2011年7月20日星期三

Apple has ordered 15 million iPhone 5s for September

iPhone 5 rumours accept been accumulative for weeks now and, like this best contempo one, best assume to advance an Apple barrage some time in the abutting brace of months.

DigiTimes, which is the capital antecedent of best of the contempo reports, says that Taiwanese architect Pegatron Technology has aloof taken an adjustment for 15 actor iPhone 5s, to activate aircraft in September. It attributes the news to “sources from upstream basic makers”.

The address additionally says that the iPhone 5 “does not accept any above amend from iPhone 4”. If that’s actual it would advance that the fresh buzz will be artlessly a hardly bigger iPhone 4, aloof as the 3GS was a slight advance on the iPhone 3G, and not a absolutely overhauled device.

Based on the rumours so far, it’s accepted that the fresh iPhone will accommodate the aforementioned A5 processor that is in the iPad 2 and a more good camera, possibly an 8-megapixel sensor rather than the 5-megapixels of the iPhone 4. The fresh handset will allegedly attending agnate to the iPhone 4. However, some rumours accept appropriate that Apple will absolution two iPhone models this year, including a cheaper adaptation of the handset.

Apple does not animadversion on rumours and is yet to affirm any contest for August or September, admitting it about holds an iPod-related accident every September.

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2011年7月19日星期二

How to Upgrade to Apple OS X Lion

Apple has released OS X Lion, the latest version of its operating system for Mac desktops and laptops through the Mac App Store. That means that for the first time you can download and install the new OS, rather than having to go and buy a disk.

That means that you can install it right now. However, installing a new operating system is a big step so it’s worth following the steps below.

1. Completely backup your computer to an external hard drive. Read this article from Apple for instructions on performing a backup.
2. Check that the backup works, using the instructions in the article above, and then unplug the backup drive
3. Run Software Update and ensure that your software is up to date. In particular, be sure to install the Migration Assistant update.
4. Open the Mac App Store and download Lion. The download is around 4GB - about the same size as an HD film.

From there you can follow the instructions for installing Lion. The process should take around 30 minutes. If you’re upgrading a laptop, make sure it’s plugged in to the mains. You don’t want the battery to run out during an upgrade.

From: telegraph.co.uk

2011年7月14日星期四

Lady Gaga's YouTube channel shut down

Lady Gaga's official YouTube annual was shut bottomward this anniversary afterward a absorb affirmation over footage of her achievement on a Japanese TV show.

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The "ladygagaofficial" annual was bare on Thursday as the accompanist promotes her fresh album. A apprehension said the activity was taken due to "multiple or astringent violations of YouTube's absorb policy".

It followed an actualization on Fuji TV's annual SMAP X SMAP actualization during which Lady Gaga performed a 10-minute assortment of her hits. Her administration reportedly acquaint a archetype of the achievement to YouTube, which drew a complaint to Google from Media Interactive Inc, a absorb aegis company.

Unauthorised footage of the achievement was additionally removed from added video websites.

The annual was adequate backward on Thursday afterwards the behind video.

Google, which owns YouTube, beneath to comment. the site's action is to shut bottomward accounts afterwards three absorb violations.

Despite the hiccup, Lady Gaga has accepted accomplished at application the web to accumulate an army of admirers she calls her "little monsters". With added than 11 actor followers, she is the best accepted celebrity on Twitter, has claimed the "most liked" atom on Facebook, and the YouTube video for her song Bad affair has been beheld about 400 actor times.

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2011年7月12日星期二

Biggest winners in cloud era: Enterprise architects

The more good change, analysts and IT vendors agree, will be the acceleration to bulge of a job generally advised too abstruse for abounding companies and too almost focused to be applied for others, says adviser Cramm. That job: action architect.

Enterprise architects accept generally been their own affliction enemies, says Mark Egan, CIO of EMC VMware, the aggregation best amenable for the advance of virtualization in IT environments. "It takes absolutely top abstruse abilities to be able to adept the abstruse aspects, but you acquisition a lot of bodies with that akin of abstruse compassionate don't appetite to allocution to anyone," Egan says. "They ability aloof appetite to sit and draw out systems on cardboard and not apperceive how to get anyone to appetite to assignment with them."

But in an alignment whose IT basement is heavily virtualized, abstracted, and breach amid centralized and evidently housed billow platforms, the best important IT agents job -- easily bottomward -- is the action architect, Egan says.

Architects -- system, database, network, or contrarily -- are about systems designers whose jobs are awful conceptual, but additionally actual concrete, says Chris Wolf, a virtualization and billow analyst at Gartner. "Underneath all the absorption there is aloof as abundant of a charge to administer the capacity of ability administration and achievement as with concrete servers," he says. "Instead of alone accepting to accord with the cardinal of variables you ability accept aural one server acreage or abstracts centermost or abate set of servers, in a cloud-based basement you can admeasure assets like anamnesis or CPU cycles or bandwidth or I/O beyond the accomplished organization. That's a far added complicated picture."

Within a billow infrastructure, the relationships amid applications, networks, and servers are far added circuitous than acceptable infrastructures because there are so abounding added connections, says Rachel Dines, an basement and operations analyst at Forrester Research. That agency architects are essential.

Despite the abstruse notions that bodies about accessory to architects, the absoluteness is that abundant of the job focuses on the analytical capacity than accredit aggregate to assignment well. For example, "people tend not to anticipate of achievement affability in billow or virtualized systems," says Patrick Kuo, an absolute adviser who has helped body Web and virtual-server infrastructures at Dow Jones, the U.S. Supreme Court, and the Defense Information Casework Agency.

He advises that you alpha with the appropriate servers and processors -- accomplish abiding anniversary has abundant power, memory, and cache, and that arrangement access are reliable and fast -- again breach above functions and administer anniversary beyond the basement to advice abstain bottlenecks from anemic links in the accretion chain, or concentrations of too abounding workloads in one place, Kuo says.

"We've been able to get more good achievement in abounding case with a four-tier architectonics instead of your archetypal three-tier, putting a band of caching in the front, again the apps servers captivation best of the logic, again the Web servers and a replicated database abetment them up. It's all n-tier appliance design, but it has to be done abnormally in virtualized environments like billow casework or you get bottlenecks in places you wouldn't anticipate would account problems," Kuo says.

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2011年7月11日星期一

Hot IT job No. 6

Hot IT job No. 6: Billow architect

Ask IT managers whether they're "in the cloud," and they'll acquaint you they consistently accept been. To them, "cloud" is aloof a contemporary way of adage "data center." But with business admiral and investors now acquainted into the billow concept, appeal is growing for IT pros who can advance the allegation to bear on the added adeptness and activity promised by the clandestine cloud.

"There's so abundant absolute drive against billow integration," says Ron Gula, CEO of Tenable Network Security. "People who can absolutely analyze the architectonics from a artlessness point of appearance are activity to be in demand."

In our searches of tech job listings, we angry up dozens of calls for billow architects, with the majority basic from action IT organizations. Best of these listings alarm for accustomed abilities and certs associated with networking, virtualization, and SAN design. Without question, the added avant-garde your compassionate of virtualization networking and management, the added acceptable your chances. The adeptness to explain how your clandestine billow will access afterimage into IT costs is a big plus.

In accession to establishing and managing a clandestine billow infrastructure, Gula says billow architects will added charge to be experts in allotment accessible billow services. "When you get into the nuances of SLAs, you become beneath of an IT actuality and added of a lawyer," says Gula. The ultimate ambition is the amalgam cloud, area billow architects and business administration adjudge which billow casework accomplish the best faculty to run internally and which should be farmed out on a pay-per-use basis.

Gula says any business depending on alfresco companies for cogent chunks of billow basement needs a billow able able of demography on the abhorrent claiming of deciphering the acceding of a authorization acceding to appraise the accuracy of any account provider's guarantee. These abilities will prove analytical in accident management, which, according to both Hill of Dice.com and Ripaldi of Modis, is addition rapidly growing IT field.

More changes to IT jobs on the horizon

Naturally, these six arising roles represent aloof a sampling of what IT pros can apprehend to see in the advancing months. One big trend to watch for is the accretion specificity of IT job functions.

"What we're seeing with these arising job positions is a splintering of caked tech functions into added diminutive definitions. Action abilities acclimated to be all-encompassing, aloof like an MD was already abundant in the medical world. Today tech roles are actuality broken added finely," says Dice.com's Hill. "We see it accident already in alike almost fresh areas like mobile. For tech professionals, it's bright that in adjustment to be accustomed for your skills, a solid abject is a acceptable start, but specificity is key."

So if you accept a ample accomplishments and are attractive to accomplish a change, a resume tailored to the job you appetite to accompany -- additional a little added training and acquaintance if you can beat it -- can pay off. Addition allotment of advice: Get arise now. Surges in IT hiring like this one don't appear that often.

2011年7月7日星期四

Ten Reasons to Stay in IT

In his commodity 10 affidavit for abandonment IT, so let's go:

1: Money, money, money

While it is accurate that you assignment adamantine for your money, IT professionals are able-bodied compensated for that adamantine work. The pay isn’t aloof good, it’s great. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ An Overview of U.S. Anatomic Employment and Wages in 2010 (Chart 6, PDF), computer and algebraic sciences ranked third in 2010 of all aloft anatomic groups with an anniversary beggarly bacon of $77,230. Only the administration and acknowledged occupations had college earnings.

2: The professionals

If you are like me, who you assignment with is acutely important. After all, added than one division of your alive activity will be spent with them. I accept formed with professionals and those who weren’t so professional. I adopt the aloft and run from the latter. I accept met professionals in added occupations, the aegis industry to name one, but the professionalism of IT workers ranks appropriate up there at the top.

3: Career continuity

The additional time I larboard IT, I capital to booty time off and do nothing. I begin out, too late, that actuality abroad from your career can accomplish it harder to return. The added acceptable botheration is how you are perceived by a abeyant employer. Employers don’t like gaps in your resume. You may accept the adverse befalling to ascertain the adamantine way that bigotry of the unemployed is real.

4: The challenges

One acumen I chose to address computer programs was that I begin it challenging. Back coding, not a day that went by that I didn’t run into at atomic one obstacle in my path. IT professionals advance on analytic puzzles and problems. With the appropriate mindset (which is all-important to be acknowledged in IT), obstacles become challenges. Information technology is challenging, but you won’t acquisition it boring. No amount what your role is in IT, the challenges you appointment tomorrow will acceptable be altered from those you acquaintance today.

5: The rewards

Challenges, back met, are advantageous — addition acumen to accept and break in IT. I accept never been added professionally annoyed than back a affairs I wrote absolutely formed as designed, after errors, or back a abiding systems activity was auspiciously completed on time. Okay, so you’re apparently not extenuative lives. But if you abutment the medical profession you are allowance to save lives. And you’re extenuative blue- and white-collar workers the backbreaker of tasks that can and should be done by a machine. Few bodies get pleasure accomplishing the balance work. The systems I congenital during my career replaced abundant abject tasks. I can candidly say that except for a few asperous patches, I larboard assignment at the end of the anniversary satisfied, alive that I was allowance others do their jobs better. No amount what role you comedy in IT, allowance bodies and a job able-bodied done actualize self-esteem and a faculty of accomplishment that are awful rewarding.

As TR affiliate Chronological put it, “Most arduous jobs ever? Maybe. Best adorning jobs? — 100% sure.”

6: Marketability

IT professionals accept a abundant added acceptable adventitious of award and befitting a job. The approaching looks ablaze for IT pros — at atomic in the United States. Bristles of the top 20 and 14 of the top 50 accomplished advantageous jobs with the best advance abeyant are IT jobs, as ranked by CNN Money and PayScale.

7: The skills

Those who appetite to assignment in IT are about absolutely able with different attributes and skills. IT attracts the analytic thinkers and technically absorbed of the world. If you accept these qualities and skills, you can acquisition a home in IT.

Another acceptable acumen to break in IT is to accumulate your abilities up to date. Leave IT for too long, and your abilities will become decayed or alike obsolete. Before you leave IT, accede that your employer is advantageous for you to apprentice fresh abilities and accumulate your absolute abilities current. Those abilities are an advance in your future.

8: The respect

Jack mentioned in his commodity that IT professionals get no account from the accepted public. I apperceive from your acknowledgment in the forums that abounding of you accede and feel that you aren’t accepting the authority and account that you deserve. If you are accomplishing your job well, your perceived abridgement of account may be due to the benightedness of the beholder and not through any accountability of your own.

The accepted accessible may able-bodied be a boxy sell, but you can acquisition account from your peers. The abreast and astute able ethics the contributions of others and shows account for his or her peers. IT is a abundant abode to acquire respect. If you can’t acquire account in IT, you apparently won’t be able to acquire it in any profession.

Perhaps I accept aloof been advantageous or naïve, but I accept consistently believed that I had the account of my managers, associates, and clients. Conceivably best important, account is a amount of attitude, your attitude, and your acumen of how others see you.

9: The beatnik factor

IT is the absolute abode to amuse your appetite for cutting-edge technology. Area abroad are you activity to accommodated your aberrant needs and get paid for it? If you get pleasure cerebration in bytes, gigahertz, flowcharts, milestones, and IF THEN ELSE statements, you will like alive with others who allotment your interests and different language.

10: The adulation of IT

Most bodies who accept to assignment in IT adulation what they do. Come on, accept it. Deep bottomward you adulation your work. For those who don’t, it’s all relative. Back you accede the added jobs accessible to the masses, and their pay, you aloof gotta adulation IT. If you can acquisition annihilation you like about you and your IT job, conceivably it is time you beggared ways.

In one altercation thread, IT_Goddess may accept said it best: “How abounding peeps can say they absolutely like/love their jobs? So abounding bodies I know, alfresco of IT, alarming activity into work. Best IT folk I apperceive adulation their jobs, as continued as they are accepting adequately compensated for what they absolutely do.”

The basal line

I accept been abroad from “formal” IT for absolutely some time now. I accept abstruse from the academy of adamantine knocks the abounding affidavit for staying. Truth be told, I absence anniversary of the aloft items, added or beneath in the adjustment listed. Back you get appropriate bottomward to the basal affidavit for alive in IT, added needs of the technically absent are met by IT than by added professions. And the jobs are acceptable jobs. According to the Wall Street Journal, Two of the top bristles jobs for 2011 were IT jobs:computer application architect and systems analyst.

I accept the arduous circadian bullwork all too well, the accent of acceptance responsibilities day in and day out, the long, backbreaking hours, and the abounding amaranthine frustrations. Back your focus is on blockage off one added agitation account and answering one added email, it’s not adamantine to accept why you can’t see the backwoods for the trees. I assumption it is generally animal attributes not to admit the absolute aspects of area you are in the actuality and now. As Joni Mitchell already sang, “Don’t it consistently assume to go that you don’t apperceive what you’ve got ’til it’s gone.” It’s not absolutely all-important to leave IT, like I had to, to acknowledge its abounding benefits.

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2011年7月6日星期三

Hot IT job No. 4 & 5

Hot IT job No. 4: Adaptable technology expert

"Mobile is the better agency alteration IT appropriate now," says Stewart Tan, carnality admiral of advice accident administration and aegis at Accretive Solutions. "Building adaptable apps, architecting adaptable strategies, and accepting those devices" are the top apropos adverse the action today.

Based on the listings assuming up on IT appliance sites, Tan's words complete about like an understatement. One of the best accepted fresh titles we've run beyond on IT job sites sounds added like a accepted cry for advice than an absolute job listing. In acknowledgment to the flood of fresh adaptable devices, companies are badly gluttonous "mobile technology experts" to accompany adjustment to the chaos.

If you accept austere IT acquaintance deploying and managing fleets of BlackBerry, Android, and iOS devices, there's abounding assignment ahead. The listings we've advised consistently seek bodies appraise adaptable platforms for action use, analysis and abstract accessory specifications, and abutment users and developers aural the enterprise.

Hot IT job No. 5: Action adaptable developer

While adaptable appliance development has been a fast-growing tech amphitheatre for years, IT job sites are seeing a acceleration in listings for creators of action adaptable apps. "Companies are attractive for means to accomplish faculty of adaptable data, advance apps, and ensure aegis compliance," says Alice Hill, managing administrator of IT job armpit Dice.com.

In some organizations, the programming abilities appropriate depend on what's built-in to the platform: Objective-C for the iPhone, or Java for Android or BlackBerry. But acknowledgment to HTML5, there's additionally a movement against adaptable Web development that crosses adaptable platforms. If you're not already accomplished in Objective-C or Java, accepting abysmal HTML5 adeptness has the bifold account of a beneath acquirements ambit and greater versatility, admitting you may still charge to apprentice the quirks of alone adaptable platforms.

What distinguishes action dev positions from accepted adaptable dev jobs is their focus on acquiescence and security, according to Stewart Tan of Accretive Solutions, an controlling chase close and consultancy. "Building adaptable apps, architecting adaptable strategies, and accepting those devices" are the top apropos adverse the action today.

Hill credibility to the overflowing appeal for adaptable app developers on Dice.com, acquainted that postings for Android developers accept now surpassed those for iPhone developers. Nonetheless, listings for BlackBerry developers still abound, absorption RIM's adamant adeptness to adhere on to action customers.

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2011年7月4日星期一

Hottest New Jobs in IT - 3

Hot IT job No. 3: Amusing media architect

Social Web accoutrement and casework are now entering business at every level, from back-office IT communications to top-floor business collaboration, partner-connected workflow, and public-facing chump support. As the complication of amusing business grows, companies charge specialists to accomplish it all work.

Social media no best agency aloof Facebook and Twitter. IBM, Jive, and Yammer are now the companies to watch, alms amusing accoutrement for attainable and clandestine clouds that redefine the role of amusing media for business. This creates a appeal for IT pros with the specialized ability to body defended communities aural a business arrangement and amid businesses and customers.

"In 2010, we saw the advance of a fresh middleware band to assure bookish acreage while aperture things up with amusing tools," says IDC analyst Michael Fauscette, who researches amusing business trends. "You're starting to see that affectionate of affair because companies appetite the allowances of the amusing Web after the risks of putting their business in the easily of [Facebook and Twitter]."

In the enterprise, says Fauscette, amusing accoutrement charge to assignment calm deeply while alms accuracy to the business. The clickstream abstracts and added user intelligence that these accoutrement aftermath charge to be attainable and searchable central the business, yet bulletproof from alfresco the business.

In ample companies, a accustomed company's amusing basement tends to accommodate assorted amusing platforms. Designing an basement in which all these apps can assignment calm will crave IT pros focused absolutely on amusing business.

Because amusing business is still in its infancy, the ambit of arising job titles varies widely, but at atomic they've accomplished above the generalized, marketing-centered monikers like "social media strategist" and "social media manager" that aboriginal appeared. In our conversations with analysts, leaders at IT job sites, and socially apprenticed companies, we've apparent an arrangement of added specialized titles, alignment from administrator of amusing business technology to administrator of action accord action to, best commonly, amusing media architect.

What these titles accept in accepted is an accent on the technology itself, as audible from the absolutely cardinal business absorption accepted to amusing media titles of the past. These are roles that address beneath the CIO's org blueprint and accompany applied IT ability to buck on actual business functions. Regardless of the absolute title, says IDC's Fauscette, "There will be added appeal over the abutting 18 to 24 months or so, as added systems are deployed."

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