What Google knows about you

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Computerworld This Week
May 11, 2009
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In this issue:

1. What Google knows about you

2. 6 ways to protect your privacy on Google

3. Microsoft springs Windows 7 RC a day early

4. Google adds app link to BlackBerry

5. CA tools open mainframe work to younger staffers

6. Oracle cuts some support prices -- temporarily

7. Microsoft lays off 3,000 more workers, says more cuts possible

8. Global Dispatches: New South Wales launches $100M e-health project

9. Web 2.0 leaders struggle to maintain their top spots

10. Experts: Tax changes won't curb offshoring

11. Q&A: Craig Mundie on the Next Big Thing for Microsoft

12. RFID is finding a home in the data center

13. Mountain climbing helps a CTO reach new career heights

14. QuickStudy: The smart grid

15. Security Manager's Journal: Parting the clouds at the RSA conference

16. Opinion: The business benefits of texting

17. Career Watch: The 'fix mentality' is in

18. Opinion: Your users are a major part of your systems

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IDC White Paper: Linux in a Global Recession
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What Google knows about you

If you're one of the growing number of people who are using more and more
products in Google's ever-increasing stable, should you be worried about what
the company does with your personal data?
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6 ways to protect your privacy on Google

Google provides many ways to protect your privacy online -- you just need to
find them. Here are six good ones.
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/4996792/283856145/189558/0/

Microsoft springs Windows 7 RC a day early

Microsoft launched the long-awaited Windows 7 Release Candidate, the forerunner
to the final version of the new operating system, a day earlier than planned.
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Google adds app link to BlackBerry

Google hopes that a new tool that makes it easier for BlackBerry users to access
Google Apps software will help expand corporate use of its hosted applications.
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CA tools open mainframe work to younger staffers

CA said that 143 of its 166 mainframe software products now meet its Mainframe
2.0 specifications that are aimed at easing the process of installing and
managing the complex tools.
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Oracle cuts some support prices -- temporarily

Oracle announced plans to offer 10% support discounts for one or two years to
users of old versions of five enterprise applications.
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Microsoft lays off 3,000 more workers, says more cuts possible

Microsoft announced 3,000 more layoffs and said more cuts are possible.
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/4996792/283856145/189563/0/

Global Dispatches: New South Wales launches $100M e-health project

New South Wales has started work on an e-health system that will replace paper
records systems in public hospitals. And the government of Rwanda has awarded a
Swedish company a $5 million contract to build a national data center.
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Web 2.0 leaders struggle to maintain their top spots

Google, Facebook and Twitter must meet multiple challenges head-on if they want
to maintain their Web 2.0 success and not meet the fate of companies like
Digital Equipment Corp. or Sun Microsystems.
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Experts: Tax changes won't curb offshoring

Analysts and tax experts disagree with President Obama's contention that his
proposed tax-code changes will curb offshoring by IT vendors, arguing that
companies turn to overseas help to take advantage of lower salaries and the
widespread availability of technology skills.
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Q&A: Craig Mundie on the Next Big Thing for Microsoft

Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer talks about the next wave of
client and cloud computing.
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RFID is finding a home in the data center

Financial institutions that use RFID tools are seeing on average a 90% decrease
in the amount of time it takes to inventory their IT assets.
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Mountain climbing helps a CTO reach new career heights

As CTO Armando Escalante turned from couch potato to mountain climber, he
rebalanced his life, improved his health and enhanced his IT career.
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QuickStudy: The smart grid

The smart grid: What is it, when will it get here, and what difference will it
make?
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Security Manager's Journal: Parting the clouds at the RSA conference

Cloud computing and virtualization are our manager's focus as he attends one of
his two favorite conferences of the year.
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Opinion: The business benefits of texting

Bart Perkins says texting is perfect for business. If your company isn't using
it to engage customers, it's time to get your thumbs in gear.
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Career Watch: The 'fix mentality' is in

OnForce CEO Peter Cannone discusses trends gleaned from the data on the online
marketplace's 12,000 service professionals.
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Opinion: Your users are a major part of your systems

Make users an IT asset and feed their recommendations and social behaviors back
into your systems.
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