efficient desktops save nearly $14 million.(TOP GREEN-IT ORGANIZATIONS)
April 20, 2009... 6 WHEN Gerry Weaver was hired as CIO for the state of Indiana two years ago, his mission was threefold: Dramatically improve IT service, reduce costs, and employ green initiatives wherever possible. At the time, the computing infrastructure was...

KPMG: a new data center runs natural-gas-powered micro-turbines that generate electricity.(TOP GREEN-IT ORGANIZATIONS)
April 20, 2009... 7 ASK Dick Anderson, CIO at KPMG LLP, to tell you what the audit, tax and advisory firm's carbon footprint is, and he can answer immediately. He can also tell you the exact amount of this month's carbon savings resulting from the IT unit's...

Seventh Generation: desktop PCs and personal printers are out. Energy-efficient laptops and all-in-one printers are in.(TOP GREEN-IT ORGANIZATIONS)(Company overview)
April 20, 2009... 8 SEVENTH Generation Inc. 's Dan O'Shaughnessy spent his summer workdays capturing sunshine. The IT technical support analyst had rigged up two RV-type solar panels, a marine battery and an inverter to power his laptop and 17-inch monitor....

Office Depot: the company is growing, but its greenhouse gas emissions are down 10.1%.(TOP GREEN-IT ORGANIZATIONS)
April 20, 2009... 9 YALMAZ Siddiqui, director of environmental strategy at Office Depot Inc., first analyzed company wide energy use in 2006, looking back at each facility's kilowatt-hour usage for 2004. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Siddiqui says one site...

Burt's Bees: employee pay is partially tied to reductions in energy use, water consumption and waste.(TOP GREEN-IT ORGANIZATIONS)
April 20, 2009... 10 WITHOUT even knowing its mission statement--to be "the greenest personal care company on earth"--you might expect the people at Burt's Bees Inc. to be environmental activists. After all, the quirky company with the bearded man on its labels...

Marriott International Inc. Security guards now keep tabs on the thermostats, too.(TOP GREEN-IT ORGANIZATIONS)
April 20, 2009... 11 AT Marriott International Inc., green initiatives come in all sizes. On the high end is the decision made by the $13 billion global hospitality company to lease underground space from Iron Mountain Inc. to accommodate its new data center. At...

Austin Energy: with a new virtual environment, applications run on 150 servers instead of 600.(TOP GREEN-IT ORGANIZATIONS)
April 20, 2009... 12 AUSTIN Energy promotes itself as a green company, delivering sustainable power options to customers and offering incentives to help them conserve energy. So it's not surprising that the community-owned utility wants its internal...

A new green gold standard.(OPINION)(Environmental Protection Agency rates data centers' energy efficiency )(Column)
April 20, 2009... ARECENT Environmental Protection Agency study on energy-saving strategies for servers and data centers noted that the industry uses an enormous amount of energy--more than 1.5% of all electricity generated in the U.S.--and that that number is...

Employment outlook.(Career Watch)(Brief article)
April 20, 2009... 8% Percentage of ClOs who expect to add personnel in the second quarter. 6% Percentage of ClOs who are planning staff reductions in the second quarter. In Robert Half Technology's Q2 2009 hiring survey, CIOs planning to...

Golden years: retired for now.(Career Watch)(Brief article)
April 20, 2009... Many older workers are putting off retirement because of the economic downturn and the precipitous decline in their 401(k)s and other stock holdings. In one of its online surveys, CareerBuilder.com found that 60% of workers over the age of 60...

Chris Twyman: the CEO and founder of Zapoint Inc. explains the company's talent management software.(Q&A)(Interview)
April 20, 2009... Zapoint can be a little hard to wrap your head around. It sounds a bit like a job board and a bit like social networking. What's the best way to describe it? Zapoint measures skills and achievements. It's a new generation of human capital...

True tales of it life as told to Sharky.(SharkTank)
April 20, 2009... Hardware Fix This IT support pilot fish works as a contractor at a Defense Department facility. "We occasionally have to destroy BlacKBerries that are too old to be reused," fish says. "But there isn't a very good wiping process for these...

#amazonfail.(FRANKLY SPEAKING)(Amazon.com's book sales rankings)
April 20, 2009... MAYBE you heard about the problem last week at Amazon.com. Over a weekend, the Amazon sales rankings disappeared for hundreds of books, many of them with gay or lesbian themes (see story, page 6). The reaction from bloggers was first...

Whatever it takes.(House Committee on Homeland Security)(Editorial)
April 27, 2009... IN THE FILM State of Play, a thriller now playing in a theater near you, the bad guys are tied to a Blackwater-like security contractor called Point Corp. The contractor is out to make a killing, so to speak, by persuading congressional leaders...

Responses to: 'mafiahoy' spills the beans at IT360 on underground hackers.(ONLINE CHATTER)(Letter to the editor)
April 27, 2009... April 14,2009 A jewel of Michael Cake's insider "knowledge": "Calce said his own systems have never been compromised. 'I run Unix servers, so I'm constantly maintaining. I'm always watching the logs. Unless there is someone in my systems...

The week ahead.
April 27, 2009... MOMMY: The Computer Forensics Show, which focuses on recovering data from systems, opens in Washington. TUESDAY: Sun, which agreed to be bought by Oracle last week (see story, page 10), is due to report its third-quarter results. ...

Cybersecurity official says white house should lead.(IT AND GOVERNMENT)
April 27, 2009... THE FEDERAL official who led a 60-day review of the U.S. government's cybersecurity programs for President Barack Obama last week called for the White House to play a more direct role in coordinating national information security efforts. ...

Microsoft cuts UAC prompts in Windows 7.(OPERATING SYSTEM)(User Account Control)(Brief article)
April 27, 2009... User Account Control, a Windows Vista security feature that has long been considered intrusive, will appear about one-third less often in Windows 7 than it does in Vista. "From our beta and internal testing, we expect a 29% decrease in UAC...

Study finds H-1B use cuts tech wages by up to 6%.(CAREERS)
April 27, 2009... THE USE of H-IB workers by U.S. companies is decreasing wages by as much as 6% for some IT workers, according to a study by researchers at New York University's and the University of Pennsylvania's business schools. The study, released...

AMD to ship six-core chip in June, plans 16 cores by 2011.(PROCESSORS)(Advanced Micro Devices Inc.)(Brief article)
April 27, 2009... Advanced Micro Devices Inc. last week said it will release a six-core Opteron processor in .June, five months ahead of schedule. And it detailed plans to add chips supporting up to 12 cores next year arid 16 in 2011. AMD, which reported a...