IBM researchers have developed a manufacturing technique capable of etching 1,000 three-dimensional world maps on materials the size of a grain of salt. http://www.itnews.com.au/News/172831,ibm-develops-nano-manufacturing-technique.aspx
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Horizontal Attention Leans Left
Web users spend 69% of their time viewing the left half of the page and 30% viewing the right half. http://www.useit.com/alertbox/horizontal-attention.html
Important Web-Site Priority
Web users spend 80% of their time looking at information above the page http://www.useit.com/alertbox/scrolling-attention.html
Opinion: The five pitfalls of outsourcing
Contract negotiator discusses the top 5 reasons novice outsourcers fail. http://www.itnews.com.au/News/168715,opinion-the-five-pitfalls-of-outsourcing.aspx
Russian security firm rails against responsible disclosure
A little known Russian security firm has taken the bold step of releasing details of zero-day exploits in business software every day for the rest of January, according to reports. http://www.itnews.com.au/News/164630,russian-security-firm-rails-against-responsible-disclosure.aspx
Some Systems Suffer New Year Hangover
Some software systems across the world went haywire on 1 January because they were not programmed to handle the year 2010. http://www.itnews.com.au/News/164632,systems-suffer-new-year-hangover.aspx#poll
Lawyers concerned about inability to find internal data
In-house lawyers at large firms are concerned that they will be unable to find relevant data in the case of litigation, according to a survey from KPMG. http://www.itnews.com.au/News/161221,lawyers-concerned-about-finding-internal-data.aspx
Tilera claims world's first 100 core processor
Claims its processor is four times faster than anything else on the market and delivers ten times the performance per watt. http://www.itnews.com.au/News/159314,tilera-claims-worlds-first-100-core-processor.aspx
Stopping an Application from Starting Automatically
If a program or pop-up appears undesirably in Windows you may try this to stop it; click Start > Run, then type msconfig.exe, click OK. Select the Startup tab to deselect the application you wish to stop.