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    Try project management for a 'fun' career 03 March, 2010 11:17:00

    A forty-year veteran of engineering and project management says more people should consider the career as it is fun job that yields tangible results.
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    Nokia N900 coming to retailers in April 03 March, 2010 11:04:00

    Nokia has announced its Linux-based smartphone, the N900, will be available in Australia in April through retailers, but stopped short of announcing any agreements with carriers.
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    Carl Zeiss sees clear vision in Project 2010 02 March, 2010 11:10:00

    Lens manufacturer Carl Zeiss Vision is moving off internally developed systems to become an early adopter of Microsoft Project 2010 to facilitate its collaborative project management requirements.
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    Auckland council saves with SaaS docs management 25 February, 2010 14:28:00

    Auckland Regional Council (ARC) has eliminated costly outsourcing of document production by implementing a SaaS solution that handles collaboration and change management.
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    Linux 2.6.33 released: nVidia driver in, Android out 25 February, 2010 10:48:00

    The first Linux kernel release of 2010 has arrived with version 2.6.33 and it is big on graphics with a new open source nVidia driver and support for the Nintendo Wii and GameCube gaming consoles, in addition to usual high-end features.
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    Slideshow: Open source at Facebook 24 February, 2010 14:25:00

    It’s loved by millions and has risen from a small-time university social networking service to the biggest phenomenon on the Internet. It’s the phenomenon that is Facebook. Popularity, however, doesn’t come easy. With some 400 million unique home pages Facebook is pushing the boundaries of traditional Web application scalability and it’s not shy to admit that it has been achieved by leveraging open source software. We take a look at some of the slides presented by Facebook at this year's FOSDEM conference in Belgium.
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    Open source helps Facebook achieve massive app scalability 24 February, 2010 09:40:00

    People all over the world spend a total of eight billion minutes a day on Facebook. Some 3.5 billion pieces of content are shared every week, 400 billion Web pages are viewed every month and the site logs a staggering 25TB of data every day. David Recordon, senior open programs manager at Facebook, talks about how the social networking giant uses open source tools to achieve its massive app scalablilty.
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    HipHop steals Web serving from Apache at Facebook 24 February, 2010 07:10:00

    Despite using the venerable LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL PHP) stack to build one of the busiest sites on the Internet, Facebook is moving its main Web serving infrastructure from Apache to HipHop for PHP, which has its own embedded Web server.
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    Project management carreers on the rise: PMI 23 February, 2010 10:37:00

    Graduate interest in project management is on the rise, with a 150-fold increase in postgraduate courses in the discipline according to the Project Management Institute (PMI).
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    Curtin CIO cements future in cloud computing 10 February, 2010 15:33:00

    If successful, cloud computing will enable IT departments to concentrate of managing information rather than physical assets, according to Curtin University of Technology CIO Peter Nikoletatos who is leading a trial of a hybrid public-private cloud infrastructure.
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    Slideshow: KDE SC 4.4 screenshots 10 February, 2010 11:04:00

    KDE SC 4.4.0, Codenamed "Caikaku", has been released and has had many changes since the 4.3 release in August 2009. More than 7000 bugs fixed and 1433 new feature requests implemented, including a new interface for netbooks and touchscreen devices. We take a visual tour of KDE SC 4.4 and highlight the technologies well suited to consumers and IT departments.
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    Security industry faces attacks it cannot stop 12 March, 2010 07:13:00

    Tests find that most AV is still not blocking Aurora exploit
    At the RSA Conference in San Francisco last week, security vendors pitched their next-generation of security products, promising to protect customers from security threats in the cloud and on mobile devices. But what went largely unsaid was that the industry has failed to protect paying customers from some of today's most pernicious threats.
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    Counterfeit card fraud drops by half in the UK 11 March, 2010 08:17:00

    But online banking fraud continues to rise, according to figures from financial institutions
    Fraud losses due to counterfeit payment cards fell by half in 2009 from the year prior in the U.K., but online banking losses continued to rise, according to new banking industry figures released Wednesday.
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    Twitter to begin screening some links for phishing 11 March, 2010 06:09:00

    Twitter will shorten some links sent through the service to twt.tl
    Twitter launched a new link-screening service on Tuesday aimed at preventing phishing and other malicious attacks against users of the popular microblogging service.
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    US expert: Chinese gov't likely behind massive cyberattacks 11 March, 2010 07:25:00

    US lawmakers are calling for new policies for dealing with the Chinese government
    The Chinese government is likely behind recent cyberattacks on U.S. government Web sites and on U.S. companies in an apparent effort to quash criticism of the government there, an expert on U.S. and Chinese relations said Wednesday.
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    Hackers exploit latest IE zero-day with drive-by attacks 11 March, 2010 06:26:00

    Researchers expect attacks to explode once exploit code goes public
    Hackers are exploiting the just-disclosed unpatched bug in Internet Explorer (IE) to launch drive-by attacks from malicious Web sites, security researchers said today.

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