Half of IT workers eyeing greener pastures

	Dell plots Ubuntu laptop for developers with eye on OpenStack cloud | Google releases 'experimental' full-text search API for App Engine
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	Survey: Half of IT workers eyeing greener pastures With the IT job market steadily improving, tech employees are feeling more engaged with their jobs and more loyal to their organizations. However, companies ought not to confuse that commitment with unyielding devotion. More than half of IT employees are ready and willing to entertain better job offers as they arise, more so than employees from any other sector. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: LogMeIn Remotely manage with LogMeIn Central Central's web-based management console lets you deploy software, proactively monitor and automate tasks. You can even apply all Windows Updates at the same time to keep systems up-to-date and secure. Try it free for 30 days. In this Issue Dell plots Ubuntu laptop for developers with eye on OpenStack cloud Google releases 'experimental' full-text search API for App Engine HP tries to beat Ultrabook pricing with thin-and-light Sleekbooks PHP patches critical CGI vulnerability WHITE PAPER: Boundary Cloud Monitoring Deep Dive As the monitoring software vendors debate just how much to bridge the gap between test software and the working system, the lines will continue to blur as they automate the responses to the tests. The monitoring system is morphing into a management system. Read More Now! Dell plots Ubuntu laptop for developers with eye on OpenStack cloud Dell this week revealed Project Sputnik, a six-month-long pilot program to develop an Ubuntu laptop designed specifically for developers and devops, with the long-term vision of providing a client on which developers can build, test, and seamlessly launch services to an OpenStack-powered cloud environment. Read More Google releases 'experimental' full-text search API for App Engine Google is testing a long-awaited full-text search API (application programming interface) for the Google App Engine, the company said on Tuesday. The App Engine lets developers build Web applications hosted on Google's infrastructure, and developers have long complained that the current search API is inadequate. Read More HP tries to beat Ultrabook pricing with thin-and-light Sleekbooks Hewlett-Packard announced new Envy Ultrabooks on Wednesday, but also a new aggressively priced thin-and-light brand of laptops called Envy Sleekbooks, which boast starting prices that are $150 lower than Ultrabooks. The Envy Sleekbook laptops, which have the latest chips from Advanced Micro Devices and Intel, come with 14- and 15.6-inch screens and start at $599. HP's Envy Ultrabooks have the latest Intel third-generation Core chips, come with screens of the same size as the Sleekbooks, and start at $749. Read More PHP patches critical CGI vulnerability The PHP Group released PHP 5.4.3 and PHP 5.3.13 on Tuesday to address two remote code execution vulnerabilities, one of which is being actively exploited by hackers. "The releases complete a fix for a vulnerability in CGI-based setups (CVE-2012-2311)," the PHP developers said in the release notes. Additionally, PHP 5.4.3 fixes a buffer overflow vulnerability, identified as CVE-2012-2329, in the apache_request_headers() function. Read More
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