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Four trends shape the New Data Center

fmmonteverde — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 09:14:00 +0800

Bad BitDefender update clobbers Windows PCs

fmmonteverde — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 09:10:00 +0800

Users of the BitDefender antivirus software started flooding the company's support forums Saturday, apparently after a faulty antivirus update caused 64-bit Windows machines to stop working.

The company acknowledged the issue in a note explaining the problem, posted Saturday.

Gender discrimination linked to poor project management

fmmonteverde — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 09:09:00 +0800

New research suggests that technically oriented women could face gender discrimination in their jobs at high-tech firms in part because of mismanaged projects.

Tech firms rely excessively on a "hero mindset" to save runaway coding projects that are poorly organized, and employees with family responsibilities—often women—are sacrificed

Novell rejects "inadequate" $2B takeover bid

fmmonteverde — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 09:08:00 +0800

Novell's CEO on Saturday notified customers that the open source software company has rejected hedge fund Elliott Associates' roughly $2 billion bid to take it private.

Novell's Ron Hovsepian wrote: "As you may know, on March 2nd, Elliott Associates, L.P. announced an unsolicited, conditional proposal to acquire Novell.

Time is right to consider VDI

fmmonteverde — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 09:07:00 +0800

If you haven't considered virtual desktop options lately, it might be time to take a closer look.

IE9 won't run on Windows XP

fmmonteverde — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 09:22:00 +0800

Microsoft's new browser, Internet Explorer 9 (IE9), will not run on Windows XP, now or when the software eventually ships, the company confirmed last week week.

The move makes Microsoft the first major browser developer to drop support for X

Microsoft announces Windows 7 SP1

fmmonteverde — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 09:10:00 +0800

Microsoft announced Thursday service packs for both Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, but declined to set a release date or a schedule for getting a beta in users' hands.

According to a company spokesman, Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) will primarily contain "minor updates,"

Knowledge management making waves in HK

fmmonteverde — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 09:09:09 +0800

While KM may have struggled in the past to gain real traction, today the need for effective leveraging of information, collaboration and knowledge retention has brought a heightened need for effective KM implementation.

Vintage Commodore 64 gets a makeover

fmmonteverde — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 09:09:00 +0800

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China firm shows fake MacBook Air, big iPhone tablet

fmmonteverde — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 09:08:00 +0800

A knock-off MacBook Air running Windows, a tablet computer shaped like a big iPhone and another tablet meant to rival Apple's iPad were all among the devices shown off by a small Chinese gadget maker on Thursday.

Teso, a gadge