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AMD's new strategy could pave the way for ARM in future chips

Advanced Micro Devices has loosened its commitment to the x86 architecture, announcing a new design strategy that could pave the way for using ARM technology in future AMD chips.
Apple patches 51 bugs in Mac OS X Lion and Snow Leopard

Apple on Tuesday patched 51 vulnerabilities in Mac OS X, most of them critical, in 2012's first security update.
DNSChanger has infected half of Fortune 500 firms

Half of all Fortune 500 companies and major US government agencies own computers infected with the "DNSChanger" malware that redirects users to fake websites and puts organisations at risk of information theft, a security company warned yesterday.
Microsoft researchers discover malicious cookie scheme

Microsoft researchers checking how easy it is to identify users by analysing commonly collected web-log data incidentally discovered a cookie-forwarding scheme that can be used to aid session hijacking.
EMC launches Isilon NAS with Hadoop integration

EMC has launched its latest Isilon Network Attached Storage (NAS) offering, introducing native support for the open source analytics platform Hadoop, based on Apache.
Apple FileVault 2 encryption cracked by forensic software

The encryption keys for Apple?s FileVault 2 full-disk encryption used with OS X Lion can be recovered ?in minutes? from memory, password-cracking outfit Passware has announced.
VMTurbo Operations Manager upgrade supports virtualisation platforms

VMTurbo has upgraded Operations Manager to version 3.0 to support the three major virtual environments and to improve its capacity-planning tool.
HP leaks Proliant Gen8 server details on its website

HP has let slip some details on its website about its upcoming Proliant Gen8 servers ahead of their official launch.
Microsoft releases kit for building Kinect applications for Windows

As promised, Microsoft has shipped version 1.0 of the Kinect for Windows SDK and runtime, and said partners have started selling the Kinect hardware.
OpenStack to remove Microsoft Hyper-V support

Despite Microsoft's stated commitment to Hyper-V in OpenStack, buggy code designed to support the hypervisor will be removed from the next version of the stack, developers have decided.

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Rethinking software development, inspection and testing

Setting the Scene - Where Formal Inspections Were Born: The early 1970s were a bit like the old Monty Python Skit "The Four Yorkshiremen," having a reel-to-reel tape drive was "luxury" and most people still had physical punched cards. Robert C. Martin, a co-author of the Agile Manifesto, described this era in his book The Clean Coder
Five ways to mix business and personal data on your smartphone

Smartphones now make up almost half of all phone sales, and many millions of people use them for personal communications as well as work-related tasks. Yet, few people want to carry multiple phones at all times just to separate the workday from their home life. Here are five ways you can access your business and personal accounts without having to carry two phones.
Top Windows 8 features IT admins should be aware of

Upgrades, system migration, support headaches; IT folks are probably dreading the next major Windows roll-out. Yet Windows 8, which is scheduled to move to the beta stage in late February and will likely launch in the autumn, does offer several compelling new features for both IT and end users.
Five ways to secure your office email

Despite the popularity of real-time communications like instant messaging, as well as updates via Facebook and Twitter, most workplaces still use and rely on email. As handy as email can be, it can also be dangerous. Attachments can contain viruses, and email messages can hide phishing links that lead you to fake websites in an attempt to steal your login information.
Beyond the Lion's roar: The best overlooked, underrated features

Apple billed this summer's release of Mac OS X Lion as having more than 200 new features, but most coverage of Lion in the intervening months has focused on only a handful of them. While iOS-like navigation and app-launching interfaces, autosave/restore capabilities, AirDrop file sharing and an emergency restore partition are by all means important, there are a lot of helpful tweaks and enhancements that can easily be missed.
Six security companies you should watch

Here are brief descriptions of a half-dozen security companies to watch, what they can do for enterprises and why they are worth keeping an eye on.
The worst Internet privacy scandals of all time

In honour of National Data Privacy Day, we've put together a list of the 15 worst Internet privacy scandals of all time.
Why Big Data means a big year for Hadoop

Companies from IBM to Amazon are turning to Hadoop to manage the surge in data that needs storing. Our CEO Michael Friedenberg says the buzz around Hadoop is no joke.
Linux Mint sticks to the classic desktop flavour

Bucking the trend of increasingly experimental desktop interfaces, the developers behind the Linux Mint are adopting a simpler desktop for the next version of the open source Linux distribution.
Why other companies shouldn't offer the same benefits as Google

Google is where every technology professional wants to works. The great benefits come from a business model driven by ad revenue that just keeps coming regardless of how and where the company spends money. However, the bad news is two-fold, writes Rob Enderle: Your employer will never be in this position and Google won't be in it forever.

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