[TechRepublic] Papermaster temporarily blocked from apple job

November 10, 2008

TechRepublic IT News Digest Trouble viewing this mail? Read it online | Manage my newsletters Welcome: charles Update my profile | Unsubscribe from this mail Blogs | Photos | Downloads | Forums Papermaster temporarily blocked from Apple job A federal judge granted a temporary injunction blocking former IBM exec Mark Papermaster from working for Apple. IBM asserts Papermaster possesses trade secrets and a non-compete agreement prevents him from working in the industry for a year. SponsoredCompare your salary against other IT professionals in Canada Join the activeTechPros community for free access to salary benchmark charts and download a copy of Canada IT Salary & Skills Snapshot 2008. Why aren't we all using Wikispaces? While there are plenty of tools for creating Wikis, Wikispaces happens to have a great interface and provides unlimited ad-free pages for K-12 educational purposes. It took about two days for me to upgrade a free wiki that I created to the "Plus" account that the company provides to K-12... What's next after server virtualization? Orchestration There are a number of steps an organization could take after successfully executing a server consolidation strategy. One of them is to orchestrate workloads to make maximum use of physical server capacity, reduce power consumption, reduce administrative and operational expenses and create an environment which can assure that each and... More news from TechRepublic and ZDNet KDEs big mistake With the birth of KDE 4 came a shuffling of some key applications that has caused some serious grumbling among the Linux community. But this shuffling goes well beyond the old-school Linux fans and can affect new users as well. See what Jack Wallen has to say about what the... How will Windows 7 affect Linux? Some tech bloggers are saying that Windows 7 is set to be a "Linux-killer." What do they mean by that, exactly, and what do you think the real affect on Linux will be? A Kindroid in every pot? Fellow blogger, Jason Perlow, has written a couple of interesting pieces lately on ways to get cheap ebook readers/tablets into both students' and consumers' hands. In, "Kindroid: Two great tastes that would taste great together" he described how an Android-based Kindle ebook reader could allow this platform to really take... Gore at Web 2.0: Nice ideas among the gobbledegook Web 2.0 - like a puppy(?!) - needs a purpose. Saving the Earth is probably a pretty good one. But based on reports Al Gore's speech was long on spiritual meanderings and short on Web2 specifics. New photos of the day First Look at Windows 7 Taking my first look at Windows 7. Gallery: Intel Classmate Netvertible CTL 2go Tablet CTL is giving first looks the 2go Tablet - it's second generation Intel Classmate touch-screen netbook device that runs on both Celeron and Atom chips. 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