on Life and Livingness – by Tom

IT admins warned to upgrade immediately. http://www.itnews.com.au/News/169171,serious-flaw-discovered-in-apache.aspx

Contract negotiator discusses the top 5 reasons novice outsourcers fail. http://www.itnews.com.au/News/168715,opinion-the-five-pitfalls-of-outsourcing.aspx

Preview testing proved that the database edition can yield thirty times the performance of traditional x86 systems. http://www.itnews.com.au/News/168589,ibm-claims-x86-server-breakthrough.aspx

How IT departments streamline themselves into oblivion http://www.zdnetasia.com/techguide/techmanagement/0,39044902,62060079,00.htm?scid=nl_z_tgtm

Vulnerabilities could cripple critical systems. http://www.itnews.com.au/News/162509,firms-urged-to-apply-microsoft-and-adobe-patches.aspx

Even cheaper computers on the way. http://www.itnews.com.au/News/162381,googles-chrome-could-reshape-pc-experience.aspx

A team of US security researchers have engineered a way of hiding malware in sentences that read like English language spam. http://www.itnews.com.au/News/161735,malware-hidden-in-english-language-text.aspx

SQL injection attack exposes customer data. http://newsletter.itnews.com.au/cgi-bin16/DM/y/hBz730En4rp0PTM0SML50Eq

In-house lawyers at large firms are concerned that they will be unable to find relevant data in the case of litigation, according to a survey from KPMG. http://www.itnews.com.au/News/161221,lawyers-concerned-about-finding-internal-data.aspx

Did you know that site speed could become a big factor in search engine rankings in the upcoming year? Stay ahead of the game and check out Page Speed at Google, which will help increase the speed of your site: http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/

Claims its processor is four times faster than anything else on the market and delivers ten times the performance per watt. http://www.itnews.com.au/News/159314,tilera-claims-worlds-first-100-core-processor.aspx

Businesses should look at five key issues to prep themselves for “nearly inevitable” migration to Microsoft’s upcoming OS, Gartner advises.http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/software/0,39044164,62058699,00.htm

The mobile Core i7s will find their way into the latest gaming and high-end multimedia laptops. Here are 10 things you should know about them: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2353188,00.asp

This web site will test how long it takes to load your site pages http://www.octagate.com/service/SiteTimer/

Desktop systems splitting off into new product segments. http://www.itnews.com.au/News/156771,intel-and-the-death-of-the-beige-box-pc.aspx

The Open Invention Network, whose members include IBM and Red Hat, will purchase patents formerly held by Microsoft http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/317839/microsoft_rivals_purchase_22_patents_defend_linux?eid=-301