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• Apple releases Mac OS 10.5.5

  Apple today released Mac OS 10.5.5 via Software Update. The 136MB updated comes with 33 fixes for the following components: Address Book Disk Utility iCal Mail MobileMe Time Machine Knowledge ...

  Tags: Workforce Management, Performance Management, Hardware, Issue, Desktops, Apple Mac OS, Human Resources, Operating Systems, Performance, Apple Inc.

  Sep 15, 2008 7:52 PM PDT

• Green tech that shimmers. Raleigh uses LEDs, aluminum flaps for convention center's new Cree Shimmer Wall

  What do you do with an exterior wall a city block long that fronts your building's heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems? That's the challenge that was posed to Thomas ...

  Tags: Wall, Engineering, Light-emitting Diode, Construction, Raleigh, Heather Clancy, Cree, Green Technology, Sayre

  Sep 15, 2008 6:43 PM PDT

• Cheap oil signal end of greentech bubble?

  Oil is now below $100 per barrel, for the first time in months. Even Hurricane Ike was not able to hike up the oil futures. That devastating hurricane was trumped ...

  Tags: Financial Services, Private Equity, Finance, Stock, Harry Fuller, Stock Market, IPO, Investment

  Sep 15, 2008 6:37 PM PDT

• Apple mega-patch covers 34 Mac OS X security issues

  Apple has shipped another mega-update to address security vulnerabilities affecting Mac OS X users, warning that the most serious issues could lead to arbitrary code execution attacks. The update, available ...

  Tags: Apple Mac OS X, Arbitrary Code Execution, Domain Names, Password, Apple Mac OS, Ryan Naraine, CVE-2008-1382, Apple Inc., Application Termination, Internet

  Sep 15, 2008 4:54 PM PDT

• Inner8.com launches: Here are 100 early access invites to new stock site

  Inner8.com, a new investing intelligence site, goes live today. I've got 100 invites, so if you'd like to try it out, click below. Inner8 started out as Jambaz.com more than ...

  Tags: Finance, Stock, Investment, Mitch Ratcliffe

  Sep 15, 2008 4:34 PM PDT

• Is it "reasonable" to ask IT job candidates to prove their skills?

  Increasingly, IT professionals are asked to take some sort of test when they go for a job interview, to prove they know the technology that's on their resume, even when ...

  Tags: Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Information Technology, Job Interview, Strategy, Job Candidate, Job, Deb Perelman, Slashdot

  Sep 15, 2008 4:25 PM PDT

• Facebook introducing new security warning feature

  With Facebook persistently under attacks from phishers and malware authors, looking for creative ways to efficiently exploit its users base, Facebook's security team has silently introduced a new "security warning ...

  Tags: Spam, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev, Security Warning, MySpace, Viruses And Worms, Security, Facebook, Phishing, Cyberthreats

  Sep 15, 2008 3:46 PM PDT

• 'Business event processing' now in the spotlight

  Is 'business event processing' too much to swallow? by Joe McKendrick

  Tags: Web Services, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web 2.0, Event, Marketing, Joe McKendrick, Enterprise Software, BEP, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Branding

  Sep 15, 2008 3:27 PM PDT

• Is Microsoft aiming for an early Windows 7 launch?

  Andy Patrizio at InternetNews.com has raised some eyebrows with his report that an "internal calendar" at Microsoft has June 3, 2009 as the planned release date for Windows 7. Isn't ...

  Tags: Microsoft Corp., Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, Ed Bott, Software, Microsoft Windows

  Sep 15, 2008 3:12 PM PDT

• HP to cut nearly 25,000 jobs as part of EDS integration

  Hewlett-Packard is releasing details of its plans to integrate EDS into growth strategy, including a restructuring plan for the EDS business group that will reduce the workforce by almost 25,000 ...

  Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Integration, Workforce, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Sam Diaz, Payroll Solutions, Job, Electronic Data Systems Corp., Recruitment & Selection

  Sep 15, 2008 1:57 PM PDT

• IBM targets HP's server beachhead

  In its latest volley in a tug-of-war between two tech giants, IBM said Monday that it will offer services free of charge to migrate HP server customers to its System ...

  Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Servers, Larry Dignan, Hardware, IBM Corp., Mainframes

  Sep 15, 2008 1:56 PM PDT

• What's the big deal about the Firefox EULA?

  A number of people seem to have their knickers in a twist over Mozilla's requirements to display the Firefox EULA when the program is launched the first time in Ubuntu. ...

  Tags: Web Browsers, Joe Brockmeier, EULA, Internet, Mozilla Firefox

  Sep 15, 2008 1:53 PM PDT

• US money heads to European startup, Zemanta

  This morning's feeds carried repeated mentions of a new and relatively small investment in a young startup called Zemanta. In itself, nothing that interesting. The story had added bite, though, ...

  Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Online Communications, Marketing, Zemanta, Internet, Semantic Web, Social Networking, Investment, Paul Miller

  Sep 15, 2008 1:33 PM PDT

• Acer, Toshiba and Sony push laptop displays to 18.4 inches

  Sony bills its new AW series as the "industry's first" laptop with an 18.4-inch widescreen display. It is certainly one of the first, but that's not accurate. Acer beat them ...

  Tags: Components, Processors, Acer Inc., Laptop Computer, Hardware, Notebooks, Notebooks & Tablets, John Morris, Nvidia GeForce, Selling Point

  Sep 15, 2008 1:14 PM PDT

• Semantics in Advertising

  Whilst there's quite a tendency these days to stick 'semantic' in front of almost every word in the dictionary and attempt to create a new industry segment, the related markets ...

  Tags: Advertisement, Contextual Advertising, Internet, Semantic Web, COGITO Advertiser, Paul Miller

  Sep 15, 2008 12:50 PM PDT

• MobileTechRoundup show #147, New MP3 players, new HTC devices and more

  We wished our local podcast co-host James the best of luck as he was just about to get hit by Hurricane Ike as we recorded MobileTechRoundup show #147 and he ...

  Tags: High Tech Computer Corp., Podcasts, Matthew Miller, MP3 Player, Internet, MobileTechRoundup, MP3

  Sep 15, 2008 12:39 PM PDT

• Social networking enhances career growth -- only if used correctly

  Top three ways to use social networking tools to enhance your brand and your career -- and what pitfalls to avoid. by Jennifer Leggio

  Tags: Career, Jennifer Leggio, Professional Development, Network, Advertising & Promotion, Online Communications, Marketing, Mike, Mike Murray, Social Networking

  Sep 15, 2008 12:27 PM PDT

• Microsoft joins the 'everyone but Apple' digital-media coalition

  Microsoft's digital-rights-management strategy on the consumer/device side of the house has been a constantly changing, murky one. Microsoft's latest move in joining a new digital-media coalition is doing little -- ...

  Tags: Personal Technology, Microsoft Corp., Operating Systems, Apple Inc., Mary Jo Foley, Software, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Microsoft Windows

  Sep 15, 2008 12:21 PM PDT

• Wi-Fi for your bathtub?

  It seems like Wi-Fi is being built into almost anything these days, as witnessed by the wireless streaming capabilities of a new bathtub. Yes, you read that right. Kohler's high-end ...

  Tags: Sean Portnoy, Audio, Wireless LANs, Radio, Wireless, Wi-Fi, Kohler

  Sep 15, 2008 12:11 PM PDT

• Call off the dogs--authentication solution already in enterprise-class PCs

  The answer to many of our security problems could be found in chips that are used to store credentials and user certificates says Wave Systems CEO Steven Sprague. While static ...

  Tags: security chips, Special to ZDNet, Hardware, Wave Systems Corp., compliance, CEO, Desktops, Password, PC, LAN

  Sep 15, 2008 11:57 AM PDT

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