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April 29, 2009
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In this issue:
1. IT Blogwatch: iPhones don't work, say researchers
2. Seth Weintraub: Zillow app: iPhone does real estate
3. Mike Elgan: Zoho bests Google in mobile app suite?
4. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: Are there too many desktop Linuxes?
5. Seth H. Weintraub: Is Intel trying to squash Linux netbooks?
6. Scott McPherson: Can the "cloud" help us manage our way through a pandemic?
7. Mark Everett Hall: Don't get locked in the cloud
8. Scott McPherson: New IT flu pandemic presentation, checklist available
9. Douglas Schweitzer: Try not to panic is easier said than done
10. Scott McPherson: IT pandemic presentation upload, IT checklist forthcoming
11. Seth H. Weintraub: Government concerned over possible Google Books monopoly
12. Patrick Thibodeau: H-1B legislation alarms India's government
13. Lisa Hoover: Microsoft gives "societal networking" a try with Vine
14. Mark Everett Hall: Panda pushes new free hybrid security service for PCs
15. Shark Tank: Thanks, boss -- really!
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Bad Data is Bad for Business
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Edmunds.com Customer Success Story for Service Automation
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IDC Whitepaper: The Benefits of Datacenter Transformation
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IT Blogwatch: iPhones don't work, say researchers
In Wednesday's IT Blogwatch, Richi Jennings watches iPhone use in business—does
really it take a back seat to personal use? Not to mention Sting's home
improvement tips...
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/4913532/283856150/186779/0/
Seth Weintraub: Zillow app: iPhone does real estate
Trulia has met its match. Zillow for the iPhone does great work with GPS, and
shows a wealth of real estate information that the Zillow website has.
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/4913532/283856150/186780/0/
Mike Elgan: Zoho bests Google in mobile app suite?
Google wants to own the future of mobile software, including office suite
software, but Zoho launched a new capability to run its very solid, browser-based
mobile apps on all major platforms, not just iPhone and Windows Mobile.
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/4913532/283856150/186781/0/
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: Are there too many desktop Linuxes?
Debian, Fedora, MEPIS, Mint, openSUSE, Ubuntu, Xandros, the list of desktop
Linuxes goes on and on, and maybe that's one of its biggest problems.
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/4913532/283856150/186782/0/
Seth H. Weintraub: Is Intel trying to squash Linux netbooks?
OK, that title might be a little misleading. Intel has a long history of
supporting Linux and makes plenty of money selling hardware that Linux runs on.
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/4913532/283856150/186783/0/
Scott McPherson: Can the "cloud" help us manage our way through a pandemic?
Cloud computing -- can we move our operations to it during a moderate to severe
pandemic? Let's talk about it and come up with ways we can offload some
management tasks to the cloud.
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/4913532/283856150/186784/0/
Mark Everett Hall: Don't get locked in the cloud
The Distributed Management Task Force wants to help spur cloud computing
adoption by introducing some standardization to cloud-based infrastructure.
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/4913532/283856150/186785/0/
Scott McPherson: New IT flu pandemic presentation, checklist available
These tools are designed to help you and your IT shop plan for an influenza
pandemic, and to familiarize yourself with the history of influenza in
easy-to-understand terms.
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/4913532/283856150/186786/0/
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Douglas Schweitzer: Try not to panic is easier said than done
Last year I saved someone's life. I was at work and my administrative assistant
of 15 years was in the conference room down the hall eating her lunch with
several of the other women in the office. She was eating a chicken nugget and
started to choke. Embarrassed, she quickly but quietly got up and ran down the
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Scott McPherson: IT pandemic presentation upload, IT checklist forthcoming
These tools will help IT professionals plan and prepare in case the WHO raises
the pandemic threat level to 5.
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/4913532/283856150/186788/0/
Seth H. Weintraub: Government concerned over possible Google Books monopoly
Google is being hit with its first (of many?) anti-Monopoly inquiries by the
Department of Justice this week the NYTimes has learned. What is it all about?
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/4913532/283856150/186789/0/
Patrick Thibodeau: H-1B legislation alarms India's government
Grassley/Durbin bill imposes what amounts to a tariff on H-1B visas.
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/4913532/283856150/186790/0/
Lisa Hoover: Microsoft gives "societal networking" a try with Vine
Microsoft is road-testing Vine, a new type of social networking tool. It's
designed for friends and family to keep in touch during times of crisis with the
goal of helping people communicate in the aftermath of hurricanes, earthquakes,
or pandemics. Oh, and if you want to use it for less gloomy reasons too --
messaging your entire softball team, for instance -- that's okay too.
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/4913532/283856150/186791/0/
Mark Everett Hall: Panda pushes new free hybrid security service for PCs
Despite spending lots of money for anti-malware tools, people's machines
continue to get infected. One European vendor thinks it has improved PC
protection significantly with a new, free service.
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/4913532/283856150/186792/0/
Shark Tank: Thanks, boss -- really!
Management decides it's finally time to start pushing down Microsoft updates --
and there are a lot of them. But one angry user isn't handling the process well.
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SHARK BAIT OF THE DAY
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Computer possessed by galactic signals
I received a baffling e-mail from a user today: "Today while doing some
paperwork at my desk, but not using the computer, it suddenly came on showing
four different split screens, each showing different galactic pictures, with
appropriate numerical designations, and doing various mathematical equations in
each ... "
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